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Cassini Rings The BellPasadena - July 1, 2004
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Patching Titan's Surface View
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 30, 2004Irregular bright and dark regions of yet unidentified composition and character are becoming increasingly visible on Titan's surface as Cassini approaches its scheduled first flyby of Saturn's largest moon on July 2, 2004. 
Lost Moon Atlas Found!Pasadena (SPX) Jul 01, 2004 The Cassini spacecraft has sighted the tiny moon Atlas, which is seen here for the first time since Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980. |
Light This Candle
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2004NASA's engineers developed a number of high-tech new machines, scattered at military bases across the nation, that would simulate aspects of what the astronauts would likely confront during space flight. And that became the driving theory behind the astronauts training regimen: |
Basic RNA Enzyme Research Promises Single-Molecule Biosensors
Ann Abor MI (SPX) Jun 30, 2004Research aimed at teasing apart the workings of RNA enzymes eventually may lead to ways of monitoring fat metabolism and might even assist in the search for signs of life on Mars, according to University of Michigan researcher Nils Walter. LockMart Awarded Design Agent Contract For MK 41 Vertical Launcher 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 22, 2004The U.S. Navy recently awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for design agent engineering for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS). The contract, initially valued at $18.5 million, has a potential value in excess of $140 million over four years. NTMI Supports Border Patrol UAV's To Monitor Nation's Southern Border 
Reston VA (SPX) Jul 01, 2004New Technology Management, Inc. (NTMI) today hailed the first sustained civilian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to curb illegal activities along Arizona's southern border. |
New Tool Used To Study Landslides
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2004A research team led by the University of California, Berkeley, has detailed the downhill movement of San Francisco Bay Area landslides using powerful new space-born imaging techniques. Ocean Currents Redistribute Heat During Warming & Cooling 
Bremen (SPX) Jun 25, 2004A paper published this week in the journal Science supports the hypothesis that heat transfer by ocean currents � rather than global heating or cooling � may have been responsible for the global temperature patterns associated with the abrupt climate changes seen in the North Atlantic during the past 80,000 years. Melting Ice Cap Gives Urgency To New Census Of Arctic Life 
Washington (SPX) Jun 25, 2004A multinational partnership of polar scientists will take an historic census of marine life in the Arctic Ocean, including the planet's oldest seawater � a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice. |
Wanted: Space Agency That Works
Pasadena (SPX) Jun 29, 2004Lately within the circles of the space community there have been two camps form - those who support NASA and those who don't. Many people believe that NASA is the only way to go. With a few changes, they can be the agency that they were during the heady days of the Apollo program. Others believe that NASA's day is over and that it is time to move on. Most however, don't even care. Contrasting View: Columbus And Isabela Are Pretty Good Role Models 
Austin TX (SPX) Jun 29, 2004Isabela and Columbus were recently discussed by Jeffrey Bell in Space Daily. Bell's dissection of Columbus's business plan is interesting reading. Isabela and Columbus, however, achieved something great together that will not soon be forgotten. Isabela and Columbus were not such bad people. I got the skinny on them from the resident Columbus expert in my family, Professor Emeritus of History, Dr. Robert J. Dinkin, aka Dad. |
Astronomers Use Novel Camera To Hunt For Extrasolar Planets
Tucson (SPX) Jun 23, 2004Their camera has already made stunning images of Saturn's moon, Titan, and discovered an object just 27 times the mass of Jupiter. They hope the camer will be the first to directly photograph faint gas-giants similar to Jupiter in solar systems beyond our own. Revisiting The Orion Nebula 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2004Orion the Hunter is perhaps the best-known constellation in the sky, well placed in the winter for observers in both the northern and southern hemispheres, and instantly recognisable. Revolutionary Spectrograph Sees First Light 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2004The Nearby Supernova Factory has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved "first light" during the early morning hours of June 8, when the instrument acquired its first astronomical target, a Type Ia supernova designated SN 2004ca. |
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