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Jul. 17, 2008 | 18:50 PDT | Jul. 18 01:50 UTC
Show this movie to your "non-spacy" friends
The Deep Impact extended mission, EPOXI, just released an amazing movie (Quicktime format, 1 MB) of the Moon transiting Earth, taken from 50 million kilometers away (or very roughly 150 times the distance from Earth to the Moon). You see Earth... More»
Jul. 17, 2008 | 18:41 PDT | Jul. 18 01:41 UTC
Danes on Mars
I was delighted to receive an email nearly two months ago (yes, I'm that behind in responding to email) from Morten Bo Madsen, who I knew from the Mars Exploration Rover mission as "that Danish magnet guy," the fellow responsible for the magnet... More»
Jul. 16, 2008 | 19:19 PDT | Jul. 17 02:19 UTC
A quick update on Phoenix, sol 50: Got ice? Yes!
Phoenix has successfully used its rasp tool to enable the acquisition of a sample of ice-rich soil from the surface of Mars. That's the highlight of this week's Phoenix update. I got in touch with Ray Arvidson (usually referred to as the "digging... More»
Jul. 16, 2008 | 10:45 PDT | 17:45 UTC
A great view of the Phoenix lander
Last week the HiRISE team released a new view of the Phoenix lander on Mars, one taken from a particularly good geometry. There really aren't words to describe what a revolution HiRISE images mean for mapping landing sites. I'll let the photos... More»
Jul. 16, 2008 | 08:45 PDT | 15:45 UTC
Last chances to send your name to the Moon on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
The deadline to sign up to send your name to the Moon was extended, to July 25 -- but summer's going fast, and that day is coming soon. Hurry up! We have a little "tell a friend" feature on our website that you can use to remind your friends and... More»
Jul. 15, 2008 | 14:29 PDT | 21:29 UTC
No Ustream webcast Wednesday
I'm traveling, and visiting with family, and not quite as in touch with news as I'd like to be, so I think I am going to skip doing a Ustream webcast this week. We'll pick it back up next week. Sorry to disappoint!... More»
Jul. 15, 2008 | 10:38 PDT | 17:38 UTC
Buzzed by a binary
Yesterday, 600-meter-diameter asteroid 2008 BT18 and its 200-meter-diameter companion passed within about 2.3 million kilometers of Earth. This is both far away from us (six times the distance from Earth to the Moon and nowhere near as close as... More»
Jul. 15, 2008 | 07:45 PDT | 14:45 UTC
Welcome to the Solar System, Makemake
Actually, Makemake has (probably) been in the solar system for billions of years, long before there were ever humans around who cared about how to name them. But there are humans now, and we care a lot about names, so it's a great relief that the... More»
Jul. 14, 2008 | 11:54 PDT | 18:54 UTC
Earth, nearly 40 years ago
A very long time ago a reader wrote to me to point out that my Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft page was lacking most of the photos taken by the Zond program (the unmanned Soviet lunar program that was flying at the same time as the... More»
Jul. 14, 2008 | 08:59 PDT | 15:59 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of July 14
What's new in the solar system this week?
As has been the trend for the last few weeks, there aren't a lot of close encounters planned for the Cassini mission, which continues its stable once-per-week orbits of Saturn; it just this morning passed... More»
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