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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Sep. 25, 2007 | 10:40 PDT | 17:40 UTC
Observing Dawn from Hawaii and Alaska
A brief launch update: They're still "go" for the morning of September 27, with, currently, a 40% chance of weather being bad enough to scrub until the next day.
People in Hawaii and Alaska get to observe dawn every day of course (though many... More»
Sep. 24, 2007 | 16:43 PDT | 23:43 UTC
Update on Cassini's safing situation
Last week's Cassini Significant Events Report had some interesting details on the causes, results, and resolution of the spacecraft's going in to safe mode just minutes after it started playing back the data from the Iapetus flyby.
On September 12,... More»
Sep. 24, 2007 | 12:39 PDT | 19:39 UTC
New stuff on the website
A roundup of a bunch of new stuff to check out on The Planetary Society's website:I just posted a new "Stars Above" blog entry by Tyler Nordgren, where he visits Acadia National Park in Maine to think about the tides. Gee, what a coincidence that... More»
Sep. 24, 2007 | 09:47 PDT | 16:47 UTC
Dawn launch: Delayed to September 27
Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he is anticipating the launch of Dawn on September 26. Kremer is a research scientist who spends his spare time giving public outreach presentations on... More»
Sep. 22, 2007 | 15:49 PDT | 22:49 UTC
Dawn launch: Go for fueling!
Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he is anticipating the launch of Dawn on September 26. Kremer is a research scientist who spends his spare time giving public outreach presentations on... More»
Sep. 21, 2007 | 13:46 PDT | 20:46 UTC
Dawn Journal: Awaiting Launch II
Here's what will hopefully be the last pre-launch Dawn Journal entry, contributed by Marc Rayman. Marc is the Project System Engineer for the Dawn mission. Thanks Marc!
Even if Marc does not send further updates, however, Planetary Society... More»
Sep. 20, 2007 | 21:28 PDT | Sep. 21 04:28 UTC
New names for some irregular Saturnian moons
A couple of months ago I subscribed to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, in order that I wouldn't again miss another outer planet satellite naming. It's been a couple of months of bulletins about comets, asteroids, newly discovered... More»
Sep. 20, 2007 | 11:31 PDT | 18:31 UTC
Iapetus' "Voyager Mountains"
When Voyager 2 flew by Iapetus in 1981, it found a line of white dots marching along the equator from Iapetus' bright trailing side into its dark leading side. Images shot with the white dots on Iapetus' limb seemed to suggest that the dots were,... More»
Sep. 20, 2007 | 08:56 PDT | 15:56 UTC
Fire fountain amid heavenly fires
Last week I received an email from a reader, Patrick Taschler, with an image attached, what he called his "once-in-a-lifetime-shot." It could almost have been the last-of-his-lifetime shot: a photo of a fire fountain from Ecuador's most active... More»
Sep. 18, 2007 | 20:58 PDT | Sep. 19 03:58 UTC
Silly but fun Apollo 11 video
Via unmannedspaceflight.com comes the pointer to this BBC video of James Burke -- then a science correspondent for the BBC, since then a well-known science popularizer on this side of the pond as well -- explaining the Apollo 11 EVA suit to the... More»
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