BIOASTRO Mailing List: SETI bioastro: FW: Mars Rover drives into the record books / Reactor to power journey to Jupiter

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>Subject: Mars Rover drives into the record books / Reactor to power journey to Jupiter

>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:50:54 -0500

> NEWSALERT: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 @ 1652 GMT

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>SPIRIT ROVER ESTABLISHES NEW MARS DRIVING RECORD

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>The rover Spirit drove into the Martian history books Monday night by

>making the longest single-day traverse on the Red Planet, eclipsing the

>mark set by Mars Pathfinder's Sojourner rover in 1997.

> http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040210spirit.html

>REACTOR RESEARCH TO POWER JOURNEY TO JUPITER'S MOONS

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>A planned U.S. mission to investigate three ice-covered moons of Jupiter

>will demand fast-paced research, fabrication and realistic non-nuclear

>testing of a prototype nuclear reactor within two years, says a Los Alamos

>National Laboratory scientist.

> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/10jimo/

>CLOUDS, RAIN CONCERNS FOR WEEKEND TITAN 4 LAUNCH

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>A Titan 4B rocket is set for liftoff this weekend to place the 22nd

>Defense Support Program missile-warning satellite into orbit for the U.S.

>military. See our Mission Status Center for updates and weather forecasts:

> http://spaceflightnow.com/titan/b39/status.html

>MARS EXPRESS SPIES VALLES MARINERIS REGION

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>This image was acquired by the European Space Agency's Mars Express

>orbiter from an altitude of 275 km above the Red Planet. The features in

>the picture indicate erosional processes possibly caused by water.

> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/10marsexpress/

>ORBITER SEES OPPORTUNITY ROVER ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE

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>As navigation experts pinpoint the rover Opportunity's precise location,

>the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor has spotted the craft sitting in a small

>crater. In other news Monday, scientists are working to understand

>mysterious spherical grains scattered around the landing site that the

>rover's microscopic imager is examining.

> http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html

>SCIENTISTS FIND OZONE-DESTROYING MOLECULE

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>Using measurements from a NASA aircraft flying over the Arctic, Harvard

>University scientists have made the first observations of a molecule that

>researchers have long theorized plays a key role in destroying

>stratospheric ozone, chlorine peroxide.

> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/08ozone/

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