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Wednesday, 11 May 2005

delayed boom

 

Deployment of the second antenna boom for the Mars Express Sub-Surface Sounding Radar Altimeter (MARSIS) has been delayed until engineers can study a problem that occurred with the first antenna boom, according to an ESA release. Not all of the segments of the first boom are confirmed to have locked in place.

From the ESA site: The MARSIS experiment is to map the Martian sub-surface structure to a depth of a few kilometres. The instrument's 40-metre long antenna booms will send low frequency radio waves towards the planet, which will be reflected from any surface they encounter.

 

congratulations, it's a black hole

 

On May 9 NASA's Swift telescope detected a flash of light in conjunction with a burst of gamma rays which was most likely caused by the creation of a new black hole, probably the result of two neutron stars colliding, according to space.com. It's the first time the birth of a black hole has been detected in real-time. The gamma ray burst was named GRB050509b, but the black hole itself has no name as yet.

 
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