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Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, August 12, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Capture the Solar System with the Coolpix System! http://www.nikoncoolpix.com/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Bullet Space Pen Science/Astronomy: * Viewer's Guide: Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Sunday & Monday * Rover Revealed: Secret Mars Robot Test to be Webcast * Submit Your Perseid Photos! SpaceFlight: * Quarter-Century Passes Since Shuttle Enterprise First Flew * FLORIDA TODAY Asks: Does Lance Bass Have the Right Stuff? * NASA Weighs Options for Station Escape Craft * Repairs on Shuttle Atlantis Begin at Kennedy Space Center Business/Industry: * Commercial Software To Improve NIMA's Mapping Ability Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- * Bullet Space Pen http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ The famous Fisher "Bullet" Space Pen is a compact, convenient writing instrument that allows you the ease of writing under any conditions. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Viewer's Guide: Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Sunday & Monday http://www.space.com/spacewatch/perseids_spacewatch_020809.html Every August, just when many people go vacationing in the country where skies are dark, the best-known meteor shower makes its appearance. As with many celestial phenomena, there's some curious lore surrounding the shooting stars of the annual Perseid meteor shower. * Rover Revealed: Secret Mars Robot Test to be Webcast http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/mars_rover_020809.htm l A top-secret Mars rover test will be exposed Aug. 19 when NASA allows a film crew from San Francisco's Exploratorium to do a live webcast of a prototype robot poking around the desert somewhere in the American West. The Exploratorium is an interactive museum that also conducts astronomy webcasts from around the world. * Submit Your Perseid Photos! http://www.space.com/spacewatch/perseids_photos_020809.html If you capture a Perseid meteor on film, send it to us and we'll consider using it in an upcoming photo gallery. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Quarter-Century Passes Since Shuttle Enterprise First Flew http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ov101_020812.html Before the space shuttle could orbit in space, it had to prove that it could land on Earth. * FLORIDA TODAY Asks: Does Lance Bass Have the Right Stuff? http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_bass_020811.html The Russians are using their money troubles to press world space agencies to bend new crew selection rules so they can launch pop-music personality Lance Bass to the International Space Station. * NASA Weighs Options for Station Escape Craft http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_crv_020811.html Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are well-trained to handle emergencies, but ultimately, they must have an escape route. * Repairs on Shuttle Atlantis Begin at Kennedy Space Center http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts112_update_020809.html Repairs to the tiny cracks inside shuttle Atlantis' main propulsion system plumbing started Friday afternoon as NASA moved forward with its plan to resume launches in late September or early October. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Commercial Software To Improve NIMA's Mapping Ability http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_020812.html A commercial software package procured recently by a Pentagon agency for imagery analysis and mapmaking is expected to perform far better than the suite of government-developed software programs it is intended to replace, according to officials involved in the project. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.spacejobs.com/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (August 12, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be predominantly low, but with a fair chance for isolated M-class activity over the next three days, primarily due to new Region 69. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to range from quiet to active conditions through Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 180, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 478 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 4.2 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! 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