Teams Across The Country Will Monitor Astrophysics
Experiments
Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area
Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently
launched satellite, the space agency said this week. Operations
centers preparing for data from GLAST include NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
in Huntsville, AL, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in
Menlo Park, CA.
New Research Shows Volcanoes, Magnetic Field Involved In
Formation
Scientists have argued about the origins of Mercury's smooth
plains and the source of its magnetic field for more than 30 years.
Now, analyses of data from the January 2008 flyby of the planet by
the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging
(MESSENGER) spacecraft have shown that volcanoes were involved in
plains formation and suggest that its magnetic field is actively
produced in the planet's core.
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