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Dr. G is Curator of Astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Big dust storm on Mars - Rovers in Trouble!

See orbiter images showing the spreading of the dust storms here

See the latest on the storm from NASA

Read an Excerpt from the New Paperback edition of Lonely Planets!!

Pupils in England put off of science?

Discovery of a planet only 5 times the mass of the Earth!

Neptune-sized planet discovered around a Red Dwarf!

Planets forming around a tiny Brown Dwarf?

BBC story which mentions my paper on Titan Life at the 2005 DPS meeting in Cambridge.

And here's a story about our Titan work in Space.com

Astonomy Picture of the Day

NASA's Deep Impact mission to Comet Tempel 1 (check out the impact movies!)

Asteroid to pass very close to Earth on April 13, 2029!

See Dr. G on the FRONT PAGE of the New York Times!

Listen to the "Grinspoon Astrobiology Report" every tuesday and thursday on the John Batchelor Show on ABC Radio (WABC in New York and ABC affiliates nationwide).
Dr. G is on at 11:50 PM in New York, or the second hour of the show wherever you are:

Listen to the show on the WABC web stream or on the ABC Sirus satellite radio channel 140

Listen to David Grinspoon on NPR,

interviewed by Scott Simon, 12/20/03

Read David Grinspoon's "Slate Diary",

a weeklong journal of an astrobiologist.

A great on-line source for the latest Astrbiology news: Astrobiology Magazine

Venus Express is in orbit!!! (Check back... I'll update this section often!)
	Check out the Newest images of Venus First Images from Venus Express.
Cool New Images sent to you from our machines at MARS! (Check back... I'll update this section often!)
	Intelligent discussion and great "amateur" imaging products at unmannedspaceflight.com Spirit reaches summmit of Husband Hill - Check out the view! Gorgeous dust devil image looking down from Husband Hill At last, Opportunity finds new outcrops in the southland... Latest Images from SPIRIT AND OPPORTUNITY Press Release Images (before May 1, 04) from SPIRIT and OPPORTUNITY All Raw Images from SPIRIT All Raw Images from OPPORTUNITY A VERY COOL panoramic animation of Spirit's landing site Some 3-D Stereo Images of the Spirit landing site The latest images from Europe's Mars Express Spacecraft A current map of Martian Atmospheric dust from the Odyssey Spacecraft Spectacular Images from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft Evidence for a Frozen Sea on Mars? A useful trail map for hiking up the Face on Mars Hear Actual sounds from NASA's latest Mars Mission! Not Mars but.... What would the sky look like on Venus?
Images of Saturn and Titan (Check back... I'll update this section often!)
	New Cassini images of Saturn's bizarre moon Enceladus (7/05) Latest Cassini images of Saturn View all Titan images from the Huygens probe! All raw images from Cassini at Saturn Latest info from Cassini at Saturn Simultaneous views of Saturn from Hubble (orbiting Earth) and Cassini (approaching Saturn) Cassini begins approaching Saturn! Image taken Feb. 9, 2004 from a distanceof 43 million miles. New Groundbased Images of Titan Best Titan surface maps yet, 4/14/04 - Are we looking at hydrocarbon seas?
Web Reviews of LONELY PLANETS: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life
	Wigglefish Web Zine: Review by Kilian Melloy Lonely Planets reveiwed at SLASHDOT (the ultimate nerd site...) Review in the BLOG of Mordecai Shapiiro

DEBATES and such (with David Grinspoon)
	Multi-part transcript of a NASA-sponsored debate on "The Drake Equation Revisited", hosted by Frank Drake, with David Grinspoon and Peter Ward: Part I, Frank Drake's introductory remarks. Part II, "Our Lonely Galaxy": Peter Ward describes why he thinks complex life is rare. Part III, "Cause for Optimism": David Grinspoon critiques the "Rare Earth Hypothesis" Part IV, "Is Intelligence a biological imperative?": Drake, Ward and Grinspoon entertain questions from the audience. Part V: "The Galactic Civilizations": Q&A about interstellar travel, machine intelligence and immortal civilizations. Part one of a seven part "Great Debate" about terraforming Mars, with David Grinspoon, Kim Stanley Robinson, Greg Bear, John Rummel, Chris Mckay, Donna Shirley, Jim Kasting and Lisa Pratt. (links to other six episodes can be found within...) NASA’s 5 part “Great Debate” about ET Life, with David Grinspoon, Christopher McKay, Frank Drake, Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee: Part I, Complex Life: http://www.astrobio.net/news/article236.html Part II, Life in Our Solar System: http://www.astrobio.net/news/article237.html Part III, Odds of Complex Life: http://www.astrobio.net/news/article239.html Part IV, Lifetime of Complex Life: http://www.astrobio.net/news/article240.html Part V, Relentless Evolution: http://www.astrobio.net/news/article242.html
INTERVIEWS with David Grinspoon
	A Five-Part Interview about LONELY PLANETS, with excerpts, in Astrobiology Magazine: Intro, Lonely Planets: Welcome Earthlings Part I, Lonely Planets and Rare Earths Part II, The Search for Life Part III, The Lonely Pale Blue Dots? Part IV, Higher Concepts and Advanced Aliens Encore: There's a Hole in my Philosophy An interview with Astrobiology Magazine about life on TItan Hear Grinspoon on the Kojo Nnamdi show, (WAMU, Washington DC NPR affiliate) Listen to a long interview about Lonely Planets on Colorado Public Radio Listen to David Grinspoon discuss the search for life on Mars on NPR's "The Connection" Grinspoon talking about terraforming Mars on NPR (1/14/04) Grinspoon interview about LONELY PLANETS on HarperCollins site "20 Questions with David Grinspoon" from the Wigglefish web ‘zine Omni Magazine Web Chat with David Grinspoon Interview with David Grinspoon on PBS Life Beyond Earth site Audio Interview with David Grinspoon at AnnOnline site Interview with David Grinspoon on WBUR (Boston NPR affiliate) The Connection
TALKS by David Grinspoon
	A New Space Race? Chinese and American Plans for War and Peace in Orbit and Beyond A panel discussion moderated by David Grinspoon at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, June 12, 2007 Download the broadcast here "Extraterrestrial Spirituality" Space, Science, Environmental Ethics and Policy Lectures, April 13, 2007 Download the podcast here "Comparing Planets: Climate Catastrophes in the Solar System" Carl Sagan Medal Lecture, April 11, 2007 Download the podcast here Environmental Ethics of Exploring and Living in Space A panel discussion moderated by David Grinspoon at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, April 10, 2007 Download the broadcast here "Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien life" Talk at Boston's Museum of Science, January 7, 2005 "Sympathy for the Devil: The Case for Life on Venus" AICS Online Lecture of the Week for June 19, 2006
ARTICLES about David Grinspoon
	"Space Cadet" Dr. G is Wired's Aplha Geek, January 2007 "Pale Blue Dot III: An Astrobiological Field Report" from Astrobiology Magazine, November 2006 "Possible Signs of Life on Titan" from The Guardian, April 2005 "Mighty Aphrodite" in Astrobiology Magazine: "Cloud Colonies on Venus" from Astrobiology Magazine "Hail Venus: Is There Life There?" from Popular Science "Don't Ignore the Planet Next Door" from Science Magazine Climate Change on Venus "News and Views" article from Nature by Ronald G. Prinn "Venus Possibly Habitable for Billions of Years" article from NewScientist "Molecular Rings Could Shelter Venus Bug" article from NewScientist "How Hot Can Venus Get?" article from Sky & Telescope "Don't Ignore the Planet Next Door" article from Science Magazine
ARTICLES by David Grinspoon
	"Ghosts of Climates Past" from SEED Magazine, June, 2007 "The Vanguard of Science: Astrobiology" from SEED Magazine, January, 2007 "Nature News and Views: Inside Enceladus" from Nature Magazine, 25 January, 2007 "Under the Moon" a New York Times Op-Ed, Jan 13, 2005 "Gifts from the Gods of Space" an L.A. Times Op-Ed, Jan 3, 2005 "Is Mars Ours?" in SLATE, Jan. 8, 2004 “Global Climate Change on Venus” from Scientific American, by Mark Bullock and David Grinspoon “When I Heard the Learn’d Theologians” from Astronomy Magazine: "Space Invaders" from the Harvard Crimson, Halloween, 2003.
SETI and Intelligent Aliens
	A site with articles and up-to-date info about SETI (the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intellignece) A SETI signal? Another possible SETI Signal? A brilliant new argument for searching for alien artifacts (as opposed to radio searches).
Extrasolar Planet Disoveries
	The first actual photo of a planet beyond our solar system? Space.com confirms: The first actual photo of an extrasolar planet!!! Finding "super-Earths" (or at least Neptunes) orbiting distant stars. NASA's New Worlds Atlas
MORE cool links
	Watch the first Transit of Venus since 1882! (this site has links to several live web-casts) See the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image! Tory Read Photography A cartoon about my wife!