17 September 2007
On 13 September 2007, after completing a test in-and-out maneuver at the rim of Victoria Crater, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity immediately drove back into the crater to begin a multi-week investigation on the crater's inner slope.
16 September 2007
"The images are really stunning," said Tilmann Denk, Cassini imaging scientist at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, who led the imaging observation planning. "Every new picture contained its own charm. I was most pleased about the images showing huge mountains rising over the horizon. I knew about this scenic viewing opportunity for more than seven years, and now the real images suddenly materialized."
15 September 2007
On 14 September 2007, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the SELENE (SELenological ENgineering Explorer) mission toward the Moon. SELENE, also known as Kaguya, will study the Moon from a lunar orbit for over a year.
13 September 2007
On 11 September 2007, NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Launch Pad-17B of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch period for the 8-year mission will be on 26 September. Dawn will traverse over 5 billion km into the asteroid belt.
13 September 2007
Garlic and onions could help protect against stomach cancer, says a massive European-based study.
13 September 2007
Scientists have discovered a new way that drugs can attach themselves to DNA, which is a crucial step forward for researchers who are developing drugs to combat cancer and other diseases.
13 September 2007
The nations of the world might be deadlocked over what to do about greenhouse gases, but one important agreement reached 20 years ago seems to have produced tangible benefits for the atmosphere and Earth's inhabitants. Researchers tracking one of the chemicals that is most destructive to the ozone layer have found that its levels peaked in the early 1990s and have been declining steadily ever since. The finding reinforces conclusions that Earth's ozone layer is slowly affecting to health.
12 September 2007
The Siemens HC15 and HC25 from TDC allow data to be transmitted and received at up to three times the speed of ISDN
11 September 2007
Two of NASA's "Great Observatories", the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant Universe. Shining with the luminosity of millions of stars, each of the newly discovered galaxies is far dwarfed by our Milky Way Galaxy (100,000 light years across).
10 September 2007
NASA recently published an awesome image of Saturn's rings and two of its 60 moons, acquired by the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft. Dione (1,126 km across) dominates the picture, loaming in the foreground of the rings. Tiny Atlas (32 km across) shines through the rings, to the lower left of Dione.