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IMAGE far-ultraviolet camera illuminates unseen portions of the Earth’s northern lights
Contact: Diane Ainsworth dea@pa.urel.berkeley.edu 510-643-6259 University of California, Berkeley Since its launch on March 25, 2000, a new far-ultraviolet camera onboard NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft has […]
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Despite periodic pummeling, conditions on early earth were ripe for life
Contact: Tom Rickey trickey@admin.rochester.edu 716-275-7954 University of Rochester Even during an extraordinarily violent era in Earth’s early history, when our young planet was being whacked by asteroids and comets so […]
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Illinois Students To Make First Ham Radio Contact with Space Station
Caroline Harney Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. On December 19, 2000 at 3:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, students at the Burbank School in Burbank, Illinois, will close their textbooks, […]
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“Sounds” of Outer Space Near Jupiter Now Online
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, approaching Jupiter, is detecting waves in the thin gas of charged particles that fills the space between the Sun and its planets. The waves are in low […]
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Mars’ Patchwork Magnetic Field Acts As Array Of Umbrellas To Protect Planet’s Atmosphere, according to new mapping study by Mars Global Surveyor, acco
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations Color maps of the ionosphere and the surface magnetic fields are available for download: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/download/ Berkeley – Though Mars lacks a global protective magnetic shield like that of […]
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XMM-Newton discovers truely diffuse emission in M31
The Andromeda galaxy (M31), only 2.6 million light years away, is an ideal field of study for X-ray astronomy. XMM-Newton has observed its galactic centre, revealing many new point sources […]
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ESA’s ‘Herschel’ will shed light on the mysterious transneptunian objects
CONTACTS: ESA SCIENCE communication Service:+31 71 5653223 Press Contact during the conference ‘The Promise of FIRST’:Monica Salomone (+34 649 934887) There are still quite a lot of unsolved mysteries in our neighbourhood, […]
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NASA Goddard scientists present new results at Fall AGU meeting
Contact: Lynn Chandler lychand@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov 301-614-5562 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center–EOS Project Science Office Rob Gutro/ Harvey Leifert 415-905-1007 American Geophysical Union Press Room New Earth science insights by scientists at NASAís […]
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Satellite Footprints Seen in Jupiter Aurora
From the SpaceRef Image Archive: [small] [medium] [large] This is a spectacular NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles […]
