The New York Times has a short write-up about the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. They’ve been performing much better than anticipated–so far they have lasted 427 Sols (Martian days) on what was designed to be a 90-Sol mission. The rovers have collected a great deal of information about how past water activity has shaped [...]
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Hans Bethe, 1967 Nobel Laureate in Physics and the last of the great scientists of the Manhattan Project, passed away on March 6, 2005 at the age of 98. After fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany in 1933, he spent two years teaching in England and then came to the United States. He was appointed Assistant [...]
Great APOD today of Valles Marineris, the “Grand Canyon” of Mars, from the ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. High resolution image here.
