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Mar. 24, 2009 | 12:17 PDT | 19:17 UTC
LPSC, Day 2: Morning sessions on our Moon and Saturn's moons
This morning at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference would have presented a challenge to me. On the one hand, there's the Moon, with a whole session devoted to Chandrayaan-1 and Chang'e 1 (actually, upon reading the abstracts, it was mostly... More»
Mar. 24, 2009 | 11:09 PDT | 18:09 UTC
Brown-Vernadsky Microsymposium 2009: Introduction
Every year at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference there is a weekend meeting co-hosted by Brown University and the Vernadsky Institute called "Microsymposium," with a narrowly-defined theme. This year's Microsymposium was titled "Volcanism... More»
Mar. 24, 2009 | 07:15 PDT | 14:15 UTC
Spirit puts the pedal to the metal
Way to go, Spirit! The last two drives for the five-wheeled rover have taken it a total of about 40 meters west, traveling around the north edge of Home Plate. If I'm not mistaken, that's more than Spirit has driven in the last 400 sols combined. ... More»
Mar. 23, 2009 | 22:10 PDT | Mar. 24 05:10 UTC
Name Orcus' moon!
There's lots of name-this-and-that in space right now -- there's the story about Stephen Colbert taking over the naming contest for Node 3 of the International Space Station (hilarious) and the recently announced list of possible names for Mars... More»
Mar. 23, 2009 | 13:13 PDT | 20:13 UTC
LPSC, Day 1: Phoenix, morning session
So the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) started this morning in Houston, and I am seriously bummed about the fact that I can't be there this year. I'm hopeful that I'll receive a couple of messages from friends attending the conference... More»
Mar. 23, 2009 | 07:29 PDT | 14:29 UTC
Aurora Expedition: From Seward to Anchorage to Fairbanks
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. 20, 2009 | 14:45 PDT | 21:45 UTC
Attack of the dust donuts
Yesterday I was browsing through the latest raw images from Cassini and came across a set taken of the rings with Cassini's wide-angle camera that all looked something like this:Click to enlarge >Saturn's ringsCassini took this photo of Saturn's... More»
Mar. 20, 2009 | 10:31 PDT | 17:31 UTC
Aurora Expedition: Arrival
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. 19, 2009 | 11:25 PDT | 18:25 UTC
Learning about the little things beyond Neptune by studying binaries
The April 2009 issue of Icarus just came out; this is one of the main journals in which you'll find peer-reviewed reports on the most recent work of planetary scientists. One of the papers in this month's issue that incited my interest was by a... More»
Mar. 17, 2009 | 11:09 PDT | 18:09 UTC
Hubble catches a quadruple transit
Once again I find myself posting something that you'll probably see on every other space-related blog today, but how can I resist a new Hubble photo of Saturn? Particularly one that includes no fewer than four moons?Click to enlarge >Hubble catches... More»
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