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Shuttle Should Service Hubble: NASA ReportWashington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2004 
To ensure continued operations of the Hubble Telescope and to prepare for its eventual de-orbiting, NASA should send a space shuttle mission, not a robotic one, says a new congressionally requested report from the National Academies' National Research Council. |
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The Adventure Ahead
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2004This majestic view of Saturn captures several phenomena of interest to scientists working on the Cassini mission. The planet's nighttime atmosphere looms ahead - an excellent place to search for storms and lightning. On Top of Titan's Mountain 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2004When Cassini flew by Saturn's moon Titan on October 26, scientists got a small taste of the discoveries to come. Astrobiology Magazine editor Leslie Mullen spoke with Athena Coustenis of the Paris-Meudon Observatory, and discussed a potential landscape of mountains and lakes on this strange, smog-filled world. Seeing In The Dark As Saturn Lights Up Iapetus 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2004Never-before-seen features on the Saturn-facing part of Iapetus' bright trailing hemisphere are visible for the first time, including many dark spots, and a sharper view of a dark, circular structure that was first seen at very low resolution by NASA's Voyager 1 in 1980. |
Digital Elevation Map of Spirit's Trek
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2004A digital elevation map, produced from satellite data overlain on an image taken by the Mars Orbital Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, shows changes in elevation along the trek of NASA's Spirit Rover, as of its 328th martian day (Dec. 4, 2004). The Martian Channels Of Reull Vallis 
Paris (ESA) Dec 09, 2004This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows a region of Reull Vallis in the southern hemisphere of Mars, located at about latitude 42� South and longitude 102� East. Enigmatic Kuiper Object Quaoar Might Be Outgassing 
Moscow, Russia (UPI) Dec 08, 2004A giant rock spotted on the fringes of the Solar System has frozen water crystals on its surface, an intriguing discovery that suggests it may harbour volcanic activity, a study says. |
Speed Of Tectonic Plate Activity Controls Geologic Processes
New York NY (SPX) Dec 09, 2004A new study has revealed a mechanism that counters established thinking on how the rate at which tectonic plates separate along mid-ocean ridges controls processes such as heat transfer in geologic materials, energy circulation and even biological production. |
What Have Scientists Learned Since Mount St. Helens Erupted
Portland OR (SPX) Dec 09, 2004When Mount St. Helen's blew its top in 1980, Charlie Crisafulli was 22 years old and just beginning his career as a research ecologist. One of his first assignments: travel to Mount St. Helens 2 months after the historic eruption and study the aftermath. |
US To Spend $85 Million On First Missile Defense Test In Two Years
Washington (AFP) Dec 09, 2004An interceptor missile was set to be launched at an intercontinental missile over the Pacific late Wednesday in the first integrated flight test of the US missile defense system in two years, a spokesman for the US Missile Defense Agency said. Pakistan Conducts Second Test Of Nuclear-Capable Missile In 10 Days 
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 08, 2004Pakistan on Wednesday test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead but insisted it was not sending a signal to India amid continuing peace moves with its regional rival. |
Japan Drops Plan On Long-Range Missile After Ally Protests
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Dec 08, 2004Japan has dropped a proposal to develop its first long-range surface-to-surface missile due to protests from a Buddhist-oriented party in the ruling coalition, an official said Wednesday. NASA Takes UAV Flight Tests To Idaho Desert Lands 
Moffett Field (SPX) Dec 09, 2004Hundreds of miles from the legendary California research centers where pioneering aircraft like the supersonic X-1 were put through their paces, National Aeronautics and Space Administration representatives are pushing the envelope in the Idaho desert with a very different, but equally unique aircraft. |
Ocean Tides Once Spread Massive Icebergs: Study
Toronto ON (SPX) Dec 09, 2004Labrador Sea ocean tides dislodged huge Arctic icebergs thousands of years ago, carrying gigantic ice-rafted debris across the ocean and contributing to the ice age's deep freeze, say an international team of university researchers. Blair Seeks To Secure Bush Backing For New Climate Treaty: Times 
London, UK (AFP) Dec 09, 2004British Prime Minister Tony Blair is seeking to secure US President George W. Bushs backing for a new international treaty that would end US isolation in the fight against global warming, a newspaper said Thursday. |
Direct Link Discoverd Between Agricultural Runoff And Algal Blooms In Sea
Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2004Scientists have found the first direct evidence linking large-scale coastal farming to massive blooms of marine algae that are potentially harmful to ocean life and fisheries. Nature Conservancy Uses QuickBird Imagery For Ecosystem Mapping 
Longmont CO (SPX) Dec 09, 2004DigitalGlobe announced Wednesday that the Nature Conservancy is using DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite imagery to assess biological diversity and conservation progress in several regions throughout the U.S. and worldwide. |
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