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Oct. 29, 2009 | 15:59 PDT | 22:59 UTC
What's up in the solar system in November 2009
There are two -- actually three -- big things to look forward to this month. We have a double event to look forward to on Cassini: a pair of ultra-close Enceladus flybys spaced only 19 days apart, on November 2 and 21. And ESA's Rosetta will be... More»
Oct. 29, 2009 | 11:34 PDT | 18:34 UTC
Charlene Anderson: Einstein still rules
by Charlene Anderson
News from 7.2 billion light years away demonstrates that some things in this shifting universe are relatively reliable. We can still count on Einstein and his explanation of space-time to explain how things work.
Last May, the... More»
Oct. 28, 2009 | 12:51 PDT | 19:51 UTC
Gorgeous high-res image of the Apollo 17 landing site
The LROC team posted today a new image of the Apollo 17 landing site, captured after Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter had gotten in to its 50-kilometer mapping orbit, so this is much more detailed than the previous view. Holy cow, you can see where... More»
Oct. 28, 2009 | 12:30 PDT | 19:30 UTC
HiRISE sees Phoenix in the Martian spring
These Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE images of the defunct Phoenix lander in the early dawn light of northern spring have been out for some time, but no one had accomplished the difficult task of locating the Phoenix hardware in them until this... More»
Oct. 28, 2009 | 10:53 PDT | 17:53 UTC
Arizona Daily Star reports MRO managers working to avoid "unlikely but potentially fatal scenario"
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been in safe mode for nine weeks, since August 26, the date of the fourth in a series of safing events. A JPL update on the situation dated to September 4 said that analysis had "identified one possible but unlikely... More»
Oct. 27, 2009 | 13:42 PDT | 20:42 UTC
Request for input: Any interest in tutorials on space imaging?
I am toying with the idea of running a series of classes via Ustream on the basics of space image processing. I would have to do them at a time when I have child care (weekday mornings Pacific time), which would likely be a more convenient time for... More»
Oct. 27, 2009 | 10:42 PDT | 17:42 UTC
What "phase angle" means
I'm going to ask you to indulge me in a geek-fest today. As is probably obvious by now, I love playing with spacecraft image data. I am always looking for excuses to dive into space image archives to unearth images of stuff in space that haven't... More»
Oct. 26, 2009 | 10:51 PDT | 17:51 UTC
Carnival of Space #126, plus more from Jupiter's moon Io
The 126th Space Carnival is live over at Jason Perry's always-excellent (if rather narrowly focused) Io blog The Gish Bar Times. Actually I had been meaning to highlight a neat series of articles Jason put together commemorating the tenth... More»
Oct. 23, 2009 | 09:31 PDT | 16:31 UTC
Send your name to Venus with Venus Climate Orbiter (PLANET-C), now known as Akatsuki
The Japanese space agency's science missions have an abundance of names. They start out with a programmatic name, like MUSES-A, PLANET-A, etc. -- which might be like calling NEAR "Discovery-A" and Mars Pathfinder "Discovery-B" and so on. Some, but... More»
Oct. 22, 2009 | 15:44 PDT | 22:44 UTC
Louis Friedman: Augustine Committee Final Report
by Louis Friedman
The Augustine Committee, which is reviewing the U.S. human space flight program, presented its final report (PDF, 7.7 MB) today at a NASA press conference. There were no substantial differences from their preliminary report (see... More»
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