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New Skies Sold For $956 MillionThe Hague (SPX) Jun 07, 2004
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First Stop Gusev
Sacramento (SPX) Jun 07, 2004The coming week promises to be a very eventful one in planetary exploration. Not only will Cassini fly within only 2000 km of Saturn's enigmatic little captured moon Phoebe -- the first time it has really revealed anything never seen before by human eyes -- but both MER rovers will enter an entirely new phase of their exploration by arriving at destinations once thought impossible for them to reach writes Bruce Moomaw. Chasing Martian Dust Devils 
Moffet Field (SPX) Jun 07, 2004Mars has only a faint atmosphere [less than one percent of terrestrial pressures], yet offers up its history of dust devils as swirling tracks in a remarkable landscape of wind-swept and carved terrain. These tiny twisters tend to appear in the middle afternoon on Mars, when solar heating is maximum and when warm air rises and collides with other pressure fronts to cause circulation. |
The Transit Of Venus 2004
This Tuesday, June 8, millions of peopl - and one or two odd satellites - will be following a tiny black silhouette as it appears to travel across the surface of the sun in just a few hours. The silhouette belongs to the planet Venus, and it will make its solar transit, for the first time in more than 120 years - long enough ago that no one now alive witnessed the previous event in 1882. Music2Titan: The Sounds Of Huygens 
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 07, 2004When ESA's Huygens spaceprobe, travelling on board NASA's Cassini spacecraft, lands on Saturn largest moon Titan in Jan 2005, not only will it carry a variety of scientific instruments, but also music 'made in Europe'. |
Device Sorts Microscopic Particles With Speed And Precision
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 07, 2004In a remarkable collaboration between engineers, physicists and biologists, Princeton scientists have invented a device that rapidly sorts microscopic particles into extremely fine gradations of sizes, opening a range of potential uses. Rosetta Studies Comet Linear 
Paris (ESA) Jun 07, 2004ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta, whose 10-year journey to its final target Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko started on 2 March, is well on its way. The first phase of commissioning is close to completion and Rosetta has successfully performed its first scientific activity - observation of Comet Linear. |
Charting Giant Galaxy Clusters
Garching (SPX) Jun 04, 2004Clusters of galaxies are very large building blocks of the Universe. These gigantic structures contain hundreds to thousands of galaxies and, less visible but equally interesting, an additional amount of "dark matter" whose origin still defies the astronomers, with a total mass of thousands of millions of millions times the mass of our Sun. Major Galactic Mystery Solved By CU Astronomers 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 04, 2004Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have solved a major galactic mystery that may help astronomers in their quest to develop a detailed picture of the chemical evolution of the Milky Way galaxy. |
Norway's First Aegis Frigate Launched
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 07, 2004The Fridtjof Nansen was launched on June 3 during ceremonies at the IZAR shipyard in Ferrol, Spain. The frigate is the first ever to incorporate the SPY-1F radar system and marks a significant milestone for the Aegis Integrated Weapon System that will provide new critical capabilities for the surface fleets of navies around the world. |
Engineered Proteins To Detect Nerve Gas
Durham NC (SPX) Jun 04, 2004Duke University Medical Center biochemists have used computational design to engineer and construct a protein that could sense the nerve agent soman. They said their achievement constitutes a proof-of principle that such engineered proteins can be made to detect nerve agents such as sarin and other toxic substances. |
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