<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Good morning all,</font><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""> I hope you had a Happy Halloween with fun parties and wonderful school events…I think it is great when teachers dress up and share this fun day with the kids…it seems this day is becoming more popular, internationally, so it is awesome to see all the different costumes in so many countries…it has been difficult for me not to be going to schools in the US, since NASA removed my ability to see speaker requests I am finding it very challenging to visit schools in the US, certainly miss being with the kids and more so, changing there lives to give them a belief in themselves and hope for the future….still exploring ways to overcome this and still have many opportunities internationally…I will be leaving for Norway and Denmark on the 12th…I believe my 7th annual trip to Norway and 3rd to Denmark…I am so grateful for the amazing friendships that I have formed, seeing the kids I met in high school, now young adults doing so well as they accomplish their goals and make the world abetter place…so very proud of them and so thankful for staying in touch all these years…<font color="#ff2600" class="">for any teachers reading this in Kolding, I will be there on the 22nd & 23rd of Nov, if I can generate visits to schools, if you are interested, please let me know</font></font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="HelveticaNeue" class=""> So many events within the space program…The Hubble returns to full service; the Kepler telescope ran out of fuel after so many amazing discoveries and sadly, the rover Opportunity, on Mars for 14 years has succumbed to the harsh Mars environment and is no longer functioning…to all of the school I have visited, we have share the video of its journey to Mars, that it had a life expectancy of 90 days, yet lasted over 14years…amazingly, it was not a mechanical failure but a major sandstorm which covered Opportunity’s solar panels leading to the battery failure…and for all purple lovers, see below…<span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: white;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); background-color: white;" class="">We have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything
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Originally required to last 15 years, Hubble has now been at the forefront of scientific discovery for more than 28 years. The team expects the telescope will continue to yield amazing discoveries well into the next decade, enabling it to work alongside the James Webb Space Telescope. Hubble is managed and operated at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">For more information about Hubble, visit: </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/hubble" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" class="">www.nasa.gov/hubble</a></em></font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 36px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class=""><h1 class="h1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 40px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="70%" align="left" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: auto; margin: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="margin: auto; padding: 0px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="mobile-td-size" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: auto; margin: auto;"><tbody class=""><tr class="hide"><td height="5" style="margin: auto;" class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="left" valign="middle" class="hed-top" style="margin: auto; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=7d3f54d93b2a99268bd3860a754bd3b1b0fab6444dcb439e27838ddf525c8d2096082ad1f0a02d5138862e7c4caecbd5a94d8ee89120bb390f6ec4cc4b1c576f" style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><strong class=""><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 28px;" class="">RIP, Kepler: NASA's Revolutionary Planet-Hunting Telescope Runs Out of Fuel</font></strong></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></h1><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><div id="1541079878570" tabindex="3" class="img-zoom-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img class="lazy z-loaded loaded pure-img" big-src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4MC8zNzEvb3JpZ2luYWwvbmFzYS1rZXBsZXItZXhvcGxhbmV0LXRlbGVzY29wZS1lbmQtb2YtbWlzc2lvbi5qcGc/MTU0MDkyODEzMA==" data-src="https://img.purch.com/w/640/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4MC8zNzEvaTAyL25hc2Eta2VwbGVyLWV4b3BsYW5ldC10ZWxlc2NvcGUtZW5kLW9mLW1pc3Npb24uanBnPzE1NDA5MjgxMzA=" alt="NASA's prolific Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel, agency officials announced on Oct. 30, 2018. The planet-hunting space telescope discovered thousands of alien worlds around distant stars since its launch in 2009." style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; display: block; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s; cursor: zoom-in;" apple-inline="yes" id="29823B50-7500-4B8F-912E-F613FDB0BAAD" src="cid:6D0E864F-DA0E-47F6-988D-1A6006B2695B"><div id="1541079878570-3" class="img-zoom-sub" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; width: 0px; position: fixed; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; transition: height 0.2s ease-in-out, width 0.2s ease-in-out; cursor: zoom-out;"><img class="img-zoom" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; z-index: 10003; max-width: 98%; min-width: 30%; max-height: 98%; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="F11FAEA4-089D-4A35-95F5-CEDC245BEBAD" src="cid:9EF49FCE-B5E1-427A-A167-5DB0CFA4C6DB"></div></div></div><figcaption class="fig-cap" id="nointelliTXT" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">NASA's prolific Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel, agency officials announced on Oct. 30, 2018. The planet-hunting space telescope discovered thousands of alien worlds around distant stars since its launch in 2009.</div></figcaption></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">NASA's </span><a href="https://www.space.com/24903-kepler-space-telescope.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">Kepler space telescope</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, which has discovered 70 percent of the 3,800 confirmed alien worlds to date, has run out of fuel, agency officials announced today (Oct. 30). Kepler can no longer reorient itself to study cosmic objects or beam its data home to Earth, so the legendary instrument's in-space work is done after nearly a decade. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Kepler has taught us that planets are ubiquitous and incredibly diverse," Kepler project scientist Jessie Dotson, who's based at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, told <a href="http://Space.com" class="">Space.com</a>. "It's changed how we look at the night sky." </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">oday's announcement was not unexpected. Kepler has been running low on fuel for months, and mission managers put the spacecraft to sleep several times recently to extend its operational life as much as possible. But the end couldn't be forestalled forever; Kepler's tank finally went dry two weeks ago, mission team members said during a telecon with reporters today. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">"This marks the end of spacecraft operations for Kepler, and the end of the collection of science data," Paul Hertz, head of NASA's Astrophysics Division, said during the telecon. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">nd Kepler will continue to live on in the exoplanet revolution it helped spark. For example, in April, NASA launched a new spacecraft called the</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.space.com/40182-nasa-tess-exoplanet-mission-images.html" style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> (TESS), which is hunting for alien worlds circling stars that lie relatively close to the sun (using the transit method, just like Kepler). </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Some of TESS' most promising finds will be scrutinized by NASA's $8.9 billion</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.space.com/41016-nasa-delays-james-webb-space-telescope-2021.html" style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">James Webb Space Telescope</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">, which is scheduled to launch in 2021. Webb will be able to scan the atmospheres of nearby alien worlds, looking for methane, oxygen and other gases that may be signs of life. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Kepler's death "is not the end of an era," Kepler system engineer Charlie Sobeck, also of NASA Ames, told <a href="http://Space.com" class="">Space.com</a>. "It's an occasion to mark, but it's not an end.</span><font color="#5b5b5b" face="FreeSans, Arimo, Droid Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">”</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><strong style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 28px;" color="#000000" class=""><a href="http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=e432385c61e7ca26257ebf573ececcc19f4a42ce0ef5a714166b07cec81e24538832175d713c66a5eb6d7347c17d33f361ae7fdc63a767e685eb0549b13ec2c1" style="font-weight: bold;" class="">A NASA Spacecraft Just Broke the Record for Closest Approach to Sun</a></font></strong></div><div class=""><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><div id="1541080990080" tabindex="3" class="img-zoom-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img class="pure-img z-loaded" big-src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4MC8zNTAvb3JpZ2luYWwvcGFya2VyLXNvbGFyLXByb2JlLXN1bi5qcGc=" alt="A NASA Spacecraft Just Broke the Record for Closest Approach to Sun" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; display: block; cursor: zoom-in;" apple-inline="yes" id="59B0BB98-25CF-4BC1-A2E5-EB05FA92C0F3" src="cid:E12D02B0-79F0-4C48-B2C9-6778556C84E7"><div id="1541080990080-3" class="img-zoom-sub" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; width: 0px; position: fixed; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; transition: height 0.2s ease-in-out, width 0.2s ease-in-out; cursor: zoom-out;"><img class="img-zoom" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; z-index: 10003; max-width: 98%; min-width: 30%; max-height: 98%; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="EEC57448-F703-4599-A7DF-9D5C8AB8372E" src="cid:8753FD40-11FA-49B9-95B4-69810AA4371B"></div></div></div><figcaption class="fig-cap" id="nointelliTXT" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="3" class="">An artist’s illustration of NASA's Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun.</font></div><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A NASA sun-studying spacecraft just entered the record books. </font><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large;" class="">In April of 1976, the German-American Helios 2 probe made spaceflight's closest-ever solar approach, cruising within 26.55 million miles (42.73 million kilometers) of the sun. But NASA's </span><a href="https://www.space.com/41454-nasa-parker-solar-probe-launches-to-sun.html" style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">Parker Solar Probe</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large;" class=""> zoomed inside that distance today (Oct. 29), crossing the threshold at about 1:04 p.m. EDT (1704 GMT), agency officials said. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large;" class="">Helios 2 also set the mark back then for fastest speed relative to the sun, at 153,454 mph (246,960 km/h). The Parker Solar Probe is expected to best that today as well, reaching higher speeds at about 10:54 p.m. EDT (0254 GMT on Oct. 30), NASA officials said. (NASA's </span><a href="https://www.space.com/33336-nasa-juno-probe-jupiter-orbit-tonight.html" style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">Juno Jupiter spacecraft</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large;" class=""> currently holds the record for top speed relative to Earth; the probe reached 165,000 mph, or 265,000 km/h, during its arrival at the giant planet in July 2016.) [</span><a href="https://www.space.com/37037-nasa-parker-solar-probe-mission-pictures.html" style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission to the Sun in Pictures</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large;" class="">] </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="4" class="">These records will fall again and again over the course of the Parker Solar Probe's $1.5 billion mission, which began Aug. 12 with a liftoff from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft will study the sun during 24 close flybys over the next seven years, getting closer and closer to our star with each encounter. </font></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">I</span><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">t's been just 78 days since Parker Solar Probe launched, and we've now come closer to our star than any other spacecraft in history," mission project manager Andy Driesman, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/parker-solar-probe-breaks-record-becomes-closest-spacecraft-to-sun" style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">said in a statement</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">. "It's a proud moment for the team, though we remain focused on our first solar encounter, which begins on Oct. 31.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large;" class="">The spacecraft sports a special carbon-composite shield to protect itself and its instruments from intense heat and radiation during its close flybys. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Those instruments will make a variety of measurements during the encounters. The Parker Solar Probe's observations will help researchers better understand the sun's structure, composition and activity, NASA officials have said. And the data could help solve two long-standing solar mysteries — why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than the surface, and what accelerates the charged particles of the </span><a href="https://www.space.com/22215-solar-wind.html" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">solar wind</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> to such tremendous speeds.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 28px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><strong style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 28px;" class=""><a href="http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=e2a0564cad1db42170ee59bcc3186319cb830d2f976fbb984fb31a629020ffa3ed23bf0acc0479d1f9cfe545378b0c86fa37c61030d5eaad0ae4068bca50701e" style="font-weight: bold;" class="">NASA to Soon End Active Efforts to Restore Contact with Opportunity</a></font></strong></div><div class=""><strong style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><br class=""></strong></div><div class=""><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue" class="">NASA expects to end daily "pinging" of the Opportunity rover in the next one to two weeks, but will keep listening for any signals from the rover for several more months.</font></div></figcaption></div><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">NASA expects to <a href="https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-soon-end-active-efforts-to-restore-contact-with-opportunity/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">soon end efforts</a> to contact the Opportunity Mars rover, silent for more than four months after a major dust storm, but will continue to listen for signals from the spacecraft for months to come. </font><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Opportunity, which has been on Mars since January 2004, last contacted Earth June 10. A powerful</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.space.com/41647-mars-rover-opportunity-dust-storm-survival.html" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">globe-spanning dust storm</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">blocked the sun and deprived the rover of solar power, putting it into a low-power mode. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">On Sept. 11, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that the optical depth, a measure of the haziness of Martian skies, had dropped to a level low enough to allow enough sunlight to reach the rover for it to generate power. At that point, controllers started an effort known as "active listening" where they transmitted commands to the rover in the event it was unable to revive itself and listened for any transmissions by the rover in response. [</span><a href="https://www.space.com/40888-mars-dust-storm-2018-and-opportunity-rover-images.html" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">Mars Dust Storm 2018: What It Means for Opportunity Rover</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">] </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">After more than a month, Opportunity has not responded to those commands, and that active listening effort will soon end. "We intend to keep pinging Opportunity on a daily basis for at least another week or two," said Lori Glaze, acting director of NASA's planetary science division, during a presentation Oct. 22 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences here. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Glaze said that a factor in ending the active listening campaign is to prepare for the landing of the</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.space.com/17199-nasa-mars-insight-lander-mission-gallery.html" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">InSight spacecraft on Mars</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Nov. 26. "We want to wind that down before InSight gets to Mars and make sure all our orbital assets are focused on a successful landing of InSight," she said. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">That schedule is consistent with previous plans for attempting to restore contact with Opportunity. NASA said Aug. 30 that, once skies cleared sufficiently, it would attempt</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-soon-start-45-day-campaign-to-revive-the-opportunity-mars-rover/" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">active listening for 45 days</a><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">. "If we do not hear back after 45 days, the team will be forced to conclude that the sun-blocking dust and the Martian cold have conspired to cause some type of fault from which the rover will more than likely not recover," John Callas, Opportunity project manager, said in a statement outlining those plans. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Some former rover controllers were critical about that plan, arguing that it wasn't enough time to see if Opportunity could be revived, particularly if its solar panels were coated in dust. NASA countered that, once the active listening effort ends, it will continue to listen for any transmissions by Opportunity for months to come, but not transmit any commands to it. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">That remains the case, Glaze said. "Just because we're not actively pinging Opportunity, no one is giving up," she said. "We're going to keep listening for quite a while just to see if there's a chance that the solar panels might get some dust blown off and it may be able to recharge the batteries." </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">One challenge to those efforts is the health of those batteries. Glaze noted that, while the dust storm moderated temperatures, the return of clear skies means sharp drops in temperature each night. "The batteries may be getting too cold, and that may be too much for the little rover that could," she said. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">For now, the active listening effort continues, with rover controllers following a tradition similar to past NASA human spaceflight missions by playing a "wakeup song" each day. After playing a song by the classic rock band The Who one night, the band's Twitter account responded, "Wake up, Mars! 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margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><font size="3" class="">Extraterrestrial life may use purple pigments to harvest energy</font></div><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Alien life might be purple. <span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">That's the conclusion of a new research paper that suggests that</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.livescience.com/57942-what-was-first-life-on-earth.html" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">the first life on Earth</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">might have had a lavender hue. In the</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/early-evolution-of-purple-retinal-pigments-on-earth-and-implications-for-exoplanet-biosignatures/63A1AD8AF544BEEF4C6D4A2D53130327" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">International Journal of Astrobiology</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">, microbiologist Shiladitya DasSarma of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and postdoctoral researcher Edward Schwieterman at the University of California, Riverside, argue that before green plants started harnessing the power of the sun for energy, tiny</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.livescience.com/39145-why-are-plants-purple.html" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">purple organisms</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">figured out a way to do the same. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Alien life could be thriving in the same way, DasSarma said. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">"Astronomers have discovered thousands of new extrasolar planets recently and are developing the capacity to see surface biosignatures" in the light reflected from these planets, he told Live Science. There are already ways to detect green life from space, he said, but scientists might need to start looking for purple, too. [</span><a href="https://www.livescience.com/13363-7-theories-origin-life.html" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">7 Wild Theories on the Origin of Life</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">]</span></font></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Purple Earth</font></span></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">The idea that the early Earth was purple is not new, DasSarma and his colleagues <a href="https://www.livescience.com/1398-early-earth-purple-study-suggests.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">advanced the theory in 2007</a>. The thinking goes like this: Plants and photosynthesizing algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the sun, but they don't absorb green light. That's odd, because green light is energy-rich. Perhaps, DasSarma and his colleagues reasoned, something else was already using that part of the spectrum when chlorophyll photosynthesizers evolved. <span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">That "something else" would be simple organisms that captured solar energy with a molecule called retinal. Retinal pigments absorb green light best. They're not as efficient as chlorophylls in capturing solar energy, but they are simpler, the researchers wrote in their new paper published Oct. 11. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Retinal light-harvesting is still widespread today among bacteria and the single-celled organisms called Archaea. These purple organisms have been discovered everywhere from the oceans to the Antarctic Dry Valley to the surfaces of leaves, Schwieterman told Live Science. Retinal pigments are also found in the visual system of more complex animals. The appearance of the pigments across many living organisms hints that they may have evolved very early on, in ancestors common to many branches of the tree of life, the researchers wrote. There is even some evidence that modern purple-pigmented salt-loving organisms called</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.livescience.com/60341-secret-vatican-manuscript-purple-spots-decoded.html" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">halophiles</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">might be related to some of the earliest life on Earth, which thrived around methane vents in the ocean, Schwieterman said.</span></font></p><h2 class="nolinks" style="margin: 30px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Purple aliens</font></h2><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Regardless of whether the first life on Earth was purple, it's clear that lavender life suits some organisms just fine, Schwieterman and DasSarma argue in their new paper. That means that <a href="https://www.livescience.com/63208-alien-life-excuses.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">alien life</a> could be using the same strategy. And if alien life is using retinal pigments to capture energy, astrobiologists will find them only by looking for particular light signatures, they wrote. <span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Chlorophyll, Schwieterman said, absorbs mostly red and blue light. But the spectrum reflected from a plant-covered planet displays what astrobiologists call a "vegetation red edge." This "red edge" is a sudden change in the reflection of light at the near-infrared part of the spectrum, where plants suddenly stop absorbing red wavelengths and start reflecting them away. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Retinal-based photosynthesizers, on the other hand, have a "green edge," Schwieterman said. They absorb light up to the green portion of the spectrum, and then start reflecting longer wavelengths away. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Astrobiologists have long been intrigued by the possibility of detecting extraterrestrial life</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15941381" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">by detecting the "red edge,"</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Schwieterman said, but they may need to consider searching for the "green edge," too. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">"If these organisms were present in sufficient densities on an exoplanet, those reflection properties would be imprinted on that planet's reflected light spectrum," he said.</span></font><span style="color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span></p><div style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></figcaption></div></div></div></figcaption></div></body></html>