Life on other planets
20Sep2003 Filed under: Uncategorized Author: Jason LancasterReading this article over at Space Daily makes me wonder a bit more about life still existing on Mars. I always think of Mars as this cold, barren place but the article really makes good point that if we indeed can estimate the limits of life (temperature-wise) we reside on the warm end of the spectrum.
I watched a special on Jupiter’s moon, Europa the other day and really enjoyed it. There’s talk about future missions from NASA to explore it further and the only real reason Galileo is being sent to crash into Jupiter — for risk of contamination.
I’ve always tried to follow the astronomical community closely and it seems like I have never heard this much spark about life on other planets. I wonder if it’s somehow related to the latest shuttle disaster or just a general renewed interest of man in worlds outside ours.
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Amy
September 20th, 2003 at 2:34 pm
I think it’s a little bit of both (although I doubt it really has anything to do the with shuttle disaster). The actual scientists doing the research have been doing it for years. But the public’s interest is fickle. We get interested in one thing, but then we get distracted by some other new discovery. The shuttle disaster actually put a bit of a damper on most things astronomical, from a societal standpoint. But like I said, the public has a very severe case of ADD, and they always need new things to capture their attention. Just now, it’s the possibility of life in space.