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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Dec. 24, 2007 | 07:29 PST | 15:29 UTC
Another blast from Galileo's past: Europa
Here's another set of Ted Stryk's newly reprocessed versions of Galileo's global shots of Jupiter's icy moons (see my previous post on his Callisto and Amalthea images). These are of Europa, the smallest of the Galilean moons, whose icy surface is... More»
Dec. 21, 2007 | 12:55 PST | 20:55 UTC
Alert the Martian Defense Force!
Several weeks ago, I received a question from a reader to the effect of: are any of the surveys that turn up near-Earth asteroids also checking to see if there are any small bodies in the solar system on target for a Mars impact? I asked Steven... More»
Dec. 21, 2007 | 11:52 PST | 19:52 UTC
NASA announces delay of Mars Scout launch until 2013
The second mission in the Mars Scout program hasn't even been selected yet, and its launch -- whether it's MAVEN or Great Escape -- is already being delayed, from 2011 to 2013. That means that 2011 will be the first Mars launch opportunity without... More»
Dec. 20, 2007 | 09:04 PST | 17:04 UTC
Hubble shots from Mars' 2007 opposition
There are five spacecraft at Mars right now, and all of them are returning fabulous images, some of them from multiple images. However, when a person first approaches the Internet to ask for a Mars image, odds are they don't want any pictures from... More»
Dec. 18, 2007 | 20:36 PST | Dec. 19 04:36 UTC
Dawn Journal: Checkout complete, interplanetary cruise underway
Here's another Dawn Journal entry, contributed by Marc Rayman. Marc is the Project System Engineer for the Dawn mission. Thanks Marc!
by Dr. Marc D. Rayman
Dear Aficidawnados,
Dawn is climbing away from the Sun on a blue-green pillar of xenon... More»
Dec. 18, 2007 | 16:47 PST | Dec. 19 00:47 UTC
Saving Our Science
We've just posted an update on the "Save Our Science" campaign, with some good news. The omnibus Appropriations bill increases funding for planetary exploration and restores funding for science. However, the bill still faces a hurdle, in that... More»
Dec. 17, 2007 | 12:52 PST | 20:52 UTC
New views from Galileo
Amateur image magician Ted Stryk has just provided me with a glorious set of global views of Jupiter's satellites, which he has produced from the Galileo data set. Galileo gave us our best views of these worlds but the data set has a variety of... More»
Dec. 14, 2007 | 16:35 PST | Dec. 15 00:35 UTC
A dusty start to Spirit's winter
This image juxtaposes two "deck pans" captured by the Pancam instrument on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit at different times in the mission. On the left is the self-portrait from the top of Husband Hill, when Spirit's deck was nearly as clean as... More»
Dec. 14, 2007 | 10:56 PST | 18:56 UTC
Deep Impact update
Just a brief post here to mention that NASA has formally approved sending Deep Impact on to comet Hartley 2 for a rendezvous on October 11, 2010. As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, Deep Impact had been planning on flying by comet Boethin on... More»
Dec. 14, 2007 | 10:55 PST | 18:55 UTC
Get your Year in Pictures 2007 Calendar now!
Thanks to many many hours of volunteer work by Eric Hartwell (who does his own line of gorgeous planetary calendars), The Planetary Society is very pleased to offer the Year in Pictures 2007 Calendar from Cafe Press, with captions written by yours... More»
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