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Earth's Childhood Attic
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2005The European Space Agency's SMART missions - Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology - are designed to test new spacecraft technology while visiting various places in the solar system. Late Access Loading Test For Jules Verne 
The Netherlands (SPX) Feb 24, 2005For the first time last month, technicians at ESA's research centre in Noordwijk, including an ESA astronaut, entered inside the vertically positioned Automated Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, to simulate the late loading of cargo bags. Canada Will Not Participate In US Missile Defence Program 
Montreal (AFP) Feb 24, 2005Canada said Thursday it will not participate in a US plans to deploy a missile defense shield covering North America. |
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Continues Making New Discoveries
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2005NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues making new and exciting discoveries. New findings include wandering and rubble-pile moons; new and clumpy Saturn rings; splintering storms and a dynamic magnetosphere. Saturn's A Ring Has Oxygen, But Not Life 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 24, 2005Data from the Cassini-Huygens satellite showing oxygen ions in the atmosphere around Saturn's rings suggests once again that molecular oxygen alone isn't a reliable indicator of whether a planet can support life. Saturn's Complex Magnetosphere 
San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 25, 2005Since the two Voyager spacecraft sped past Saturn nearly 25 years ago, scientists have marveled at its giant magnetosphere and the plasma - a complex magnetized fluid of hot charged particles - confined within it. |
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ESA's Comet Chaser To Fly By Earth
Paris (ESA) Feb 24, 2005ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta will make a fly-by of planet Earth on 4 March 2005, and sky watchers should be able to see it with telescopes or binoculars if the sky is clear. Read on for details of ESA's 'Rosetta Up Close' photo contest. First Dark Galaxy Discovered 
Manchester, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2005A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter - the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a large amount of mass that rotates like a galaxy, but contains no stars. Black Holes In A Radar Trap 
Garching (SPX) Feb 25, 2005European astronomers succeeded for the first time to confirm the signatures predicted near Black Holes by Albert Einstein's theory of Relativity in the light of the cosmic X-ray background. |
Polar Expedition Contributes To ESA's Ice Mission Cryosat
Paris (ESA) Feb 24, 2005In a few days, a three-man scientific expedition called Pole Track is to embark upon a gruelling 1000 km trek across the frozen Arctic to collect valuable data for climate-change research. Geologists Discover Clockwork Motion By Ocean Floor Microplates 
Durham NC (SPX) Feb 24, 2005A team of geologists from Duke University and the WHOI has discovered a grinding, coordinated ballet of crustal "microplates" unfolding below the equatorial east Pacific Ocean within a construction zone for new seafloor. Apache Uses DigitalGlobe For Its Global Oil And Gas Operations 
Longmont CO (SPX) Feb 24, 2005DigitalGlobe has announced that Texas-based Apache Corporation has joined DigitalGlobe's Enterprise Partner Program, a mechanism that streamlines access to geospatial products. |
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