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News for 2004
Mars rover takes picture of empty nest
January 22, 2004
By Dave Santucci (CNN) The Mars Spirit rover turned a camera back toward the lander that carried it safely to the Martian ground 18 days ago and snapped pictures that were released Wednesday by Jet Propulsion Lab engineers in Pasadena, California...
Planetary star: Steven Squyres is named ABC's 'Person of the Week'
January 16, 2004
By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr (Cornell Chronicle) Nearly a week after the exploration rover Spirit landed on Mars, "ABC News/World News Tonight" named Cornell astronomer Steven Squyres, the mission's science-team leader, as its "Person of the Week".....
At Cornell's Space Sciences, cheers and champagne afater the Mars Landing
January 16, 2004
By Bill Steele (Cornell Chronicle) Elation over the successful landing of the rover Spirit and the early transmission of pictures from the Martian surface stretched across the country -- from the mission manager, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., to the Cornell campus, where so much of the rover science package was developed.....
Spitzer Space Telescope detects organic molecules in a bright galaxy
January 16, 2004
By David Brand and Blaine Friedlander,Jr (Cornell Chronicle) Borrowing a page from the Superman legend, astronomers have used the infrared vision of an orbiting telescope to penetrate the universe's obscuring dark mass and bring it into cosmic clarity....
Cornell's role in Spirit mission celebrated on Earth
January 16, 2004
See photographys from JPL by Robert Barker/University Photography
Opportunity calls -- CU campus cheers
January 29, 2004
By Rachel Solomon Einschlag '04 Cornell Chronicle When fans of the Opportunity mission hurried into Cornell's Space Sciences Building from below-freezing temperatures, they found the air buzzing with excitement. It was Jan. 24, the much-anticipated landing night of the second of NASA's Mars rovers....
CU students at JPL on the mission team are elated -- and exhausted
January 16, 2004
By Linda Grace-Kobas & David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- Elation -- and exhaustion -- showed on the faces of Cornell students on the rover science team in the mission control building at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) here shortly after the landing of the Spirit rover was confirmed late on the night of Jan. 3....
Mars rover's work delayed over memory glitch
February 4, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- The Mars rover Spirit briefly resumed science operations before NASA once again halted the work to finish correcting a computer memory problem that has stymied the wheeled robot's mission....
Opportunity made 'interplanetary hole-in-one'
January 26, 2004
Pasadena, Ca (CNN) -- The Mars rover Opportunity is sending fresh data, including new photographs taken on the vehicle's parachute trip to the planet's surface, to mission control....
Mars rover finishes primary mission
April 5, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- NASA's Spirit rover wrapped up its primary mission to Mars on Monday as it continued to roll across the planet's surface on an extended tour that could last through September...
Rocky Task for Mars Rover
January 20, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- NASA's Spirit rover is set to reach out with its arm and examine a sharply angled rock -- dubbed by scientists as "Adirondack" -- that sits on the surface of Mars.....
Mars Rover Gets To Work
January 21, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- Scientists awaited data from the Spirit rover after it started probing the mineral composition of a large martian rock dubbed Adirondack....
CU-led Spirit rolls onto the Mars surface: Opportunitiy approaches
January 22, 2004
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- Twelve days after it bounced down on the Martian surface, the rover Spirit rolled onto the floor of its landing site in Gusev crater in the early hours of Jan. 15 -- early afternoon, Mars time....
It's a hard sol's night at Space Sciences, processing those Mars images
January 22, 2004
By Bill Steele (Cornell Chronicle) Behind almost every great historical event, there are people toiling in the trenches. For the Mars rover mission, that includes the Cornell Calibration Team .....
Cornell lands on Mars: Spirit 'hit the sweet pot'
January 16, 2004
By David Brand & Linda Grace-Kobas (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- In recent days, it seemed as if Cornell was everywhere in the solar system.....
Why Mars mission scientists will have breakfast at 10 p.m.
April 8, 2004
By Kate Becker (for Cornell Chronicle) Cornell astronomy researcher Diane Bollen calls it "dream science" -- the rush of excitement as data pours in, fresh hypotheses are put to the test and new discoveries blossom. But she could just as easily mean science that happens when the rest of the world is dreaming...
Nearby rocks beckon Mars rover
January 28, 2004
(CNN) -- The golf cart-sized rover Opportunity, parked in a small Mars crater, unfolded more instruments and checked out its systems Tuesday as it prepares to roll off its platform in 10 to 14 days....
Mars rover completes test drive 'rehearsal'
January 12, 2004
Pasadena, CA (Reuters) -- NASA engineers staged a "dress rehearsal" Sunday for the rover Spirit's first drive on Mars and scientists snapped the most detailed images yet of the rocky landscape where the robotic explorer likely will begin its search for signs of water.....
U.S. House of Representatives applauds Cornell's role
January 29, 2004
Cornell Chronicle THe U. S. House of Representatives on Jan. 21 commended Cornell for the work of its engineers, scientists and technicians leading to the successful landing of the rover Spirit on Mars, Jan. 3.....
CU students at JPL on the mission team are elated -- and exhausted
January 16, 2004
By Linda Grace-Kobas & David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- Elation -- and exhaustion -- showed on the faces of Cornell students on the rover science team in the mission control building at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) here shortly after the landing of the Spirit rover was confirmed late on the night of Jan. 3.....
CU's 'cool camera' developer is in 'shock and awe' at Mars images
January 16, 2004
By David Brand & Blaine Friedlander, Jr (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- Remarkable though the Mars landing of the rover Spirit was, it was the spectacular color images sent back from the planet, some in stereo, that really opened the eyes wide and caught the breath. They are the most detailed pictures of another planet ever obtained.....
Sagan pupil relishes role as Mars ambassador
January 5, 2004
Ithaca, NY (AP) -- There is awe in Steven Squyre's voice when he talks about Mars. His tone gathers passion as he speaks. In a short time, his enthusiasm is contagious as he marvels about humanity's approaching visit to the red planet.....
Scientist: Mars rock photo shows 'Holy Grail'
January 27, 2004
Pasadena, CA (CNN) -- While NASA's Spirit rover is in rehab, its twin, Opportunity, is sitting near rock formations on the other side of Mars that could be a "Holy Grail" for geologists, mission scientists said Monday....
Rover Spirit lives: How a computer crisis nearly stalled a mission
January 29, 2004
By Blaine Friedlander, Jr. Cornell Chronicle Pasadena, CA -- This past weekend, three days after the Mars rover Spirit went into a temperamental fit, mission engineers wrestled the craft into complying with Earth commands...
Opportunity scores a Mars 'hole in one' says CU's Squyres
January 29, 2004
By Blaine Friedlander, Jr. (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- Holy smokes. Opportunity, welcome to Mars....
NASA gives Mars rovers five more months
April 14, 2004
By Dave Santucci, CNN Space Producer The manager of NASA's Mars missions said Thursday they have extended the working lives of Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity until September and they could be extended even further...
Mars mission enters full swing
February 3, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- NASA's twin rovers reached out their robotic arms to touch the surface of Mars on Monday, marking the first day of the joint $820 million mission that both spacecraft were in full swing....
Mars rover snaps microscopic photos of soil
February 4, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- NASA's Opportunity rover took the first-ever microscopic photographs of the martian soil, which scientists believe could contain evidence that the now-dray planet once was a wetter world capable of sustaining life....
Mars rover to rove into September, without worry about 'fare'
April 15, 2004
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- The two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, which bounced down on the Martian surface in January, will continue to roam their areas of the red planet until at least mid-September, a considerable extension of the mission that originally was planned for only 90 days...
Rover takes first spin on Mars
February 6, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- NASA took the rover Opportunity on its first real drive on Mars, a trip across pebbly soil that appears to be unlike anything else seen on the surface of the red planet, scientists said Thursday....
Rover digs first hole on Mars
February 9, 2004
Los Angles, CA (AP) -- Fresh from being given a clean bill of health, the Spirit rover drilled its first tiny hole in a rock on the surface of Mars, NASA scientists have said....
Opportunity peeks out over rim
February 10, 2004
(CNN) -- The Mars rover Opportunity has moved to the lip of the crater in which it landed and peeked out over the rim, mission scientists say....
NASA to boost Mars rovers' distance mark
February 12, 2004
Los Angeles, Ca (AP) -- Not content to allow the Spirit rover to rest on its laurels, NASA wants to send the six-wheeled spacecraft on what should be longer drives on Mars....
Mars rover reveals new details about rocks
February 13, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- NASA's Opportunity rover has revealed new details about the finely layered rocks that partially ring the shallow crater cradling the spacecraft...
'Two very busy' rovers scout Mars
February 13, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- The Mars rover Spirit, after a standstill caused by a cold shadow, rolled another 80 feet toward a crater that it should reach within the next three weeks...
Rover goes for longest trip yet on Mars
February 17, 2004
Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- The Spirit rover went for its longest trip yet on the surface of Mars, traveling just over 88 feet (26.4 meters) but stopping short of the distance NASA had hoped it would cover, scientists said Monday...
On Mars, rover spins a wheel, digs trench
February 18, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) - While NASA's Spirit rover was slowly picking its way across the martian surface, its twin rover was on the other side of the planet spinning its wheels - literally....
NASA's Spirit looks for water signs
February 22, 2004
Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- NASA's Spirit rover continued probing a tiny martian trench Sunday that may yield clues about whether there ever was water in the area, and was set to begin a 445-foot drive to a crater...
Mars rover discoveries point to planet's origins
February 23, 2004
Los Angeles, CA (Reuters) -- NASA scientists are excitedly speculating that discoveries made by a Mars rover over the weekend will help them finally unravel whether water played a role in the red planet's geologic history, a science team member said on Monday...
Mars rock pictues baffle scientists
February 25, 2004
Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- Microscopic photographs of a Mars rock taken by NASA's Opportunity rover have triggered excitement among scientists, even if they aren't unanimous on exactly what they're seeing...
Rover drills into Mars rock for evidence of water
February 26, 2004
Los Angeles, Ca (AP) -- NASA's Opportunity rover extended its arm and played robot geologist, drilling into a Martian rock that has intrigued scientists back on Earth...
Power drain threatening Mars rover
February 27, 2004
Los Angeles, CA (Reuters) -- Engineers must replace software in the Mars rover Opportunity to stop a power-draining malfunction that could cut short the robot geologist's life on the red planet, a NASA official said on Wednesday...
The Mars rovers go ditch digging and find sparkling spheres
February 27, 2004
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- It was time for ditch digging by the two rover vehicles on Mars last week, using technology developed by engineers at Cornell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)...
Rover caputres dusty sunset in blue Martian sky
February 27, 2004
Pasadena, Ca (AP) -- The Opportunity rover turned its panoramic gaze to the Martian horizon and captured a dusty blue sunset...
Water on Mars? Flood of data, trickle of answers
February 27, 2004
By Robert R. Britt (Space.com) Nobody on the Mars rover science teams expected quick answers. But now the reality of the task is clear...
Rover ready to take another bite of Mars
February 29, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- The Opportunity rover temporarily stowed its robotic arm and cleared a six-inch (15 centimeter) bump on its way to taking another bite out of the martian surface, NASA said...
NASA: Liquid water once on Mars
March 3, 2004
By Marsha Walton (CNN) Mission accomplished: NASA scientists say the Mars rovers have found what they were looking for -- hard evidence that the red planet was once "soaking wet"...
Mars Could Once Support Life, Scientist Now Say, but Did It?
March 3, 2004
By Kenneth Chang (The New York Times) Water is the elixir of life, and scientists reported almost certain evidence yesterday that the tiny crater that holds the Mars rover Opportunity was once soaked by it...
CU's Steven Squyres delivers NASA's really big news: Mars once had water
March 4, 2004
By Roger Segelken (Cornell Chronicle) Washington, DC -- "We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion."...
How much water on Mars?
March 4, 2004
By Robert R. Brill (Space.com) Now that NASA's Opportunity rover has established a locale on Mars where rocks were once drenched in water, it is in a race against time and battery life to learn how widespread and deep the water was...
CU researchers use Mars enthusiasm to promote science, engineering to girls
March 4, 2004
By Blaine P. Friedlander, Jr. (Cornell Chronicle) Pasadena, CA -- Women are from Mars, too. On that point, Cornell researchers Elaina McCartney and Zoe Learner, both working with the Mars rover science team, will not disagree...
Another Mars rover finds more evidence of water
March 8, 2004
Pasadena, CA (AP) -- NASA's Spirt rover has found evidence of past water activity in a volcanic rock on the other side of Mars from where its twin, Opportunity, discovered signs that ground there had once been drenched...
Mars rovers see Earth, moons and stars
March 17, 2004
By Robert Roy Britt (Space.com) The Spirit rover on Mars took the first picture of Earth ever made from the surface of another planet. It also did a little astronomy, imaging bright stars...
CU and Caltech will collaborate on plans for telescope in Chile
March 18, 2004
By Kate Becker Cornell Chronicle -- Cornell and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have signed an agreement committing the two institutions to collaborate on the planning for a 25-meter infrared telescope high in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile....
Fossil hunting on Mars
March 19, 2004
By Leonard David (Space.com) -- Those on-the-prowl Mars robots -- Spirit and Opportunity -- are sending back extraordinary images and science data about the Red Planet and its history of climate and water...
Rovers Going in Search of New Clues on Mars
April 29, 2004
By Kenneth Chang (NY Times) -- After completing their original three-month missions on Mars, both of NASA's rovers continue to operate smoothly en route to new destinatins in search of more clues to the planet's watery past...
NASA: Salty sea covered part of Mars
March 24, 2004
By Marsha Walton (CNN) (CNN) -- Mars rocks robotically examined by the rover Opportunity were formed at the bottom of a salty sea, NASA scientists said Tuesday...
Opportunity finds evidence of a salty Martian sea, Squyres reports
March 25, 2004
By Blaine Friedlander, Jr. (Cornell Chronicle) Washington, DC -- The robotic rover Opportunity seems to be surveying the shoreline of a salty Martian sea, an environment that could have supported life, Cornell astronomer Steven Squyres told a NASA press conference March 23...
Laser inventor Charles Townes to give Gold lectures March 29 and 31
March 25, 2004
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) Nobel laureate Charles Townes, inventor of the laser and in recent years an astronomical explorer using an array of moveable infrared telescopes, will present the Thomas Gold lectures in Cornell's Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, March 29 and 31...
Rover cracks mystery of Mars spheres
March 20, 2004
By Leonard David (Space.com) -- Scientists have learned the composition of the mysterious sphere-shaped objects scattered across the crater floor at Meridiani Planum, the landing site of the Opportunity Mars rover...
Arecibo gets a 7-pixel eye on the sky and unprecedented sensitivity
April 30, 2004
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- The Arecibo Observatory telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the largest and most sensitive dish radio telescope in the world, is getting a good deal more sensitive...
New Crater Beckons Mars Rover
May 7, 2004
By Kenneth Chang (NY Times) -- Perched on the edge of a 430-foot-wide crater, the Mars rover Opportunity has spied a new treasure trove of rocks that promise to tell a richer, deeper story of theplanet's geological past...
Mars rover to explore crater secrets
May 6, 2004
(CNN) -- The Mars rover Opportunity is perched above a crater that researchers said could open up a window into the mysterious -- and possibly wet -- history of the Red Planet...
Cornell calibrators toiil to present the most spectacular Martian image yet
May 13, 2004
A spectacular Martian color panorama image of a deep, staidum-size depression named Endurance crater was created by Cornell researchers for presentation at a news conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)in Pasadena, Calif., May 6....
In Montreal, Steve Squyres describes new adventures of the Mars rovers
May 20, 2004
By Blaine P. Friedlander, Jr. (Cornell Chronicle) -- The Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are heading into two new and very different adventures in their pursuit of further geological evidence that water once flowed on the planet...
Mars rovers on 'brand new mission'
June 4, 2004
(CNN) -- Two interplanetary Energizer bunnies, NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers, keep going and going. The pair of robotic explorers are now well into their extended missions on the surface of Mars...
Rover Unearths More Evidence of Water on Mars, Scientists Say
June 9, 2004
By John Schwartz, NY Times The Mars rover Spirit has dug up more evidence of water on the red planet, scientists said yesterday...
Risky descent planned for Mars crater
June 10, 2004
By Michael Coren, CNN NASA decided to roll the dice on Mars this Tuesday by dispatching its rover Opportunity into a crater from which it may never escape...
Up on the roof
June 10, 2004
Cornell Chronicle -- Newly installed atop the Space Sciences Building, the Josephine L. Hopkins Foundation Teaching Radio Telescope is dedicated with a June 5 ribbon-cutting ceremony...
CU researchers playing big part in Saturn mission, orbiting June 30
June 17, 2004
By David Brand, Cornell Chronicle -- Cornell researchers are playing a major role in yet another planetary space mission, this time to Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system...
Theoretical Astrophysicist Thomas Gold Dies at 84
June 24, 2004
Washington Post Obituary
Thomas Gold, Astrophysicist and innovator, Dies at 84
June 24, 2004
New York Times Obituary
Thomas Gold, the science maverick who challenged establishment thinking
June 24, 2004
The Guardian Obituary
Mars rover to brave 'black diamond' slope
June 28, 2004
By Dave Santucci, CNN -- Most skiers are familiar with the slope of an expert, or black diamond, trail -- about 30 degrees, on average. But that isn't stopping engineers who designed the Mars rover from considering sending the rover Opportunity down one even steeper...
CU's Thomas Gold, noted astronomer and 'gadfly', is dead at 84
July 2, 2004
By Lissa Harris, Cornell Chronicle -- Thomas "Tommy Gold", a brilliant and controversial figure in 20th century science and Cornell professor emeritus of astronomy, died June 22 at Cayuga Medical Center, after a long battle with heart disease. He was 84 years of age....
Mars rover strikes 'pot of gold' with most biazarre rock yet seen
July 2, 2004
By David Brand, Cornell Chronicle -- As the rover Spirit celebrates its first six months on Mars at the end of this week (it bounced down Jan. 3), the vehicle has made a remarkable discovery of a type of rock formation never seen before, with a bizarre shape and chemistry that might hold yet more clues to the previous existence of water on the planet...
CU's Burns looks at gaps in Saturn's rings for Cassini
July 2, 2004
By David Brand, Cornell Chronicle -- As the Cassini-Hugyens spacecraft was to arrive at Saturn at 10:36 last night (June 30), among the most anxious participants was Joseph Burns, Cornell's vice provost for physical sciences and engineering...
As mission ages, CU MarsLab on campus has a major new role
July 15, 2004
By David Brand, Cornell Chronicle -- Since the beginning of January, the cornell team running the panoramic camera, or Pancams, on the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, has been largely functioning out of the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) here...
CU astronomers jubilant as Cassini returns images of Saturn's rings
July 15, 2004
By David Brand, Cornell Chronicle -- Just hours after Cassini-Hugyens rocketed into orbit around Saturn at 7:36 PDT (10:36 EDT) on June 30, the spacecraft sent back 61 images of the giant planet's rings that Cornell researchers acclaimed as spectacular and surprising...
Kudos for CU astronomer and CU engineer
July 29, 2004
Cornell Chronicle -- Two members of Cornell's faculty have won awards to encourage the research of young scientists...
How Is a Martian Rover Like a Bear?
August 10, 2004
By John N. Wilford, NY Times -- Winter is bearing down on the southern hemisphere of Mars, where the days are growing shorter and colder, and the dimming Sun seems to be running out of energy...
CU Scientists report on Mars in special issue of Science
August 19, 2004
by Blaine Friedlander, Jr., Cornell Chronicle -- The eyes aboard the Mars rover Spirit are delivering ground truth...
Cornell's Steve Squyres weighs in on Mars mission findings, future
August 19, 2004
Cornell Chronicle -- Steve Squyres, Cornell professor of astronomy and the principle scientific investigator for the Mars rover mission, has become a familiar figure to much of the nation since two rover vehicles bounced down on the Martian surface last January...
Mars Rover Finds Mysterious Rocks and More Signs of Water
August 19, 2004
by Kennth Chang, NY Times -- With one Mars rover climbing into the hills and the other descending deep into a crater, scientists yesterday reported the discovery of several mysterious rock structures along with yet more signs that Mars was once awash in water...
A toast to a Great Observatory
September 2, 2004
Cornell Chronicle -- A year after a Delta II Heavy rocket blasted into the sky over Cape Canaveral, Fl., carrying the last of NASA's Great Observatories into orbit, researchers in the Space Sciences Building met to celebrate their first anniversary, August 25...
Mars rover to sit tight for 12 days
September 9, 2004
(CNN) -- Starging Wednesday, the Mars rovers will go into an anticipated 12-day "loss of communication" period as the sun passes between the Earth and Mars, an alignment known as conjunction...
Memorial for Tommy Gold, CU's audacious thinker, Oct. 13
October 11, 2004
A memorial service for Thomas "Tommy" Gold, the Cornell astronomer, protean scientific explorer and audacious thinker who died June 22, will be held Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. in Barnes Hall. All members of the Cornell community are invited to attend....
Mars rovers receive go-ahead to keep roving, imaging the Red Planet
October 11, 2004
by Larry Klaes (Cornell Chronicle) -- The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, still exploring the Red Planet long after their 90-day warranties had expired, were given a six-month exention on their missions by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
Cornell's Mars rover operations center takes to the airwaves
October 14, 2004
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- Since last August, many of the daily operations controlling the science instruments carried by the two exploration rovers on Mars have been gradually transferred to Cornell's Space Sciences Building from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboraty (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif....
Remembering Cornell's Tommy Gold: big thinker, bigger personality
October 21, 2004
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- The pictures of Cornell's legendardy polymath astronomer Thomas "Tommy" Gold that were flashed on a screen at Barnes Hall on Oct. 13 were part of a more-than-two-hour memorial tribute, both humorous and heartfelt, to Gold, who died on June 22...
Mars rovers working overtime
November 5, 2004
(CNN) -- Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity are going strong 10 months after they began their geological study of the red planet, mission scientists said Thursday...
Martian Robots, Taking Orders From a Manhattan Walk-Up
November 8, 2004
By Kenneth Chang (NY Times) -- These days, when one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on Mars, the commands come from Lower Manhattan, from a second-floor office on Elizabeth Street, surrounded by dusted-off tenements...
Restless rovers demand long hours from CU's 'Martians'
November 11, 2004
By Thomas Oberst (Cornell Chronicle) -- Since NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on the red planet last January, researchers and students at Cornell rover team have gone from living and working on Mars time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Califronia, to running their operations from Cornell's Space Sciences Building on a hybrid Earth-Mars time...
Conditions on Martian plain could have once been suitable for life
December 9, 2004
By David Brand and Larry Klaes, Cornell Chronicle -- Scientists have long been tantalized by the question of whether life once existed on Mars...
Images of Earth-like clouds on Mars
December 15, 2004
San Francisco, California (Space.com) -- NASA's Mars rovers have returned new evidence for past water, pictures of earth-like clouds seen for the first time from the planet's surface, and a rock that doesn't look like anything scientists have ever seen...
CU 'eyes' to examine Titan as probe begins momentous Xmas journey
December 17, 2004
by Larry Klaes (Cornell Chronicle) -- Cornell space scientists, who began 2004 with a spectacular double landing of NASA's rovers Spirit and Opportunity on Mars, will end the year by participating in an equally impressive feat: the attempted landing of a probe on Saturn's largest and most interesting moon, Titan...
Cornell space scientists will make an impression with probe's visit to comet
December 17, 2004
By Alex Kwan (Cornell Chronicle) -- Cornell space researchers are playing a prominent role in scientific planning, image acquisition and data analysis for NASA's forthcoming Deep Impact mission to study deep inside a comet for the first time...
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