God Bless America

Mar. 17 2000

Hi All,

There is a link/story in this edition about getting a CD-ROM of movies and images from SOHO (last story in this edition). At first I wasn't going to include this for the reason that we don't openly advertise, even if it is on topic for this newsletter. But they are only asking $1.50 (covers the price of shipping and the CD) and for those that don't want to pay that, you can download all 500MBs on the CD, from their site for free.

Anyway, on to the newsletter.......

** Rosettas Deep Space Link Down Under 
** SOHO sees right through the Sun, and finds sunspots on the far side 
** The Heliosphere is Tilted - implications for the 'Galactic weather forecast'? 
** Farewell to a legendary mission 
** The best of SOHO on a CD-Rom

* Rosettas Deep Space Link Down Under

In order to maintain the vital link with its comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft in the depths of the outer Solar System, ESA has recently signed an agreement with the Australian government to build a second Deep Space ground station down under.

More at:
http://sci.esa.int/newsitem.cfm?TypeID=1&ContentID=9551&Storytype=11 

* SOHO sees right through the Sun, and finds sunspots on the far side

One of the highest hopes for SOHO, the European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA spacecraft is fulfilled with the detection of sunspots on the invisible far side of the Sun. This scientific marvel promises practical benefits. It could give an extra week's warning of possible bad weather in space, to astronauts and operators of satellites, power networks and other systems liable to be affected by eruptions on the Sun linked to sunspots.

More at:
http://sci.esa.int/missions/newsitem.cfm?TypeID=12&ContentID=9651 

* The Heliosphere is Tilted - implications for the 'Galactic weather forecast'?

Supersonic shock waves detected at the edge of the Solar System - a new study by European scientists clarifies conditions at our Earth's outermost shield against interstellar charged particles.

More at:
http://sci.esa.int/newsitem.cfm?TypeID=1&ContentID=9711&Storytype=16 

* Farewell to a legendary mission

What happens with an astronomical satellite after it is switched off? Answer: it keeps producing science. That is at least the true of the legendary International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite, an ESA/NASA/UK project. IUE was the first space observatory ever launched and also the one that lived the longest - nearly two decades! This week ESA will release the new IUE archive (INES), the first astronomical database distributed to national data centres all over the world for faster and easier access. This new archive will no longer belong to ESA but to the entire scientific community.

More at:
http://sci.esa.int/missions/newsitem.cfm?TypeID=19&ContentID=9771 

* The best of SOHO on a CD-Rom

Stunning images and movies of the stormy Sun are included in ESA's new CD-ROM "SOHO: Exploring the Sun". The material comes from four years' observations of the Sun by the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft since its launch at the end of 1995.

More at:
http://sci.esa.int/newsitem.cfm?TypeID=1&ContentID=9811&Storytype=12 

LL&P, 
Lt. Steven Fredette 
C.O. USS DeGaulle NCC-6365 
Deputy Chief, Starfleet Command's Space Activities Committee

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