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Herschel views deep-space pearls on a cosmic string Reservoir of cold gas in the constellation of the Southern Cross 2 October 2009 Herschel has delivered spectacular vistas of cold gas clouds lying near the plane of the Milky Way, revealing intense, unexpected activity. The dark, cool region is dotted with stellar factories, like pearls on [...]
Daedalia Planum 9 October 2009 Mars Express imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages. Context map Daedalia Planum lies to the south-east of Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars. It is 350 km in diameter and rises 14 km. The [...]
I was born the year of Sputnik, and my earliest memories of society swirl around silver suited astronauts and the promise of a bright future of gleaming spaceships and planetary homesteading. When I was 11, some 40 years ago this month, America’s Apollo program achieved something so much larger than life—President Kennedy’s goal of “landing [...]