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Today on SPACE.com -- Tuesday, October 15, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- ECLIPSE ALERT: Place yourself between the Earth and the Sun as daylight is replaced by the darkness of night in the Australian Outback! http://www.spaceadventures.com/terrestrial/eclipse/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * The International Space Station: Stage 2 (Let's Read) Science/Astronomy: * Zoom in on Mars: New Highly Detailed Images * Head of Hubble Science: Best is Yet to Come for Space Telescope * DoD Satellite Tracked Siberian Fireball that Might have Hit Earth * Space Postcards SpaceFlight: * Mission Atlantis: Spacewalks Conclude with Truss Outfitted * Boeing Test Fires New Delta 4 Rocket Engine at Pad 37 * Walter Cronkite: Humanity Just at the Dawn of the Space Era Business/Industry: * Space News Covers the World Space Congress Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * The International Space Station: Stage 2 (Let's Read) http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ Children curious about the International Space Station will learn quite a lot from this informative addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. Children 5-8. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Zoom in on Mars: New Highly Detailed Images http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_zoom_021015.html Mars Global Surveyor passed a milestone earlier this month when its 100,000th image was added to NASA's online image gallery for the mission. The total number of photographs is now more than twice the combined quantity supplied by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s. * Head of Hubble Science: Best is Yet to Come for Space Telescope http://www.space.com/news/wsc_hubble_1014.html Thanks to the inspirational images it has captured, and its surprising longevity, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has far-outstripped the early expectations of its space scanning skills. * DoD Satellite Tracked Siberian Fireball that Might have Hit Earth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/siberian_meteor_021014.html The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed an apparent space rock that lit a fire in the night sky above a remote region of Siberia last month. Meanwhile, scientists struggle to pin down whether or not the object slammed into the planet. * Space Postcards http://www.space.com/php/postcards/ New! Send these new SPACE.com postcards to a friend! ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Mission Atlantis: Spacewalks Conclude with Truss Outfitted http://www.space.com/shuttlemissions/ Spacewalking astronauts finished everything on their list of things to do Monday, and then some. * Boeing Test Fires New Delta 4 Rocket Engine at Pad 37 http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_delta4_021015.html For the first time in more than 10 years, a new rocket engine tried out its lungs and bellowed fire and smoke from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. * Walter Cronkite: Humanity Just at the Dawn of the Space Era http://www.space.com/news/wsc_ceremony_1014.html Walter Cronkite, the American television broadcaster whose coverage of the Apollo moon program inspired a generation amid the turbulent 1960s, assured those gathered here for the World Space Congress that they are living in an age not unlike the dawn of the Renaissance. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Space News Covers the World Space Congress http://www.space.com/spacenews/ All this week, a team of Space News reporters and editors will provide timely coverage of the news and events taking place in Houston at the Second World Space Congress, a once-a-decade meeting of the top space professionals in the world. Several times a day we will be posting stories from the hundreds of sessions that will be held throughout the week. Keep up with the events in Houston by going to www.spacenews.com and clicking on the World Space Congress logo. ------------------------------------ * 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 15, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be predominantly low through Wednesday, though achance for isolated moderate activity still exists. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled through Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 167, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 357 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 18.2 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! Starry Night is the world's leading astronomy software -- choose between Beginner, Backyard, or Pro! http://www.starrynight.com/ ------------------------------------- Feedback We welcome your comments and suggestions at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Share Your Space Forward this newsletter to your friends! ************************************************************************* NOTE: Gleason Sackmann is the owner and host of this list. All inquiries regarding this list and its contents should be directed to Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 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