A radar instrument aboard a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ice age, scientists said on Thursday.

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The spacecraft, integrated with its payloads, was tested for three months for communication between instruments and with the ground.
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Interview with G. Madhavan Nair, ISRO Chairman.

An important task for four of the 11 instruments on board Chandrayaan-1 is to look for confirmation of the presence of water-ice in the permanently shadowed regions of the south and north poles of the moon, according to Dr. M.Y.S. Prasad, Associate Director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

Astronauts hooked up a water recycling system and installed two new bedrooms aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday while crewmates prepared for a second spacewalk to fix the outpost's power system.

The work is part of a final effort to complete the $100 billion orbital complex, a project involving 16 nations, by 2010 when the space shuttles are to be retired.

marine sciences Rare corals aplenty According to researchers from James Cook University rare coral species might not be at high risks of extinction due to small population sizes.Their tendency to hybridize saves them. The previous prediction was that small population sizes led to decreased genetic diversity, which in turn decreased their adaptive capability. However, some

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BY DHARAM SHOURIE
NEW YORK