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Cruising through the cosmos at 27,700 m.p.h., the Energizer bunny of NASA spacecraft is measuring cosmic rays and solar emissions, probing for the outer boundary of the solar system and even abetting the efforts of scientists pursuing SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. When Pioneer was launched in March 1972, its primary assignment, ordained by NASA, was to reach the environment of Jupiter. At the time, says physicist James Van Allen, the discoverer of Earth's radiation belt and a principal contributor to Pioneer's achievements, "this objective was regarded as a bold one." While unmanned U.S. and Soviet...
...observatory contains an 84-foot-diameter radio-telescape antenna that scans 640 million microwave-radio channels every 20 seconds as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program. After the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) canceled SETI two years ago, private donors stepped in to keep the project alive. So if Earthlings are ever contacted by advanced aliens, both Harvards--the university and the town--will be, literally, the first to hear...
...observatory contains an 84-foot-diameter radio-telescape antenna that scans 640 million microwave-radio channels every 20 seconds as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program. After the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) canceled SETI two years ago, private donors stepped in to keep the project alive. So if Earthlings are ever contacted by advanced aliens, both Harvards--the university and the town--will be, literally, the first to hear...
NASA's announcement also breathed new life into a worthy but largely unappreciated enterprise: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. SETI, as it is called, makes use of computer-monitored radio telescopes to scan the skies and frequency bands in the hope of picking up a message or signal from a distant civilization...
...SETI's offices in Mountain View, California, the first signs of extraterrestrial life arrived last week not by radio but by fax. When they got the news from NASA, says astronomer Frank Drake, the organization's president, workers abandoned their stations and gathered around a TV set to watch the press conference "hooting, hollering and cheering." And for good reason. If the evidence is validated, explains Drake, who launched the first seti-like program in 1960, "it confirms what we've always believed--that life arises wherever the conditions are right." And because the sun is just one star...