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Robot Tracks Rocket In Space
Washington (UPI) Jun 01, 2004For the first time ever, an airborne robotic sensor system developed by NASA has tracked a rocket during launch and communicated with its computer without human intervention. The test is considered a breakthrough in a launch technology that might one day lead to aircraft or orbiting satellites controlling space launches reports Frank Sietzen |
Rovers Examining Hills And Crater In Bonus-Time Mission 
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 02, 2004More than a month into bonus time after a successful primary mission on Mars, NASA's Spirit rover has sighted possibly layered rock in the rolling hill dubbed "Columbia Hills" that lay just ahead. |
17th Century Solar Oddity Believed Linked To Global Cooling
San Francisco (SPX) Jun 02, 2004A mysterious 17th century solar funk that some have linked to Europe's Little Ice Age and to global climate change, becomes even more of an enigma as a result of new observations by University of California, Berkeley, astronomers. NCAR Instrument Gets Breakthrough View of Sun's Magnetic Halo 
Boulder (SPX) Jun 02, 2004A new instrument developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has captured landmark imagery of fast-evolving magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere. Steven Tomczyk (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) presented the images on Monday, May 31, at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Denver. Scientists Measure Sun's Smallest Visible Magnetic Fields 
Denver CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2004Solar physicists from Lockheed Martin, and The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics of the University of Oslo have analyzed the highest resolution images ever taken near the solar disk center and found surprising new small-scale magnetic field structures. Quakes Beget Quakes Near And Far 
University Park PA - Jun 02, 2004Earthquakes not only shake up the local area but they also increase the rate of earthquake events locally and at a distance. The answer to how this happens may be in the laboratory, according to a Penn State researcher. |
Spitzer Leads Great Observatories To Uncover Black Holes And More
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 02, 2004Astronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today and announced the detection of distant objects -- including several supermassive black holes - that are nearly invisible in even the deepest images from telescopes operating at other wavelengths. Spitzer Spies Parallelogram-Shaped Galactic Meal 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2004Peering into the "gut" of the galaxy Centaurus A, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured in unprecedented detail this massive galaxy's last big meal: a spiral galaxy twisted into a parallelogram-shaped structure of dust. Finding A Middle Ground For Early Stellar Formation 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 02, 2004The very first stars that formed early in the history of the universe were smaller than the massive giants implied by the results of a NASA research satellite, but still larger than the typical stars found in our galaxy today, according to a research team led by the University of Chicago's Jason Tumlinson. Photos Of Nearby Galaxy Open New Era Of Discovery 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 02, 2004Like nosy neighbors, astronomers are spying on one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way in search of clues to how our own galaxy and others are born, live and die. Known by its catalog listing, M33, this neighboring galaxy is in the northern sky not too far from the famous Andromeda galaxy. |
UK Laws Could Allow Hybrid Human-Animal Experiments
London (UPI) Jun 02, 2004Britain could become the first country where scientists successfully create a human-animal hybrid, thanks to a legal loophole allowing such experiments. The Frontiers Of Ultrasound Tech Reach Heart And Brain Science 
New York (UPI) Jun 02, 2004Ultrasound is venturing into crucial new frontiers, with doctors using sound waves to zap otherwise inoperable tumors and scan the living brain, eye and heart as never before, scientists told United Press International. Cornell Licenses 3-D Micro-Imaging Technology To Zeiss 
New York (SPX) Jun 02, 2004Biomedical microscopic imaging deep inside living tissue with unprecedented clarity could become routine and widely available with the signing of technology-transfer and collaborative-research agreements on Friday (May 28, 2004) by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, a leading maker of microscopy instrumentation, and by CCTEC, the technology, enterprise and commercialization arm of Cornell University. "Lab-On-A-Chip" Could Protect Astronauts And Detect New Life 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 02, 2004Imagine a huge laboratory filled with people and equipment shrinking to fit on a small chip � the size of a dime. Scientists on Earth use labs on chips for medical tests and other research. Marshall Center scientists are customizing these chips for use in space. One day they may be used in devices to detect contaminates, and rovers may use them to identify life on Mars. LockMart Presents Weather Sat Model To Air Force Weather Agency 
Offutt AFB (SPX) Jun 02, 2004Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has presented a model of a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Block 5D-3 spacecraft to the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) here. Since 1966, the U.S. Air Force has launched more than 30 Lockheed Martin DMSP satellites. Now in its fourth decade of service, the DMSP has proven itself to be a valuable tool in scheduling and protecting military operations on land, at sea and in the air. India, Pakistan Survive Verbal Scare 
New Delhi (UPI) Jun 02, 2004India and Pakistan Tuesday overcame a recent verbal dual and fixed June 27 and 28 for bilateral talks to pursue the peace process. |
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