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Mar. 8, 2011 | 09:46 PST | 17:46 UTC
Pretty picture: Saturn storm
To relieve this week's text-heavy LPSC posts, here's a brief one on an incredible panorama across Saturn's northern storm, taken on February 26 by Cassini and assembled by unmannedspaceflight.com member "Astro0." Click to enlarge to see the... More»
Mar. 7, 2011 | 15:41 PST | 23:41 UTC
Just Released: The Planetary Science Decadal Survey for 2013-2022
by Charlene Anderson
The embargo has just been lifted on the National Research Council's "Visions and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013 – 2022 (PDF)," which sets out priorities for which planetary missions should be undertaken in... More»
Mar. 7, 2011 | 10:16 PST | 18:16 UTC
The 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
Science is all about asking questions, coming up with ideas that might explain the answers, and then poking at those ideas to see if they work. Scientists spend much of their time in solitary research working out those ideas. But they also devote... More»
Mar. 4, 2011 | 12:16 PST | 20:16 UTC
Glory Lost - But Its Mission Must Go On
By Charlene Anderson
Another painful loss to NASA's mission to study Earth from space: Today a Taurus XL rocket failed to lift the Glory satellite into Earth orbit when its clam-shell nosecone refused to open, forcing the rocket and its payload... More»
Mar. 3, 2011 | 16:08 PST | Mar. 4 00:08 UTC
Public service announcement: How to use Wget to grab the 2011 LPSC abstracts
The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is happening next week, and today I went to the meeting website as I usually do to peruse the listed talks for the sessions and abstracts in advance. The sessions and abstracts are all in PDF format, so... More»
Mar. 3, 2011 | 11:47 PST | 19:47 UTC
What does decommissioning a spacecraft entail?
In my last couple of posts about the Stardust spacecraft, which is now basically out of fuel after a remarkably successful extended mission to comet Tempel 1, I've mentioned that it's soon to be decommissioned. A reader asked me: what does it mean... More»
Mar. 2, 2011 | 14:45 PST | 22:45 UTC
Endeavour on Opportunity's horizon: Are we there yet?
Last week the Mars Exploration Rover team dumped another 90 sols' worth of data from Mars into NASA's Planetary Data System, the national repository for space mission data. As I did once before, I dove into this fresh pile of data to pull out... More»
Mar. 1, 2011 | 13:29 PST | 21:29 UTC
Explore the Moon in 3D through the Chandrayaan-1 TMC image data set
Data from two of the cameras aboard Chandrayaan-1 are now available through the ISRO Science Data Archive (ISDA), a new(?) site that is being established to host the data from ISRO's deep-space missions. Chandrayaan-1 was India's first mission... More»
Mar. 1, 2011 | 10:48 PST | 18:48 UTC
Map the world's light pollution by participating in GLOBE at Night
Now in its sixth year, GLOBE at Night is a citizen science program that marshals the eyes of thousands of people around the world once a year to assess the degree to which light pollution diminishes our views of starry skies. It's very simple;... More»
Feb. 28, 2011 | 15:10 PST | 23:10 UTC
The Future of Women in Chemistry and Science
by Charlene Anderson
Are you concerned about the future of women in science? Well, you should be, since the women working in science today and tomorrow will help shape the world you live in. On March 1 (next Tuesday) you can tune in to "The Future... More»
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