For assistance accessing Microsoft Office products, please contact your local Help Desk. Our office suites and conference rooms help local business professionals be more successful by providing a welcoming, productive work environment. The upshot is that more work is needed before we can definitively understand where Mars’ methane is coming from – let alone whether gassy bacteria are generating it. An office simply means a professional place of work. In mid-2008, Microsoft trotted out Equipt, a subscription bundle of Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft’s now-defunct OneCare antivirus product, and several then-for-free online services, including Hotmail. Alternatively, the filter might be something like gamma-ray bursts, gigantic electromagnetic explosions that might periodically wipe out life forms before they grow into anything interesting. More specifically, and selfishly, where are we in relation to this alleged filter? For more information about Mars and the future of space exploration, visit the links on the next page. We might be talking about sending a manned mission to Mars in the coming decades, but that’s child’s play next to visiting other solar systems. With a billion extra years to play with, you would think they could’ve harnessed those galactic levels of energy to facilitate interstellar travel.

And here’s where density comes into play. A thin, variable atmosphere is one of the main complications when it comes to landing on Mars. NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet was scrutinized and debated by the mission team and the planetary science community. That doesn’t sound so bad, except that a light year is, as the name suggests, how far light can travel in a year, and even when we hit the turbo boost in our fastest rockets, we’re crawling compared to that. The astronomy world actually has been thrown into a tizzy by a sun known as Tabby’s Star, located in the Cygnus constellation roughly 1,480 light years from here. Individually called TRAPPIST-1b, c, d, e, f, g and h, the seven planets are named in order of their distance from the star, which has an eight per cent mass of our Sun, is just 12 per cent of its size and is 39 light years away from Earth.

Naturally, you can’t actually plug into the sun, but maybe we could use something like the Dyson sphere, a theoretical technology that wraps an energy-capture system around the sun and absorbs all of its output. The results of the equation can vary according to the numbers you plug in, but, by even the most skeptical estimates, our galaxy alone probably has at least 2 billion habitable planets. For the first billion years of its existence life was content to take the form of super-simple prokaryote cells. The total value of equipment was over $12 billion. It appears to have been dimming progressively and quite mysteriously over the years in a unique way. The age of sea ice is also an important indicator of Arctic conditions, because ice that has accumulated over many years is generally thicker and stronger than younger ice. SpaceX was one of the first companies to receive money from NASA; the company was just 4 years old at the time.

But as the years elapsed, his question evolved as it was filtered through other scientists’ ideas. NASA’s InvestigatorOrganizer uses a database, a document-sharing system and a Web-based data navigation system that allows scientists to browse through information and organize it and file it so it can be accessed online in a common file-sharing system. Engineers and scientists have been working on the Aura project since 1991. The satellite was originally scheduled to launch this June, but delays in other launches and a helium leak in the Delta II rocket that will boost Aura into space pushed that date back a number of weeks. But with an approach as close as 124 miles this time, MESSENGER will be able to send back more data, and images of higher resolution, than were achieved by the earlier craft. Read more about its colors here. A more moderate argument is that, while highly unlikely, there is a chance Mar­tian microbes could have a harmful impact on Earth, by competing with existing organisms for example. That, in a nutshell, is the Fermi Paradox, which isn’t technically a paradox at all, but rather a looming question: How come no aliens ever show up around here? In 1975, the astronomer Michael Hart alleged that the reason there aren’t any aliens here is because they don’t exist.