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Message 47709 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 3:17:58 UTC
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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

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For more information on BOINC go to:
http://planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_082404.html

Support Planetary Society Projects at:
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Message 49106 - Posted: 24 Nov 2004, 21:42:09 UTC

THE PLANETARY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2004
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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
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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

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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

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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.


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Message 50098 - Posted: 30 Nov 2004, 4:36:15 UTC

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