Archive for September 22nd, 2007



NASA revives probe to study black holes

source: www.news.yahoo.com 
Sep2007
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA on Friday resurrected a mission to launch a high-energy X-ray telescope into orbit to conduct a black hole census. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or Nustar, was canceled last year because of budget constraints. Nustar, now scheduled for launch in 2011, will fly two years before the launch of the […]

Muddying the Water? Orbiter drains confidence from fluid story of Mars

source: www.sciencenews.org
Ron Cowen
Evidence for liquid water on some parts of Mars—now or in the past—looks leakier than researchers had supposed, according to an analysis of the sharpest images ever taken of the Red Planet from orbit. But in other places, the new images bolster the case that water once flowed.

WATERING HOLE? Photo of Mars’ 60-kilometer-wide […]