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...structure of diamond makes it ideal for handling high voltages like those found in switches for big municipal power grids. Physically, diamond's toughness allows it to withstand the searing heat of more sophisticated lasers and even the brutal extremes of temperature and pressure faced by the windows on spacecraft as they leave and re-enter Earth's atmosphere. And diamond's ability to resist corrosion from acids and other organic compounds makes it a good material for biological sensors that may one day be implanted in the human body...
...allure of that second destination got a big boost with last week's discovery of fresh signs of water on Mars. It was made by the Mars Global Surveyor, a spacecraft that has been in Martian orbit since 1997 and finally winked out only last month. Before it did, it produced exhaustive photographic maps of the planet, including shots of tens of thousands of now dry gullies that were almost certainly carved by water. Most of those channels haven't changed over time, but at two of the sites investigators found what appear to be the tracks of flows that...
...from cadavers are from executed prisoners." HUANG JIEFU, Chinese Vice Minister of Health, acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher." michael meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft had fallen silent after nearly 10 years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth-more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project." RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview...
...Width of a storm-equivaIent to two-thirds of the Earth's diameter-detected on the planet Saturn by a NASA spacecraft 550 km/h Speed of winds circling the storm's immense...
...Satellites to orbit, photograph sun Winter could be sunny for NASA. Last week it launched twin spacecraft that are scheduled to enter orbit around the sun by January and then transmit the first-ever 3-D images of the solar surface...