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December 2000 |
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Features Into Another Dimension Strap on your 3-D glasses and watch the solar system and the deep sky come to life as we present three stories filled with wondrous three-dimensional images. |
pg. 37 |
Back to Mars By
Robert Naeye The Mars Pathfinder mission may have shut down in 1997, but scientists continue to pore over the images and data returned from a martian flood plain. |
pg. 38 |
Seeing the Depths of the Universe By
Kelly Kizer Whitt Distant galaxies, glowing nebulae, glittering star clusters, and more highlight Akira Inaka's impressive gallery of astrophotos. |
pg. 44 |
Earth Is a Planet, Too By
David J. Eicher NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission returned 270 megabytes of data every second, letting scientists create topographic maps of 80 percent of Earth's landmass. |
pg. 50 |
Space Junk By
Robert Coontz, Jr. Even a particle of dust packs a wallop when it hits at 22,000 miles per hour. And with 5,500 tons of man-made objects in Earth orbit, collisions will occur. |
pg. 56 |
Stars Shine over Tinseltown By
Patricia A. Kurtz The greater Los Angeles area boasts Griffith Observatory, Mt. Wilson, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and - surprise - some of the best skies in North America. |
pg. 76 |
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