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| World Space Week Highlights |
Oct 7, 2003 - I've had a few questions about what kinds of events are going on for World Space Week. First, I suggest you visit their website at http://www.spaceweek.org. The full list of events, broken down by country is available here. Probably the biggest highlight of the event will be a live webcast about the International Space Station on Thursday October 9 at 1700-1800 GMT (1:00-2:00pm EDT). You can read more about this on the web here.
An interview with the crew of the station already happened earlier today, but NASA is going to be replaying it several times today on NASA TV. Here's the NASA TV schedule (it'll be broadcast in the "Education" time slot), and links to NASA TV on the web.
Enjoy!
Fraser Cain
Publisher
Universe Today
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| Book Review: Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe |
| Oct 7, 2003 - "Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe" by Robin Kerrod is the newest coffee table book filled with beautiful pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope. The 192-page hardcover contains hundreds of pictures, of objects as near as our solar system to the very edges of the Universe... read the full review. |
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| Image credit: NASA |
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| Pengiuns Get a Boost from Plankton Blooms |
| Oct 7, 2003 - NASA satellite data has been used to analyze the biology of open area "hotspots" around the coast of Antarctica. The research has found that penguin populations are healthy when there are patches of open water nearby where plankton blooms can form in the sunlight. The plankton feeds shrimp-like krill which supports many other marine animals including penguins. The data was gathered by NASA's Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) and NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) which kept weekly records of ocean temperature and plankton levels. |
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| Image credit: Chinese Space Agency |
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| Chinese Could Launch Very Soon |
| Oct 7, 2003 - The Chinese might be days away from launching their first humans into space, according to various experts and insiders. Normally quiet about future launch plans, the Chinese government is starting to make more comments about what could happen soon - the launch could happen as early as this weekend, but others believe the launch won't happen before October 15 as government officials are in a series of meetings and would like to be present for the launch. All of the astronauts (or yuhangyuan) are at the launch facility and the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft has been mated to the top of its Long March rocket. |
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