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News for 2005
Mars rover approaches heat shield
January 5, 2005
By Leonard David (Space.com) -- The Opportunity Mars rover has turned into a junkyard dog, prowling ever closer to a hunk of space litter at Meridiani Planum -- a discarded heat shield ...
Rover hits one-year mark on Mars
January 5, 2005
By Tariq Malik (Space.com) -- Sitting on a hill of an alien world millions of miles from home, a hardy NASA robot celebrates an anniversary Monday -- one year on the planet Mars...
Mars rover inspects possible meteorite
January 19, 2005
By Leonard Davis (Space.com) -- Scientists controlling the Opportunity Mars rover are taking an up-close look at an intriguing pitted rock on Mars, now dubbed "Heat Shield Rock"...
Excitement and puzzlement as Cornell students and researchers view first Titan images Jan. 14
January 20, 2005
By Larry Klaes (Cornell Chronicle) -- The first image of the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, taken by the Huygens space probe was shown to the world at 2:55 p.m. Jan. 14...
Smashing probe of a comet is cheered on its way to July 4 rendezvous
January 20, 2005
By Larry Klaes (Cornell Chronicle) -- Two days before Conrell space researcher's eyes turned to Saturn, they were focused on another space shot -- this time a comet know as Tempel 1...
Mars rover science discoveries top Science list as Breakthrough of Year
January 20, 2005
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- Science magazine chose the discoveries of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission as Breakthrough of the Year in its Dec. 17, 2004, edition...
An Opportunity to celebrate
January 26, 2005
By Tariq Malik (Space.com) -- When it comes to long life, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity takes after its robotic twin Spirit...
From Mars hot seat to endowed chair
February 4, 2005
Cornell Chronicle -- Steve Squyres, science team leader for the Mars rover missions, is now the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy...
Arecibo's sensitive new eye begins massive sky survey for new galaxies
February 10, 2005
by David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- Fitted with its new compound eye on the heavens, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory telescope, the world's largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, early this month began a years-long survey of distant galaxies, one that perhaps will discover elusive "dark galaxies" galaxies that are devoid of stars...
Faculty to star at AAAS meeting; Squyres to give plenary address
February 17, 2005
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- Cornell will have a stellar representation at the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, Feb. 17-21 in Washington, D.C....
In the year of Einstein, Cornell explores new frontiers at AAAS
February 25, 2005
Cornell Chronicle -- Steve Squyres gave one of the five hallmark plenary lectures, enthralling a large audience with his account of a year on Mars...
Squyres captivates D.C. audience with story of rovers' year on Mars
February 25, 2005
By Sarah Davidson (Cornell Chronicle) -- A tireless Steve Squyres paced the stage at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 18 as he held his audience of scientists, media and students spellbound by his recounting of more than a year exploring the surface of Mars...
Mysterious galaxies discovered by CU-led team on Spitzer telescope
March 3, 2005
by Larry Klaes (Cornell Chronicle) -- A Cornell-led team operating the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS), the largest of the three main instruments on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has discovered a mysterious population of distant and enormously powerful galaxies radiating in the infrared spectrum with many hundreds of times more power than our Milky Way galaxy...
Unexpectedly, the Mars Rovers Are Still Going Strong
March 23, 2005
By Kenneth Chang (NY Times) -- Nearly a year past its planned three-month lifetime, the Mars rover Spirit has found itself rejuvenated and is now making some of its most significant discoveries about Mars' waterlogged past...
For first time, light is detected from two confirmed planets orbiting stars outside our solar system
March 23, 2005
By Bill Steele (Cornell Chronicle) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have for the first time detected light from confirmed planets orbiting stars outside our solar system...
Washington renews Arecibo contract
April 7, 2005
By David Brand (Cornell Chronicle) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed Cornell's management contract for the operation of Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest and most-sensitive single-dish radio/radar telescope...
Rover mission extended for 18 months -- or as long as parts hold up
April 15, 2005
Cornell Chronicle -- NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active exploration for more than 14 months.....
Life for Joe Vevereka: the cosmos, cooking and bel canto
April 28, 2005
by Larry Klaes (Cornell Chronicle) -- When Joe Veverka celebrated his 60th birthday in 2001, the Department of Astronomy came up with a novel gift: an open ticket to see any opera performance anywhere in the world...
Cornell's James Houck receives a top NASA honor for work on orbiting Spitzer telescope
May 26, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- James Houck, Cornell University's Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for leading the successful development of the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectograph...
Houck celebrates NASA award with colleagues
July 5, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- Jim Houck, the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and developer and principal investigator for the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, celebrated a top NASA award with colleagues in the Space Sciences Building on Wednesday, June 29...
Cornell astronomers find key evidence supporting theory of quasars
June 16, 2005
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- The office that astronomer Lei Hao shares with her fellow research associates on the first floor of the Space Sciences Building at Cornell University is tidy and organized. But Hao has been thinking a lot lately about dust...
Rovers continue odyssey with drama and discovery
June 21, 2005
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- To say June has been a good month for the Mars Expedition Rover (MER) team is -- well, like saying getting to Mars is a bit of a hike...
Cornell grad Dan Maas creates Deep Impact animations for NASA
June 23, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- No one really knows what will happen when a probe from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft collides with the comet Tempel 1 in the early morning hours of July 4...
Public can watch comet collision fireworks July 4 with Cornell scientists
June 23, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- When it comes to sensational explosions, fireworks this July Fourth may face some competition...
Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01 earns Emmy nomination for realistic Mars rover animation
July 25, 2005
Cornell Chronicle -- Cornell University alumnus Dan Maas '01, whose realistic mission animations have been shown on television new programs the world over, received an Emmy award nomination for his animation featured in the PBS Nova documentary "Mars: Dead or Alive"....
Cornell engineer's design will mark the South Pole in 2006
July 25, 2005
Cornell Chronicle -- Stephen Parshley, a research support engineer in Cornell University's astronomy department, has plans to leave his mark on the world....
Deep Impact wows overflow audience at Cornell's Space Sciences Building
July 25, 2005
Cornell Chronicle -- They came -- scientists, students, families, curious teenagers and interested locals -- with the hope that Monday's 1:52 a.m. Deep Impact comet collision would be something worth staying up for ...
Undergraduates study astronomy and atmospheric science during summer program at Arecibo
July 29, 2005
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- Talia Kohen is one of about a dozen undergraduate students spending this summer at Arecibo Observatory, which is run by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Cornell University for the National Science Foundation (NSF)...
NEAR mission images give clues to composition of asteroid Eros
July 29, 2005
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- An asteroid's external features, when analyzed carefuly, can say a lot about its interior...
Squyres writes the book on Mars and the little rovers that could
September 1, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- It has been an amazingmission from the beginning...
Asteroid or miniplanet?
September 20, 2005
by Thomas Oberst, Cornell Chronicle -- When is a space rock more than just a space rock? Ceres 1 was already holding the title of the solar system's largest asteroid...
Spirit completes her first Martian trip around the sun
December 1, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- The intrepid Mars rover Spirit was excused from attending the Nov. 18 party in her honor...
Science Cabaret debuts with Jim Bell and images of Mars
October 4, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- A single strand of red Christmas lights sparkles along the raw brick walls of the Lost Dog Cafe's upstairs lounge -- a space of silvery heating ducts, mirrors, beaded lamps and worn, velvety couches -- as Jim Bell begins setting up his projector, chatting with organizers, and wondering what to expect from the next two hours...
Cassini spacecraft provides compelling evidence for patterns resembling spokes on a pinwheel in Saturn's outer rings
November 10, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- By watching a distant star as it passed behind Saturn's outer rings, Cornell University astronomers on NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn have found the most direct evidence to date of patterns, called gravitational wakes, within the planet's outer rings...
Spitzer astronomers investigate cosmic forces that produce new galaxies
December 8, 2005
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- When galaxies collide (as our galaxy, the Milky Way, eventually will with the nearby Andromeda galaxy), what happens to matter that gets spun off in the collision's wake?...
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