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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.aaas.org/meeting" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="1024" height="111" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE087A.B27CD1C0" alt="2013 AAAS Annual Meeting (14-18 February 2013)"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Exploring Other Worlds and Seeing Our Own Anew <o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friday, February 15, 2013: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Room 204 (Hynes Convention Center)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2008, NASA’s Lander <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Phoenix</span></em> touched down in the north region of Mars. Loaded with an array of instruments, it made several discoveries that changed our view of Mars’ geochemistry
and potential for life. The results then provoked a reanalysis of Antarctic soils, leading to the discovery of a continent-wide and global presence of perchlorate on Earth, with eventual implications at the politically charged level of environmental and drinking
water controls. Over the past 40 years, observations from spacecraft orbiting or landing on planets and moons have provided new knowledge from neighbors near and far: Mars, Venus, Mercury, Titan, and Europa, among others. They have given us views of worlds
that are at the same time very familiar and yet alien. They have provided us with windows into eras long erased on Earth but at the core of our emerging existence. They have given us premonitions of a future Earth heating out of control or of a possibly frozen
past. We have found the solvent of life in almost every corner we have looked, from liquid global oceans to frozen ice caps to slivers in shaded crevices. Most of all, because every place on Earth there is water there is life, from the clouds to kilometers
below the surface, we have yet to exhaust the quest for other places where kindred life my hide. Our search, however, has told us more about us than ever imaginable. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, at the end of our exploring, we will arrive where we started and
know the place for the first time. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Organizer:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Samuel P. Kounaves, Tufts University <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="name">Samuel P. Kounaves</span><span class="presenter">,
</span><span class="affiliation">Tufts University</span><span class="paperauthors">
</span><br>
<a href="http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Paper8358.html">Forty Years of Martian Chronicles: A Very Familiar Yet Alien World</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="name">Bethany L. Ehlmann</span><span class="presenter">,
</span><span class="affiliation">California Institute of Technology </span><br>
<a href="http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Paper9724.html">The Earliest Aqueous, Habitable Environments on Mars: A View from Orbit</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="name">David T. Blewett</span><span class="presenter">,
</span><span class="affiliation">Johns Hopkins University</span><span class="paperauthors">
</span><br>
<a href="http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Paper8378.html">Reconsidering Our Ideas of Mercury</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="name">Sanjay S. Limaye</span><span class="presenter">,
</span><span class="affiliation">University of Wisconsin</span><span class="paperauthors">
</span><br>
<a href="http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Paper8380.html">Venus: The Hot Sister of Earth</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="name">Robert T. Pappalardo</span><span class="presenter">,
</span><span class="affiliation">NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</span><span class="paperauthors">
</span><br>
<a href="http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Paper8377.html">The Icy But Warm Moons of Jupiter</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="name">Amanda R. Hendrix</span><span class="presenter">,
</span><span class="affiliation">Planetary Science Institute</span><span class="paperauthors">
</span><br>
<a href="http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Paper8379.html">The Organic Lakes of Titan and Other Moons of Saturn</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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