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Titan’s north pole is surrounded by lakes
16 january 2007
It would appear that Earth is no longer the only planet in the solar system with liquid on its surface. Radar imagery obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on its flyby of Titan on 22 July 2006 provides evidence that the Saturnian moon’s north pole is surrounded by numerous lakes.
Tech for Food
A studious start to the year for COROT
10 January 2007
Since COROT was powered up on 2 January, work has begun to calibrate its light sensors. The sensor calibration process, which paradoxically takes place in total darkness, is designed to check the detector arrays pixel by pixel.
Calipso flying high
First light from IASI
28 November 2006
Better weather forecasting
Launched on 19 October on Europe’s MetOp satellite, the IASI spectrometer will observe and measure infrared radiation emitted by Earth.