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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Oct. 17, 2008 | 10:38 PDT | 17:38 UTC
New images from MESSENGER's Mercury flyby
The MESSENGER team has been releasing images daily since their October 6 flyby, and I've just been too busy to post any. I have, however, been keeping up with where the images plot on my map of Mercury. Finally, yesterday, they released one image... More»
Oct. 17, 2008 | 09:54 PDT | 16:54 UTC
Getting close to the launch of Chandrayaan-1!
Chandrayaan-1 is due to launch on October 22 at 00:58 UTC (that's October 21 at 17:58 Pacific time; click here for a table of other cities). I am deeply grateful to the British Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for actually posting... More»
Oct. 16, 2008 | 14:51 PDT | 21:51 UTC
Hubble to resume normal science operations Friday morning
I've had so many things to write about lately that I've given short shrift to the drama on the Hubble Space Telescope. In quick summary, on September 27 -- just two weeks before the final Hubble Servicing Mission was due to launch -- a critical... More»
Oct. 16, 2008 | 13:08 PDT | 20:08 UTC
A shift in orbit for Mars Odyssey
I'm a little late getting to this piece of news, but it's still interesting. Last week, the Mars Odyssey team announced that their mission -- the oldest spacecraft still operating at Mars, having been there since 2001 -- is being extended another... More»
Oct. 16, 2008 | 11:13 PDT | 18:13 UTC
Phobos: New gravity data and an update on the Phobos-Grunt landing site
ESA issued a press release today announcing that Mars' moon Phobos is a rubble pile because it has an anomalously low density, measured during a recent flyby by Mars Express. As far as I can tell from a bit of Googling, both the fact that it's... More»
Oct. 15, 2008 | 13:52 PDT | 20:52 UTC
DPS meeting: Sunday: Lakes on Titan
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction.
This time around DPS features three separate oral sessions on... More»
Oct. 15, 2008 | 11:46 PDT | 18:46 UTC
DPS meeting: Sunday: Some respect for Pallas
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction.
I was psyched for Britney Schmidt's talk, on a five-telescope... More»
Oct. 15, 2008 | 09:20 PDT | 16:20 UTC
DPS meeting: Sunday: Three tiny moons of Saturn orbit within rings
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction. Now I'm going in to the talks from Sunday, where I faced a lot of... More»
Oct. 14, 2008 | 15:58 PDT | 22:58 UTC
DPS meeting: Saturday: Enceladus -- it's cooler than we thought
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction. I got distracted by the fires yesterday, but things are looking less... More»
Oct. 13, 2008 | 14:23 PDT | 21:23 UTC
Phoenix "battens down the hatches" for its first dust storm
Looks like the weather is starting to get unfriendly for Phoenix. According to an entry in the Phoenix blog, a dust storm has blotted out enough of Phoenix' sunlight that the lander had to "hunker down for the weekend until the storm clears, taking... More»
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