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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Jun. 16, 2011 | 13:44 PDT | 20:44 UTC
Early MESSENGER science results: Mercury is its own planet, not Moon or Earth
There was a press briefing today giving some early science results from MESSENGER and it was surprisingly meaty. I'm going to focus on just one set of the results that they presented. As usual with MESSENGER, the most exciting stuff is not from the... More»
Jun. 16, 2011 | 12:39 PDT | 19:39 UTC
Chang'E 2 is on its way to Sun-Earth L2
According to an article published a week ago by the Xinhua news service, Chang'E 2 departed the Moon on June 9 at 09:10 UTC. It's now headed toward a Lagrangian point in space, but not the one I thought it was headed for. Previously I've talked... More»
Jun. 15, 2011 | 12:21 PDT | 19:21 UTC
Guest Blog - Melissa Rice: In memory of Spirit, and why cuteness matters
Melissa Rice is a graduate student at Cornell who's using Mars Exploration Rover Pancam data to study the surface composition and history of water at Gusev Crater. She also works on the rover's operations team as a Pancam Payload Downlink Lead.by... More»
Jun. 15, 2011 | 11:17 PDT | 18:17 UTC
Historic Final Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour
by Ken Kremer
After a 16 day journey of more than sixteen million miles, Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew glided to a safe nighttime landing at 2:35 a.m. EDT on June 1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I watched from close... More»
Jun. 14, 2011 | 12:21 PDT | 19:21 UTC
URGENT: Call Appropriations Committee members to support Pu-238 production
I just got the following email from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), requesting anyone whose Congressperson sits on the Appropriations Committee to place a phone call to support the production of Plutonium-238, the isotope of plutonium that... More»
Jun. 14, 2011 | 10:25 PDT | 17:25 UTC
Rosetta has entered its long sleep
One big space event that I missed while I was on vacation was Rosetta's entry into hibernation. Rosetta is the biggest interplanetary spacecraft that has been launched by ESA, and it has the groundbreaking goal of entering orbit around a comet and... More»
Jun. 13, 2011 | 14:33 PDT | 21:33 UTC
A Vesta rotation movie from Dawn!!
What do you know! I spend my last pre-vacation post whining about the lack of image releases from Dawn as it approaches Vesta and what do I find in my Inbox on the morning of my return to work but: an image release from Dawn! Actually, it's better... More»
Jun. 11, 2011 | 11:10 PDT | 18:10 UTC
Guest blog: James Wray: Europa on the ropes
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
-- 2010: Odyssey TwoArthur C. Clarke wrote these words three decades ago, when Europa's uniqueness as a potential alien habitat was first realized. Unfortunately, we have obeyed... More»
Jun. 9, 2011 | 15:40 PDT | 22:40 UTC
Shuttle LIFE Organisms Return from Space
by Bruce Betts
In the middle of the night on June 1, 2011, millions of passengers returned safely to Earth as part of the great conclusion to space shuttle Endeavour's last flight, STS-134. Many of those millions of passengers were part of the... More»
Jun. 8, 2011 | 12:43 PDT | 19:43 UTC
Guest blog - Meg Schwamb: Observing
Meg Schwamb is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. She's currently searching for previously unseen Kuiper belt objects in the southern skies with the La Silla-QUEST KBO Survey and is hunting planets in Kepler data... More»
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