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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
May. 23, 2008 | 12:01 PDT | 19:01 UTC
Carnivals and Storms
This week's carnival of space is live at Catholic Sensibility. Go check out the roundup of news and opinions from around the Internet!
It's not quite a carnival atmosphere yet here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the upcoming Phoenix landing;... More»
May. 22, 2008 | 15:13 PDT | 22:13 UTC
Notes from the Thursday Phoenix press briefing
The auditorium at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was fairly empty for this briefing, held more than three days before the landing of Phoenix on Mars. I'd say there were no more than 20 reporters present. I expect it will get much, much busier by... More»
May. 22, 2008 | 11:23 PDT | 18:23 UTC
Live video chat Thursday, May 22, at 1 pm Pacific (20:00 UTC)
The chat went fine; I only went half an hour. If you'd like to watch the archived version, please visit my show page on the Ustream website.OK, I am at JPL and everything appears to be functioning fine, so all is "go" for the live Ustream chat at... More»
May. 21, 2008 | 22:36 PDT | May. 22 05:36 UTC
New version of Mars24 software released for Phoenix landing
Mars24 is an extremely useful little Java application, written by Robert Schmunk at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. It provides map and text displays that show the local solar time and sol numbers for landed spacecraft on Mars. It's... More»
May. 21, 2008 | 15:32 PDT | 22:32 UTC
Checking in at JPL
I drove in to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to pick up my badge today and scope out the press area for the Phoenix landing event, from which I'll be blogging and doing webcasts. I was delighted to see that this year's badges aren't radioactive... More»
May. 20, 2008 | 20:22 PDT | May. 21 03:22 UTC
Gearing up for the Phoenix landing
Although news from other planets and other missions is rolling in just as it always does, I think I should prepare all of you readers out there for the fact that this weblog is going to become all Phoenix, all the time, for at least the next week,... More»
May. 20, 2008 | 11:22 PDT | 18:22 UTC
Up-to-the-minute map of the Phoenix landing site
EDIT: I've corrected an error in the location of the ellipses on the geologic map below.Those of you who are following the Phoenix mission via its Twitter messages have read that they performed a late adjustment to the target point, shifting it 18... More»
May. 19, 2008 | 15:51 PDT | 22:51 UTC
Some random items and updates
On Friday I posted an invitation for people to search Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images for any wreckage of Mars Polar Lander. I had enough emails from volunteers over the weekend to assign each non-cloudy image to one searcher. My goal is to... More»
May. 19, 2008 | 13:11 PDT | 20:11 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of May 19
It's time to check in on what's going on with our trusty robots around the solar system.
This week, Phoenix lands on Mars! Phoenix is expected to land on May 25, 2008, at 23:38:32 UTC (16:38:32 PDT) according to the spacecraft's clock. It will... More»
May. 16, 2008 | 13:59 PDT | 20:59 UTC
Hunting for Mars Polar Lander with HiRISE
Those of you who pay attention to any source of space news other than this blog are probably wondering why I haven't mentioned this item yet. Last week, one of the HiRISE bloggers, Guy McArthur, posted an entry in the HiBlog in which he noted that... More»
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