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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Jul. 11, 2008 | 10:47 PDT | 17:47 UTC
"Ulysses is not dead yet."
ESA issued a statement in February saying that, as Ulysses' radioisotope thermoelectric generators were running out of power, the spacecraft would likely die some time this year. The actual death blow to the spacecraft was likely to be the freezing... More»
Jul. 11, 2008 | 10:11 PDT | 17:11 UTC
Hey, Lou! You get a medal!
Congratulations to the Society's esteemed leader Lou Friedman, who was awarded on July 7 (his birthday!) the Yuri Gagarin medal, by The Russian Federation of Cosmonautics. Lou was pleased to get the prize but was more excited about the fact that... More»
Jul. 11, 2008 | 06:42 PDT | 13:42 UTC
Progress on the Phoenix Mission Success Panorama
I mentioned on Wednesday that Mark Lemmon said he had pronounced the data acquisition for Phoenix' Mission Success Panorama to be complete -- and I predicted we'd see a version from one of the amateurs out there on the Internet before it came out... More»
Jul. 10, 2008 | 12:09 PDT | 19:09 UTC
More things to see in the amazing HiRISE image of Phoenix' descent
I have posted several times about the amazing photo captured by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's spy camera in space, HiRISE, of Phoenix under its parachute as it descended. There have been two common questions I've received about the photo: was there... More»
Jul. 10, 2008 | 10:25 PDT | 17:25 UTC
Carnival of Space #62
Dave Mosher at Space Disco hosts the Carnival of Space this week, and he did it in a neato easy-to-read slideshow format.
What's new on the Society's website? Lou Friedman writes in a new "From the Executive Director" letter about The Planetary... More»
Jul. 9, 2008 | 17:59 PDT | Jul. 10 00:59 UTC
Water on the Moon, a big impact on Mars
There's a story in this week's issue of the journal Nature that says that there are parts of the lunar mantle (the part of the interior of the moon that is made of rock, as opposed to the deeper interior, which is made of metal) that contain "a few... More»
Jul. 9, 2008 | 14:19 PDT | 21:19 UTC
Today's Ustream webcast archived
Thanks to the 180 or so of you who tuned in to my webcast today! You can view the chat log and through my video archives page (which is also available from the link on the left nav bar ... More»
Jul. 9, 2008 | 07:46 PDT | 14:46 UTC
Phoenix sol 43 update: Lots of imaging, hacking at Snow White, first touch for TECP, and more
I called Mark Lemmon, head of the Phoenix imaging team, this morning for an update on what's been going on with Phoenix since we last checked in, on sol 36. It's been an eventful week. Here's the highlights:The Mission Success Panorama is, as of... More»
Jul. 9, 2008 | 06:39 PDT | 13:39 UTC
Opportunity route map update
Eduardo Tesheiner was kind enough to send me an updated version of his route map for Opportunity so we can get a sense of just how close the rover is getting to Cape Verde. If you look at the map below, you can see that the Cape now stretches... More»
Jul. 8, 2008 | 18:48 PDT | Jul. 9 01:48 UTC
A summer of fun for space students
When you were in college, what did you during the summer? I got a summer job as a camp counselor a couple of years, and traveled a bit. If you are the kind of kid who won a position as one of the Red Rover Goes to Mars Student Astronauts, however,... More»
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