Mars Express Radar Will “See” 3 Miles Into Red Planet’s Crust

Artist's concept of Mars Express courtesy ESA and J-L Atteleyn.
Artist's concept of Mars Express courtesy ESA and J-L Atteleyn.


June 2, 2003  Baikonur, Kazakhstan -
Today the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its first mission to Mars called "Mars Express" aboard a Russian rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Attached to the orbiter was Britain's Beagle 2 lander which will land on the surface and look specifically for signs of Martian life. The "robotic geologist" will dig into Mars soil and sample the atmosphere hunting for organic material or methane gas produced by living organisms.

 

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Hubble Telescope Finds “Ashes” of First Stars in This Universe

Artist's interpretation of a primordial quasar lighting up surrounding gases about   900 million years after the Big Bang. Source: European Space Agency and Wolfram Freudling, Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility/European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany.
Artist's interpretation of a primordial quasar lighting up surrounding gases about  900 million years after the Big Bang. Source: European Space Agency and Wolfram Freudling, Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility/European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany.


May 14, 2003  Garching, Germany - The Hubble Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility and European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, near Munich, announced in April 2003 that Hubble has discovered what might be the "ashes" from the first stars in this universe. The powerful telescope found significant iron in the light from primordial quasars only 900 million years old. The theory is that the iron is the residue, the ashes, of first generation stars that formed perhaps as early as 200 million years after the Big Bang and then died in supernova explosions that produced all the iron later recycled into the quasars. According to Wolfram Freudling who led the Hubble research, 200 million years for first star births is much earlier than previously thought.

 

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SARS Breakthrough – Genetic Sequencing of Coronavirus Linked to Killer Pneumonia

Health officials in China are seeing the SARS  virus infect people of all ages, and kill even the young and healthy. Photograph © 2003 by Associated Press.
Health officials in China are seeing the SARS virus infect people of all ages, and kill even the young and healthy. Photograph © 2003 by Associated Press.

April 14, 2003  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Today, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are reporting that the number of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome cases, known as SARS pneumonia, have risen around the world to 3169 and 144 deaths. This is an epidemic. Many doctors are wondering if it will become a global pandemic that can infect hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people over the next several months.

 

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“Engraved” Banana Squash Seeds Photographed

"I noticed that the seed itself still had the skin or a membrane around it which makes the seed smooth to the touch. So, in fact, you would have to take off this skin or membrane to actually feel the markings or engravings that are in the seed. ...There was no way that a worm or any insect could do that because it would have eaten through the skin or membrane."

 - Dave Rosenfeld, Photographer, Salt Lake City, Utah

Banana squash section containing "engraved" seeds still tangled in the squash fibers, preserved in a vacuum pack by Baba Afghan Restaurant owner, Kasim Barakzia, Salt Lake City, Utah. Photograph © 2003 by Dave Rosenfeld.
Banana squash section containing "engraved" seeds still tangled in the squash fibers, preserved in a vacuum pack by Baba Afghan Restaurant owner, Kasim Barakzia, Salt Lake City, Utah. Photograph © 2003 by Dave Rosenfeld.

March 28, 2003  Salt Lake City, Utah - As I reported on March 15, 2003, about 500 "engraved" seeds were found inside an otherwise fresh, healthy banana squash by Salt Lake City restaurant owner, Kasim Barakzia, on March 14, at his restaurant, Baba Afghan. Almost every seed had letters or symbols engraved on both sides in what appeared to be different languages. The first symbol that Kasim recognized was the Arabic symbol for Allah.

Kasim has cut open dozens of banana squash every week since he opened his restaurant nine years ago and has never seen anything like these seeds before. Normal squash seeds are smooth and glisten with a thin, transparent membrane.

 

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