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Moscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2007A Russian Progress spacecraft blasted off Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan delivering vital supplies, as well as presents and goodies for Christmas and New Year's, to the International Space Station. The Progress M-62 carried by a Soyuz rocket took off at 0712 GMT, a spokesman for ground control outside Moscow told AFP. Packed with fuel, food, oxygen and technical gear, ... more How Mars Could Have Been Warm And Wet But Limestone-Free 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Planetary scientists have puzzled for years over an apparent contradiction on Mars. Abundant evidence points to an early warm, wet climate on the red planet, but there's no sign of the widespread carbonate rocks, such as limestone, that should have formed in such a climate. Now, a detailed analysis in the Dec. 21 issue of Science by MIT's Maria T. Zuber and Itay Halevy and Daniel P. Schrag of Ha ... more NASA Delays Mars Scout Mission To 2013 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2007NASA has decided that the next mission in the Mars Scout program, originally planned for launch in 2011, is now targeted for launch in 2013. The schedule slip is because of an organizational conflict of interest that was discovered in one of the mission proposal team's Phase A Concept Study. This was the shortest delay for the mission possible because opportunities to send spacecraft to Mars occ ... more Messenger Zeros In On Mercury 
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Messenger's nineteenth trajectory-correction maneuver (TCM-19) completed on December 19 lasted 110 seconds and adjusted the spacecraft's velocity by 1.1 meters per second (3.6 feet per second). The movement targeted the spacecraft close to the intended aim point 200 km (124 miles) above the night-side surface of Mercury for the probe's first flyby of that planet on January 14, 2008. The ma ... more Sulfur Dioxide May Have Helped Maintain A Warm Early Mars 
Cambridge, MA (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Harvard University Sulfur dioxide (SO2) may have played a key role in the climate and geochemistry of early Mars, geoscientists at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggest in the Dec. 21 issue of the journal Science. Their hypothesis may resolve longstanding questions about evidence that the climate of the Red Planet was once much warmer than it is today. ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Dec 23, 2007Taiwan likely shipped 6.2 million smart handheld devices in the fourth quarter, up 81.7 percent on last year partly because it produces Apple's iPhone, an IT consulting firm said Sunday. The country would also ship a similar amount of the devices over the first three months of 2008, which would be more than 150 percent up on the same period this year, the Market Intelligence Centre said in a ... more Global Map Reveals Mineral Distribution On Mars 
Laurel, MD (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Scientists are getting a clearer image of mineral distribution on the surface of Mars, thanks to the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), one of six science instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, currently circling the planet. More than 200 just-released "spectral maps" reveal the distribution of various minerals on the surface of Mars -- the first installmen ... more In Search For Water On Mars Via Clues From Antarctica 
Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Scientists have gathered more evidence that suggests flowing water on Mars -- by comparing images of the red planet to an otherworldly landscape on Earth. In recent years, scientists have examined images of several sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface and left behind a trail of sediment. Those sites closely resemble places where water flows today in the McMurdo Dry Val ... more Indonesia's tsunami reconstruction chief lauds progress 
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 23, 2007When Kuntoro Mangkusubroto dashed in to lead reconstruction of Indonesia's Aceh in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it was with little immediate help from his own government. Despite leading an organisation set up by presidential decree in May 2005, Mangkusubroto was forced to go cap in hand to Australia's aid agency for the money to fly his team out to the flattened provincial cap ... more Sri Lanka's cinnamon farmers seek divine help to spice up trade 
Seenigama, Sri Lanka (AFP) Dec 23, 2007Sri Lanka at the weekend revived an ancient ritual of offering the first cinnamon harvest to the gods, three years after a devastating tsunami wiped out centuries-old plantations here. In a pageant involving traditional dancers and elephants, farmers resplendent in white walked three kilometres (two miles) in bright sunshine, carrying 90 kilos (41 pounds) of their precious virgin harvest to ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Dec 21, 2007The space-borne telescope, COROT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits), has just completed its first year in orbit. The observatory has brought in surprises after over 300 days of scientific observations. Pioneering precision measurement over long periods of time COROT is observing a large number of stars, up to 12 000, simultaneously, at a very high precision - unprecedented in ground-b ... more Russian ship detaches from space station 
Moscow (UPI) Dec 22, 2007 A Russian cargo craft detached from the International Space Station Saturday for a month-long independent voyage. The Progress M-61, which is at the end of its service life, is to be used as a platform for experiments until the middle of next month when its orbit will begin to disintegrate and it will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, RIA Novosti reported Saturday. The same was ... more 10,000 Earths Worth Of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 21, 2007Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust - the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets - was forged in the explosions of massive stars. The findings, made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, are the most significant clue yet in the longstanding mystery of where the dust in our very young universe came from. Scientists ha ... more Opportunity Maneuvers Around Steeper Slopes In Victoria Crater 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 21, 2007Opportunity is now in the process of driving to the third band of light-colored rocks that circumvent "Victoria Crater" beneath the rim. Scientists had initially planned to have the rover head directly downhill to a rock target nicknamed "Ronov," within the band known as "Lyell." They selected an alternate rock exposure, dubbed "Newell," when engineers determined that the original drive r ... more International Group Plans Strategy For Mars Sample Return Mission 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 21, 2007ESA, NASA and an international team are developing plans and seeking recommendations to launch the first Mars mission to bring soil samples back to Earth. The ability to study soil from Mars here on Earth will contribute significantly to answering questions about the possibility of life on the Red Planet. Returned samples also will increase understanding of the useful or harmful properties ... more
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