Radio communications between Earth and distant parts of the solar system take too long to satisfy the needs for interplanetary travel, so an “Interplanetary Internet” is being devised.
May 20th, 1999
Giant storm on Mars
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures of a giant storm in the northern polar region of Mars. The images were taken during the Red Planet’s recent close approach to Earth. The giant cyclonic storm system is more than 1,600 km (1,000 miles) across. The eye of the storm is nearly 200 miles in diameter.
May 19th, 1999
Stormy Weather on Mars
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during Mars’s recent close approach to Earth have discovered an enormous cyclonic storm system raging in the northern polar regions of the Red Planet. Nearly four times the size of the state of Texas, the storm is composed of water-ice clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Martian storms.
May 19th, 1999
Massive Cyclone Batters Mars
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted an enormous cyclonic storm system raging in the northern polar regions of the planet Mars. Nearly four times the size of the state of Texas, the storm is composed of water-ice clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Martian storms.
May 2nd, 1999
Up close and Martian
The planet Mars has reached its closest point to the Earth for 10 years, giving observers all over the world an unusually clear view. Mars has been hurtling towards the Earth at almost 50,000kmh – a million kilometres each day. It reached its closest point on 1 May, and will soon start to move away again at the same speed.
April 23rd, 1999
A close encounter with Mars
The Red Planet makes its nearest approach to Earth in 1999 this week and next. “Once in about every fifteen years a startling visitant makes his appearance upon our midnight skies,–a great red star that … mounting higher with the deepening night, blazes forth against the dark background of space with a splendor that outshines Sirius and rivals the giant Jupiter himself.” — from Mars by Percival Lowell (1895)
April 13th, 1999
Mars and Stars Mr. Showbiz
Hollywood has this thing about making similar high-concept films and releasing them within months of each other. Now there’s a new pair on the block
April 5th, 1999
The Student NanoExperiment Challenge
Two years this Saturday will see the launch of NASA’s Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander that will carrying the first ever student-designed experiment destined for another world.
April 4th, 1999
Come in Mars, we’re (hopefully) receiving you as clear and cloudy ExpressNews
Scientists are gearing up to receive new photographs from Mars this week, coming after NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor successfully deployed its high-gain antenna.
April 4th, 1999
Viking Lander 1 in the wrong place The SETI League
While revising their maps of the Martian surface, German scientists Wolfgang Zeitler and J