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Dec. 15, 2008 | 13:02 PST | 21:02 UTC
Ganesa Macula isn't a dome
I'll have much more to say about Titan later today, but this was perhaps the most surprising point made in this morning's sessions at the American Geophysical Union meeting about Saturn's largest moon, Titan: Ganesa macula is not a dome.
Most of... More»
Dec. 12, 2008 | 11:45 PST | 19:45 UTC
I need help at AGU
This is a call to anyone else who's planning to attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, which will take place all next week in San Francisco. This is one of the four biggest meetings each year for planetary science, when the community... More»
Dec. 12, 2008 | 10:36 PST | 18:36 UTC
Blogs from the 2008-2009 Antarctic Search for Meteorites expedition
A while ago I received an email from a meteoriticist named Ralph Harvey, who's in charge of the annual Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) expeditions, in which a small team of Antarctic explorers and geologists wanders the wind-scoured icy... More»
Dec. 11, 2008 | 15:09 PST | 23:09 UTC
Some interesting information in a Nature story about Phoenix
EDIT: Nature has issued a correction to this story.
I just came across a long article in Nature on Phoenix, by journalist and sometimes blogger Eric Hand, that contained two tidbits of information about the mission that I had not previously been... More»
Dec. 10, 2008 | 13:11 PST | 21:11 UTC
Mimas, Prometheus, and the rings
I'm almost entirely cut off from the world today -- by which I mean my home Internet access is down. And the wireless network at my local public library is down. So I'm using a terminal at the library with a horrible sticky keyboard. Which means... More»
Dec. 9, 2008 | 16:20 PST | Dec. 10 00:20 UTC
Ice in glaciers on Mars
I've been accumulating a pile of interesting papers to read and finally got a chance to start going through some of them today. The first is "Radar Sounding Evidence for Buried Glaciers in the Southern Mid-Latitudes of Mars," by John Holt and... More»
Dec. 8, 2008 | 10:58 PST | 18:58 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of December 8: Getting ready for AGU
It's been a month since I checked in with our active planetary spacecraft; let's go again from the innermost to the outermost reaches of the solar system and see what's going on. One of the most important meetings for planetary scientists, the... More»
Dec. 5, 2008 | 10:01 PST | 18:01 UTC
MESSENGER steers for next September's Mercury flyby
The MESSENGER team issued a statement yesterday to the effect that the Mercury-bound spacecraft has just performed the first part of a two-part Deep Space Maneuver to position the spacecraft on course for a third flyby of the innermost planet. ... More»
Dec. 4, 2008 | 15:06 PST | 23:06 UTC
Let's go to Mars together
Amid the lengthy discussion of cost overruns and schedule delays on Mars Science Laboratory came a surprise announcement that is as important as it is welcome: NASA and ESA administrators have agreed in principle to cooperate on future Mars... More»
Dec. 4, 2008 | 15:02 PST | 23:02 UTC
Hubble servicing mission now scheduled for May 12, 2009
NASA just announced (in their third press release today) that the Hubble Servicing Mission is now rescheduled for May 12, 2009. (See this post for the history of the delay of this mission.) The release states that "The final servicing mission to... More»
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