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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 250.06 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. September 7, 2003
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** A team of researchers from the University of Arkansas has measured
water evaporation rates under Mars-like conditions, and their findings favor
the presence of surface water on the planet. Water on the planet's surface
makes the existence of past or present life on Mars a little more likely,
according to the group. --SpaceDaily
** In an article published in the September issue of Geology, Gregory
Ryskin, associate professor of chemical engineering, suggests that huge
combustible clouds produced by methane gas trapped in stagnant bodies of
water and suddenly released could have killed off the majority of marine
life and land animals and plants at the end of the Permian era -- long
before dinosaurs lived and died. --SpaceDaily
** NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility has switched on two of its
onboard instruments and captured some preliminary star-studded images. The
space observatory was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on August 25.
"We're extremely pleased, because these first images have exceeded our
expectations," said Dr. Michael Werner, the Space Infrared Telescope
Facility project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif. --SpaceDaily
** The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is now
home to the United States' fastest operational unclassified supercomputer.
The laboratory's 11.8 teraflops industry-standard HP Integrity system came
to full operating power this week, marking the next advance in
high-performance computing designed to enable new insights in the
environmental and molecular sciences, including chemistry, biology, climate
and subsurface chemistry. --SpaceDaily
** The Academy of Model Aeronautics is saying no to the introduction of
Broadband Over Powerline or BPL technology. In Reply Comments to the FCC,
the 175,000 member aviation hobby group says that it is concerned that BPL
deployment could cause harmful interference to users of Radio Controlled
systems and pose a safety hazard to aeromodeling equipment and
spectators. --Newsline
** The French government has said goodbye to the term e-mail in favor of
the native language term courriel. A word that linguistically sensitive
France
is now using to refer to electronic mail in all official documents and hopes
that the public will adopt as well. --Newsline
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