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Jeff Bell and the Legions of Doom
Los Angeles - Mar 22, 2004For a week now I have seen articles by a Adjunct professor of planetology at the University of Honolulu concerning A: The impossibility of the president's Lunar initiative working and B: the impending death of the astronauts on orbit at ISS. ACSA Completes Final Phase Peer Review Of Sea Mission Proposal 
ACSA - March 22, 1492SpaceDaily's Jeffrey Bell takes readers on a humorous look at an early age of planetary exploration that saw voyages of discovery subjected to a court of approval just as difficult as today's mission evaluation committees. |
Mars Rover Opportunity Slips On First Crater Exit Attempt
Pasadena - Mar 22, 2004NASA's Opportunity tried driving uphill out of its landing-site crater during its 56th sol, ending at 10:05 p.m. March 21, PST, but slippage prevented success. The rover is healthy, and it later completed a turn to the right and a short drive along the crater's inner slope. Controllers plan to send it on a different route for exiting the crater on sol 57. Martian South Pole Not Just Dry Ice 
Moffett Field - Mar 22, 2004Astronomers have known for years that Mars possessed polar ice caps, but early attempts at chemical analysis suggested only that the northern cap could be composed of water ice, and the southern cap was thought to be carbon dioxide ice. |
Lunar Mountain With Permanent Sun Good Site For Base
Houston (UPI) March 19, 2004Scientists have identified a lunar mountain where the sun never sets. Dubbed "peak of eternal light," the site is on the rim of Peary, a 90km wide crater at the lunar north pole. The peak, announced by scientists from Johns Hopkins at a meeting of astronomers in Houston, was discovered frp, images taken by Clementine in 1994. |
NASA Looks To Department Of Energy For Nuclear Space Tech
Washington - Mar 22, 2004The Department of Energy's (DOE) Naval Reactors (NR) Program has joined NASA in its effort to investigate and develop space nuclear power and propulsion technologies for civilian applications. These activities could enable unprecedented space exploration missions and scientific return unachievable with current technology. |
Surviving With and Without Oxygen 
Moffett Field - Mar 22, 2004Christopher Chyba is the principal investigator for The SETI Institute lead team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Chyba formerly headed the SETI Institute's Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. His NAI team is pursuing a wide range of research activities, looking at both life's beginnings on Earth and the possibility of life on other worlds. |
Spaceguard Redux, Put to Test
Moffett Field - Mar 22, 2004A small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered Monday night by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded. Largely as a result of a Congressional mandate, NASA established a "Spaceguard" program with a goal of finding 90 percent of all the near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) larger than 1 kilometer in diameter by the end of 2008. |
TrimTrac Wins Best Bang For The Buck Awarded In GPS Vehicle Tracking
Sunnyvale - Mar 22, 2004Trimble announced Friday that its new TrimTrac locator has been selected as the recipient of the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Best Bang for the Buck Award in vehicle tracking. Delta 2 Deploys 50th GPS Satellite 
St. Louis - Mar 22, 2004The 50th satellite launched for the U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS), GPS IIR-11, was delivered to space today by a Boeing Delta II rocket. The three-stage configuration Delta II launch vehicle lifted off from Space Launch Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 12:53 p.m. EST. |
Io's Lava Lakes Like Early Earth?
Buffalo - Mar 22, 2004Investigations into lava lakes on the surface of Io, the intensely volcanic moon that orbits Jupiter, may provide clues to what Earth looked like in its earliest phases, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. First Double Star Spacecraft Declared Ready For Operations 
Paris - Mar 22, 2004The China-ESA Double Star project is designed to use two spacecraft to study the Earth's magnetosphere, in concert with ESA's four spacecraft Cluster mission. The Double Star spacecraft are known as TC-1 and TC-2, or translating to English, as Explorer-1 and Explorer-2. |
Using EO To Assist Communities in Hazard Assessment and Fire Mitigation 
Boulder - Mar 22, 2004Space Imaging and Anchor Point have partnered together to offer a community fire hazards and risk assessment program that supports wildland urban interface planning. Scientists Find New Carbon Pollution Called Tar Balls 
Washington - Mar 22, 2004An international team of scientists has discovered new carbon-bearing particles, which they call "tar balls," in air pollution over Hungary, the Indian Ocean, and southern Africa. Tar balls form in smoke from wood fires and agricultural and forest burning. Patagonian Ice Dam Studied From Space Cracks Open 
Paris - Mar 22, 2004A spectacle unseen for 16 years occurred in Patagonia this week: a natural dam of blue ice gave way to crushing lake waters trapped behind it, finally breaking apart. Shopping With Nano-Tags In The Wireless Age 
Chicago (UPI) March 19, 2004A man takes a shirt off the rack at Marks & Spencer, the upscale retailer in London, and goes to the clerk at the cash register to pay for it. Microsoft Billionaire SETI $13.5 Million To Listen Longer 
Mountain View - Mar 22, 2004Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen has committed $13.5 million to support the construction of the first and second phases of the Allen Telescope Array (the ATA-32 and ATA-206), the world's newest multiple use radio telescope array. The ATA will eventually consist of 350 - 6.1-meter dishes (ATA-350), when construction is completed late in the decade. |
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