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Martian Spheres & Filaments
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Steve Squyers Interview
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Date:

02-20-04

Host:

George Noory

Guests:

Linda Moulton Howe, Open Lines


Investigator Linda Moulton Howe (earthfiles.com(1)), the guest for the first half of Friday's show, offered reports on some of the strange findings of the Mars rovers. She interviewed Geology Prof. Ronald Greeley about puzzling filaments (2) found laying in the soil grains on Meridiani Planum. Greeley suggested they could be related to the "fibrous things that can form in minerals like asbestos."
Linda also played portions of her interview with Steve Squyers, thePrincipal Investigator on the Mars Rover Missions, who informed her that neither rover had any instruments aboard that were capable of detecting whether there were organic substances in the soil. The missions, were strictly to determine whether there was past water on the planet, said Squyers, who became irate when pressed with further questions about the possibility of organic elements. Read her full interview here(3).
One of Linda's next speaking engagements will be at the first annual X-Conference, an "exopolitics expo," being held in Washington DC this April.

1. http://www.earthfiles.com/
2. http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=662&category=Science
3. http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=667&category=Science

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Bumper music from Friday February 20, 2004

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Santana
2. I Know You're Out There Somewhere
Moody Blues
3. Inca Dance
Cusco
4. It Don't Come Easy
Ringo Starr
5. Midnight Express (The Chase)
Giorgio Moroder
6. Midnight Express (The Chase)
Giorgio Moroder
7. One More Night
Phil Collins
8. Say You Will
Fleetwood Mac
9. Still Crazy After All These Years
Paul Simon
10. Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits
11. Take It to the Limit
Eagles
12. Tiny Dancer
Elton John
13. Unchained Melody
Righteous Bros.
14. Unchained Melody
Willie Nelson
15. Puff (the Magic Dragon)
Peter, Paul & Mary
16. Marie Laveau
Bobby Bare
17. Marie Laveau
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
18. Draggin' the Line
Tommy James & the Shondells
19. Will It Go Round in Circles
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