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Oct. 9, 2009 | 07:02 PDT | 14:02 UTC
MMT image of the plume and its shadow?
EDIT: Having seen an image from Palomar during this morning's press briefing, I think that the fuzzy blob that I thought was the plume in this image is just a spot of sunlight on the far crater wall. So I'm retracting my enthusiasm about this... More»
Oct. 9, 2009 | 05:46 PDT | 12:46 UTC
LCROSS impact recap, with animations
Quite a night! I set my alarm for 3:15 am in order to get up and watch LCROSS crash into the Moon. My 5-month-old obligingly woke up at 2:45 to be fed -- which meant that I got half an hour less sleep than I might've, but also meant I could feed... More»
Oct. 9, 2009 | 03:54 PDT | 10:54 UTC
Screen caps of NASA TV LCROSS camera images
I am having issues with TwitPic this morning, so will occasionally post new images from the LCROSS camera to this blog entry. I'll Tweet when I've updated it with a new one. Note that the times of the screen caps are probably at least 5 minutes... More»
Oct. 9, 2009 | 03:16 PDT | 10:16 UTC
Gorgeous Kaguya image of Cabeus crater; where to watch impact
I'm back online and ready to watch LCROSS smash into the Moon this morning! Just in time for the crash, JAXA released a gorgeous Kaguya Terrain Camera image of the crater. But before I show that to you, here's a reminder of where to watch the... More»
Oct. 8, 2009 | 19:55 PDT | Oct. 9 02:55 UTC
LCROSS Centaur separation and braking burn successful
LCROSS and its Centaur upper stage have separated successfully, and the LCROSS shepherd spacecraft has braked in order to follow behind the Centaur when both impact the Moon tomorrow. Everything seemed to go perfectly. Here's a four-frame... More»
Oct. 8, 2009 | 15:33 PDT | 22:33 UTC
LROC nabs image of the Apollo 14 S-IVB impact site
As a reminder that we've been crashing stuff into the Moon for decades, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team released today a photo of the crater made by the spent upper stage of the Saturn rocket that lofted the Apollo 14 mission to... More»
Oct. 8, 2009 | 14:25 PDT | 21:25 UTC
A couple of helpful visualizations of LCROSS impact
The visualization studio at Goddard Space Flight Center has just posted some handy simulations of what we can expect the LCROSS impact to look like. First, here's a movie that zooms in from the entire moon to the ejecta curtain in Cabeus; the blue... More»
Oct. 8, 2009 | 12:19 PDT | 19:19 UTC
LCROSS impact preview
Way early tomorrow morning, LCROSS and its Centaur upper stage will crash into the lunar south pole. To the Moon, it'll be just another day; stuff the size of these two spacecraft crashes into the Moon about once a week, on average. (They crash... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 13:15 PDT | 20:15 UTC
Bruce Betts: Apophis is less scary than it used to be
by Bruce Betts
Based on analyses of previously unstudied telescopic data, NASA scientists have released new predictions for the path of the 300-meter-diameter asteroid Apophis. Because they were able to better define Apophis' orbit, scientists... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 13:11 PDT | 20:11 UTC
MESSENGER is fine
The caption to today's image release from the MESSENGER team concerns their long-term campaign to study Mercury's brightness through a range of phase angles. But the real take-home message of this image is that, after the burp in operations when... More»
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