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Saturn's Moon Titan: Planet Wannabe
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2004Jonathan Lunine, professor of planetary science and physics at the at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, has long been fascinated by Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Astrobiology Magazine's Managing Editor Henry Bortman spoke recently with Lunine about the Huygens mission. In this first part of the interview, Lunine explains what scientists hope to learn from Huygens. What Is A Comet Made Of? 
Davis CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2004A new method for looking at the composition of comets using ground-based telescopes has been developed by chemists at UC Davis. Remnants from the formation of our solar system, the makeup of comets gives clues about how the Earth and other planets formed. |
Escarpment And Landslides Of Olympus Mons
Paris (ESA) Aug 10, 2004These images from ESA's Mars Express show the western flank of the shield volcano Olympus Mons in the Tharsis region of the western Martian hemisphere. Scientists Formulate Intelligent Glass That Blocks Heat Not Light 
London (SPX) Aug 10, 2004Reporting in the Journal of Materials Chemistry, researchers reveal they have developed an intelligent window coating that, when applied to the glass of buildings or cars, reflects the sun's heat so you don't get too hot under the collar. |
Perseids To Storm August 11?
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2004The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event beloved by millions of skywatchers around the world, returns to the night sky this week near the North Star and the constellation Perseus. |
Hubble In Trouble
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2004One of four science instruments aboard NASA's Hubble's Space Telescope suspended operations earlier this week, and engineers are now looking into possible recovery options. |
Space Imaging Introduces RESOURCESAT-1 Satellite Imagery Products
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2004Space Imaging announced that imagery from India's RESOURCESAT-1 satellite is now available to the commercial marketplace. Space Imaging has the exclusive worldwide rights to sell data from RESOURCESAT-1 outside of India. Keeping Current With Ocean Currents 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 10, 2004Imagine a place where the roads change constantly and last month's map may be completely out of date. That's the ocean. Knowing where the currents were a week ago won't help a ship captain chart the best course or a clean-up crew anticipate where an oil spill is heading nearly as much as knowing where the currents are today. Whale Of A Species 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2004"On this single planet called Earth, there co-exist (among countless other life forms), algae, beetles, sponges, jellyfish, snakes, condors, and giant sequoias. Imagine these seven living organisms lined up next to each other in one-place. If you didn't know better, you would be hard-pressed to believe that they all came from the same universe, much less the same planet". - Neil deGrasse Tyson, American Museum of Natural History. |
AGI Introduces Software Solution for SATNAV Community
Exton PA (SPX) Aug 10, 2004AGI and Overlook Systems Technologies Monday released Navigation Tool Kit, a comprehensive software analysis tool for the satellite navigation (SATNAV) community. NASA Solar Sail Propulsion Team Successfully Deploys Two Solar Sail Systems 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 10, 2004NASA's Solar Sail Propulsion Team and industry partners have successfully deployed two 10-meter solar sails in a vacuum environment - a critical milestone in development of the unique propulsion technology that could enable future deep space missions. Solar sail propulsion uses the Sun's energy to travel through space. The work is led by the In-Space Propulsion Technology Projects Office at the Marshall Center. Expedition 9 Crew Continue To Reorganize Station 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 09, 2004Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Flight Engineer and Science Officer Mike Fincke resumed scientific investigations, routine maintenance and preparations for the arrival of a new cargo ship, after a successful spacewalk last Tuesday (August 3). |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 06, 2004A gamma-ray burst detected by ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory on 3 December 2003 has been thoroughly studied for months by an armada of space and ground-based observatories. Astronomers have now concluded that this event, called GRB 031203, is the closest cosmic gamma-ray burst on record, and also the faintest. This also suggests that an entire population of sub-energetic gamma-ray bursts has so far gone unnoticed. Old Galaxies In The Young Universe 
Firenze, Italy (SPX) Aug 06, 2004Current theories of the formation of galaxies are based on the hierarchical merging of smaller entities into larger and larger structures, starting from about the size of a stellar globular cluster and ending with clusters of galaxies. Spooky Spaceflight 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2004In 2001, researchers at the University of Aarhus' Quantum Optics Center in Denmark successfully applied a phenomenon of physics known as quantum entanglement to two specimens of cesium measuring in the trillions of atoms apiece, transferring the quantum state of one group of atoms to the other. December 3 Gamma-Ray Burst Was A New Type Of Cosmic Explosion 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2004Astronomers have identified a new class of cosmic explosions that are more powerful than supernovae but considerably weaker than most gamma-ray bursts. The discovery strongly suggests a continuum between the two previously-known classes of explosions. |
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