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Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 284 Credit: 49,167 RAC: 0 |
Dear Planetary Society Members, supporters and SETI@ home volunteers, We're always telling our Members and supporters that "You Make it Happen." And here's proof you do! Media around the world just broke the story of the World Community Grid, a massive project that will use the Internet in cutting-edge health sciences research. This is a direct descendant of SETI@ home, the project that you made happen. MSNBC reports that the World Community Grid, developed in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, the United Nations and other organizations, "owes a debt to SETI@ home, which in the 1990s first popularized the notion that PC users could donate computer time for radio telescope astronomy data analysis via the Internet." This exciting new project will, according to the New York Times, help "unlock the genetic mysteries of illnesses like AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, malaria and cancer." Your support for SETI@home has also flowered in the creation of Berkeley Online Infrastructure for Network Computing, affectionately known as BOINC, which also boasts innovative projects, including: - Einstein@ home, a project that investigates the fundamental structure of time and space in the universe by looking for pulsars based on their gravity-wave emissions; - PlanetQuest, which is seeking extrasolar planets by searching astrophotographs for occlusions; and - LHC@ home from CERN (the famous laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland), a project that is optimizing the design of the world's largest particle accelerator. None of this would be happening without your support. Five years ago, when SETI@ home first went looking for sponsors, just about no one saw the great potential this software possessed for making a difference in this world. No one, except for the Planetary Society and its Members, that is. The Society, as the project's founding sponsor, got it off the ground. The Planetary Society - with Members and supporters around the world - really does make it happen. Thank you! With best wishes, Louis Friedman _____________________________________ For more information on BOINC go to: http://planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_082404.html Support Planetary Society Projects at: https://planetary.org/donations.html Clear skies from Italy! [/url] S@h Carl Sagan's Teams page 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi |
Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 284 Credit: 49,167 RAC: 0 |
THE PLANETARY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2004 ____________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE: - Cosmos 1 Launch Date Set - Bill Nye - On the 70th Anniversary of Carl Sagan's Birth - Huygens Art Contest Deadline Nov. 28 - Spirit's 50,000th Image of Mars - A Conversation with Charles Elachi - News! Cassini-Huygens, Mars, Genesis, Venus Express - You Make it Happen! Shop Online ______________________________________ COSMOS 1 LAUNCH DATE SET The countdown has officially begun! November 9, On the 70th anniversary of Carl Sagan's birth, we announced that Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail spacecraft, is set for launch on March 1, 2005. Thank all of our supporters for helping to make this happen! Find out more at: http://planetary.org/solarsail/latest_update.html ______________________________________ ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF CARL SAGAN'S BIRTH In the 1970s, two soon-to-be-world-renowned popularizers of science crossed paths at Cornell University - where Carl Sagan was a professor of astronomy and Bill Nye was an engineering student. From his class with Carl, Bill came away with an abiding passion for planetary exploration. Two decades later, that passion led him to join the Board of Directors of The Planetary Society. Read on as Bill remembers Carl and his influence: http://planetary.org/news/2004/nye_sagan.html ______________________________________ HUYGENS ART CONTEST ENTRY DEADLINE SOON! WIN A TRIP TO MISSION CONTROL IN DARMSTADT GERMANY We invite you to imagine what the Huygens probe will reveal by entering The Planetary Society's Art Contest: "Imagining Titan: Artists Peer Beneath the Veil". The Grand Prize will be a trip to Huygens mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, where the winner is to be present at the spacecraft's encounter with Titan. CONTEST ENTRY DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 28, 2004 Find out more about the contest and enter online at: http://planetary.org/saturn/artcontest.html ______________________________________ NOT A MEMBER YET? Be a part of exploration. Join The Planetary Society today. https://planetary.org/JoinUs.html ______________________________________ A MARSDIAL COVERED IN DUST: THE MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS' 50,000TH IMAGE Since the landing of Spirit, the Mars Exploration Rover mission has swiftly racked up impressive numbers of images returned from the surface of Mars. The 50,000th image, captured on September 25, happens to be of Spirit's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) Calibration Target, otherwise known as the "MarsDial." The MarsDial resulted from a brainstorm of Planetary Society Board Member Bill Nye the Science Guy, who noticed the Calibration target would function as a sundial. Throughout the first two months of the Mars Exploration Rover mission, The Planetary Society's Student Astronauts processed the images to impose hour markings on the face of the MarsDials and thus tell time. Viewed now after 9 months on the surface, you can see the "MarsDial" covered in Martian dust and read more facts about the Mars Exploration Rovers' imaging activities at: http://planetary.org/news/2004/spirit_image-milestone_1105.html ______________________________________ A CONVERSATION WITH CHARLES ELACHI Director of JPL and NASA Advanced Planning, Principal investigator Cassini Radar Part of our series of interviews exploring the people of Cassini-Huygens and the work they do behind the scenes to get these missions out there, safely, in space. "...when Sputnik was launched I was listening to it on the radio in Lebanon . . . and when I was 12 or 13, I used to read a magazine that the American Embassy distributed, called something like 'Science in America.' I remember reading about the first satellite launch -- Explorer I -- by a place called JPL. I remember that page very clearly, because I thought, 'Gee, that would a great place to work.' Of course, I never imagined then that I would be connected with JPL in any way -- it was so far away." Read the entire interview at: http://planetary.org/news/2004/conversation_elachi_cassini_1022.html ______________________________________ RECENT PLANETARY HEADLINES: CASSINI-HUYGENS, MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS, GENESIS, VENUS EXPRESS Keep up with Planetary News at The Planetary Society website. Cassini's First Close Flyby of Titan: So Much Information, So Few Answers (Yet) http://planetary.org/news/2004/cassini_titan00a_results1_1028.html Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Climbs toward Uchben, Opportunity Picks up Power while at Wopmay http://planetary.org/news/2004/mer-update_1022.html Genesis: Investigation Uncovers Likely Cause of Mishap; Stardust Team Confident of Safe Return http://planetary.org/news/2004/genesis_stardust_1015.html Venus Express: Europe on Track to Send First Mission to Venus in 15 Years http://www.planetary.org/news/2004/vex_assembly_1014.html 'Right Stuff' Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies at 77 http://planetary.org/news/2004/cooper-gordon_obituary_1005.html ____________________________________ YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN! VISIT THE PLANETARY SOCIETY STORE Looking for great ideas this holiday season. Shop at The Planetary Society Store and support the Society at the same time. T-shirts, posters, models, and more. Thank you. Check in regularly at our website, http://store.yahoo.com/planetarysociety/index.html _________________________ If you are interested in the future of planetary exploration, please contact us at comments@planetary.org with your thoughts, questions, and concerns. Clear skies from Italy! [/url] S@h Carl Sagan's Teams page 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi |
Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 284 Credit: 49,167 RAC: 0 |
[/url] S@h Carl Sagan's Teams page 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi |
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