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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Feb. 7, 2009 | 15:43 PST | 23:43 UTC
OpEd: Beyond the Moon
Planetary Society President Jim Bell, together with Doug Stetson, founder of the Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group, have contributed an OpEd to the February 3, 2009 issue of Space News on "Beyond the Moon."
And this week's Carnival of... More»
Feb. 5, 2009 | 10:16 PST | 18:16 UTC
Vernal dawn is coming to Titan's far north
Spring is coming to Titan's northern hemisphere (as it is to all the rest of Saturn's moons, along with Saturn itself). Consequently, the cameras are finally getting enough light to take photos of the lakes near the north pole; until now, they've... More»
Feb. 4, 2009 | 21:04 PST | Feb. 5 05:04 UTC
Spirit update: It keeps going
There have been a couple more releases from JPL in recent days updating the slightly worrisome announcement about Spirit that came out on January 28. On the following day, JPL reported thatDiagnostic activities performed by Spirit on Thursday, Jan.... More»
Feb. 4, 2009 | 17:18 PST | Feb. 5 01:18 UTC
Hooray for Hayabusa!
According to JAXA (the Japanese space agency), poor little Hayabusa has successfully restarted its ion engine and has resumed powered flight today. Hooray! This is good news for Hayabusa's eventual return to Earth.
The Japanese version of the... More»
Feb. 3, 2009 | 15:49 PST | 23:49 UTC
ANSMET Blogs: Return to civilization
There were just a few more entries on the ANSMET website chronicling the wrapup of their successful meteorite-hunting season in Antarctica, so I've bundled those into a last report. They claim they will "try" to do a wrapup from home closing out... More»
Feb. 2, 2009 | 14:54 PST | 22:54 UTC
A pretty new Hubble image of Mars
I just got an email from Ted Stryk letting me know that a set of Mars image data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope a year ago was just released to Hubble's data archive. Ted produced this approximate true color image of Mars, captured by Hubble's... More»
Jan. 30, 2009 | 08:51 PST | 16:51 UTC
Dawn Journal: Just missing the bull's eye at Mars
Here's our monthly checkup with the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. Thanks Marc! --ESL
by Dr. Marc D. Rayman
Dear Dawncers,
Dawn continues on course for its pas de deux with Mars on February 17.... More»
Jan. 28, 2009 | 13:13 PST | 21:13 UTC
Spirit's not behaving normally -- sometimes
EDIT: JPL has updated their original release with a correction: "CORRECTION: In paragraph 3--Early Tuesday, Spirit reported that it had followed the commands, and in fact had located the sun, but not in its expected location."
Rather than try to... More»
Jan. 28, 2009 | 10:06 PST | 18:06 UTC
Treasures from Mars' ancient history
One of the things I do when contemplating a move or, really, any other major life change, is to go through my library and sell a bunch of books. It's a symbolic thing, an attempt to clear some of the clutter before I make whatever new start is... More»
Jan. 27, 2009 | 11:23 PST | 19:23 UTC
ANSMET Blogs: Snow ends the season
I've posted another week's worth of blogs from the intrepid band of explorers in the Antarctic. The bad news is that the season is ending. The good news is that they made their (self-imposed and arbitrary) goal of collecting more than 500... More»
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