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Recon Orbiter Camera Issue Resolved As 3000th Image Comes Down From Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 24, 2007Diagnostic tests and months of stable, successful operation have resolved concerns raised early this year about long-term prospects for the powerful telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter has now taken more than 3,000 images of Mars, resolving features as small as a desk in targeted areas covering tho ... more Russian Space Guru Opts For Evolution 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 24, 2007Russia's Federal Space Agency will go slow on its strategy for manned flights. At any rate, this is the implication made by its chief, Anatoly Perminov, at a news conference held at the MAKS-2007 air show on August 22. "Our main goal is to use the reliable old systems for manned flights," he said in a preamble to the subject of new spacecraft and deep space studies. ... more New York taxi drivers threaten two-day strike 
New York (AFP) Aug 23, 2007New York's taxi drivers on Thursday said they would mount a two-day strike in early September if authorities did not scrap plans to introduce satellite positioning systems in the city's yellow cabs. "We are ready to go on strike on September 5 and September 6," Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents some 8,400 of New York's 26,000 cabbies ... more Drawing A Living On Lunar 
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2007A new NASA contest encourages university art and design students to partner with science and engineering departments to create art representative of living and working on the moon. The goal is for students in the arts, science and engineering to collaboratively engage in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon by 2020, and eventually journey on to Mars and other destinations in the solar system ... more NASA and Internet Archive Team To Digitize Space Imagery 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2007NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers. Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With this partnership, those collections will ... more |
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Duluth MN (SPX) Aug 24, 2007University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all. ... more Gulf Coast Key To Future NASA Exploration Plans 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Future NASA astronauts who land on the moon will owe their success in part to the men and women of the Gulf Coast, who are already at work on the next generation of space travel. NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans both will have critical roles in the Constellation Program, which aims to land astronauts on the moon by the end of the next ... more US Asks Austria To Shed Cold War Thinking As Czechs Eye Intel Deal 
Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2007The United States on Thursday urged Austria to move beyond "Cold War thinking" after Vienna charged that Washington's plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Central Europe against Russia's wishes were a "provocation." "We view the Cold War as being over. Such comments are not helpful and we now face a new strategic environment that requires us to move beyond Cold War thinking," ... more Russia unveils pilotless 'stealth' bomber 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Russia unveiled on Thursday the mock-up of a pilotless bomber plane that its constructors say will be even better than the famous US stealth fighter at evading enemy radars and anti-aircraft fire. NTV television showed a full-sized model of the bat-like plane known as Skat, which means "stingray," at an airshow just outside Moscow -- the first public glimpse of the project run by Russia's MiG ... more BMD Focus: Barak prioritizes BMD 
Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2007 A dispute has been raging in the Israeli military and government about how much funds should be diverted to ballistic missile defense and how rapidly they should be approved. Security officials in Tel Aviv informed the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot Sunday that BMD funding would take top priority among all the pressing needs for modernization and upgrades of the regular Israeli Defense ... more |
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Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 22, 2007The giant quake that wrecked this Pacific coastal town last week has set off a wave of refugees, driving up to 40 percent of its people to quit their ruined homes and move away, the Peruvian government said Wednesday. "Between 30 and 40 percent of the inhabitants have been forced to leave" Pisco, which formerly had a population of 130,000 people, Social Development and Women's Affairs ... more Underwater Robot Taken On Black Sea Expedition 
Newark DL (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Using a novel underwater robot, University of Delaware marine scientists will help reveal the mysteries of the Black Sea's geology and maritime history, including ages-old shipwrecks, during an international expedition that is now underway. The Institute for Exploration and the Institute for Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography are leadi ... more CU-Boulder To Supply 92 Million Dollar Space Weather Instrument Package To NOAA 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 24, 2007The University of Colorado at Boulder signed a contract today worth an estimated $92 million with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA to build a satellite instrument package to help forecast solar disturbances that affect communication and navigation operations in the United States. The instrument package, which will be designed and built at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for ... more Climate Change Goes Underground 
Madison WI (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Climate change, a recent "hot topic" when studying the atmosphere, oceans, and Earth's surface; however, the study of another important factor to this global phenomenon is still very much "underground." Few scientists are looking deep enough to see the possible effects of climate change on groundwater systems. Little is known about how soil, subsurface waters, and groundwater are responding to ... more Dean's death toll rises with new deaths in Mexico 
Puebla (AFP) Aug 23, 2007A couple and their two children were killed in central Mexico Thursday by a landslide caused by driving rains blamed on the remnants of hurricane Dean, raising to at least 25 the death toll from the storm's rampage. The four were killed when a chunk of mountainside buried the path on which they were walking in Xochitlaxco, according to Puebla state Governor Mario Marin. ... more
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