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The Geology Of Mars Mid-'04
Sacramento (SPX) Jun 08, 2004But while the ability of Spirit to locate water-deposited and -modified material on Mars' surface is still in doubt, its twin Opportunity has rather stolen its thunder by finding solid proof of such material almost as soon as it landed on the strange, flat, hematite-covered Meridiani Plain. Click For Print Friendly Version Mars Rovers Continue Unique Exploration of Mars 
Pasadene (JPL) Jun 09, 2004NASA's Mars Opportunity rover began its latest adventure today inside the martian crater informally called Endurance. Opportunity will roll in with all six wheels, then back out to the rim to check traction by looking at its own track marks. |
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. |
On The Road Mars Style
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2004A human geologist could productively cover a two-kilometer stretch of ground in perhaps an hour and a half. For a robotic geologist - NASA's Spirit rover - it takes a bit longer, more like a month and a half. Still, it's an impressive journey that will yield important scientific information. Setting Twin Sights For Mars Rovers As Mission Finale Approaches 
Moffet Field (SPX) Jun 07, 2004More than a month into bonus time after a successful primary mission on Mars, NASA's Spirit rover has sighted possibly layered rock in hills just ahead, while twin Opportunity has extended its arm to pockmarked stones on a crater rim to gather clues of a watery past. |
Space Imaging Wins USGS Contract For Commercial Satellite Imagery
Denver CO (SPX) Jun 08, 2004Space Imaging announced Monday that it was awarded an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for the acquisition of commercial satellite imagery. Primordial Pains: How Earth Got Hot? 
Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2004If a time machine could take us back 4.6 billion years to the Earth's birth, we'd see our sun shining 20 to 25 percent less brightly than today. Without an earthly greenhouse to trap the sun's energy and warm the atmosphere, our world would be a spinning ball of ice. Life may never have evolved. |
Russia - Recasting The G-8
Moscow (UPI) Jun 07, 2004With a number of Western politicians and policy-makers lobbying to have Russia excluded from the world's most exclusive club called the Group of Eight, this year's gathering presents the Kremlin with an opportunity of not only becoming a major player in the G-8, but also strengthen the G-8's global importance. India, Pakistan Give Peace Another Chance 
New Delhi (UPI) Jun 07, 2004India and Pakistan are all set to give peace another chance. India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh would travel to Pakistan in July to further the bilateral peace talks. |
Googled Out In The 21st Century
Washington (UPI) Jun 08, 2004Investors using the Internet to perform due diligence on the Google IPO may just discover corporate assets that typically remain hidden from public scrutiny. Eagle Broadband Secures $4.9 Million In New Financing 
League City TX (SPX) Jun 08, 2004Eagle Broadband, a leading provider of broadband and communications technology and services, announced Monday that the company has received $4.9 million in new financing from an investor group in a private placement financing round. |
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New Skies Sold For $956 Million The Hague (SPX) Jun 07, 2004 
New Skies said Sunday that it has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of the Company to affiliates of The Blackstone Group, a leading private investment firm, for $956 million in cash, equivalent to approximately $7.96 per fully diluted share.A Quantum Mechanical Tune Up For Better Measurement 
Washington (SPX) Jun 07, 2004By exploiting the weird quantum behavior of atoms, physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new technique that someday could be used to save weeks of measurements needed to operate ultraprecise atomic clocks. The technique also could be used to improve the precision of other measurement processes such as spectroscopy. Don't Astronauts Deserve A Best Friend, Too? 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2004If dog is "man's best friend" on Earth, don't astronauts on the International Space Station deserve a companion, too? Students participating in NASA's Earth-to-Orbit Engineering Design Challenge think so, and they're trying to discover how to make it happen! Earliest Bilateral Fossil Discovered 
Moffet Field (SPX) Jun 07, 2004Scientists have reported that bilateral animals appeared 600 million years ago, about 50 million years before the Cambrian Explosion. |
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