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Apr. 6, 2009 | 09:45 PDT | 16:45 UTC
Dawn Journal: Safe without Safe Mode
Here's the latest on the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. Thanks Marc, and sorry for the lateness of the post! --ESL
by Dr. Marc D. Rayman
Dear Dawntpanics,
Dawn continues to coast quietly and... More»
Apr. 6, 2009 | 09:42 PDT | 16:42 UTC
Sorry for the quiet last week -- time to catch up
Apologies to all of you for the lack of posts here last week -- my doctor has confined me to bed rest (don't worry, there's no problem other than that the baby seems to want to arrive a bit too early) and I didn't find it easy to type from a... More»
Apr. 2, 2009 | 10:43 PDT | 17:43 UTC
Space Carnival & new Chandrayaan-1 Earth photo
This week's (actually last week's now, I'm a bit late) Carnival of Space is up at astroengine. Check it out for your weekly digest of online space news.
And here's another little tidbit, a new photo of Earth from Chandrayaan-1, centered (where... More»
Apr. 1, 2009 | 10:41 PDT | 17:41 UTC
Planetary Society Members "Dream Big Dreams"
by Susan Lendroth
A couple of weeks ago Jeffrey Zaslow, a columnist with the Wall Street Journal, contacted us about the survey completed by many of our members, including Jeff's father. Jeff wanted to hear about how Planetary Society members are... More»
Mar. 31, 2009 | 10:53 PDT | 17:53 UTC
Mars Action Weather Report: A dust event is brewing in the south
I got an email late yesterday from David Kass, one of the members of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Climate Sounder team, forwarding a report he had just issued to the rest of the orbiter's science and operations teams. In brief: over the... More»
Mar. 27, 2009 | 15:06 PDT | 22:06 UTC
LPSC: Friday morning session on future missions
Thanks to Ted Stryk for contributing the following notes on Friday morning's session on upcoming and future missions at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. --ESL
by Ted Stryk
Michael Meyer spoke about MSL, saying it has greater potential... More»
Mar. 27, 2009 | 12:05 PDT | 19:05 UTC
LPSC: Thursday's posters
Thanks to Ted Stryk for contributing the following notes on Thursday evening's poster session at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. --ESL
by Ted Stryk
During the Thursday night poster session, there was an extensive presentation on the... More»
Mar. 27, 2009 | 09:33 PDT | 16:33 UTC
Aurora expedition: The end
Rosaly Lopes is sending us reports from The Planetary Society's member trip to view the Aurora Borealis in Alaska from March 19-25. Lopes is Lead Scientist for Geophysics and Planetary Geosciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an... More»
Mar. 26, 2009 | 17:45 PDT | Mar. 27 00:45 UTC
Look! It's a near-Earth asteroid!
One cool photo deserves another. This one is of some of the members of the field campaign that turned up about five kilograms' worth of meteorites that are all that remain of asteroid 2008 TC3. Amir Alexander has just posted a news story... More»
Mar. 26, 2009 | 13:54 PDT | 20:54 UTC
Cool photo: Venus' crescent
I've been posting so many words this week that it's a relief just to be able to post something because it's a cool photo. It just arrived in my inbox from Jim Head at Brown University:Click to enlarge >Venus, only nine degrees from the SunCredit:... More»
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