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20 December 2003

Beagle launches successfully

Beagle Separation Is Successful

Beagle2 home page

European Space Agency's Beagle2 News

Mars Express and Beagle2: Videos and Animations

Mars Express Deploys Beagle 2 Lander

Mars Express makes first red planet photo

Mars Express Needs to Aim Carefully

New orbiter takes out-of-sight pictures

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26 Aug. 2003: Earth gears up for brush with Mars. Planetariums around the world plan Mars-gazing parties beginning the evening of August 26, and the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to take a close-approach portrait of Mars.

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26 Aug. 2003: Astronomer Tells CNN: 'This is our time to get Mars'

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Close-up: Best view of Mars in 60,000 years. Click here for more.

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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko is going ahead with his plans

to marry his fiancé from space on August 10, despite protests from

the Russian Aerospace Agency. Click here for more.

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Despite last-minute attendance restrictions, this year's Table Mountain Star

Party in Washington was enjoyed by everyone who could go.

Click here for more.

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The annual Perseid meteor shower is due to make its appearance

in mid-August this summer. The shower began on July 23 and will

end on August 22, but the bulk of shooting stars will appear

on August 13, when upwards of one meteor per minute is visible

in the night sky. Click here for more.

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On Aug. 27, 2003, Mars will be less than 34.65 million miles

(55.76 million kilometers) away -- closer to our planet than its been

in nearly 60,000 years. The view will be stupendous. Track Mars

growing brightness. Click here for more.

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This month, NASA plans to launch the Space Infrared Telescope

Facility and the European Space Agency will send its SMART-1

probe to the moon. Click here for more.

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Astronomers have discovered what they think are the remains of

colliding stars in this new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Click here for more.

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New images taken by the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount

Wilson Observatory show Asteroid Juno with a huge chunk taken

out of it. Harvard astronomer Sallie Baliunas used the adaptive

optics system on the Hooker telescope, which compensates for

distortions in the atmosphere, to take photos of the 241 km

asteroid with incredible clarity. The photos show that Juno is

mis-shapen and has a 100 km crater from an impact with another

asteroid in the past. Click here for more.

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The search for life on other planets could soon extend to solar systems

that are very different from our own. Click here for more.

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Intriguing celestial images arrive from GALEX. Click here for more.

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Seven asteroids circling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

are being named for the astronauts who died in the space shuttle

Columbia accident. Click here for more.

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15 New Exoplanets: Planet hunters announce 15 new planets, two

of which are unlike any previously detected. Click here for more.

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