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Feb. 9, 2010 | 11:03 PST | 19:03 UTC
Endeavour Launch Ignites Night Sky
Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he is covering the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, set to launch this weekend. Kremer is a research scientist and freelance journalist who spends his... More»
Feb. 9, 2010 | 09:39 PST | 17:39 UTC
A Space Carnival (#140) and some new names for Enceladus
This week the Carnival of Space is over at one of my favorite new blogs, Lights in the Dark. Actually it's not so new -- evidently this week marks its first anniversary!
Also, yesterday there were a pile of new names announced for features on... More»
Feb. 9, 2010 | 09:32 PST | 17:32 UTC
Pretty picture: Opportunity around Concepcion
Here's a neat picture from Opportunity, a panorama composed of its wide-angle, mast-mounted Navcam cameras, showing the crater Concepcion. In this one I particularly like the parallel slices cut through a low dune by Oppy's wheels as she cut over... More»
Feb. 8, 2010 | 15:50 PST | 23:50 UTC
WISE has found its first comet, P/2010 B2 (WISE)
Having discovered its first asteroid on January 12, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has now officially discovered its first comet, P/2010 B2 (WISE). The comet was first observed by WISE on January 22, and has since been followed up on by... More»
Feb. 8, 2010 | 13:21 PST | 21:21 UTC
Manic Monday: Chocolate Hills, Io, and NASA's budget
Although I am not suffering under the "snowpocalypse" on the East Coast, I woke up to Monday absolutely buried under a massive pile of things to do for both home and work, and it looks like it's going to take me a few days to dig out. So, with... More»
Feb. 6, 2010 | 07:14 PST | 15:14 UTC
That's a lot of motion for a "stuck" rover!
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory posted a video to YouTube today showing what seems to be a remarkable amount of motion out of Spirit lately, especially given that she's supposed to be a "stationary science platform" now. The video consists animations... More»
Feb. 4, 2010 | 13:17 PST | 21:17 UTC
New maps of Pluto show pretty amazing amounts of surface change
I just posted my writeup of today's press briefing on a new map of Pluto produced from Hubble images. The main conclusion was that Pluto has shown an astonishing amount of changes across its surface between 1994 and 2002 -- more, in fact, than any... More»
Feb. 4, 2010 | 08:16 PST | 16:16 UTC
Way-cool Martian flyovers by Doug Ellison
Doug Ellison has been playing with Martian digital terrain models recently, to great effect. Here is a marvelous animation he produced that flies you over the Pathfinder landing site, out of -- and back into -- its own camera view of the terrain. ... More»
Feb. 3, 2010 | 15:42 PST | 23:42 UTC
Endeavour Crew Arrives at KSC
Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he is covering the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, set to launch this weekend. Kremer is a research scientist and freelance journalist who spends his... More»
Feb. 3, 2010 | 12:12 PST | 20:12 UTC
Hooray! Cassini's tour has been extended for SEVEN MORE YEARS!
Woo hoo! NASA has just announced that once Cassini's Equinox Mission runs out in June of this year, they will extend it a further seven more years, long enough for the spacecraft to see Saturn through its solstice!! Here's a neat graphic that... More»
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