From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 08:45:30 PST
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Smale
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:08 PM
To: oss-update_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Space Science News from NASA HQ
News from the Cosmos, served up hot to your monitor!
Gamma ray bursts, X-ray flashes, and supernovae may have more in
common than we knew:
http://universe.nasa.gov/press/2003/031112b.html. Also
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2003/grbtwinjet/
INTEGRAL's map of the Milky Way in gamma rays:
http://universe.nasa.gov/press/2003/031111a.html
Chandra observes the most distant X-ray jet yet, providing valuable
clues about the cosmic microwave background:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/03_releases/press_111703.html
A firestorm of starbirth, courtesy of NGC 604 and the Hubble Space Telescope:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/30/
Water on Mars? Fan-shaped deposits discovered by NASA's Mars Global
Surveyor suggest that some ancient Martian rivers flowed for a long
time: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04869
Ice at the Lunar poles? The story continues:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov03/radar.moonpoles.deb.html
Ice in Antarctica? For sure. Check out lunar eclipse images from the
flight over Antarctica:
http://SkyandTelescope.com/aboutsky/pressreleases/article_1110_1.asp
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/eclipse_photos_031224.html
Space Weather? - it comes in through the cracks.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/03dec_magneticcracks.htm?list1032190
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1203image_cluster.html
And finally, as a chaser: Cassini, heading for Saturn, captures a
spectacular global color portrait of Jupiter on the way:
http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/
That's it for now. Stay tuned - lots of neat stuff on the horizon....
- Alan @ NASA HQ
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