According to the N-Prize web site, the challenge is, "to launch an impossibly small satellite into orbit on a ludicrously small budget, for a pitifully small cash prize."

The N-Prize of £9, 999.99 cash (US$20,000) is for the first person or group to put into Earth orbit, a satellite with a mass of between 9.99 and 19.99 grams. By comparison, a US quarter weighs approximately five grams, a British £1 weighs 10 grams. The winners will have to prove that the satellite has completed at least nine orbits.

and are peeking through bedroom windows.

Shot in Nebraska on July 17, 2003 via The Independent. The film shows a bobbing head. It was taken by a camera set up by Stan Romanek, after he became concerned that someone was peering in at the window of his teenage daughters' bedroom.

Jerry Hufmann, of Colorado Film School examined the film. He believes that it to be genuine and un-doctored, but has no opinion of what it actually shows.

After a 10-month, 422-million-mile journey, NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander completed a successful touchdown in the Martian arctic. Radio signals received at 2353 GMT on May 25 confirmed the Phoenix Lander had survived its final descent, 15 minutes earlier. This was by no means guaranteed. Landing on Mars, with its thin atmosphere, is difficult. Only five of the previous 11 attempts have succeeded.