December 2001
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Features
Launching a Caravan to Mars
By early next year, Mars 2001 Odyssey should reach orbit and begin returning detailed information on the chemical makeup of the martian surface.
Seeing Through an Unblinking Eye
The IKONOS satellite looks not into space but rather focuses on Earth. Its electronic eye delivers richly detailed images unlike any seen before.
From Here to Eternity
An accelerating universe means a future far different from what astronomers once thought. Luckily, we live at the best time for learning what’s in store.
Listening for E.T.
Meet Kent Cullers, the SETI Institute radio astronomer who tells computers how to distinguish alien signals.
Painting the Universe
Chesley Bonestell’s dramatic paintings gave many people their first taste of what distant planets and the far universe might look like.
Celestial Portraits: Cepheus and Lacerta
High in the northern sky on autumn evenings, the King and the Lizard play host to some of the sky’s best star clusters and emission nebulae.
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