Following eight years of capturing dramatic images and surprising science from Jupiter and its moons, NASA’s…
Month: September 2003
LAB RESEARCH YIELDS THE BIGGEST CHILL
NASA-funded researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., have cooled sodium gas to…
FIRST PUBLIC MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGE
If you were given a chance to aim the camera on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor Mars…
Iinfrared Astronomy is a hot topic
ESA’s Herschel spacecraft will collect infrared radiation from some of the coldest and most distant objects…
SATELLITES SAMPLE HURRICANE
The Atlantic Ocean becomes a meteorological mixing bowl from June 1 to November 30, replete with…
SATELLITE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
On September 6, while performing work on the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, being prepared to launch in…
CHANDRA “HEARS” A BLACK HOLE
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected sound waves, for the first time, from a super-massive black hole.…
Pay-as-you-go motoring just around the corner
Death and taxes may be unavoidable, but road tolls and car insurance could be made fairer…
First European student experiment reaches the ISS
Preparations for the Spanish Soyuz mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in October took another…
Hubble assists Rosetta comet mission
Results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have played a major role in preparing ESA’s ambitious…