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"Heavy Metal" Snow On Blazing Venus Is Lead SulfideSt. Louis - Feb 11, 2004 
Lead sulfide - also known by its mineral name, galena - is a naturally occurring mineral found in Missouri, other parts of the world, and now. . .other parts of the solar system. That's because recent thermodynamic calculations by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis provide plausible evidence that "heavy metal snow," which blankets the surface of upper altitude Venusian rocks, is composed of both lead and bismuth sulfides. |
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"Aloha, Mars": The Ready Rock Reckoner Model Of Mars
Honolulu - Feb 11, 2004Right after the Spirit rover landed on Mars, I made a flippant remark to my friend Dr. X to the effect that "Gusev Crater is one big basalt flow, not a lakebed like they think. All the rocks in the rover pictures look just like the ones in my neighbor's garden wall." The Imperial Martian Wardrobe Malfunctions 
Scottsdale - Feb 11, 2004Disappearing clothing seems to be in the news these days. From Janet Jackson's bustier to the Emperor's space-policy clothes, more seems to be less and less all the time writes John Carter McKnight in his latest installment of The Spacefaring Web. |
An Odyssey of Mars Science: Part 3
Sacramento - Feb 12, 2004The lead time on Martian science is measured in years as newly available data is sifted through and tantalizing clues to the story of Mars are uncovered and shared with the rest of the science world. In an extended series of reports based around the 2003 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Bruce Moomwaw takes SpaceDaily readers through a wide range of science papers and poster sessions to make for an Odyssey of Martian science. |
EU Commission Presents GMES Concept To European Parliament
Brussels - Feb 11, 2004On 3 February 2004, the European Commission presented a Communication to the European Parliament and the Council on the 'Global Monitoring for Environment and Security' (GMES) initiative. Its focus is a new Action Plan, aimed at establishing a working GMES capacity by 2008. Africa to Atlantic, Dust to Dust 
Greenbelt - Feb 11, 2004The other side of the world could be closer than you think. Little pieces of Earth, particles of dust, can travel halfway around the globe and alter air quality, affecting animals, plants and weather. |
How Plants Split Water Could Provide Key To Our Future Energy Needs
London - Feb 11, 2004The possibility of using the Earth's abundant supply of water as a cheap source of hydrogen could be helped by mimicking the method plants use to split water. Ultra Low-Profile Plastic Bearing Resolves Sat TV Antenna Problems 
Foxborough - Feb 11, 2004Sarnatech has teamed with KVH to produce two custom-designed parts that allow KVH's satellite TV antennas to be packaged in less than five inches and receive more than 300 TV and music channels quickly and smoothly as a motor vehicle is in motion. |
Lockheed Martin Opens Global Vision Center at San Diego SPAWAR Facility
San Diego - Feb 11, 2004Lockheed Martin today opened a new Global Vision Center at the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego. The Global Vision Center will be used to develop, test and demonstrate advanced Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) technology. ATK Orion Motors Power Orbital Sciences Interceptor Boost Vehicle 
Minneapolis - Feb 11, 2004Alliant Techsystems (ATK) supplied three solid rocket motors used in the successful flight test of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor boost vehicle. Astronomers Unravel A Mystery From The Dark Ages 
Cardiff - Feb 11, 2004Scientists at Cardiff University, UK, believe they have discovered the cause of crop failures and summer frosts some 1,500 years ago � a comet colliding with Earth. |
Researchers Pinpoint Brain Areas That Process Reality, Illusion
by Tony FitzpatrickSt. Louis - Feb 11, 2004 Marvin Gaye wailed in the '60s hit "Heard it through the Grapevine" that we're supposed to believe just half of what we see. Biomedical engineer Daniel Moran, Ph.D., and University of Pittsburgh researchers, have identified areas of the brain where reality and illusion are processed. Comets Spread Earth-Life Around Galaxy, Say Scientists 
Cardiff - Feb 11, 2004If comets hitting the Earth could cause ecological disasters, including extinctions of species and climate change, they could also disperse Earth-life to the most distant parts of the Galaxy. Columbia To Establish Government Biological Information Site 
New York - Feb 11, 2004Columbia University Senior Research Scientist Robert Worrest, who will direct the development of the new NBII northeast information node, has more than 25 years of ecological research and assessment experience related to environmental change and variability. |
Gilat Selected to Deploy Africa's First Modernized Postal System
Petah Tikva - Feb 11, 2004Gilat's Spacenet subsidiary has been selected by Posta Kenya to supply a satellite-based communications DialAw@y IP network, linking Kenyan postal offices throughout the country. Gilat's DialAw@y IP platform will be installed in the postal offices, each servicing a LAN connecting three PCs. PlanetLink Field Tests GPS Tracker 
Cumming - Feb 11, 2004PlanetLink Communications Inc., a provider of satellite-based products and services announced today the launch of the field-testing phase for its PlanetTRAKS GPS product. Twelve PlanetTRAKS units will be installed on personal vehicles owned by people affiliated with PlanetLink and Karta Technologies, its technology development partner -- 6 in San Antonio, Texas and 6 in the Atlanta area. |
Gravitational Lens Reveals Heart Of A Distant Galaxy
Boston - Feb 11, 2004Many examples are known where a galaxy acts as a gravitational lens, producing multiple images on the sky of a more distant object like a bright quasar hidden behind it. But there has been a persistent mystery for over 20 years: Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts there should be an odd number of images, yet almost all observed lenses have only 2 or 4 known images. Louisiana Professor Receives $1.8 Million For Cybersecurity Research 
Baton Rouge - Feb 11, 2004The NSF has awarded a $1.8 million grant to Peter Chen for his research on "cybersecurity" methods that could aid law enforcement and security agencies in tracking and capturing terrorists and other types of criminals. |
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