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The Planetary Society Weblog
Archive
Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Jul. 27, 2007 | 09:51 PDT | 16:51 UTC
A horrible day in space
Ordinarily I simply do not mention bad news; there are plenty of people out there who spend plenty of time concentrating on bad news, and (in my opinion) not enough time covering good news, so I keep away from it. But yesterday was such an awful... More»
Jul. 26, 2007 | 21:46 PDT | Jul. 27 04:46 UTC
Jim Bell to be on NPR's Science Friday
Planetary Society Board member and rover camera maven Jim Bell will be on National Public Radio's Science Friday show -- catch the podcast, or for those of you who are in the US, check your local public radio station's website for listings! He'll... More»
Jul. 26, 2007 | 07:44 PDT | 14:44 UTC
The best view of Helene yet
Cassini's current orbit has been a great one for the imaging of Saturn's icy satellites; there have been lots of images of Tethys, Dione, Enceladus, Hyperion, and a bunch of mutual events of various moons with each other and/or Saturn and its rings.... More»
Jul. 25, 2007 | 15:08 PDT | 22:08 UTC
Venus as seen from two different spacecraft
Over the last week or so, ESA, NASA, and the Applied Physics Laboratory have released some preliminary images from ESA's Venus Express and NASA/APL's MESSENGER missions, which performed simultaneous observations of Venus on June 5. Venus Express... More»
Jul. 25, 2007 | 10:24 PDT | 17:24 UTC
A backlog of 400 emails: ESA and NASA; MGS failure; Iapetus; Saturn's D ring
What with parenthood and summer travel and sickness I've gotten horrifically behind on processing my email. My inbox -- an erstwhile sparsely populated place -- contains almost 400 items, a mishmash of press releases, blog readers' comments,... More»
Jul. 24, 2007 | 10:11 PDT | 17:11 UTC
Canned Phoenix, anyone?
The last time I posted photos of Phoenix was two months ago, and they've made a lot of progress since then, preparing for their launch.
First, here's a neat photo from about a month ago, when they were showing off Phoenix to the media. We're... More»
Jul. 23, 2007 | 15:04 PDT | 22:04 UTC
Mars Exploration Rovers update: Spirit and Opportunity are both still talking to Earth
As I mentioned in my 2007 Mars dust storm update on Friday, both Spirit and Opportunity have been commanded into modes where they consume as little power as possible -- no driving, no arm movements, no science, and, most recently, some... More»
Jul. 23, 2007 | 09:55 PDT | 16:55 UTC
Venus Express PFS fails to respond to a swift kick
Venus Express has been in orbit since April 11, 2006, and all but one of its instruments have been returning lots of data. There's been one fly in the ointment, however, and that's the failure of its Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS). The... More»
Jul. 20, 2007 | 22:46 PDT | Jul. 21 05:46 UTC
The 2007 Martian Dust Storm: Crisis for Some, Opportunity for Others
I should have posted about this earlier, but real life intervened. You may have heard that there is currently a dust storm at Mars. As long as you're orbiting safely above the storm, this is merely of academic interest. But if you're roving below... More»
Jul. 20, 2007 | 07:14 PDT | 14:14 UTC
Kaguya (SELENE) launch delayed
According to a JAXA press release, the launch of the Kaguya lunar satellite, previously planned for August 16, is being delayed for an unknown length of time. Here's the explanation:When a ground test was prepared for another satellite (Wideband... More»
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