Space News Archive - February 07, 2005

Meteorites and comets should have delivered vast amounts of organic chemicals to Mars, yet the Viking mission found no organics in the red soil. A new hypothesis by Sushil Atreya suggests how dust storms may zap away any chances for life on the martian surface.

Digital multimedia broadcasting to hand-held electronic devices may be the hope for satellite service providers in the struggling Asia-Pacific market, an industry official said.