From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 09:19:46 PST
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From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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To: ljk4_at_msn.com
Subject: First Light Newsletter - April 2003
First Light Newsletter - April 2003
NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility is scheduled to launch on April 18. The mission
is an important part of NASA’s Origins Program, which seeks to answer the questions:
Where did we come from? Are we alone?
+ Flash overview
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/flash/sirtf
+ Live webcam from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/payload/missions/sirtf
+ Space Infrared Telescope Facility home page
http://sirtf.caltech.edu
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The Sky's the Limit
A virtual photo album of the entire sky is now online, thanks to the twin infrared
telescopes of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey.
+ Flash feature: A Virtual Album
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/flash/2mass/
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Going Through the Final Paces
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers are at the Kennedy Space Center getting ready for their
planned May and June launches. One of the twin rovers is seen with its solar-array panels
folded upwards, as they will be when it is stowed inside the shell that will enclose it
during the journey to Mars.
+ More images from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (keyword: rover)
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/index.cfm
+ Rover home page
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer
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