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ExoMars money woes; Research Parks feel the pinch

JUN 19, 2009

Budget crunch for ExoMars mission ESA officials at the Paris Airshow this week have told Daniel Clery of ScienceInsider that one of the main components of Europe’s ExoMars mission—a static base station called Humboldt that would study Mars’ atmosphere and seismology—will be cut.

Research parks feel the economic pinch Science parks, which have proliferated in recent years, face an uncertain future as the recession affects government budgets, university endowments and private investments—all of which science parks often depend on says Heidi Ledford in Nature .

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Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org

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