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| Image credit: Hubble |
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| Hubble Saturn Wallpaper |
Sep 29, 2003 - Time for another wallpaper. This time it's a view of Saturn at three wavelengths as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The photo was originally released a few weeks ago (click here to read the story).
As always, click the following link to the image. Then right-click anywhere on the picture and choose "Set as Wallpaper" to make it your desktop background.
Saturn Wallpaper - 1024x768 (82 KB)
I've also added the photo to my photo archives, so if you're really interested you can purchase a hard copy print - even a large poster if you like.
Click here to access the photo archives. Click on the Saturn album to see the picture. |
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| Image credit: NASA |
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| Meteorite Injures 20 in India |
| Sep 29, 2003 - At least 20 people were injured and several homes were destroyed when a meteorite crashed into a village in eastern India. Several reports say that a fireball flew across the sky, and burning fragments rained down across a wide area. Officials are in the area now, assessing the damage, and trying to help recover pieces of the meteorite for further study. |
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| Image credit: PPARC |
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| SCUBA 2 is in Development |
| Sep 29, 2003 - The Canadian Federation for Innovation announced today that it will be contributing $12.3 million CDN for the development of the SCUBA 2 project - an instrument that will be able to detect objects in the sub-millimetre wavelengths (in between radio and infrared). SCUBA 2 will be faster, imaging objects in hours instead of weeks, and it will be much more sensitive, allowing it to look further into space. Sub-millimetre astronomy is a newer field of research, which allows astronomers to penetrate clouds of obscuring dust to look at comets, the birthplace of stars, and distant galaxies. |
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| Image credit: Arianespace |
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| SMART-1 Launched to the Moon |
| Sep 27, 2003 - Europe's first mission to the Moon, SMART-1, lifted off successfully on board an Ariane-5 rocket Saturday evening. The rocket launched from the Guiana Space Centre at 2314 GMT (7:14 pm EDT) carrying SMART-1 and two other satellites. The spacecraft has deployed its solar arrays, and is currently undergoing an initial checkout of its systems to make sure that everything's working properly. Its ion engine will begin accelerating the spacecraft towards the Moon on October 4th, but it's going to be a long trip - it won't arrive until March 2005. |
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