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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Mar. 23, 2009 | 13:13 PDT | 20:13 UTC
LPSC, Day 1: Phoenix, morning session
So the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) started this morning in Houston, and I am seriously bummed about the fact that I can't be there this year. I'm hopeful that I'll receive a couple of messages from friends attending the conference... More»
Mar. 23, 2009 | 07:29 PDT | 14:29 UTC
Aurora Expedition: From Seward to Anchorage to Fairbanks
Rosaly Lopes is sending us reports from The Planetary Society's member trip to view the Aurora Borealis in Alaska from March 19-25. Lopes is Lead Scientist for Geophysics and Planetary Geosciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an... More»
Mar. 20, 2009 | 14:45 PDT | 21:45 UTC
Attack of the dust donuts
Yesterday I was browsing through the latest raw images from Cassini and came across a set taken of the rings with Cassini's wide-angle camera that all looked something like this:Click to enlarge >Saturn's ringsCassini took this photo of Saturn's... More»
Mar. 20, 2009 | 10:31 PDT | 17:31 UTC
Aurora Expedition: Arrival
Rosaly Lopes is sending us reports from The Planetary Society's member trip to view the Aurora Borealis in Alaska from March 19-25. Lopes is Lead Scientist for Geophysics and Planetary Geosciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an... More»
Mar. 19, 2009 | 11:25 PDT | 18:25 UTC
Learning about the little things beyond Neptune by studying binaries
The April 2009 issue of Icarus just came out; this is one of the main journals in which you'll find peer-reviewed reports on the most recent work of planetary scientists. One of the papers in this month's issue that incited my interest was by a... More»
Mar. 17, 2009 | 11:09 PDT | 18:09 UTC
Hubble catches a quadruple transit
Once again I find myself posting something that you'll probably see on every other space-related blog today, but how can I resist a new Hubble photo of Saturn? Particularly one that includes no fewer than four moons?Click to enlarge >Hubble catches... More»
Mar. 16, 2009 | 06:31 PDT | 13:31 UTC
Take a field trip to Arizona
This week Jim Bell's student Ryan Anderson, author of the Martian Chronicles blog, is writing about a weeklong field trip to Arizona, one of the most spectacular states (geologically speaking) in the U.S. Field trips are an integral part of the... More»
Mar. 15, 2009 | 07:24 PDT | 14:24 UTC
Carnival of Space #94
This week's Carnival of Space is live over at Out of the Cradle. Check it out!... More»
Mar. 13, 2009 | 16:57 PDT | 23:57 UTC
I have an announcement to make
Longtime readers will recognize the heading of this post. I'm expecting another baby, a second daughter, due in about eight weeks (on May 7). Since I returned from my first maternity leave I've been combining baby care with part-time work writing... More»
Mar. 13, 2009 | 10:39 PDT | 17:39 UTC
Ulysses: Still not dead yet
Not only is ESA's solar orbiter Ulysses still alive, but it actually has had a brief resurgence of science activity over the past couple of months.
First, a review. More than a year ago, on January 15, 2008, during Ulysses' 18th year in space, it... More»
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