2008 In Science
The year 2008 involved numerous significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below. Astronomy *10 January - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detects massive black holes in anomalously small galaxies. *15 January - NASA's ''MESSENGER'' spacecraft makes the first of its three flybys of Mercury at an altitude of , decreasing its velocity for its 2011 orbital insertion. *20 January – British space experts begin constructing an ion drive for a Mercury-bound spacecraft. *23 January – NASA's S-3 Viking aircraft returns to the agency's Glenn Research Center after extensive modifications to transform it from a carrier-based military aircraft to a state-of-the-art icing research aircraft. *7 February – An annular solar eclipse takes place. *5 March – Scientists solve a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts. *12 March – The Cassi ...
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