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...June 10, 2003, and Opportunity followed on July 7, taking advantage of the biannual close approach Mars and Earth make as they orbit the sun. On solar system scales, a close approach is still a goodly distance - 35 million miles in 2003 - which means that the rovers needed seven months to get where they were going. Spirit landed first, bouncing down in a swaddle of air bags in Mars' Gusev Crater. Opportunity followed three weeks later, landing on the other side of the planet in what is now known as Eagle Crater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mars Rovers' Long and Fruitful Journeys | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

Still, move along both rovers do. Spirit's next destinations are the comparatively nearby Goddard Crater and an outcropping of what might be volcanic material. Opportunity has just embarked on a long march toward Endeavour Crater, a seven-mile journey that - with the rover's slow speed and frequent stops and starts - will take two years to complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mars Rovers' Long and Fruitful Journeys | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...blow.At 6:04 in the second frame, sophomore Katharine Chute notched her second goal of the season to put the Crimson back ahead. Vaillancourt and tri-captain Kirsten Kester were credited with assists.The recently reshuffled line of Kester, Chute, and Ryabkina accounted for three of Harvard’s seven points on the night, showing that the team can rely on its depth to win games.“I think we had three balanced lines that can play all the time,” Stone said. “The kids worked hard.” Just six minutes...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 2008 Ends On High Note for Crimson | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

Graham said that the Divinity School would continue its ongoing search for seven new faculty members and hopes to make at least five of those hires. He added that the school would also maintain the same levels of financial aid to its students—90 percent of whom receive some form...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Budget Crunch Hits Radcliffe, HDS | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...more than a week, Israel kept its troops poised for action at the edge of Gaza. But after seven days of aerial bombardment - and much grumbling in the Israeli military about indecisiveness on the part of the political leadership - the order finally came on Saturday evening to invade the Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas. Following an artillery barrage aimed at detonating buried explosives and mines, Israeli armored columns began moving into Gaza in an apparent attempt to take control of areas used by Palestinian militants to fire rockets into southern Israel. Israeli officials stressed that the objective was to deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Invades Gaza, Hoping to Pummel Hamas into a Truce | 1/3/2009 | See Source »

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