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...landed on opposite sides of Mars a little over a year ago, they carried a 90-day warranty: that was all the working lifetime the designers of Spirit and Opportunity would promise. "In my secret heart of hearts," says Stephen Squyres, the Cornell planetary scientist who heads the rover mission, "I was hoping to stretch it out to six months...
...ancient meteorite. This natural excavation exposed ancient layers of crust laid down by a shallow lake that had periodically dried up and refilled. Spirit landed half a world away in giant Gusev Crater, on what looked like a lake bed but turned out to be lava. Frustrated, mission scientists ordered the rover to move on. "We were already at 80 days, but we decided to put the pedal down and go like hell," says Squyres. Their goal: the Columbia Hills, some 2 1/2 miles away. Spirit didn't find tidy sediments there either. Still, says Squyres, "there's lots...
...site, which is translated into English, French and Spanish. It gets 35,000 visitors a day, primarily from young volunteers eager to go anywhere from Mississippi to Uganda. The group also organizes conferences and nonprofit-career workshops. The site is free, and users can browse opportunities by location or mission. Dar says any organization can register, with a few exceptions: "No violence, no illegal action, no rules against people based on who they are. In short, no hate." By Michele Orecklin
...space shuttle, the International space station, and Bush’s plan to explore the Moon and Mars. Near-term scientific projects, even those with proven promise, will largely be scrapped. One undeserving casualty is the Hubble Space Telescope. Bush plans to terminate the Hubble Space Telescope Robotic Servicing Mission, which would extend the life of an instrument that has made possible countless groundbreaking astronomical breakthroughs...
...divestment and support for one’s Senior Gift should be considered mutually exclusive. To say that seniors who choose to donate are complicit in the horrifying situation in Darfur is ludicrous and forces an unfair and unnecessary choice on Harvard seniors. The Senior Gift’s mission is an intensely positive one, and its goals need not be jeopardized for the sake of attempting to achieve the positive end of Harvard’s divestment from Sudan...