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- -01-04-04 Spirit Sends Photos from Mars (USAToday.com)
"Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory let out whoops of joy and embraced one another as signals from the Spirit rover indicated it had survived the landing."
"Within hours it began sending back photos of the Red Planet. Among the first was a tiny black and white image showing a sundial on the rover. Another showed the Martian horizon and portions of the lander." 1-04
- -01-05-04 Spirit Photos from Mars in 3-D (Fox News)
"NASA (search) proudly showed off a panoramic, 360-degree, black-and-white shot of Mars from its Spirit rover and eagerly awaited the first color photo taken of the planet in seven years."
Reporters had to wear 3-D glasses to get the full effect. 1-04
- 01-08-04 Astronauts to be Sent to Mars (Bloomberg.com)
"President George W. Bush next week will announce plans to send U.S. astronauts to Mars and establish a permanent human outpost on the moon, an administration official said." 1-04
- 01-12-04 Scientists Turn DNA Tubes into Nanowires (Scientific American)
"Scientists have recruited DNA to manufacture minuscule wires that could be used for nanoscale electronic devices." 1-04
- 01-17-04 Hubble Casualty of Bush Plan (CNN News)
"The Hubble Space Telescope will be allowed to degrade and eventually become useless, as NASA changes focus to President Bush's plans to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, officials said Friday."
"NASA canceled all space shuttle servicing missions to the Hubble, which has revolutionized the study of astronomy with its striking images of the universe."
"The servicing mission was considered essential to enable the orbiting telescope to continue to operate."
"Using images from the craft, scientists have determined the age of the universe, about 13.7 billion years, and discovered that a mysterious energy, called the dark force, is causing all of the objects in the universe to move apart at an accelerating rate. This force is still poorly understood." 1-04
- 01-23-04 European Orbiter Finds Water (CBS News)
"Europe's Mars orbiter has found the most direct evidence yet of water in the form of ice on the Red Planet's surface, the European Space Agency said Friday." 1-04
- 03-02-04 Water Once Flowed on Mars (NASA.gov)
"Scientists examining what NASA's Opportunity is showing them about Mars rocks are seeing into the past, and what they're seeing indicates water once flowed there."
"The outcrop right next to where Opportunity landed holds evidence that the rocks have spent time drenched in liquid water." 3-04
- 03-18-04 Space Dust to Unlock Mexican Pyramid Mysteries (MSNBC News)
"Deep under the huge Pyramid of the Sun, north of Mexico City, physicists are installing a device to detect muons, subatomic particles that are left over when cosmic rays hit Earth."
"The particles pass through solid objects, leaving tiny traces which the detector will measure, like an X-ray machine, in a search for burial chambers inside the monolith." 3-04
- 03-23-04 Planets Line Up in Sky (ABC News)
"Stargazers should look to the western horizon just after sunset. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn will be lined up in the sky with Jupiter close to the eastern horizon. They will span about 135 degrees. Saturn will be almost directly overhead."
"Standish said this particular planetary grouping may offer the best nighttime views until 2036." 3-04
- 03-31-04 Mouse Genes to Help in Hunts for Cures (ABC News - Fox)
"The genetic code of the rat joined the growing list of creatures whose DNA has been mapped on Wednesday and experts said it will make the laboratory rat, already beloved by scientists, an even better tool for fighting human disease."
"The rat is only the third species to be sequenced to such a degree, after the completed human genome sequence in April 2003 and the draft mouse genome in December 2002."
"It confirms that the laboratory rat is in fact a good choice for medical research. Almost all human genes associated with diseases have counterparts in the rat genome, the researchers write in this week's issue of the journal Nature." 3-04
- 10-22-03 Museum Claims Oldest Vertebrate Found (ABC News)
"A tadpole-shaped fossil, believed to be the oldest vertebrate ever found, has been uncovered by a farmer in a rugged range of hills in southern Australia, a museum paleontologist said Wednesday."
"The fossil, of a 26-inch fishlike animal, is believed to be at least 560 million years old 30 million years older than the previous record."
"The latest fossil was discovered in sandstone in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia state, an area well known for its abundance of fossils. The exact location of the find is being kept secret." 10-03
- 10-29-03 Largest Solar Storm in Years (ABC News)
"The G-5 storm was spawned early Tuesday by a spectacular eruption from a sunspot blemish on the surface of the Sun that sent charged particles hurling toward Earth. The cloud is 13 times larger than Earth and travels at more than 1 million mph."
"The explosion of gas and charged particles into space from the corona, the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, was the largest observed in 30 years, scientists reported. It isn't harmful to people." 10-03
- 11-28-03 Melting Glaciers May Make Billions Thirsty (CNN News)
"The world's glaciers could melt within a century if global warming accelerates, leaving billions of people short of water and some islanders without a home, environmentalists said."
" 'Unless governments take urgent action to prevent global warming, billions of people worldwide may face severe water shortages as a result of the alarming melting rate of glaciers,' the WWF group said in a report Thursday."
"It said human impact on the climate was melting glaciers from the Andes to the Himalayas, bringing longer-term threats of higher sea levels that could swamp island states." 11-03
- 12-31-03 Saturn: Bright on New Years Eve (Space.com - Britt)
"Saturn will be closer to Earth on New Years Eve than at any time in the past three decades." 12-03
- 12-31-03 Stardust to be Collected from Comet (International Herald Tribune)
"On Jan. 2, the Stardust spacecraft is scheduled spend 12 hours studying the comet Wild 2 -- pronounced Vilt-2 -- after a five-year journey to the far side of the Sun, 242 million miles (389 million kilometers) from Earth. During the flyby, scientists hope it will collect cometary material and stow them in a reentry capsule to be sent Earthward later." 12-03
- 12-31-03 Stardust to be Collected from Comet (Space.com - Malik)
"On Jan. 2, the Stardust spacecraft is scheduled spend 12 hours studying the comet Wild 2 -- pronounced Vilt-2 -- after a five-year journey to the far side of the Sun, 242 million miles (389 million kilometers) from Earth. During the flyby, scientists hope it will collect cometary material and stow them in a reentry capsule to be sent Earthward later." 12-03
- 12-31-03 Top 10 Astronomy Photos of 2003 (Space.com - Britt)
"Seldom does astronomy enjoy a year with such avid and widespread amateur participation, from first-timers watching compelling sky events and photographing them, to a kid who stumped the experts with one remarkable picture that enthralled the media and the public around the world." 12-03
- Astronomy and Space News (CNN)
- Breaking News in Astronomy (Pole Star Publications)
Provides news key news stories. 9-00
- NASA Space Mission News (Yahoo)
Provides the stories and pictures of the latest NASA news events. 11-01
- News on Missions to Mars (NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Provides news on missions to Mars, including two unmanned rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landing in January 2004. 12-03
- Science News (Awesome Library)
Provides news and articles by discipline in science. 5-03
- Space Station and Shuttle (NASA Human Spaceflight - Dismukes and Humphries)
Provides news on events surrounding space stations and shuttles. 2-01
Papers
- Astronomers Discuss Changing Earth's Orbit (CNN)
Describes a plan, which must be put into place within 3.5 billion years, to move the Earth's orbit gradually away from the sun as the Sun becomes hotter. Talk about planning ahead... 2-01
- Early Life on Earth (Nature.com)
Provides a discussion about how long the earth remained hot at its beginning and how that affected early bacteria. 4-01
- Endeavor Space Shuttle (Nasa)
Describes progress of the space shuttle. 12-01
- Evolution of the Universe (NASA)
"The myriad galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field represented the first big step for Hubble astronomers to understand galaxy evolution. But studying galaxy evolution in the Hubble Deep Field is like trying to understand the population of a country by sampling a small village. Astronomers don't know if the galaxies in that village are representative of the universe's galactic population. The GOODS survey, on the other hand, is akin to sampling the population of a large city to make inferences about galaxies in the cosmos." 6-03
- Extinction 200 Million Years Ago (CNN)
Describes a very rapid mass extinction of life on earth 200 million years ago. 5-01
- Latest Discoveries in Science (National Geographic Society)
Provides an overview of discoveries from the microscopic to the cosmic. 11-99
- Mars - Strong Evidence of Life (CNN)
Provides the conclusion of scientists that a rock, believed to be 4.5 billion years old, contains fossilized bacteria that originated on Mars. 12-00
- Planets in Other Solar Systems (Exoplanets.org)
Provides news about the latest findings on planets in other solar systems. Also provides latest findings on existing planets, techniques for finding planets, and more. 8-01
- Study Decouples Culture and Conquest (ABC News - Dye)
"Way back in the fourth century B.C., a young Alexander the Great thundered across what is now the Middle East in a bloody mission that ranks among the most brilliant military conquests in history." However, according to Andrew F. Stewart, an art historian and archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley, an international study has revealed that Greek culture was already in the Middle East long before Alexander arrived.
"The evidence suggests quite strongly that Greek material culture, at least, flourished as far away as the coast of what is now Israel at least a century before Alexander's conquests."
"Why should anyone care, other than a bunch of art historians? Simply this. It may seem logical to assume that military victories in places like Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and other hot spots will lead to the spread of the culture and values of the conquering forces. But beneath a small mound overlooking two ancient sand-filled harbors, archaeologists are uncovering evidence that 'decouples material culture from military conquest,' " Stewart says. 6-03
- Ultraviolet Space Telescope (Galex)
"With sensitive ultraviolet detectors, a large field of view, and its location above the ultraviolet-absorbing atmosphere of the Earth, GALEX will perform ground breaking observations of the ultraviolet sky. GALEX will detect ultraviolet objects in the sky that are more than a million times fainter than objects we can see in visible light with our eyes from the darkest location on the ground. GALEX will also peer billions of years back into the history of the Universe." 12-03
Research
- Amphibians Respond to Climate Changes (Nature.com)
Provides a summary of research on frogs and other amphibians. It suggests that multiple factors may be reducing the number of amphibians and that global climate changes may be the key ingredient. 4-01
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