Posted in Science on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA, doesn’t look much like an observatory but like a Boeing 747 airplane.
Posted in Science on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
When Mariner 10 flew past Mercury three times in 1974 and 1975, the same hemisphere was in sunlight during each encounter. As a consequence, Mariner 10 was able to image less than half the planet. Planetary scientists have wondered for more than 30 years about what spacecraft images might reveal about the hemisphere of Mercury [...]