Oh boy. The internet is going into serious manic meltdown over this press release by NASA… NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery NASA will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. PST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Inevitably some [...]
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Don’t worry, CUMBRIAN SKY is still very much alive and kicking, I’ve just been busy writing on my other blogs – and FOR other blogs – recently to do much here, too. Normal service will be resumed shortly. In the meantime, here’s what I’ve been up to… LOTS of exciting things happening with the Mars [...]
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Today’s The Day, the day the winner of the Kepler mission’s “Sagan Day” essay contest is announced – and the winner is, I’m happy to say, my own personal favourite out of all the great entries. It’s by Renee James, and it is a highly personal account of how she was inspired by Carl Sagan [...]
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The “Sagan Celebrations” continue over on the Kepler mission’s website, and I’m very proud to be a part of them. Not only was I asked to be a judge in their essay competition – which was HORRENDOUSLY hard!! – but they have graciously featured a short story I wrote for the celebrations… That’s me over [...]
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As I write this, space journalists and reporters are gathered at JPL to hear the preliminary results from a very exciting and important spacecraft fly-by which took place earlier today. Around 2pm UK time, the first results started to come back from the “EPOXI” spacecraft – the space probe formerly known as “Deep Impact” – [...]
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Today’s the day, The Day, the Big Day – the day when the Sagan essay contest finalists start to be published over on the Kepler mission website! … which is here: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan If you entered an essay yourself, I’m sure you’re keen to know if your submission has been chosen as a finalist. And if [...]
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