BEAUFORT SEA — The Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) and crew conducted joint operations with the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Sir Wilfrid Laurier and crew, Friday, in the Beaufort Sea, while northbound on a month-long science mission in support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Healy, the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest polar icebreaker, and […]
(Anchorage) — Need moose antlers for carving, collecting or display? Look no further than this year’s annual State Hide and Horn Auction. Some 160 sets of moose antlers will be up for bid this weekend, along with caribou antlers, Dall sheep horns, black and brown bear hides, and fine furs including lynx, wolf, beaver and […]
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta, carrying three NASA instruments, became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet. The last of a series of 10 rendezvous maneuvers that began in May, to adjust Rosetta’s speed and trajectory to gradually match those of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, occurred today (Aug. 6, […]