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Cassini Captures Saturn Moon Red-HandedPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 06, 2004 
Stealing is a crime on Earth, but at Saturn, apparently it is routine. The Cassini spacecraft has witnessed Saturn's moon Prometheus snatching particles from one of Saturn's rings. |
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Tilt And Whirl of Saturn's F Ring
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 06, 2004Zigzagging kinks and knots dance around Saturn in this image of Cassini's F ring. From a distance, as during Cassini's initial approach to Saturn in mid-2004, the F ring appears as a faint, knotted strand of material at the outer fringe of Saturn's immense ring system. Sweeping Beauty 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 06, 2004Any doubts about the grandeur of Saturn's rings will be dissolved by sweeping portraits like this one from Cassini. There is a magnificent level of detail visible in this view, which captures almost the entire ring system - from the thin, outer F ring to faint narrow features in the D ring, interior to the C ring. |
Aerojet Tests Engine For New Mars Rover
Sacramento CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2004Aerojet recently test-fired a Viking flight spare rocket engine assembly in order to help design a new engine which will deliver the next rover to Mars' surface in 2009. "Aerojet hardware has flown on every U.S. mission to Mars," said Aerojet President Michael Martin. New Programming Challenge Launched To Solve Mars Rescue Mission 
San Mateo CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2004Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools has launched a contest designed to challenge the skills of master software builders and software architects to solve a "Mars Rescue Mission," a hypothetical manned spacecraft that has crashed on Mars. |
Huygens Set For Center Stage At Titan
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2004Many of his fellow Brits may be spending their early morning hours Christmas Day with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, but John Zarnecki probably will be dreaming of his upcoming role in a potentially landmark mission. Houston Takes ISS Crew's Christmas Food Order 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2004The International Space Station's crew completed the first 50 days of their six-month mission last week, highlighted by a short flight in their Soyuz spacecraft. |
Pacifist Japan To Study Developing First Long-Range Missile: Report
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 03, 2004Pacifist Japan will study developing its first long-range surface-to-surface missile amid growing concern about neighbors North Korea and China, a report said last Friday. Russia Tells India It Is Not Soviet Union 
New Delhi, India (UPI) Dec 03, 2004India and Russia on Friday signed a series of bilateral agreements to rejuvenate their closer ties, but New Delhi misses the warmth of the Soviet Union, its closest ally of the Cold War era. |
ESA Astronaut Goes Underwater To Test European Robotic Arm
Moscow (ESA) Dec 06, 2004The WET model of the European Robotic Arm (ERA) was comprehensively inspected and tested at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow last week. ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers donned a Russian Orlan spacesuit for the occasion. Spotlight On Space Debris 
Darmstadt, Germany (ESA) Dec 06, 2004At closing speeds reaching 50 thousand km per hour, even the smallest bits of space debris can cause serious harm to spacecraft; larger ones cause catastrophe. |
Europe Growing Dependent On Russian Energy: IEA
Paris (AFP) Dec 05, 2004Europe is becoming more and more dependent on Russian energy supplies, making it vulnerable to high prices that help Moscow reach growth and investment objectives, IEA executives say. Mouth Of The Danube 
Paris (ESA) Dec 06, 2004Flanked by imposing mountains, one of Europe's principal rivers reaches its end in this Envisat image. The Lower Danube River flows east then north to empty into the Black Sea its triangular Delta, a World Heritage Site. |
Nano World: Software To Speed Nanotech
New York (UPI) Dec 03, 2004New consortia of corporations, universities and federal agencies are seeking to accelerate the development in the wide-open field of nanotechnology software - programs to create and enhance devices with features on the molecular scale. Researchers To Develop The Rapid Steganographic Detection Suite 
Hoboken NJ (SPX) Dec 06, 2004An Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Rajarathnam Chandramouli, recently received a grant from the US Air Force Research Lab to develop a commercial software product based on his research in steganalysis, or the detection of hidden digital information, to automatically scan e-mails and web pages for hidden messages. |
Earthlings' Low Signal-To-Noise?
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2004If ET ever phones home, chances are Earthlings wouldn't recognize the call as anything other than random noise or a star. New research shows that highly efficient electromagnetic transmissions from our neighbors in space would resemble the thermal radiation emitted by stars. Quantum Memory For Light 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2004In the macroscopic world, it is possible to copy information from one device to another. We do this everyday, when, for example, we copy files in a computer or tape a conversation. In the microscopic world, however, it is not possible to copy the quantum information from one system into another one. It can only be transferred, without leaving any trace on the original one. |
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