Space & Astronomy

Magazine articles on space and astronomy.

Old Articles: <Older 91-100 Newer>

Geotimes March 2004	NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history.
HBS Working Knowledge March 1, 2004 Sean Silverthorne	Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science Do the successful Mars missions mean NASA again has the right stuff? Professor Alan MacCormack dissects the space agency's "Faster, Better, Cheaper" program.
Geotimes March 2004 Megan Sever	Wisconsin crater revealed In 1942, mappers doing reconnaissance work first noticed an anomalous geologic structure in western Wisconsin. Now geologists have determined that the feature is a 430- to 445-million-year-old meteorite impact structure.
Wired March 2004 Angela Swafford	One Small Sniff How a finely tuned pair of nostrils keeps the US space corps from stinking to high heaven.
Wired March 2004 David L. Chandler	Mars on Earth At the driest spot in the driest part of the driest desert in the world, NASA is getting ready to invade the Red Planet.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars update: a pixel at a time The two rovers on Mars are on the move. Spirit, after 10-day lapse in memory, now functions again after efforts by Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists. Its twin explorer, Opportunity, has been traveling in its own crater, halfway around the planet.
Geotimes February 2004 David Applegate	Grand Plan for Another World NASA's new mission to the Moon and Mars could have significant implications for its mission here on Earth.
Geotimes February 2004 Jan Childress	Space-Based Teamplay At learning centers across the country, students are zooming to Mars and beyond while keeping alive the memory of the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
Wired February 2004 John Geirland	The Quiet Zone Cell phones, pagers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth -- the wireless revolution is everywhere. Except here, a site in rural West Virginia virtually free of man-made electromagnetic pollution, the perfect place for studying radio waves from space. But it's a tough job keeping the spectrum quiet.
Reason February 2004 Charles Paul Freund	Goodbye, Space Child The space age's bureaucratic dreams sputtered out.
<Older 91-100 Newer> Return to current articles.