Spectroscopy-03-01-2003

The University of Leicester?s Space Research Centre has begun to assemble a database for use by all planetary scientists and engineers in the analysis of rocky planets, moons, and asteroids.

A look at spectroscopists' incomes and attitudes about their jobs.

Two orbiting spacecraft are already gathering information about Mars, and another orbiter and three surface landers are ready for launch ? all this in a year when the red planet will be closer to Earth than it has been since prehistoric times.

This article looks at estimated growth in spectroscopy sectors for 2003.

After nearly three decades and three spacecaft landings on the surface of Mars, we still do not know what the rocks are made of . . .