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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
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»
Jan. 27, 2009 | 10:33 PST | 18:33 UTC
Saturn and Tethys, in color
Eye candy is a great way to start the day. I spotted the images necessary to make this mosaic on the new-and-improved Cassini raw images website last week but after struggling for a little while to assemble even a couple of them into a coherent... More»
Jan. 26, 2009 | 14:40 PST | 22:40 UTC
Your friendly neighborhood asteroid
Like a rhinoceros lumbering across the savannah with a few oxpeckers as passengers, Earth is accompanied in its orbit by several diminutive followers known as co-orbital asteroids. They share the same region of space as Earth does, orbiting the Sun... More»
Jan. 24, 2009 | 08:33 PST | 16:33 UTC
365 Days of Astronomy Podcast: Five Years of Living Vicariously on Mars
Next in The Planetary Society's 365 Days of Astronomy doubleheader is Planetary Society President Jim Bell, whose show, airing today, is on "Five Years of Living Vicariously on Mars." It's in honor, of course, of the fifth anniversary of the... More»
Jan. 23, 2009 | 15:45 PST | 23:45 UTC
The sol 18 shoe dropped today
Every morning as I eat breakfast I've been tuning in to Scott Maxwell's blog for my latest blast from Spirit's past. (As I've mentioned before, Scott is a rover driver who has just started up a blog that consists of his daily journals from five... More»
Jan. 23, 2009 | 08:17 PST | 16:17 UTC
365 Days of Astronomy Podcast: Voyage Past the Sideways Planet
In the first game of a Planetary Society doubleheader of contributions to the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast, my latest show, airing today, looks back to Voyager 2's encounter with Uranus, which happened 23 years ago tomorrow, just four days before... More»
Jan. 22, 2009 | 11:46 PST | 19:46 UTC
Please send me your questions for Planetary Radio Q and A
In less than two weeks I'll be moving to a new house, so I am going to be frazzled and crazy and distracted and probably not quite as regular in my posting as usual. In an effort to reduce the work I'll have to do through next month, I would love to... More»
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