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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»
Dec. 13, 2007 | 16:02 PST | Dec. 14 00:02 UTC
Planetary Report erratum
This is just a note to those of you who are members, who should now be receiving your November/December issue of The Planetary Report. It contains a "Year in Pictures" article I wrote, which I hope you enjoy. Unfortunately, though, insufficient... More»
Dec. 13, 2007 | 12:37 PST | 20:37 UTC
Carnival of Space #33
Fraser Cain has the latest Carnival of Space over at Universe Today. Check it out!... More»
Dec. 13, 2007 | 12:18 PST | 20:18 UTC
New images from Chang'e 1
A website called clep.org.cn has been posting new images and data from Chang'e 1 every couple of days. Because it's pretty hard to get these things to show up on Google searches, I have now made a page that will (hopefully) maintain a (reasonably)... More»
Dec. 12, 2007 | 12:21 PST | 20:21 UTC
Watching changes near Mars' south polar cap
Yesterday the CRISM team on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released an interesting animation of changes in the south polar cap on Mars. Every Martian year, as the Sun returns to the south pole, the seasonal deposits of carbon dioxide frost and ice... More»
Dec. 12, 2007 | 09:36 PST | 17:36 UTC
Science should advise public policy
I generally try to avoid "getting political," because one of the most striking (to my mind) results of a survey we recently did on our members showed a pretty much Gaussian distribution of political ideologies among them -- about a third centrist,... More»
Dec. 11, 2007 | 13:08 PST | 21:08 UTC
Anybody want to nominate me?
This is awkward, but here goes...there's a fellow by the name of Bora Zivkovic at the Public Library of Science who assembled a "Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006" last year, and he's doing it again this year. Submissions must come from December... More»
Dec. 10, 2007 | 19:00 PST | Dec. 11 03:00 UTC
Voyager in the Kitchen Sink
Last year at the International Space Development Conference I saw a talk given by Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone on the Voyager Interstellar mission, in which I enthused about a visual analogy he made to explain the different parts of the space... More»
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