While the Earth is moistened by rainfall, scientists believe that the water in soil can, in…
Month: August 2004
A PIECE OF THE SUN
In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA’s Genesis spacecraft is set…
Discovery Return to Flight Status
The pace of preparations for Return to Flight is picking up, with several key milestones in…
New Amateur Satellite Project
AMSAT-UK has announced that an Amateur Radio transponder will be part of the European Space Agency’s…
Natural Aerosols Effect Weather and Climate
NASA, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists have assembled in the Arabian…
Cooking on a comet
One of the ingenious instruments on board Rosetta is designed to ‘smell’ the comet for different…
ISS STATION STATUS REPORT: SS04-026
The Expedition 9 crew aboard the International Space Station prepared this week to receive another shipment…
Hubble peers inside a celestial geode
In this unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial…
Shuttle Processing Status Report: S04-027
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
Giant Gas Vortices
ESA’s quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the…