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Mar. 6, 2009 | 18:30 PST | Mar. 7 02:30 UTC
Kepler launch is coming soon, and I'm Twittering
I'm watching the NASA TV feed of the Kepler launch on my computer rather than my television because there's a more important claim on my television at this precise moment (namely, that my daughter cannot get through dinner without her Wow Wow... More»
Mar. 6, 2009 | 14:17 PST | 22:17 UTC
Carnival of Space #93: From our own planet, to exoplanets
Welcome to the 93rd Carnival of Space! Today's a day worth celebrating at a carnival. NASA's Kepler spacecraft is scheduled to launch tonight on its mission to discover Earth-sized worlds orbiting other stars, adding to the list of hundreds of... More»
Mar. 5, 2009 | 12:15 PST | 20:15 UTC
What are the rovers up to?
A. J. S. Rayl has recently posted the latest monthly rover update, in which she documents the driving activity of Spirit and Opportunity. As usual, troubled Spirit's progress sometimes amounts to only centimeters, while golden child Opportunity has... More»
Mar. 5, 2009 | 11:19 PST | 19:19 UTC
"On Point" tomorrow at 8 am Pacific (1600 UTC)
I've just been asked to appear on National Public Radio's "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook tomorrow morning -- they're doing a show on Kepler's impending launch and asked me to fill them in on everything going on in space that's not Kepler. It'll be... More»
Mar. 4, 2009 | 09:57 PST | 17:57 UTC
Update to my S/2008 S1 post: Cassini can fly past it!
UPDATE: This new moon is now named Aegaeon.
So it turns out I was totally wrong yesterday when I claimed that Cassini wouldn't be allowed to get close enough to the G ring to get a decent image of the newly discovered tiny moonlet S/2008 S1. And... More»
Mar. 4, 2009 | 09:38 PST | 17:38 UTC
Rebooting Odyssey
I just received one of those chillingly-titled missives from JPL: "Mars Odyssey Mission Status Report." The words "Status Report" in a JPL email title almost always mean that something has gone wrong with a spacecraft, but this time it's not as bad... More»
Mar. 3, 2009 | 10:59 PST | 18:59 UTC
A new moon for Saturn within the G ring
UPDATE: This new moon is now named Aegaeon.
EDIT: Check out a correction posted on March 4: Cassini definitely could and may well get images of this newly discovered moon.
It's been a while since the last discovery of a moon at Saturn by Cassini;... More»
Mar. 2, 2009 | 16:38 PST | Mar. 3 00:38 UTC
Methane is a greenhouse gas on Pluto, too
There's a new scientific paper in press that states that Pluto has much more methane in its lower atmosphere than previously thought. Pluto's atmosphere is very thin (somewhere in the range of 0.0006 to 0.0024 percent of Earth's atmospheric... More»
Mar. 1, 2009 | 12:26 PST | 20:26 UTC
The Chang'e 1 mission is over
According to this item from the Xinhua news agency, the first Chinese lunar orbiter, Chang'e 1, was intentionally de-orbited and crashed into the Moon today, at 08:13 UTC March 1, 2009. They gave its impact location as 1.5 degrees south, 52.36... More»
Feb. 26, 2009 | 14:23 PST | 22:23 UTC
Mapping Mars, now and in history
Planetary cartographer Phil Stooke has been working on a cool project to compose and compare maps of Mars that show how we saw the planet throughout the Space Age. He's been posting a lot of this work on unmannedspaceflight.com but I wanted to... More»
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