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Extraterrestrial Life, Part 3 – Life on Other Planets

Posted by Luke H on October 25th, 2006

Although we have found more than 200 extrasolar planets, we haven’t found any rocky ones (as expected by the crudeness of our current astronomical sensors). Luckily, there are plenty of rocky planets just a few months flight-time away from Earth. The two most likely candidates for human settlement are Mars and Venus. Mars is fairly [...]

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Extraterrestrial Life, Part 1: Mars

Posted by Luke H on October 13th, 2006

Currently there is a fantastic amount of information coming back from Mars. There are two rovers and several high-resolution satellite cameras scanning the planet, and the first thing to be properly uncovered was the infamous Face on Mars: The formation is actually very pretty, in the latest high-resolution pictures. Its region, ‘Cydonia’ (a bad science [...]

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