Peter Ward: Are We Headed Into Another Mass Extinction? : NPR
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/30/495640221/are-we-headed-into-another-mass-extinction

About Peter Ward's TED Talk
At various times, life on earth has come close to being erased.
Paleontologist Peter Ward explains what we can learn from previous mass extinctions

Paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter Ward studies events such as the Cretaceous-Tertiary
extinction event which made dinosaurs go extinct. He is a Professor at University of Washington
where he does research on mass extinctions and habitability, conservation biology of coral reefs,
as well as paleontology and astrobiology. Ward is the author of Rare Earth and The Medea Hypothesis.

Mars's Climate May Have Been Wet Much Later Than Thought - Eos
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/marss-climate-may-have-been-wet-much-later-than-thought

New research from Wilson et al. suggests that flowing water, perhaps from snowmelt, formed midlatitude valleys
between 2 billion and 3 billion years ago, near the transition between Mars’s Hesperian and Amazonian periods.
This could be evidence that Mars had a cold, wet climate during the transition and possibly well into the Amazonian.

Spiral Arms Embrace Young Star - News & Columns - ALMA NAOJ
http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/e/news/info/2016/0930spiral_arms_embrace_young_star.html

Swirling around the young star Elias 2-27, astronomers discovered a stunning spiral-shape pinwheel of dust. This striking feature,
seen with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is the product of density waves—gravitational perturbations in
the star's protoplanetary disk that produce sweeping arms reminiscent of a spiral galaxy, but on a much smaller scale.

"These observations are the first direct evidence for density waves in a protoplanetary disk," said Laura Pérez, an astronomer and
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and lead author on a paper
published in the journal Science.

Holger Sierks, principal investigator for Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera presents the images from the final
seconds of the mission just prior to touchdown on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Camera scientist presents final images taken before Rosetta’s crash landing – Astronomy Now
http://astronomynow.com/...mera-scientist-presents-final-images-taken-before-rosettas-crash-landing/

Montáž karla Battamse v přibližném měřítku

DSN Madrid 1:19 - 1:20 SELČ

Still waiting for the final pic:

Still waiting for the final pics!
Mission complete: Rosetta’s journey ends in daring descent to comet / Rosetta / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
http://www.esa.int/...nce/Rosetta/Mission_complete_Rosetta_s_journey_ends_in_daring_descent_to_comet

30/09 13:24 The last bits of science data sent by Rosetta