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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Dec. 21, 2008 | 13:22 PST | 21:22 UTC
Carnival of Space #84
Hey everybody, have a tour through the Internet's space blogs on the 84th Carnival of Space.... More»
Dec. 20, 2008 | 11:26 PST | 19:26 UTC
Some early Christmas presents at the PDS
Once a quarter, most NASA missions have to submit a chunk of archived data from their instruments to the Planetary Data System, or PDS. Those data submissions aren't due to show up until January 1, but two missions have come through a couple of... More»
Dec. 19, 2008 | 13:08 PST | 21:08 UTC
AGU: Wrapping up my notes on Phoenix
I posted two days ago about two of the talks on the Phoenix Mars lander at the American Geophysical Union meeting; now I'm getting to the rest of my notes from that session.
The Phoenix presentations at AGU opened with Peter Smith giving a sort of... More»
Dec. 18, 2008 | 16:23 PST | Dec. 19 00:23 UTC
Jupiter and Ganymede from Hubble
I'm practically the last space blogger in the world to get to this (and it was only released this morning! How can I compete with that?), but I think it's worth giving my take on it anyway: a beautiful photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope... More»
Dec. 18, 2008 | 15:19 PST | 23:19 UTC
Did you know that you can do more than just read?
I'm proud of the work I do on this blog -- from covering conferences like the American Geophysical Union meeting, to reporting on the launches and landings of missions like Chandrayaan-1 and Phoenix, to digging up space history like I did in my... More»
Dec. 17, 2008 | 12:42 PST | 20:42 UTC
ANSMET Blogs: waiting around McMurdo; first 20 meterorites found
I've just reposted another week's worth of blogs from the 2008 Antarctic Search for Meteorites expedition, taking the trip up through December 17. It's been a week with two members of the team stuck out in the field waiting for a replacement... More»
Dec. 17, 2008 | 11:03 PST | 19:03 UTC
AGU: Titan: Volcanically active world, or "Callisto with weather?"
There was much more to Monday's Titan sessions at the American Geophysical Union meeting than the one surprising fact I posted about on Monday. I was struck by something that one of the Cassini spectroscopists, Tom McCord, said as he opened his... More»
Dec. 16, 2008 | 18:52 PST | Dec. 17 02:52 UTC
Steve Ostro
The Planetary Society was greatly saddened today to hear of the untimely death of radio astronomer Steve Ostro. I had never met Steve personally but I had interviewed him several times (see here, for instance) and made frequent use of his excellent... More»
Dec. 16, 2008 | 09:23 PST | 17:23 UTC
AGU: An update on Kaguya
On Monday afternoon at the American Geophysical Union meeting there was a short session, comprising four talks, on the status of Kaguya, Japan's enormous lunar orbiter. The first presentation was an overview of the mission; the next three... More»
Dec. 15, 2008 | 19:49 PST | Dec. 16 03:49 UTC
AGU: Some first impressions from today's Phoenix sessions
I have neither the time nor the brainpower to write up all my notes from the Phoenix sessions held this afternoon at the American Geophysical Union meeting, but I thought it was worth hitting some of the high points before I ate dinner.
So far,... More»
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