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Sep. 16, 2009 | 09:32 PDT | 16:32 UTC
LCROSS: Hitting those tantalizing purple pixels
After I posted a report on the selection of crater Cabeus A as the target for the upcoming LCROSS impact into the Moon, I received an email with several questions about the target. The chosen site is not the center of Cabeus A. Rather it's a spot... More»
Sep. 15, 2009 | 14:15 PDT | 21:15 UTC
Planetary Radio Q and A: Moonquakes
This week's Planetary Radio features Robert Zubrin, on his new book How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet On "Questions and Answers" I answered the question:
"I remember that the Apollo missions left... More»
Sep. 15, 2009 | 09:35 PDT | 16:35 UTC
Opportunity's highway, and a tour of Block Island
Just a cool image to start the morning: after a 70-meter drive yesterday, Opportunity's following not one but two sets of its own tracks. (After the drive on sol 1,950, Opportunity's drivers decided to backtrack in order to investigate Block... More»
Sep. 15, 2009 | 08:37 PDT | 15:37 UTC
Norman Augustine Speaks to U.S. Congress Today
by Susan Lendroth
Norman Augustine, the Chair of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, is presenting to the U.S. congress today the summary of their final report to the Obama Administration. Louis Friedman said, "The Planetary Society... More»
Sep. 14, 2009 | 10:11 PDT | 17:11 UTC
Interpreting a crater on the Moon
The images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera or LROC are absolutely stunning. The instrument team does their best to make the images accessible online through the neat Zoomify tool, but unless you have the world's largest monitor Zoomify... More»
Sep. 11, 2009 | 12:26 PDT | 19:26 UTC
LCROSS Mission Selects Crater Cabeus A As Target for October 9 Impact
[I just posted this as a formal news story too.] NASA announced this morning that the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission has selected the target for its planned impact. The selected crater is Cabeus A, which is... More»
Sep. 10, 2009 | 21:57 PDT | Sep. 11 04:57 UTC
A rare view of Iapetus
I was browsing the Cassini raw images website and noticed a set of photos taken of a skinny crescent Iapetus yesterday. It struck me that it's been a while since Cassini looked at this most distant and weird of Saturn's large moons -- I checked the... More»
Sep. 10, 2009 | 13:12 PDT | 20:12 UTC
Two new blogs to follow: 3D planets and image treasures
Two great new planetary science-themed blogs have just started up, and rather than repost everything they've posted so far (which is what I've really wanted to do), I'll just give a summary and point you over there to read. Having done that,... More»
Sep. 9, 2009 | 17:07 PDT | Sep. 10 00:07 UTC
New Hubble images: News story with lots of pics now posted
Check out the news story I just posted on today's amazing image releases from Hubble!Blink comparison of visible and infrared Hubble images of Carina nebulaThe image of the colorful pillar, which was taken in visible light wavelengths, shows the tip... More»
Sep. 9, 2009 | 08:49 PDT | 15:49 UTC
New Hubble images!
There were lots and lots of image goodies released today by the Space Telescope Science Institute in a press briefing meant to tout the success of the Hubble servicing mission conducted in May. Here's the full gallery. I'll be writing much more... More»
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