From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 22:04:30 PST
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Subject: Spirit rover's first color pictures / Landing site named to honor Columbia crew
NEWSALERT: Tuesday, January 6, 2004 @ 2141 GMT
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MARS IN COLOR!
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The first color imagery of the Gusev Crater landing site taken by the Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit has been released. It is the highest resolution
image ever taken on the surface of another planet. "This is the day we
have been waiting for," the camera specialist for the rovers says. Follow
the mission's progress in our status center:
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SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA CREW MEMORIALIZED ON MARS
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NASA today announced plans to name the landing site of the Mars Spirit
Rover in honor of the astronauts who died in the tragic accident of the
space shuttle Columbia in February. The area in the vast flatland of the
Gusev Crater where Spirit landed this weekend will be called the Columbia
Memorial Station.
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040106columbia.html
SUNS OF ALL AGES POSSESS COMETS, MAYBE PLANETS
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When Comet Kudo-Fujikawa zipped past the Sun at a distance half that of
Mercury's orbit last year, astronomers were watching. They observed the
comet puffing out huge amounts of carbon, one of the key elements for
life. The comet also emitted large amounts of water vapor as the Sun's
heat baked its outer surface.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/05suns/
HUBBLE TELLS TALE OF RECORD-BREAKING GALAXY CLUSTERS
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An international team of astronomers, looking back in time, has found
embryonic galaxies a mere 1.5 billion years after the birth of the cosmos,
or 10 percent of the universe's present age. The "baby galaxies" reside in
a still-developing cluster, the most distant proto-cluster ever found.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/05clusters/
YOUNG STAR CAUGHT SPEEDING
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Astronomers have caught a newly formed star in the act of speeding. PV
Ceph, located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Cepheus, is
whizzing through space at a speed of 40,000 miles per hour -- some 40
times faster than a speeding bullet. And like a bullet, it left an exit
wound when it ripped out of the star cluster where it formed.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/05speedingstar/
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