Crikey!!

Crikey!! There's been a lot of good stuff going on recently.

First off, the "Water on Mars" story. Obviously, I'm very sceptical bout some dodgey NASA publicity shots (where some grad student has no doubt photoshopped a slightly lighter grey smudge onto a greyscale image, for funding reasons...) but to be honest, Mars most very likely did have a simple compound such as H20 present at some point in its history. This does NOT mean that life is just around the corner though!!!!

Then there was the Wednesday seminar by Kennicutt (IOA) talking about - and showing some spectacular images - from the SINGS Survey. I'll try and get old of some of the sweet ass images in due course but this all tied in v. nicely as an overview and general motivation for the work I've been doing with Spitzer COSMOS data.