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Oct. 7, 2009 | 12:07 PDT | 19:07 UTC
DPS: The amazing wound-up C ring, by Josh Colwell
Hooray! Here's my first contribution from a scientist attending the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting this week in Puerto Rico, from Josh Colwell. Josh is an associate professor of physics at the University of Central Florida, where he is... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 11:23 PDT | 18:23 UTC
App review: Moon Globe and Mars Globe: Five stars!!
I'm a recent adopter of the iPhone so have been fiddling around with various Apps -- which, for those of you who don't own an iPhone or iPod Touch, means "software that runs only on the iPhone or Touch." So I apologize to the vast majority of my... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 10:54 PDT | 17:54 UTC
A podcast, a space carnival, and a New Horizons Planetary Radio Q and A
I'm a bit late to posting these three items:
Yesterday's 365 Days of Astronomy podcast was recorded by yours truly, on the anniversary of the impact of 2008 TC3.
You can find Carnival of Space #123 at Weird Warp.
And this week's Planetary Radio... More»
Oct. 6, 2009 | 14:19 PDT | 21:19 UTC
Changes in Titan's southern lakes
Today's science press release out of the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting concerns changes in lakes near Titan's south pole observed during Cassini's mission. In brief, repeat Cassini RADAR observations of the same spots during different... More»
Oct. 6, 2009 | 11:48 PDT | 18:48 UTC
The September-October 2009 issue of The Planetary Report is out
By now Planetary Society members should have gotten (or should shortly get) their copy of the September-October 2009 issue of The Planetary Report in the mail. This one features a fascinating article by Tom Jones and Ellen Stofan on comparative... More»
Oct. 6, 2009 | 09:50 PDT | 16:50 UTC
Prizes for Steve Squyres, Toby Owen, Kelly Beatty, and Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay
One of the highlights of the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society is the awarding of several prizes. The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of planetary... More»
Oct. 5, 2009 | 14:53 PDT | 21:53 UTC
2008 TC3: One year later (a 365 Days of Astronomy podcast)
Tomorrow it'll be one year exactly since the first time ever an astronomer on Earth discovered an object that had a 100% certainty of hitting the planet. Fortunately, the object named 8TA9D69, then renamed 2008 TC3, turned out to be small enough... More»
Oct. 5, 2009 | 11:30 PDT | 18:30 UTC
Another possible piece of evidence for a Rhea ring
One of the more exciting discoveries made by Cassini at Saturn is the possible presence of a ring around one of its moons, Rhea. Evidence for a ring around Rhea comes from the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI); Cassini saw symmetric drops in... More»
Oct. 5, 2009 | 11:13 PDT | 18:13 UTC
Massive MESSENGER Mercury Mosaic
Just in time for MESSENGER's third flyby comes a mosaic from the second flyby! This absolutely enormous mosaic of Mercury's globe represents 66 individual narrow-angle camera frames on Mercury captured by MESSENGER as it departed from its second... More»
Oct. 2, 2009 | 09:49 PDT | 16:49 UTC
MESSENGER gets two planets for the price of one
Here's a pretty shot of Mercury taken by MESSENGER on approach. I've posted such approach images already, though, making this one relatively non-newsworthy...but wait, what's that tiny little speck in the lower left corner of the photo?Credit: NASA... More»
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