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Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, August 7, 2003

Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, August 7, 2003 -- http://www.space.com/

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Spaceflight:
* Astronotes: Asteroids Named for Columbia Astronauts
* Mars Rover Update: Instrument on Spirit Malfunctions
* Federal Court Sets Value of Stolen Moon Rocks: $5 Million

Science/Astronomy:
* It's Universal: The Lights are Going Out
* Report Sullies Pristine Reputation of Comets
* Liquid Water Likely Supports Life On Mars Today, Scientists Claim
* Environments for Life on Europa
* Image of the Day: When Stars Collide

Recent Headlines:
* Riding the Sun: Maiden Flight Looms for Solar Sail Satellite
* Shuttle Return to Flight Task Group Begins Work in Florida
* New Theory of Time Rattles Halls of Science
* Mars Watch: Where is the Red Planet Now?

Plus...

* SpaceTV, SpaceWatch
* Solar and Space Weather
* Starry Night, TeamSETI

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Spaceflight:

* Astronotes: Asteroids Named for Columbia Astronauts
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

Seven asteroids circling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are being named for the astronauts who died in the space shuttle Columbia accident, officials announced Wednesday.

* Mars Rover Update: Instrument on Spirit Malfunctions
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_update_030807.html

An instrument aboard one of the two NASA rovers en route to Mars has malfunctioned, prompting worries it could harm the robot's information-gathering ability, a scientist said Wednesday.

* Federal Court Sets Value of Stolen Moon Rocks: $5 Million
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_moonrocks_030806.html

A federal court Wednesday morning set the value of Moon rocks heisted from the Johnson Space Center in Houston at more than $5 million based upon what it cost the United States to go get them rather than what they might sell for on the open market.

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Science/Astronomy:

* It's Universal: The Lights are Going Out
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/lights_out_030807.html

Not enough stars are being born to replace those that are dying across the cosmos, according to a new study supporting previous claims that the universe is headed into darker times.

* Report Sullies Pristine Reputation of Comets
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/comets_eroded_030807.html

Comets used to be cherished as unvarnished messengers from the earliest days of planet formation, primordial objects frozen in the outskirts of the solar system and virtually unchanged since birth.

* Liquid Water Likely Supports Life On Mars Today, Scientists Claim
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_030806.html

Even on the present-day cold and dusty surface of Mars, liquid water may be sustaining a world of Martian microbes.

* Environments for Life on Europa
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_phillips_europa_030807.html

Jupiter's moon Europa, about the size of Earth's Moon, is thought to have an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface, making it a possible environment for life. Two of the necessary ingredients for life, liquid water and appropriate biogenic elements, are now thought to exist at Europa.

* Image of the Day: When Stars Collide
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_030807.html

Astronomers have discovered what they think are the remains of colliding stars in this new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Recent Headlines:

* Riding the Sun: Maiden Flight Looms for Solar Sail Satellite
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/cosmos_sail_030806.html

* Shuttle Return to Flight Task Group Begins Work in Florida
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts107_update_030805.html

* New Theory of Time Rattles Halls of Science
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/time_theory_030806.html

* Mars Watch: Where is the Red Planet Now?
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/where_is_mars.html

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* SpaceTV:
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/

* SpaceWatch:
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/

* Uplink: Share your opinion!
http://uplink.space.com/

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SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (August 7, 2003)

3-Day Solar Forecast
Solar activity is expected to be low.

3-Day Aurora Forecast
Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to continue at mostly quiet to unsettled levels through Tuesday with isolated active periods likely again. A large equatorial coronal hole will rotate into a geoeffective position by Wednesday and produce unsettled to minor storm conditions through the remainder of the period. Isolated major storm periods at higher latitudes are expected Thursday.

Solar Data
The current sunspot number is 63, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 138 kilometers per second.

The solar wind density was 6.6 protons per cubic centimeter.

(Speed and density values are snapshots in time and change during the day.)

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html

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