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News for 2006
Beyond Their Martian Dreams: Two Rovers Are Still Informing Experts Two Years Later
January 3, 2006
By Kenneth Chang (NY Times) -- Two years ago today, the rover Spirit parachuted into the Martian atmosphere and, cocooned in protective air bags. bounced and rolled to a stop...
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Mars, in Glorious 3-D
January 25, 2006
By David Halbfinger (NY Times) -- A dozen years ago, when they were just what-iffing how to build remote-controlled vehicles for exploring the surface of Mars, Steve Squyres and Jim Bell, scientists at Cornell University, already knew they wanted their rovers to have cameras worthy of an Imax screen...
'Roving Mars' is part drama, part suspense and all a tribute to NASA team
February 2, 2006
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- The IMAX movie "Roving Mars," which had its world premiere in Washington, D.C., yesterday (Jan. 26), is part detective story, part drama, part suspense....
Milky way's fastest pulsar is on its way out of the galaxy, astronomers find
February 9, 2006
By Dave Finley & Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- The Milky Way's fastest observed pulsar is speeding out of the galaxy at more than 670 miles a second, propelled largely by a kick it received at its birth 2.5 million years ago...
Cornell astronomer finds galaxies that contain massive young stars in compact, cosmic globs
February 17, 2006
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- The discovery makes the fiery environment within a typical spiral or starburst galaxy look almost pastoral...
New Arecibo receiver triggers quiet revolution that could discover 20,000 galaxies and 1,000 pulsars
March 9, 2006
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- When the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFA) was installed on a misty April morning two years ago, it promised to bring phenomenal new sensitivity to the Arecibo Observatory...
Cassini spacecraft finds evidence of football-field sized moonlets in Saturn's A ring
March 30, 2006
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- New observations of propeller-shaped disturbances in Saturn's A ring indicate the presence of four small, embedded moons -- and most likely millions more, Cornell University astronomers report...
With echoes from the first two-trillionths of a second, Rachel Bean explores dark energy and inflation of the universe
March 30, 2006
By Bill Steele (Cornell Chronicle) -- Looking back 13.7 billion years, astronomers have collected data that tells us, with greater precision than ever before, what happened in the first two-trillionths of a second after the big bang...
Wish you were here: 'Postcards from Mars,' signed, Spirit and Opportunity
June 30, 2006
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- "Postcards from Mars," the story of the Mars rover mission told in stunningly beautiful images with text by Jim Bell, Pancam lead scientist and Cornell associate professor of astronomy, is set for release on Nov.16...
Cornell hosts the Hans Bethe Centennial Symposium
May 18, 2006
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- Scientists from around the world will gather at Cornell June 2 and 3 for the Bethe Centennial Symposium on Astrophysics, a celebration of the life and contributions of Hans Bethe (1906-2005) and an opportunity to discuss the latest research in the field he poineered...
Arecibo Observatory celebrates Bring Your child to Work Day
May 18, 2006
Arecibo, PR -- For the first time since the creation of Bring Your Child to Work Day, a group of Arecibo Observatory parents in Puerto Rico did just that April 27...
Eanna Flanagan hunts down gravity waves -- ripples in 'spacetime' -- in quest to better understand the universe
May 11, 2006
By Thomas Oberst (Cornell Chronicle) -- Gravity is a familiar force. It's the reason for fear of heights. It holds the moon to the Earth, the Earth to the sun. It keeps beer from floating out of our glasses...
Cornell Chronicle Magazine: Astrophysics
June 6, 2006
This issue of the Cornell Chronical Magazine is devoted to astrophysics. The magazine was produced with the Departments of Astronomy and Physics in conjunction with the Bethe Centennial symposium on Astrophysics. The magazine provides an outline of the conference, as well as tributes to the late Hans Bethe on the centennial of his birth. It also features the work of several Cornell researchers in the field of astrophysics.
What an Opportunity! Mars rover reaches new milestone
October 2, 2006
Atlanga, GA (CNN) -- Nearly three years after landing on Mars, the rover "Opportunity" has reached a region of the planet that may provide the best clues yet about the history of the red planet...
Mars Rover Visits Crater, Then Poses for a Picture
October 9, 2006
Washington -- NASA's Opportunity Mars rover spent 22 months trekking almost six miles to a large scientifically promising crater...
NASA Announces Discovery Program Selections
November 3, 2006
NASA has selected concept studies that would return a sample of an enigmatic asteroid, probe the chemistry of Venus' atmosphere and reveal the interior structure and history of the Earth's moon...
Mars images show rover perched on crater
October 9, 2006
(CNN) -- Spectacular new images of Mars could reveal clues about tens of millions of year of the red planet's history...
Cornell's Squyres and Bell introduce Mars crater with a stunning view and a perspective of the past
October 12, 2006
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- "And how about that view?!?" That was Cornell's Steve Squyres' question, posted in his blog last week after the Mars rover Opportunity rolled up to the edge of Victoria Crater on September 27...
Cornell astronomer describes 'an eerily beautiful sight' as Cassini mission finds faint new rings around Saturn
November 2, 2006
By Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- Like suspended dust grains caught in a shaft of light, the tiniest of Saturn's ring particles were on glimmering display for 12 hours last month as NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed into Saturn's shadow and collected images of the ethereally backlit ring system...
Leave the skates on Earth -- Cornell researchers find no evidence of ice reserves on the moon
November 2, 2006
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- Alas, the moon is not for winter sports. Never mind the difficulty of a triple axel in a bulky spacesuit -- ice, it turns out, is hard to come by up there....
A mix of color, candor and cosmology as Cornell symposium honors Riccardo Giovanelli's 60th birthday
November 2, 2006
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- Start with the backdrop of the World Cup, replayed on a giant screen in the Space Sciences Building ...
Revealing the Secrets of Saturn
November 28, 2006
by Larry Klaes (Tompkins Weekly) -- Traveling through space in an endless circuit around our Sun over 800 million miles from Earth lies one of the most mysterious -- and many consider one of the most beautiful -- systems of worlds in our celestial neighborhood...
Despite significant recommended cuts from NSF for Arecibo, Cornell astronomers are optimistic about observatory's future
November 9, 2006
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- On Nov. 3, the Senior Review, an advisory panel to the National Science foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, recommended a 24 percent cut in funding over the next three years for Arecibo Obserevatory, which Cornell manages as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC).....
Observations of double asteroid stress Arecibo radar's vital role in identifying threats in Earth's vicinity
November 17, 2006
by Lauren Gold (Cornell Chronicle) -- Researchers using the Arecibo Observatory's powerful radar have made the most detailed observations ever of a binary near-Earth asteroid (NEA) -- two clusters of rubble circling each other -- offering new clues about how such systems formed, the properties they share and the dynamics of their motion...
Matter of Priority
November 21, 2006
by Larry Klaes (Ithaca Times) -- Almost eighteen hundred miles south of Ithaca is the Arecibo Observatory on the island of Puerto Rico...
Prof unveils Mars Book
November 27, 2006
Ithaca Journal -- By conjuring up lost cities, imperiled princesses and dying civilizations, authors have long fed the public's sense of the Red Planet as a landscape of exotic images....
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