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December 2001 |
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Features Launching a Caravan to Mars By
Robert Zimmerman By early next year, Mars 2001 Odyssey should reach orbit and begin returning detailed information on the chemical makeup of the martian surface. |
pg. 40 |
Seeing Through an Unblinking Eye By
Kelly Kizer Whitt The IKONOS satellite looks not into space but rather focuses on Earth. Its electronic eye delivers richly detailed images unlike any seen before. |
pg. 46 |
From Here to Eternity By
Lawrence Krauss An accelerating universe means a future far different from what astronomers once thought. Luckily, we live at the best time for learning what's in store. |
pg. 52 |
Listening for E.T. By
Sally Stephens Meet Kent Cullers, the SETI Institute radio astronomer who tells computers how to distinguish alien signals. |
pg. 58 |
Painting the Universe By
Andrew S. Fazekas Chesley Bonestell's dramatic paintings gave many people their first taste of what distant planets and the far universe might look like. |
pg. 80 |
Celestial Portraits: Cepheus and Lacerta By
Tom Polakis High in the northern sky on autumn evenings, the King and the Lizard play host to some of the sky's best star clusters and emission nebulae. |
pg. 88 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Survivor and an Artist Sky Gem Talking Back AstroNews - Black Hole on the Loose
- A Cannibal in Our Midst
- Callisto's Odd Landscape
- MirCorp Plans Space Station
- Through a Cluster, Darkly
- The Biggest Asteroid Yet Sky Show A solar eclipse tops the list of events this month, but don't miss the Geminid meteor shower or Saturn at its best. Ask Astro Strange Universe Star Stuff Products
- Remote-Control Flying Saucer
- ASTRONOMY Magazine 2002 Calendar
- UniMount Holds Tight
- Astrographics 2002 Calendars
Books
- A Round-Up of Holiday Books Looking Ahead Advertiser Index Hot Shots Impromptu Star Party Ultimate Exposure
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