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June 9, 2010
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Good Morning,

The middle section of this newsletter contains two inter-
esting articles regarding life on Mars. One of the articles
explores clues to past life while the other focuses on how
life could be sustainable on the red planet.

Until Next Time,
Erin

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New supercomputing center to be built

BOULDER, Colo. - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
says it intends to break ground for a center that will house
one of the world's fastest supercomputers. NCAR and its
managing organization, the University Corporation for Atmos-
pheric Research, said the groundbreaking ceremony will be
held June 15 in Cheyenne, Wyo. "The NCAR-Wyoming Super-
computing Center will provide advanced computing services to
scientists across the nation in a broad range of disciplines,
including weather, climate, oceanography, air pollution,
space weather, computational science, energy production and
carbon sequestration," officials said in a statement. "It
will also house a premier data storage and archival facility
that will hold, among other scientific data, unique histor-
ical climate records." The center is a partnership of NCAR,
the National Science Foundation, the University of Wyoming,
the state of Wyoming, the Cheyenne-Laramie County Corp. for
Economic Development, the Wyoming Business Council, and
Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power. The new supercomputing
center, to be operational by early 2012, is expected to cost
about $70 million to construct, officials said. The super-
computer, with a budget estimate of $35 million, is to be
acquired through open competition during the next couple of
years.

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Mars rocks: Evidence of past life on Mars?

PASADENA, Calif. - The U.S. space agency says rocks examined
by Mars rover Spirit hold evidence of a wet, non-acidic
ancient environment that might have been favorable for life.
NASA scientists said it took four years of analysis to deter-
mine there were high concentrations of carbonate in the rocks
Spirit examined during late 2005. Carbonate originates in
wet, near-neutral conditions, but dissolves in acid. The
ancient water indicated by the find was not acidic. "This is
one of the most significant findings by the rovers," said
Steve Squyres of Cornell University, the principal investi-
gator for the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. "A
substantial carbonate deposit in a Mars outcrop tells us that
conditions that could have been quite favorable for life
were present at one time in that place." The findings appear
in the early online edition of the journal Science.


Study: Life might survive on Mars

MONTREAL - Canadian and U.S. scientists say they've concluded
life might survive on Mars since they've found evidence of
bacteria in a martian-like environment on Earth. Researchers
at Canada's McGill University, the University of Toronto,
the National Research Council of Canada and the SETI Insti-
tute in the United States say they have discovered methane-
eating bacteria survive in a unique spring located on Axel
Heiberg Island in Northern Canada. Lyle Whyte, a McGill
microbiologist, said the Lost Hammer Spring supports micro-
bial life -- and the spring's environment is similar to
possible past or present springs on Mars. That, he said,
means the "Red Planet" might also support a form of life.
The Canadian spring's sub-zero water is so salty it doesn't
freeze and it has no consumable oxygen in it. There are,
however, big bubbles of methane that come to the surface,
which had provoked the researchers' curiosity as to whether
the gas was being produced geologically or biologically and
whether anything could survive in such an extreme hypersaline
sub-zero environment. "We were surprised that we did not
find methanogenic bacteria that produce methane at Lost
Hammer," Whyte said. "But we did find other very unique
anaerobic organisms -- organisms that survive by essentially
eating methane and probably breathing sulfate instead of
oxygen." The research appeared in the International Society
for Microbial Ecology Journal.

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NASA to study arctic climate change

WASHINGTON - NASA says it will conduct its first dedicated
oceanographic field campaign to determine how the changing
climate is affecting the Arctic Ocean. The project, called
Icescape, begins next Tuesday aboard the U.S. Coast Guard
Cutter Healy, the newest and most technologically advanced
U.S. polar icebreaker. NASA scientists said the Arctic Ocean,
unlike other oceans, is almost completely landlocked,
making it an ideal location to study ongoing climate changes
in a marine ecosystem. "The ocean ecosystem in the Arctic
has changed dramatically in recent years, and it's changing
much faster and much more than any other ocean in the world,"
said Icescape chief scientist Kevin Arrigo of Stanford
University. The Healy will begin ocean sampling in the Bering
Strait and then continue across the southern Chukchi Sea and
into the Beaufort Sea, NASA said. In early July the Healy
will head north into deeper waters to sample thick, multi-
year sea ice and take samples within and beneath the ice.
The five-week, $10 million project will involve more than 40
scientists and include such instruments as an automated
microscope taking continuous digital photographs of phyto-
plankton cells to determine the quantity of various species.
Floats with near-real-time satellite communication will be
placed in the ocean to measure temperature and various bio-
logical and optical properties. The project is funded by
NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

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