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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Oct. 12, 2011 | 14:49 PDT | 21:49 UTC
Eris and embargoes (or: don't fear Ingelfinger!)
Last Tuesday at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting Bruno Sicardy presented the results of his research group's observations of a stellar occultation by Eris. Stellar occultations are the main tool that astronomers have at their disposal to... More»
Oct. 11, 2011 | 18:28 PDT | Oct. 12 01:28 UTC
Lovely pic of a recent crater on Vesta
With little fanfare, the Dawn mission continues releasing a new picture from Vesta every day. I forget to check up on them very often because they don't have an RSS feed for their new images (though they do show up on the "new images" page on JPL's... More»
Oct. 11, 2011 | 09:27 PDT | 16:27 UTC
Photos: Preparations for Curiosity's launch proceeding (don't show these to Blofeld!)
Kennedy Space Center has recently created a photo album collecting their photos from the clean rooms where technicians are working madly to prepare the Curiosity Mars rover for launch. The most recent photos, taken on September 23 (so more than two... More»
Oct. 7, 2011 | 16:00 PDT | 23:00 UTC
Saturnlit moon, sunlit fountains
It's been a week of very heavy science on this blog, so I thought it'd be nice to go into the weekend with a post in which a breathtaking picture speaks for itself, without needing my thousands of words. Here is Enceladus, its south polar plumes lit... More»
Oct. 7, 2011 | 15:47 PDT | 22:47 UTC
Mars Exploration Endangered by Bureaucratic (In)Action
By Charlene Anderson
The road to Mars just seems to get longer and harder every day.
The Planetary Society has just asked its Members to contact the White House and ask John Holdren, the President's Science Advisor, to make sure that NASA and ESA... More»
Oct. 7, 2011 | 05:09 PDT | 12:09 UTC
Notes from Day 5 of the EPSC/DPS meeting: Saturn's storm, Phobos, and Lutetia
Today was (is) the last day of the Division of Planetary Sciences / European Planetary Science Congress meeting in Nantes, France. Attendance was winding down in part because it's Friday and in part because of a wildcat strike on the French rail... More»
Oct. 7, 2011 | 05:09 PDT | 12:09 UTC
Guest Post: Jason Davis: Decoding SpaceX's re-usable spacecraft concept
In rock ‘n' roll fashion, SpaceX has shown the world that they're serious about re-usable spacecraft.
On September 29, the company released a four-minute concept video showing flight highlights of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule, modified to... More»
Oct. 7, 2011 | 01:53 PDT | 08:53 UTC
Notes from EPSC/DPS NASA Night
It's already the last day of the DPS/EPSC meeting in Nantes, France, and I've fallen seriously behind on writing up my notes. I thought I'd get some less pleasant notes out of the way before I returned to science. At every Division of Planetary... More»
Oct. 5, 2011 | 09:04 PDT | 16:04 UTC
Notes from Day 3 of the EPSC/DPS meeting (all about MESSENGER)
Today I largely spent in the MESSENGER sessions. They have a lot of data to talk about, as Sean Solomon summarized: 5000 images1300 hiigh-resolution res targeted observations1,000,000 visible-infrared spectra1,500,000 ultraviolet spectra3,500,000... More»
Oct. 5, 2011 | 08:29 PDT | 15:29 UTC
Guest Post: Ted Stryk: Russia's Venera-D mission
Roane State Community College professor and image processing mage Ted Stryk is in Nantes, France at the Division of Planetary Sciences / European Planetary Science Congress meeting, helping to cover the variety of topics being presented in the seven... More»
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