SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Space: India Aloft, Hubble Back to Work
India launched its first lunar mission last week. While orbiting the moon, the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft will compile a 3-D atlas of its surface, including the distribution of elements and minerals.
In other space news, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer was launched on a two-year mission to chart the boundaries of the solar system. It will study the distant region where the solar wind collides with the cold space of the interstellar medium.
NASA officials were optimistic that the Hubble Space Telescope would soon resume scientific observations following efforts to start a backup computer used to manage the telescope's cameras and other instruments.
France's Corot space telescope has been used to record the sound of three stars similar to our sun, providing information for the first time about processes deep within stars.
And a new study has found that large Jupiter-like planets outside our solar system have supersonic jet streams that circulate heat from their sunny side to their dark side. The gas giants orbit extremely close to nearby stars.
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