Thanks to ESA’s Mars Express, we now know that Mars has vast fields of perennial water…
Month: March 2004
Computerized Speech
NASA scientists have begun to computerize human, silent reading using nerve signals in the throat that…
SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA…
SOHO snaps spectacular Sun shot
On Friday, 12 March 2004, the Sun ejected a spectacular ‘eruptive prominence’ into the heliosphere. SOHO,…
MOST DISTANT OBJECT IN SOLAR SYSTEM DISCOVERED
NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth’s sun. The object is a mysterious…
SATELLITE FINDS WARMING “RELATIVE” TO HUMIDITY
A NASA-funded study found some climate models might be overestimating the amount of water vapor entering…
Canada’s SCISAT Satellite in Full Operation
Longueuil, March 11, 2004 – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) confirmed the full commissioning of its…
Two asteroid fly-bys for Rosetta
The Rosetta Science Working Team has made the final selection of the asteroids that Rosetta will…
A glimmer of hope for AO-40
A weak “noise” on the AO-40 2.4-GHz beacon frequency has raised hopes that AO-40 may still…
DEEP VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE
Astronomers unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever taken. A one million second long…