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IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Michael Dumiak |
A Telescope Takes Flight A landmark moment in the exploration of the deep cosmos occurred recently. A powerful flying telescope, SOFIA, made its first checkout flights, having survived a bureaucratic near-death experience only a year ago. |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Mercury's Gooey Center Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a large core, which scientists now know is partially molten and therefore could create a magnetic field around the planet. |
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Mars Had Explosive, Watery Past NASA's Mars rover Spirit hit a grand slam this spring when it rolled across Home Plate, a plateau feature on Mars that revealed clues supporting an explosive past for the planet. |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Galileo Still up in the Air Hampered by financial delays and infighting among its private investors, the European Union has decided to build its 30-satellite Galileo navigation system entirely with public funds. |
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean |
Space Research Wing is Small But Has Big Dreams The Space Development and Test Wing is small by Air Force standards, but its gung-ho culture makes it ideal for acting as the "connective tissue" between scientists and acquisitions commands. |
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit. |
National Defense July 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles. |
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone? |
Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Michael Gross |
A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system. |
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