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  • Aug. 24, 2008 | 07:40 PDT | 14:40 UTC
    Three great new pages on Don Davis' website
    Don Davis is a space artist who takes the question of color in space very seriously. So I was very happy to get an email from him a few weeks ago, telling me that he had revamped and updated several pages on his website pertaining to colors in... More»
  • Aug. 22, 2008 | 13:12 PDT | 20:12 UTC
    Carnival of Space #68
    Crowlspace is hosting this week's Carnival of Space. Check it out!... More»
  • Aug. 21, 2008 | 14:17 PDT | 21:17 UTC
    Tweet Tweet Tweet
    As Phoenix approached Mars, it suddenly acquired a voice and began broadcasting status updates to Earth via an Internet service called Twitter. For those of you not in the know (a group that, admittedly, included me, before I was forced to figure... More»
  • Aug. 21, 2008 | 08:21 PDT | 15:21 UTC
    Watching the clouds drift by
    Last week in my "what's up" roundup I noted that that in the previous week's Mars weather update the MARCI camera team on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had reported more water-ice clouds appearing in the equatorial regions of Mars, that is, in the... More»
  • Aug. 20, 2008 | 16:39 PDT | 23:39 UTC
    Things that probably won't ever be called planets, but maybe they should
    EDIT: I have now posted a single-image version of the scale asteroids and comets montage for your downloading pleasure. --ESL The longer I listened to the "great planet debate" last week, the more strongly I felt that if it were up to me, I would... More»
  • Aug. 19, 2008 | 08:06 PDT | 15:06 UTC
    Beautiful mosaic from the Enceladus encounter
    In an amazingly quick piece of work, the imaging team has already assembled the 8-frame mosaic captured by Cassini as it receded from its close encounter with Enceladus last week. This is a really difficult piece of work. There are 32 separate... More»
  • Aug. 16, 2008 | 15:12 PDT | 22:12 UTC
    What's up in the solar system for the week of August 18
    I'm posting my weekly update a bit early because I'm going on vacation this week. I was writing like crazy last week to have stuff ready for posting next week, so there will still be posts to read, but if you're wondering next week why I'm not... More»
  • Aug. 15, 2008 | 09:42 PDT | 16:42 UTC
    Phoenix sol 79: TEGA oven 7 opened
    Images returned from sol 79 show that the Phoenix team has commanded open the doors over oven number 7. This is the fourth (out of eight) TEGA oven to be opened. It's on the same side of the instrument as the problematic doors on ovens 4 and 5. ... More»
  • Aug. 15, 2008 | 09:04 PDT | 16:04 UTC
    First image of a speck of Mars dust from the Atomic Force Microscope
    Hats off to the team that drives the Atomic Force Microscope within Phoenix; on sol 69 they finally achieved an image of a Mars dust particle, showing details of its shape as small as 100 nanometers across. I pointed before to a neat Phoenix Diary... More»
  • Aug. 14, 2008 | 20:42 PDT | Aug. 15 03:42 UTC
    Carnival of Space #67
    David Chandler is hosting the Carnival of Space this week over at Discovery Space. Check it out!... More»