EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials SciencesThe premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.NASA Goddard mission approved to probe matter in extreme environments- June 27, 2008 (NASAGoddard Space Flight Center) An instrument to study the extreme environments of the universe has been given the "green light" from NASA Headquarters. The High-Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectrometer was one of the two science proposals recently selected by NASA for the Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations, and is managed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/nsfc-ngm062708.php |