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Mars

11:19am Saturday 2 December 2000

I'm guessing that they found evidence primitive life (bacteria or worms) currently alive on mars, or evidence of more advanced life no longer alive on mars.

Date:     Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:20:12 -0500 (EST)
  From:   NASANews@hq.nasa.gov  | Block address
 Subject: MAJOR MARS DISCOVERY TO BE ANNOUNCED AT DEC.
7 SCIENCE BRIEFING


Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC                  
December 1, 2000
(Phone: 202/358-1727)

Mary Hardin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-0344)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N00-058

MAJOR MARS DISCOVERY TO BE ANNOUNCED AT DEC. 7 SCIENCE
BRIEFING

     Imaging scientists Dr. Michael Malin and Dr. Ken
Edgett from 
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft will present
what they 
describe as their most significant discovery yet at a
Space 
Science Update at 2:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 7.
Their 
findings are being published in the December 8 issue
of Science 
Magazine.

This science update will be held in the James E. Webb
Auditorium 
at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., S.W., Washington, DC,
and will be 
carried live on Telstar 5, transponder 11. The Ku-band
satellite 
is located 97 degrees West longitude with a downlink
frequency of 
11929 MHz, vertical polarity.

Please note that, due to coverage of the ongoing
Shuttle mission, 
NASA Television does not expect to carry this
briefing, and two-
way question-and-answer capability from agency centers
will not be 
available. 

Participants will be:
* Dr. Ed Weiler, Associate Administrator for Space
Science, NASA 
Headquarters, Washington, DC., will be panel
moderator.
* Dr. Michael Malin principal investigator, Mars
Orbiter Camera on 
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft at Malin Space
Science 
Systems (MSSS), San Diego, CA.
* Dr. Ken Edgett, staff scientist at MSSS.
* Dr. Jim Garvin, Mars Exploration Program Scientist
at NASA 
Headquarters.
* Dr. Ken Nealson, director of the Center for Life
Detection at 
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
 
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z ktru

11:02pm CST Saturday 2 December 2000

(this will probably be just random thoughts from today)

A meeting was held for people "who want to do something, but don't know what to do" for KTRU. I attended and subsequently helped with the "Booth Committee," designed simply to get a booth set up on Rice campus where DJs can continue to play music, even if we are not being broadcast. This is a symbolic act (we just want to play music), and a way to have a booth continually staffed where people can learn more about the whole ordeal.

We plan to start Monday morning at 8am. That means that I "missed" my KTRU shift today at 7pm.

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I wrote to the owners of ktru.com, who have that domain for sale, asking if they would let us borrow it. They would benefit by this because once we give it back, they should get an excess of hits after the fact.

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I'm bummed that I missed the funeral for Phat Pat and Emily's mom today. I totally just forgot about it, with all the KTRU craziness going on. Bluh. I didn't know her, but I know Patrick and Emily.

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I am finally caught up with all the KTRU email messages that have been sent over the past 3 days. I'm sure there have been easily 300 messages sent.

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