Scientist Urges Exploration of Europa
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A scientist at the University of California, Berkeley wants NASA to look for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
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A leading space scientist has called to question the validity of human spaceflight, suggesting that sending astronauts outward from Earth is outdated, too costly, and the science returned is trivial.
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THE MISSION: The European Space Agency's Huygens probe entered the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan in a mission to provide clues to how life arose on Earth.
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There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe&#39;s success in entering the moon&#39;s orbit.
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A space probe using ``revolutionary&#39;&#39; ion engine technology today will make its closest pass yet to the Moon as scientists maneuver it into an orbit from where it will study the Earth&#39;s satellite, the European Space Agency said.
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By ALICIA CHANG SAN FRANCISCO - The chief scientist behind the twin Mars rovers said he supports a human presence on the moon, but hopes the journey won't dead-end there.
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By ALICIA CHANG, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN FRANCISCO  The chief scientist behind the twin Mars rovers said he supports a human presence on the moon but hopes the journey won't dead-end there.
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The U.S. space agency is planning a mission to better understand a mysterious form of energy in the cosmos and an ambitious unmanned journey to the outer solar system, NASA officials said.
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Joining forces with JAXA The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the go ahead for a mission to explore Mercury, the inner-most planet of our solar system. The mission was formally adopted at the agency's Science Programme Committee (SPC) meeting last Friday.â¦
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Microsoft Research&#39;s eScience group is helping scientific researchers use database and online sharing tools in ways they might not have imagined, and sharing those experiences with Microsoft product groups that can tweak their software for easier use by the scientific community.Microsoft researchers showed off some of their projects at the American Geophysical Union annual conference in San Francisco this week, said Catherine van Ingen, partner architect with Microsoft Research&#39;s eScience group.One example of the eScience group&#39;s work is a project with climate scientists. Many researchers in the field are independent scientists who might be doing research into local climates for the sake of their crops or other specific interests, van Ingen said. Other scientists are looking at climate change from a more global perspective. Now, the two types of researchers are combining their data.&quot;It becomes possible to effectively mash up scientific data from different sources and mix that with locally acquired sensor data to do fantastic science,&quot; she said.But that presents a problem. &quot;Most scientists I deal with aren&#39;t used to this kind of quantity of data,&quot; she said. &quot;An awful lot of scientists, if it gets much bigger than an Excel file, it&#39;s more data than they know what to do with.&quot;Microsoft has helped the climate scientists create a database that includes around 800 million data points, she said. Her group is helping the scientists learn how to use the database to do the kind of analysis that will help their research, she said.The global climate scientists are particularly interested in learning exactly how efficient plants are at absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2). Scientists have discovered that there isn&#39;t as much CO2 in the atmosphere as they think there should be based on carbon emissions. It&#39;s going somewhere: either in the ocean or absorbed by plants, she said. Combining a massive amount of data that is already being collected around the globe about forests and trees and analyzing it might help them figure it out, she said.One of the projects the eScience group presented at the conference aims to learn why salmon aren&#39;t spawning like they used to in the Russian River in California. The eScience group is helping to combine data collected by a number of agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, marine fisheries groups, the U.S. Geological Survey and other local groups that are interested in the subject. By combining all of that data, the researchers can investigate factors like water temperature and the clarity of the water, both of which affect spawning salmon, she said.&quot;We&#39;re stretching tools in different ways,&quot; van Ingen said of the work of the eScience group. Typically, scientists want to find data that points to the extremes, a need that corporate users often don&#39;t have. For example, a big retailer probably wouldn&#39;t use database software to look for sales of an odd product. That&#39;s precisely what many scientists are trying to do--look for extreme cases. The unique requirements of the scientific community that the eScience group discovers are fed back into Microsoft product groups, which can then decide to introduce new capabilities that might better serve scientists, she said.
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An ambitious two-year effort aims to understand the vital, shifting dynamics of ice, oceans and life at the ends of the earth.
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Calling Cassini&#39;s flyby &quot;the tale of two moons,&quot; imaging scientist Carolyn Porco said that &quot;one of them has been like out of a Lewis Carroll story and gets curiouser and curiouser the more we look at it and the closer we get, and the other turns out to be
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The boss of the European Space Agency asks his officials to find a new name for the flagship ExoMars rover mission.
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PARIS -- The European Space Agency is looking for 12 volunteers with a planetary vision who want to be on the cutting edge and don't get bored easily.
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If life as we know it exists on the red planet, it would have to be deeper under the surface than current probes are able to detect, a European team concludes.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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This summer, a science team set out on a two-week expedition of Earth's own little version of Jupiter's moon Europa -- the Borup Fiord Pass at Ellesmere Island, a place hidden high above the rest of the world in the Canadian High Arctic. The team, headed by Canadian geologists Drs.