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SUMMARY:SETI Live: Alien Tech In Moondust?
DESCRIPTION:Could evidence of ancient alien technology be hiding in Moon dust? \nResearchers are proposing a new way to search for technosignatures: examine lunar regolith for microscopic pieces of engineered material that could have crossed interstellar space and accumulated on the Moon over billions of years. \nOn the next #SETILive\, SETI Institute Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center Dr. Simon Steel talks with lead author and SETI Institute Affiliate Scientist Dr. Lewis Pinault about the proposal\, why the Moon could preserve a unique record of Galactic history\, and what we could learn even if the search finds nothing.
URL:https://astrobiology.com/event/seti-live-alien-tech-in-moondust/
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SUMMARY:NASA Briefing Highlighting Contributions To JAXA Martian Moons Mission
DESCRIPTION:Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT\, Thursday\, Oct. 15\, to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. The mission is scheduled to launch from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Monday\, Oct. 19 EDT (Tuesday\, Oct. 20 JST). \nAudio of the media teleconference will stream on the agency’s website at: https://www.nasa.gov/live \nParticipants in the briefing\, who will provide an overview of the mission and NASA’s contributions\, include: \n– Lindsay Hays\, acting director\, Planetary Science Division\, NASA Headquarters in Washington\n– Tom Statler\, MMX program executive and scientist\, Planetary Science Division\, NASA Headquarters\n– David Lawrence\, MEGANE (Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma-rays and Neutrons) principal investigator\, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory\n– Kris Zacny\, vice president\, Blue Origin’s Honeybee Robotics \nMedia interested in participating by phone must RSVP no later than two hours prior to the start of the teleconference to Molly Wasser at molly.l.wasser@nasa.gov. A copy of NASA’s media accreditation policy is online. \nThe MMX spacecraft will arrive at Mars in August 2027 to begin its survey of the Red Planet’s two moons\, Phobos and Deimos. After surveying Phobos in detail\, the spacecraft will collect a sample of the moon’s surface no earlier than December 2028 and deliver it to Earth in 2031. NASA’s contributions to the mission include the MEGANE gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer\, the spacecraft’s surface sampler mechanism\, and communications and navigation support from the agency’s Deep Space Network\, as well as funding United States scientists participating on the MMX science team. \nThe MEGANE instrument was developed by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Honeybee Robotics\, a Blue Origin company\, developed the spacecraft’s pneumatic sampler mechanism. NASA’s contributions to the MMX mission were funded by the agency’s Discovery Program\, which provides frequent flight opportunities for high-value\, focused planetary science investigations. The Discovery Program is managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville\, Alabama\, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. \nFor more information about the MMX mission\, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mmx/
URL:https://astrobiology.com/event/nasa-briefing-highlighting-contributions-to-jaxa-martian-moons-mission/
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