----- Original Message ----- From: NewsAlert Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 2:01 PM To: Newsalert Subject: Europe invades Mars: Orbiter and Lander arrive tonight NEWSALERT: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 @ 1814 GMT
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EUROPEAN INVASION OF MARS
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The tiny British Beagle 2 lander will be bouncing to the Martian surface
at about the same time as the Mars Express spacecraft slides into orbit
around the Red Planet on Wednesday night around 0300 GMT (10 p.m. EST). We
will be providing updates on the events in our status center:
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/status.html
See our previous coverage:
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/
ION ENGINE PASSES TEST
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A new ion propulsion engine design, one of several candidate propulsion
technologies under study by NASA's Project Prometheus for possible use on
the proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission, has been successfully
tested by a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/23jimoengine/
BOEING STUDY OF JIMO EXTENDED:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/23jimoboeing/
SHARP IMAGES OF SOLAR STORMS
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As last October's solar flares blossomed into a coronal mass ejections,
scientists at the National Solar Observatory used a new set of instruments
to record the sharpest-ever images of the heart of the storms.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/23solarstorm/
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