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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Mar. 9, 2010 | 10:43 PST | 18:43 UTC
Phobos has gravity!
Last week Mars Express had its closest-ever flyby of Mars' larger, inner moon Phobos. They used the close encounter for radio science, to attempt to probe the inner structure of the little potato. It'll be a few weeks at least before they have any... More»
Mar. 8, 2010 | 13:17 PST | 21:17 UTC
LPSC: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter results
A week later and I am finally getting to the mountains of notes I took on Moon-related talks I saw at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) held in Houston last week. Unlike previous years at LPSC, the Moon was really the leader, with... More»
Mar. 7, 2010 | 22:20 PST | Mar. 8 06:20 UTC
Stephen Hawking Receives Cosmos Award
by Louis D. Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society presented the Cosmos Award for Outstanding Public Presentation of Science to Stephen Hawking in Cambridge England on February 27. Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow... More»
Mar. 7, 2010 | 20:30 PST | Mar. 8 04:30 UTC
WISE's weekly featured image
Every space mission has its own style of public outreach; you never know quite what you're going to get until it launches and is in the full swing of operations. So I'm pleased to point out that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission... More»
Mar. 5, 2010 | 15:05 PST | 23:05 UTC
Cassini's Helene flyby
I was much anticipating Cassini's encounter with Helene on Wednesday. It looks like there was a problem with the pointing of the spacecraft, something that used to happen much more frequently on Cassini, but I don't see it much anymore, so that... More»
Mar. 5, 2010 | 13:20 PST | 21:20 UTC
Pretty picture: Io, labeled
Jason Perry just posted this lovely labeled image of Io over at his blog, the Gish Bar Times. It's a nice image for providing context whenever any of the named volcanoes are discussed, so I thought I'd toss it in our image library and post it... More»
Mar. 5, 2010 | 12:40 PST | 20:40 UTC
LPSC, Day 3: Opportunity, and what the heck is Marquette?
I wrote earlier about some results from Spirit reported at this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas; here are the rest of my notes on rover-related talks, from Opportunity's site on the opposite side of Mars. And now that... More»
Mar. 5, 2010 | 11:56 PST | 19:56 UTC
Join the Fight for NASA's Future!
by Louis D. Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society
The U.S. Administration's request for the 2011 NASA budget calls for a bold recasting of the agency's path for human space exploration. With the new plan NASA will receive more... More»
Mar. 4, 2010 | 17:48 PST | Mar. 5 01:48 UTC
Back from LPSC
Just a quick note to all that I've collected both children from the family I left them with and we've all now arrived home from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. LPSC was so busy with me attending sessions, talking with friends and... More»
Mar. 4, 2010 | 07:40 PST | 15:40 UTC
Pretty Picture: ISS in the X-band
This is from the "Just Plain Cool" department: a picture of the International Space Station taken in microwave radar. The specific radio wavelength involved is the X-band, radio with wavelengths of a few centimeters. (I've noticed some bloggers... More»
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