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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Mar. 16, 2009 | 06:31 PDT | 13:31 UTC
Take a field trip to Arizona
This week Jim Bell's student Ryan Anderson, author of the Martian Chronicles blog, is writing about a weeklong field trip to Arizona, one of the most spectacular states (geologically speaking) in the U.S. Field trips are an integral part of the... More»
Mar. 15, 2009 | 07:24 PDT | 14:24 UTC
Carnival of Space #94
This week's Carnival of Space is live over at Out of the Cradle. Check it out!... More»
Mar. 13, 2009 | 16:57 PDT | 23:57 UTC
I have an announcement to make
Longtime readers will recognize the heading of this post. I'm expecting another baby, a second daughter, due in about eight weeks (on May 7). Since I returned from my first maternity leave I've been combining baby care with part-time work writing... More»
Mar. 13, 2009 | 10:39 PDT | 17:39 UTC
Ulysses: Still not dead yet
Not only is ESA's solar orbiter Ulysses still alive, but it actually has had a brief resurgence of science activity over the past couple of months.
First, a review. More than a year ago, on January 15, 2008, during Ulysses' 18th year in space, it... More»
Mar. 12, 2009 | 13:30 PDT | 20:30 UTC
New Horizons spots Triton
Today the New Horizons team released photos captured by their high-resolution camera of the Neptune system, in which both Neptune and Triton were visible. Before you get too excited about the first observations of Triton since Voyager 2 flew by two... More»
Mar. 12, 2009 | 09:19 PDT | 16:19 UTC
"Status reports" on Mars Odyssey and the Cassini Saturn orbiter
JPL has issued "status reports" (again, that ominous headline) for two spacecraft, and the news is (generally) positive, though the reports do serve as a reminder that these reliable spacecraft aren't getting any younger.
First, an update on Mars... More»
Mar. 10, 2009 | 09:32 PDT | 16:32 UTC
A first map of Io, revisited
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Voyager 1 flyby of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, Jason Perry has been writing a retrospective series of blog entries. But he's not just writing about history; he dug in to the Voyager 1 image archive and... More»
Mar. 10, 2009 | 09:28 PDT | 16:28 UTC
Quick Kepler update
After the drama of launch, news from Kepler quickly died down, but its Twitter feed has kept up with updates, and everything sounds good. Yesterday morning the news was that Kepler had just surpassed the Moon's distance from Earth; this morning,... More»
Mar. 9, 2009 | 14:47 PDT | 21:47 UTC
Dawn Journal: Safely past Mars
Here's post-Mars-flyby update on the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. It explains why there aren't more Mars images from the encounter -- a teeny software bug caused Dawn to enter safe mode shortly... More»
Mar. 9, 2009 | 13:05 PDT | 20:05 UTC
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter eye candy: HiRISE images Deimos
Mars' outer moon Deimos is an underappreciated sibling to the larger, closer, and much-better-mapped Phobos, so I was delighted to see today that the sharp-eyed HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured two lovely color images... More»
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