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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Aug. 14, 2007 | 09:34 PDT | 16:34 UTC
Ices, Oceans, and Fire: Monday afternoon: New Horizons at Jupiter
Monday afternoon John Spencer gave a lengthy talk about the New Horizons encounter with Jupiter. I've posted extensively on this in the past: approaching Jupiter; Jupiter rotating; full frame on Jupiter; Jupiter cloud motion; Io erupting; Alice's... More»
Aug. 14, 2007 | 08:30 PDT | 15:30 UTC
Stars Above, Earth Below: Go to the Mountains
Tyler Nordgren has filed another update on his Stars Above, Earth Below journey from the road -- in fact, he handed me his blog entry and pictures on a memory stick in the foyer outside the room in which the Ices, Oceans, and Fire conference is... More»
Aug. 13, 2007 | 19:56 PDT | Aug. 14 02:56 UTC
Ices, Oceans, and Fire: Monday afternoon: Terrestrial analogs-ish
I felt a bit overwhelmed after the morning's theory-laden sessions, so it was a relief to meet Anahita and her grandma (along for the trip -- who wouldn't want to visit Boulder in August?) and go have some lunch in the patio of a sandwich shop on... More»
Aug. 13, 2007 | 15:31 PDT | 22:31 UTC
Ices, Oceans, and Fire: Monday morning: The history and interiors of icy moons
Following an introduction to the meting by Torrence Johnson, the conference on satellites of the outer solar system opened with a session on the early history of moons of the outer solar system, and one on the interiors of these moons. For me, this... More»
Aug. 13, 2007 | 08:38 PDT | 15:38 UTC
Reporting from the Workshop on Ices, Oceans, and Fire
Pretty sexy title for a planetary science conference, isn't it? Workshop on Ices, Oceans, and Fire: Satellites of the Outer Solar System. I am sitting in a conference room in the beautiful historic Hotel Boulderado in Boulder, Colorado, waiting an... More»
Aug. 10, 2007 | 16:42 PDT | 23:42 UTC
Check out the Perseids this weekend!
Every year for my brother's birthday the heavens put on a nice meteor show. Peaking around August 12 (happy birthday, Neil!), the Perseid meteor shower is one of the better-known ones in the northern hemisphere, if only because it's on a nice... More»
Aug. 10, 2007 | 16:11 PDT | 23:11 UTC
Some cool Cassini images
This animation, produced by Gordan Ugarkovic, is one of the coolest I've seen in a long time. You really get a perspective on what a monster moon Titan is compared to the other little iceballs. Gordan produced it by colorizing images that were... More»
Aug. 10, 2007 | 16:01 PDT | 23:01 UTC
Phoenix and New Horizons updates
The Phoenix spacecraft, which launched a week ago, has just successfully accomplished its first and largest trajectory correction maneuver. When they are launched, Mars spacecraft are intentionally targeted to miss Mars by a substantial margin, to... More»
Aug. 9, 2007 | 21:28 PDT | Aug. 10 04:28 UTC
New style in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA
Those of you who watch NASA's news closely will know that this topic is about a week old, but when the press conference headed by Alan Stern happened last week I had other things going on, and the news didn't seem all that urgent. But it's... More»
Aug. 8, 2007 | 08:56 PDT | 15:56 UTC
A little good news on the rovers
The skies aren't quite as dark as they have been, for both Spirit and Opportunity. In fact, Spirit has enough power now to be doing a little work with its robotic arm. This news is from a press release issued last night. On Spirit's sol 1276,... More»
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