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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 |
Corning NetOptix Provides Optical Components for NASA Mission to Pluto The New Horizons craft began its Pluto journey with seven specialized scientific instruments for gathering new information-including components for the "Ralph" telescope assembly manufactured at the diamond-turning team at Corning NetOptix. |
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles. |
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? The case of the elusive source of methane on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, could soon come to a close, some astronomers say. A new model suggests that instead of storage within surface lakes or an ocean, methane lies inside an icy crust and periodic changes release it into the atmosphere. |
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Young Planets Collide Size mattered, astronomers say, when it came to whether or not material in our early solar system stuck together to become today's terrestrial planets. New models suggest that collisions between large objects did not always result in those objects combining, as previously thought. |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Starry Lens A newly discovered planet may be the most Earth-like planet found to date outside our solar system. The discovery confirms the value of a relatively new detection method known as gravitational lensing. |
Geotimes March 2006 |
Liftoff for New Horizons After a one-day delay due to windy weather, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully launched Jan. 19 aboard an Atlas V rocket, en route to Pluto. Scientists hope that the mission will drastically increase what is known about the faraway planet. |
Reason March 2006 Kenneth Silber |
Volatile Stardust Book Reviews: Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science, by Simon Mitton... Fred Hoyle's Universe, by Jane Gregory... |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Jean Kumagai |
Halfway to Mars How a hardy band of researchers braved freezing nights, bad food, and high winds in the Chilean desert to test the next generation of planetary rovers. |
Science News February 18, 2006 |
Snowboarder and Astronaut In a brief video she made for NASA, U.S. olympic snowboard Hannah Teter explains why snowboarders would make good astronauts. |
PC Magazine February 15, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
Eye on the Sky Feel frustrated with your personal attempts at space exploration? Take Celestron's SkyScout Personal Planetarium for a spacewalk. |
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