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Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, October 3, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Stay up-to-date on the latest trends in science and technology with a subscription to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Get a Free Trial issue and a Free Gift when you subscribe TODAY! http://www.sciam.com/subscribe.cfm?lsource=0802space_mail -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Space Shuttle Orbiter Unassembled Model Kit Science/Astronomy: * High Tide on Europa * Starry Night's Fall Sky Tour: Easy Targets in the Southern Sky * New High-Resolution Infrared View of Milky Way * Celestial Neighbors Not As Close As They Appear * New Uranian Moon Found in Months-long Effort SpaceFlight: * Mission Control Houston to be spared as Lili turns north * SPACE.com's Amateur Snapshots Gallery * Mission Atlantis: Hurricane Lili Delays Launch to Monday * Astronotes: Report: Russia Test Fires Missile From Kazakhstan Business/Industry: * Teledesic Halts Work On Satellite System Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- * Space Shuttle Orbiter Unassembled Model Kit http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ This NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter model with boosters and launching mount is from the Hasegawa Hobby Kit Science Series. 1/200 scale. Decals included - you can make it the Atlantis, Discovery or Challenger Orbiter. For the advanced beginner, glue and paint not included. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * High Tide on Europa http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_tidal_europa_021003.html In a previous article we discussed Jupiter's moon Europa as part of a mini-solar system consisting of the four large Galilean satellites orbiting Jupiter. Europa is worthy of special consideration because of the possibility that the right conditions exist on this small icy moon, either in the past or at the present, for life. One of the requirements for life is liquid water. But how could liquid water exist on such a small world, so far from the Sun? The answer is tidal heating, which could provide sufficient energy to maintain an ocean of liquid water beneath Europa's icy surface that is greater in volume than all the oceans of Earth combined! * Starry Night's Fall Sky Tour: Easy Targets in the Southern Sky http://www.space.com/spacewatch/easy_south_021003.html By finding one bright star that stands out and learning its name, even the most amateur stargazer can often hop to other celestial objects with ease and quickly develop a mental map of the night sky. So in this final installment of Easy Targets during our two-week Fall Sky Tour, we'll do a little star hopping in the southern sky. * New High-Resolution Infrared View of Milky Way http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/milky_way_021003.html A new image of the center of our galaxy reveals details in dust swirling into the central black hole. Scientists said the picture is the highest resolution ever gained in mid-infrared wavelengths. * Celestial Neighbors Not As Close As They Appear http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/celestial_neighbors_021003.html The two objects in a newly released Hubble Space Telescope image may seem to be neighbors, but in reality more than 900 million light-years separate their celestial zip codes. * New Uranian Moon Found in Months-long Effort http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/uranus_moon_021002.html It's getting harder and harder to find new moons in our solar system -- the easy ones are all discovered. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Mission Control Houston to be spared as Lili turns north http://www.space.com/shuttlemissions/ Apparently dodging a pretty serious weather bullet, officials at the Johnson Space Center in Houston have decided not to further increase their level of storm preparedness as they are now confident Hurricane Lili is turning toward the north and will spare Mission Control. * SPACE.com's Amateur Snapshots Gallery http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/ Our inaugural gallery featuring photos submitted by our users. More galleries coming soon! * Mission Atlantis: Hurricane Lili Delays Launch to Monday http://www.space.com/shuttlemissions/ Launch of shuttle Atlantis on an assembly mission to the International Space Station has been delayed to no earlier than Monday because of the serious threat Hurricane Lili poses to Mission Control in Houston, NASA officials said Wednesday. * Astronotes: Report: Russia Test Fires Missile From Kazakhstan http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html Russian space forces on Wednesday successfully test-fired an anti-missile missile from a testing ground in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, Interfax news agency reported. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Teledesic Halts Work On Satellite System http://www.space.com/spacenews/ As a Russian Progress resupply spacecraft made its way to the international space station (ISS) Sept. 25, the Russian company that manufactures both the Progress and the Soyuz spacecraft used at the ISS said it might be necessary to temporarily close the station in 2003. ------------------------------------ * 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 (October 3, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate through Friday. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled through Friday. Active periods are possible through Thursday due to several coronal mass ejections observed Monday. Also, charged particles on Tuesday brought aurora as far south as Arizona, a condition that could last into Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 218, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 409 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 0.8 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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