What is 2004 in science?
{{year nav topic5|2004|science}} The [[year]] [[2004]] in [[science]] had some important events, listed below. == Events == * [[January 3]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Spirit rover]] lands on [[Mars]]. * [[January 24]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Opportunity rover]] lands on [[Mars]]. * [[March 2]] - [[NASA]] says that the area where their [[Mars]] probe Opportunity landed shows unmistakable signs of contact with [[water]] in the [[geology|geological]] past. * [[March 4]] - [[NASA]]'s Spirit finds proof of past contact with [[water]] in [[volcano|volcanic]] [[Rock (geology)|rocks]] on [[Mars]]. * [[April 20]] - [[NASA]] launched the Gravity Probe B to test the [[general relativity|general theory of relativity]] of [[Einstein]]. * [[October 27]] - The [[Homo floresiensis]] has been discovered by Peter Brown, Michael Morwood and their colleagues. * [[September 13]] - [[Astronomer]]s from the [[European Southern Observatory]] announce images that seem to show a [[planet]] orbiting a [[brown dwarf]] about 230 [[light year]]s away. * [[November 15]] - The [[SMART-1]] [[space probe]] reaches [[orbit]] around the [[Moon]]. It is the first [[Europe]]an space mission to do so. == Deaths == * [[March 15]] - [[John Pople]], [[British]] [[Nobel Prize]] winning [[chemist]] * [[July 3]] - [[Andriyan Nikolayev]], [[cosmonaut]] * [[July 28]] - [[Francis Crick]], found the double helix in [[DNA]] [[Category:2004]] [[Category:Years in science]]