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Science Cases (2005 versions)

Methane in Mars' Atmosphere: Evidence for Life or Uncertain Detections?
(Lacy, Richter, Greathouse)

Exploring the Kuiper Belt with Stellar Occultations
(Elliot and Dunham)

Infrared Studies of Cometary Dust using SOFIA
(Sitko, Russell, Lynch, Wooden)

Water in Space: Comets and the Interstellar Medium
(Bergin, Blake, Goldsmith, Harris, Melnick, Zmuidzinas)

New Insights into the Physics of Infrared Cirrus
(Dowell, Hildebrand, Lazarian, Werner, Zweibel)

Precise Photometry of Extrasolar Planets
(Dunham, Brown, Charbonneau, Elliot, McLean)

Massive Protostellar Cores in Infrared Dark Clouds
(Staguhn, Jackson, Rathborne, Simon, Wyrowski, Benford)

Magnetic Fields, Turbulence, and Star Formation
(Novak, Davidson, Dowell, Hildebrand, Kirby, Lazarian, Looney, Zweibel)

Spatially Resolved Protostars in Taurus
(Hillenbrand and Eisner)

The Protostellar Luminosity Function
(Hillenbrand, Greene, Harvey)

The Interstellar Deuterium Abundance
(Guesten and the GREAT Consortium)

SOFIA Observations of the Circumnuclear Disk at the Galactic Center
(Morris, Erickson, Chuss, Stacey, Staguhn)

Supernova Remnants: Enrichment and Processing of Dust and Heavy Elements in the ISM
(Dwek, Arendt, Moseley, Bregman, Colgan, Dinerstein)

Deep HAWC Surveys for Far-IR Luminous Galaxies
(Blain, Davidson, Moseley)