Bruce Murray

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Bruce Murray

American scientist

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Mars
Polar regions
American scientists Robert Leighton and Bruce Murray published the results of a numerical model of the thermal environment on Mars that raised considerable doubt about the water-ice hypothesis. Their calculations indicated that, under Martian conditions, atmospheric carbon dioxide would freeze at the poles, and the growth and shrinkage of their…
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American scientists Robert Leighton and Bruce Murray published the results of a numerical model of the thermal environment on Mars that raised considerable doubt about the water-ice hypothesis. Their calculations indicated that, under Martian conditions, atmospheric carbon dioxide would freeze at the poles, and the growth and shrinkage of their…
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extraterrestrial life
Searching for technical civilizations
Carl Sagan, planetary scientist Bruce Murray, and aerospace engineer Louis Friedman, has as one of its aims the bringing together of professionals and amateurs in support of SETI. Funding by American movie director Steven Spielberg permitted the society to start the first privately funded SETI project, the Megachannel Extraterrestrial…
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Carl Sagan, planetary scientist Bruce Murray, and aerospace engineer Louis Friedman, has as one of its aims the bringing together of professionals and amateurs in support of SETI. Funding by American movie director Steven Spielberg permitted the society to start the first privately funded SETI project, the Megachannel Extraterrestrial…
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