Mar 9 1992
From The Space Library
NASA announced that more than 700 researchers from around the world would convene on March 16-20, 1992, at Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Gilruth Center in Houston, Texas for five days of discussions on research on the universe, with much of the focus on Venus and findings from NASA's Magellan probe. Magellan, deployed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1989, has mapped about 97 percent of the Venusian surface with its remote sensing cameras. An overview of the Magellan program called "Magellan at Venus: The Global Perspective Emerges," was scheduled to start the conference on March 6, 1992. (NASA Note N92-19)
A House panel raised legal questions about the National Space Council's handling of a proposal to restructure space program management. Representative Howard Wolpe of Michigan, chairman of the House Science subcommittee on investigations and oversight, charged in a letter to President Bush that the council's official circulation of the proposal was in conflict with the 1958 Space Act. The proposal, prepared by the Livermore Laboratory's Lowell Wood, also violated the council's charter not to interfere with line management responsibility in NASA. (Av Wk, March 9/92)
David A. Paige of the University of California at Los Angeles reexamined the thermodynamics of ice under Martian conditions and concluded that there could be some ground-ice deposits just a few feet below the surface and that "these deposits could be a valuable resource for human exploration." (W Post, Mar 9/92)
Researchers reported in Science magazine that two groups of meteorites thought to be fragments of long-vanished planets had been dated to within 100 million years of the formation of the solar system about 4.56 billion years ago. The research could lead to a better understanding of how planets emerged from the debris of interplanetary collisions. (P Inq, Mar 9/92)
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