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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»
Mar. 26, 2009 | 13:52 PDT | 20:52 UTC
LPSC: Asteroids and Mercury
Thanks to Ted Stryk for contributing the following notes on Wednesday's sessions from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on small bodies and Mercury. --ESL
by Ted Stryk
I began the day in the small bodies session. Mark Burchell... More»
Mar. 26, 2009 | 12:56 PDT | 19:56 UTC
Brown-Vernadsky Microsymposium 2009: The talks
Yesterday Samuel Schon sent me his extensive notes from the two-day Microsymposium held last weekend, before the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference started, on the topic of volcanism on the Moon and Mercury. Sam is a third-year graduate student... More»
Mar. 25, 2009 | 15:55 PDT | 22:55 UTC
LPSC: Triton's crescent
As he did last year, Ted Stryk has been sending me lots of notes on the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, including the following report on the poster he presented at the meeting on Tuesday. His abstract (PDF format) contains more details on... More»
Mar. 25, 2009 | 10:29 PDT | 17:29 UTC
LPSC: Saltwater at the Phoenix landing site?
It's the Phoenix sessions at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) that received the most advance buzz, because of a press release issued by Nilton Renno, a researcher at the University of Michigan, to the effect that those mysterious... More»
Mar. 25, 2009 | 09:12 PDT | 16:12 UTC
Mars Express VMC is back online!
Great news arrived in my inbox this morning: after several months' hiatus around the period of Mars' solar conjunction, the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express is back in business. VMC is an engineering camera on Mars Express whose purpose was... More»
Mar. 24, 2009 | 15:02 PDT | 22:02 UTC
Aurora Expedition: Aurorae and a volcano
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»
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