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Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, May 23, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- The NEW Pentium(r) 4 Processor-M designed for notebooks. Experience accelerated video, multimedia and gaming. http://mds.centrport.net/mdsefc?a27250041;MIHC107C1782P80586B80587S0;B80 587;1 -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * STS-111 Crew Mission Shirt Science/Astronomy: * NASA Ignores ISS Remote Sensing & Photo Capabilities * NEAR Resurrection: Bringing Back the Dead Spacecraft * Europa Shows Evidence of Life's Ingredients, But Thick Ice Frustrates Search * Rarely Seen Southern Lights Photographed at South Pole Missions/Launches: * Bass, Garver in Moscow to Undergo Medical Tests * Advanced Propulsion Comes Of Age * Chinese Astronauts Train in Secret Business/Industry: * Liberty Media Makes Bid to Take Over Astrolink Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * STS-111 Crew Mission Shirt http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html This high-quality crew mission shirt features premium-weight 100% combed cotton pique mesh, single-lock knit fashion collar, two pearl buttons on placket and banded sleeves. There are only a limited number of shirts available - we do not reorder once the mission is completed. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * NASA Ignores ISS Remote Sensing & Photo Capabilities http://www.space.com/news/iss_worf_020523.html The International Space Station (ISS) sports an extraordinary optical quality window - the best ever flown on a piloted spacecraft. Missing at NASA, however, is clarity of vision regarding full use of this unique porthole on the world. * NEAR Resurrection: Bringing Back the Dead Spacecraft http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/near_reboot_020523.htm l A death-defying comeback might be in store for NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft. The probe is now muted, quietly resting in a no-shout zone on the surface of asteroid 433 Eros. * Europa Shows Evidence of Life's Ingredients, But Thick Ice Frustrates Search http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/life_europa_020522-1.h tml A trio of unrelated new studies show that while Jupiter's moon Europa should have the ingredients necessary for life, finding any bugs on the icy moon would be difficult because its watery ocean lies beneath an impenetrable, frozen shell that is several miles deep. * Rarely Seen Southern Lights Photographed at South Pole http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/southern_lights_020522 html Striking images of the Aurora Australis, the atmospheric phenomenon known familiarly as the Southern Lights, are available from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Like its more familiar counterpart, the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, the phenomenon is caused by the solar wind passing through the upper atmosphere. But the Aurora Australis is much less frequently observed because so few people live in Antarctica during the austral winter. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Bass, Garver in Moscow to Undergo Medical Tests http://www.space.com/news/garver_bass_020522.html Boy band member Lance Bass and a former NASA official are currently in Moscow vying for a chance to claim the next seat on a Russian spacecraft, a Russian official said. * Advanced Propulsion Comes Of Age http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/advanced_propulsion_0 20522-1.html NASA is known worldwide for routinely putting people into Earth orbit. The agency is also revered as the only organization that has flung humans at escape velocity speeds to the Moon. However, NASA could also be known as an agency that's going nowhere fast. * Chinese Astronauts Train in Secret http://www.space.com/news/china_space_020521.html Training in secret, a dozen fighter pilots are getting ready to make history as China's first astronauts. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Liberty Media Makes Bid to Take Over Astrolink http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html Liberty Media's satellite subsidiary is in negotiations to purchase the moribund Astrolink broadband-satellite project and restart it as a two-satellite system for high-speed data links to the Americas and Europe. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * Space Age Gear: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.space.com/php/careers/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (May 23, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate during the next three days. The most likely sources for M-class events are 9957, 9960 (N14E19), and 9961. There continues to be a slight chance for a major flare or a proton producing flare. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly unsettled with a chance for some active periods during the next 24 hours. An extra dose of energy from a coronal mass ejection is expected to arrive Friday. Due to the apparent direction of the event, a direct hit is not expected, but it is likely that the eastern flank of the disturbance will impact the Earth. Activity levels are expected to be mostly active, but there is a chance for some isolated storm level activity. Skywatchers in northern parts of the United States and Europe may see the aurora. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 185, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 405 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 14.6 protons per cubic centimeter. (Speed and density values are snapshots in time and change during the day.) http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html ------------------------------------- Sign up to become part of the greatest search in history! Join TeamSETI: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_science_page.html Be a desktop astronomer! Starry Night is the world's leading astronomy software -- choose between Beginner, Backyard, or Pro! http://www.starrynight.com/index.html NEW! Join the SPACE.com affiliate program. 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