NASA has some mission going to mars every 700 or so days when MArs is closest to earth. Far as I know, the pipeline for missions goes beyond 2007, but its all a matter of how much money COngress will approve for this kind of work. I know that white drawfs can be 1000 times less brighter than the sun. Giants and Supergiants. Giants produce about 100 times the power of our sun and supergiants can produce a million times the power of our sun.
Supergiants are bad news for life.
It's one huge rainforest. The crummy kind. The nearest thing we have is the stuff you see in Death Valley, or in the deserts of Antarctica. My teacher would like to know if their is a phone number Steve can be reached at after the chat is over. A lot of people think Alaska is like a foreign country.