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Aug. 3, 2008 | 15:10 PDT | 22:10 UTC
Apparently there's something more exciting yet to be announced by Phoenix
EDIT AGAIN: The Science rumor wasn't correct either. Go here for more info.
EDIT: Here's a reason for the hush-hush about this news -- according to Leonard David, they're trying to keep whatever it is quiet so that it can go through peer-review... More»
Aug. 3, 2008 | 08:47 PDT | 15:47 UTC
Carnival of Space # 65, and more
It's been a couple of weeks since I've been on the ball with an on-time contribution to the Carnival of Space, but I finally remembered this week. Go check it out at 21st Century Waves.
And I haven't done a roundup of the new stuff on our website... More»
Aug. 1, 2008 | 11:17 PDT | 18:17 UTC
The August 1 solar eclipse from space
I probably should have posted something about today's solar eclipse before now, but I had assumed that, if you lived anywhere near the path of the eclipse, you would likely have heard about it, unless you live under a rock, in which case you're... More»
Aug. 1, 2008 | 10:46 PDT | 17:46 UTC
Opportunity casts a long shadow
This is just a beautiful image. The rovers can't step back and take photos of themselves, but once in a while they do the next best thing, capturing themselves in silhouette in a long morning or evening shadow. This one gets both the rover and... More»
Jul. 31, 2008 | 13:58 PDT | 20:58 UTC
Highlights of the Phoenix sol 64 press conference
The Phoenix mission held a televised press conference this morning. A. J. S. Rayl will be writing up a detailed report later, so I'll just post some of the highlights here.
Michael Meyer was there from NASA Headquarters to formally announce that... More»
Jul. 30, 2008 | 17:02 PDT | Jul. 31 00:02 UTC
Proof for liquids on Titan
There's an article just published in Nature by the Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) team, led by Robert Brown, titled "The identification of liquid ethane in Titan's Ontario Lacus." The associated press release is titled... More»
Jul. 30, 2008 | 10:13 PDT | 17:13 UTC
New photos of Phobos!
A week ago today Mars Express flew past Phobos for its closest encounter yet, and it snapped some gorgeous views onto the trailing hemisphere of the moon. I don't have time right now to say much more, but here's a photo, which I've rotated so that... More»
Jul. 30, 2008 | 07:09 PDT | 14:09 UTC
Ustream chat archived
Watch my UStream webcast about what Cassini has told us about Enceladus here. You can download the chat log and the powerpoint presentation through the "Video Archives" link to the left. Note I forgot to turn on my mic so there's no sound for the... More»
Jul. 29, 2008 | 12:09 PDT | 19:09 UTC
E pur si muove
Well, that's the biggest earthquake I've felt since moving to southern California. Although not a Big One, it was long -- I counted more than thirty seconds of ground shaking -- and it was forceful enough for some precariously balanced stuff to... More»
Jul. 29, 2008 | 11:39 PDT | 18:39 UTC
A launch slip for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (not their fault)
Bruce Betts sent me some notes he took when he attended the NLSI Lunar Science Conference held at NASA's Ames Research Center last week. Included in his notes was the news (reported already elsewhere) that the launch of Lunar Reconnaissance... More»
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