'Life
in the Universe' Sites - UK
http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin/
Centred on the proposed ESA mission IRSI-Darwin
mission to use nulling interferometry to get spectra of terrestrial planets
around nearby stars. Alan Penny
maintains this page regularly and there is a wide variety of information
available on all aspects of planet-hunting.
This will give you all the links you want, and more!
http://www.beagle2.org/
The
Beagle 2 project is the British led effort to land on Mars as part of the
European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission to be launched in June 2003.
With a landed mass of less than 30kg, Beagle 2 represents the most
ambitious science payload to systems mass ratio ever attempted. Almost a
third of the payload will carry out various types of analysis or be used to
manipulate and collect samples for study on the surface of Mars.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/
BBC Online gives a pretty even mix of popular themes, mainly
cosmology, planet hunting and the search for life.
There are short popular-level essays by Martin Rees, Pete Coles, Alex
Ellery, Carole Stott, Jim Al-Khalili and Andrew Collier Cameron.
http://astrobiology.rl.ac.uk/
The UK Astrobiology Forum and Network.
British
National Space Centre Site
http://www.bnsc.gov.uk
The British National Space Centre web site.
The links were
provided by Dr Andrew Collier-Cameron of St Andrews University and Dr Barrie
Jones of the Open University.
