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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Mar. 13, 2008 | 11:08 PDT | 18:08 UTC
Enceladus flyby pics
It seems there is a lot of public interest in yesterday's flyby of Enceladus by Cassini because I am finding the Cassini website to be almost impossibly sluggish this morning! Still, "too much interest" is exactly the kind of problem I want to see... More»
Mar. 13, 2008 | 09:01 PDT | 16:01 UTC
LPSC, Wednesday: More from the Moon -- SMART-1 and radar
Here's an update on Wednesday's lunar sessions at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference from image magician Ted Stryk. Many thanks to Ted for his detailed notes!
Also, I want to point to the Martian Chronicles where Ryan Anderson wrote... More»
Mar. 12, 2008 | 06:50 PDT | 13:50 UTC
LPSC, Tuesday: lunar talks, poster session, and Io
The writeups below came from Ted Stryk, whom I met in person for the first time at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on Monday. Ted is a professor of English by occupation but those of you who are regular readers of this blog should be... More»
Mar. 11, 2008 | 19:26 PDT | Mar. 12 02:26 UTC
LPSC: Spiders and Swiss cheese on Mars, and a lunar lander network
Since I was not able to attend most of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, I am delighted to be able to link to the new weblog of three graduate students studying Martian geology at Cornell University; they're launching their weblog with... More»
Mar. 11, 2008 | 12:51 PDT | 19:51 UTC
LPSC: Kaguya sessions
It's time to begin dismantling my notes from attending the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on Monday. I want to take my time working through my notes from the MESSENGER sessions and go back and find illustrations (as the team apparently did... More»
Mar. 10, 2008 | 19:32 PDT | Mar. 11 02:32 UTC
Enceladus encounter blogs
Looks like NASA is trying an experiment with blogging: there is now an Enceladus flyby blog with (as of this writing) three posts, including one from frequent Planetary Society Blog guest John Spencer (who talks about how Enceladus being in Saturn's... More»
Mar. 10, 2008 | 19:05 PDT | Mar. 11 02:05 UTC
LPSC: A short visit already over
Well, my one full day of attending scientific sessions at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is now over. I spent the morning attending the session on MESSENGER mission results, and the afternoon jogging back and forth between two... More»
Mar. 10, 2008 | 08:52 PDT | 15:52 UTC
Reporting in from LPSC
This is just a brief post from Houston to say I'm here and covering what I can from the first day of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. I've already taken lots of notes on the morning's session on MESSENGER at Mercury. (Here's a program... More»
Mar. 8, 2008 | 11:32 PST | 19:32 UTC
Rhea rings: the evidence
Geraint Jones was kind enough to send me a plot showing the actual data from the MIMI instrument that indicates the presence of a disk, possibly including ring arcs, around Rhea. He's also included some data from a similar flyby of Tethys, in which... More»
Mar. 6, 2008 | 16:42 PST | Mar. 7 00:42 UTC
Rhea has rings!
At least that's what some members of the Cassini science team argue in a paper published today in Science magazine. I've just posted a news story explaining the discovery of possible rings at Rhea. This should inspire some space artists!
This is... More»
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