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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
May. 31, 2008 | 14:15 PDT | 21:15 UTC
Space Shuttle Discovery just lifted off successfully
It was a perfect launch for Discovery this afternoon. It's carrying the second half of the Japanese Kibo module to the International Space Station, so my congratulations go out to the Japanese for finally, at long last, seeing their laboratory fly.... More»
May. 31, 2008 | 11:51 PDT | 18:51 UTC
Phoenix sol 6: Holy cow, it's ice!
There was a phone briefing this morning, and the science team seems to be pretty sure they are looking at ice in the image I posted last night, but they are doing the necessary tests to make sure. I can't post much about the conference until later,... More»
May. 30, 2008 | 22:08 PDT | May. 31 05:08 UTC
Could this be ice?
A late night download from Phoenix' sol 5 activities yielded this image, which was taken by the Robotic Arm Camera, looking right underneath the lander at the far leg. The far leg does look stable, but hmmm....what's that bright, smooth material... More»
May. 30, 2008 | 14:15 PDT | 21:15 UTC
Phoenix sol 5 roundup
Today was the last of the daily press briefings following Sunday's landing of the Phoenix mission; they said they won't have another one until "at least Tuesday." Which is good for me, because I really need a break; and on Monday and Tuesday I'm... More»
May. 29, 2008 | 14:00 PDT | 21:00 UTC
A few more photos from Phoenix today
Jason Perry's sharp eyes have caught Phoenix' blackened heat shield and bounce mark in the panoramic view released by the Phoenix team today. Compare this view to the ones taken from above by HiRISE. They confirm that the large "splat" seen from... More»
May. 29, 2008 | 13:38 PDT | 20:38 UTC
Phoenix sol 4 press briefing: unstowed arm, full panorama, and weather
So I anticipated last night two of the main messages of today's press briefing: the completion of the initial reconnaissance panorama, which was taken in only one color and at a quarter the full resolution of Phoenix' camera, and the successful... More»
May. 29, 2008 | 09:46 PDT | 16:46 UTC
Carnival of Space #56
It's Thursday, so it's time for a Space Carnival, hosted this week at the Lifeboat Foundation Blog. Check it out! For some reason it took the page a very long time to load for me -- perhaps they weren't prepared for the traffic.
I'll also point... More»
May. 29, 2008 | 09:18 PDT | 16:18 UTC
Dawn Journal
It's time to start getting back to a little non-Phoenix news. It'll take me a couple of days to get back up to speed on other missions, but in the meantime, here's another Dawn Journal entry, contributed by Marc Rayman. Marc is the Project System... More»
May. 28, 2008 | 23:01 PDT | May. 29 06:01 UTC
A full panorama and an unstowed arm
A late-night check of the Phoenix image website shows that not only did Phoenix succeed in acquiring all the rest of the images for its first full panorama today, but it also successfully downlinked them all to Earth. Without further ado:Click to... More»
May. 28, 2008 | 15:25 PDT | 22:25 UTC
Messages from Earth
That image of the Phoenix DVD sitting calmly on Mars has been getting quite a lot of play across the Internet today, including on the home pages of NASA and the Phoenix mission at the University of Arizona.Click to enlarge >Visions of Mars, on... More»
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