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Finishing Up In EndurancePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 25, 2004 
Opportunity has now reached the furthest point east in its travels inside "Endurance Crater." Rover drivers have determined that there is no safe path beyond the current position. Opportunity will instead conduct an intensive remote-sensing campaign, capturing a panorama of Burns Cliff plus super-resolution images and miniTES observations. |
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A Martian Retrospective
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2004As the rovers try to survive the dead of martian winter, what do readers want to know about their first nine-months on the red planet? Questions and answers range from how long the rovers may last to what it's like to live four months on martian time. Crater Hale in Argyre basin 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 25, 2004This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows Crater Hale in the Argyre basin of the southern hemisphere of Mars. Slight periodic colour and brightness variations in parts of the image indicate atmospheric waves in clouds. |
Cassini Shows Grandeur Of Saturn's Moons
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 25, 2004New views of two of Saturn's moons, Titan and Tethys, represent the most detailed look at these moons to date and show a sharp contrast between them - one is foggy and one is cratered. A Decade Of Intense Battle Lies Ahead To Conquer The Moon 
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 24, 2004The next decade will see nations scrambling to build outposts on the moon with each adapting different strategies to use it as a base to explore space, according to scientists attending a conference on lunar exploration. |
NASA Reaches Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Milestone
Kennedy Space Center, FL (SPX) Nov 25, 2004An important milestone was achieved Monday, when technicians began stacking Space Shuttle Discovery's right Solid Rocket Booster in the VAB. This signifies the beginning of assembly for the flight, which is planned for launch next spring. Launch Of Maxus 6 Sounding Rocket 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 25, 2004The Maxus 6 sounding rocket was successfully launched from Esrange, the Swedish Space Corporation rocket base in Kiruna, at 08:35 UT Nov 22. Carrying a payload of eight scientific experiments, the rocket reached an altitude of 706 km before falling back to Earth - providing twelve minutes of microgravity. |
Russia Sends Scientist To Jail For Spying
Krasnoyarsk, Russia (UPI) Nov 24, 2004A Russian court has sentenced a physicist Valentin Danilov to 14 years in a Siberian prison for passing space secrets to China. Danilov was first arrested in 2001 on charges he attempted to sell technology to China based on his work on the effects of the space environment on man-made satellites. China Creates Multi-Satellite Control System 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2004China has created its own multi-satellite automatic control system, marking the transformation of its satellite supervision management, China Radio International reported Wednesday. The traditional manual supervision mode on the ground will no longer effectively handle the multi-satellite management. |
Young Stars Poised for Production of Rocky Planets
Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 25, 2004One of the currently hottest astrophysical topics - the hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars - has just received an important impetus from new spectral observations with the MIDI instrument at the ESO VLT Interferometer (VLTI). Blue Planet Duck! The Sky Is Falling! 
Boulder CO (UPI) Nov 24, 2004With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us in the United States, this might be a good time to remind everyone not to become too cheerful because, to listen to some, the sky is falling. Despite its short history, environmentalism has developed a reputation for doomsday thinking. |
Vast Water Supplies Hidden Under North China Desert: Study
Paris, France (AFP) Nov 24, 2004A desert in China's Inner Mongolia that has the highest sand dunes in the world holds a vast store of underground water which, if used wisely, could ease the chronic water shortage afflicting the north of the country, a study says. AstroVision Aims To Launch GEO EO Sat Service 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 25, 2004Prospects for an Australian-owned geostationary imagery satellite have moved ahead with an agreement by Horizon Global to acquire 51 per cent of AstroVision Australia, a company which holds the Asia-Pacific rights for a set of advanced space cameras and sensors. |
ESA At The World's Largest Medical Fair
Dusseldorf, Germany (ESA) Nov 25, 2004At MEDICA 2004, the medical trade fair taking place in D�sseldorf, Germany, from 24-27 November 2004, the European Space Agency will introduce highly progressive methods in space medicine and their application on Earth. Engineers Demo First T-Ray Endoscope 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Electrical engineers at Rice University in Houston have demonstrated the world's first endoscope for terahertz imaging, a discovery that could extend the reach of terahertz-based sensors for applications such as explosives detection, cancer screening and industrial and post-production quality control. |
Al-Jazeera A Terror Channel: Iraq Minister
Dubai, UAE (AFP) Nov 23, 2004Iraqi Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan has branded Al-Jazeera a "channel of terrorism" in a newspaper interview. That brought a sharp reaction from the broadcaster, which expressed its "utter outrage" at what it said was an "unsubstantiated allegation". SES Astra And Neo-Sky To Launch New Satellite Internet Service 
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 24, 2004SES Astra, an SES Global company and Neo-Sky, the broadband operator of Iberdrola, have reached an agreement to launch broadband Internet services via satellite. |
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