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Jun. 30, 2008 | 09:29 PDT | 16:29 UTC
Dawn Journal: Cruising past Mars' orbit
Here's our monthly checkup with the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. Thanks Marc! --ESL
by Dr. Marc D. Rayman
Dear Dawnlettantes,
Now using an ion thruster that had been powered off since October,... More»
Jun. 27, 2008 | 14:31 PDT | 21:31 UTC
Strange things under Phoenix
I've received two questions very frequently from readers: "Have they taken another look at Holy Cow yet to see if it's changed?" and "What were those splotches on the leg of the lander in the first image of Holy Cow?" Well, I can now tell you that... More»
Jun. 27, 2008 | 10:17 PDT | 17:17 UTC
Carnival of Space number 60
This week's carnival of space can be found at Slacker Astronomy.
And, while I'm posting links, here's some new stuff on our website...
Amateur astronomers: we've just announced the next round of Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants, so prepare... More»
Jun. 26, 2008 | 15:11 PDT | 22:11 UTC
Phoenix sol 30 update: Alkaline soil, not very salty, "nothing extreme" about it!
Or: "pHoenix!" (Sorry. MECA team leader Michael Hecht is responsible for that joke.)
There was a teleconference on the status of the Phoenix mission up to sol 30 today. (Like all of these media teleconferences, if you'd like to listen to it... More»
Jun. 26, 2008 | 12:09 PDT | 19:09 UTC
Cassini camera data has been released through September 30, 2007
The Cassini camera team has delivered early on the scheduled July 1 release of data to the Planetary Data System, the archive from which all researchers (and members of the public) can locate and retrieve data from nearly every NASA (and some... More»
Jun. 25, 2008 | 13:34 PDT | 20:34 UTC
Ustream chat archived
Thanks to the 90-plus people who tuned in to see today's Ustream webcast! And also to Richard Hendricks for serving as question wrangler and spammer basher.
I'm finally following through on something I've been intending to do for a while, which is... More»
Jun. 24, 2008 | 16:39 PDT | 23:39 UTC
A milestone for the Phoenix mission success panorama
I mentioned at the end of my earlier blog entry that on sol 28 Phoenix downlinked the last of the images necessary to make the first complete 360-degree color view around the lander. That's true, sort of. Here's the first attempt I've seen to... More»
Jun. 24, 2008 | 10:59 PDT | 17:59 UTC
Phoenix sol 29 update: Anomalies here and there, but minimum mission success is on the horizon
I just got off the phone with Phoenix mission manager Barry Goldstein, who filled me in on what's been happening with Phoenix over the last few sols. In a nutshell:The sol 22 anomaly is now understood; it was a two-part bug, the first part of which... More»
Jun. 24, 2008 | 09:06 PDT | 16:06 UTC
What's new with Cosmos 2?
Lou Friedman has just posted an update on the next solar sail mission. We launched Cosmos 1 to test the principle of steering a spacecraft using light pressure back in 2005 but our launch vehicle failed. We're planning on building a similar... More»
Jun. 23, 2008 | 15:38 PDT | 22:38 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of June 23
Let's check in on what's going on with our trusty robots around the solar system.
Cassini continues its stable once-per-week orbits of Saturn; it just this morning passed periapsis (its closest approach) of Rev 73, crossing to the sunlit side of... More»
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