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Human Exploration Across the Moon: Public Briefing Webinar
From ancient impact basins and volcanic landscapes to new vantage points for observing the Universe, future human explorers on the Moon will have immeasurable opportunities for scientific discovery. Join the National Academies on Wednesday, October 21 from 1-2:30pm ET for a public briefing webinar on our new report, Human Exploration Across the Moon. During the webinar, the study committee chairs will present priority destinations for human missions beyond the lunar poles, with a focus on achieving high-value science and paving the way for future exploration.
![ASU Think Beyond Webinar: Did Viking find microbes on MArs in 1976? It seems likely.
Following the Viking 1976 mission, Robert Jastrow, then Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, concluded that “[s]hort of seeing something wiggling on the end of a pin, the case for life on Mars is now as complete as the Viking experiments could make it.” However, because the Viking team failed to properly understand organic chemistry, it misinterpreted data from a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS), leading to the conclusion that, not only was no Mars life detected, but that life was in fact impossible there due to the reactivity of the soil. This monumental blunder entered textbooks, NASA reports, National Academy Decadal surveys, DARES workshops, and NASA peer review. Even though my laboratory explained in 2000 that the GC-MS data had been misinterpreted, and Rafael Navarro-Gonzales in 2010 provided a complete analysis of what went wrong, the Mars exploration communities continue to this day to mis-direct resources relevant to Mars astrobiology in research programs, funding priorities, and leadership. This talk will detail this history as an excellent teaching example to show students how confirmation bias, group think, and "community consensus" damages high stakes science.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6oscxlepvt6x6xf5z2frsc5z/bafkreifvvubbkycwx2nrlsglttterikckzhc5pxqiu6276nx3onku2mfeu)
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Discover how planetary systems form in spiral galaxies filled with young stars and vibrant star-forming regions.
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Attached: 1 image Mars rover Perseverance finally made a move today to set a new record for the distance traveled by a rover on a distant planet - 45.22 km. It had stayed put in its previous locatio...
