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The Planetary Society Blog
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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Dec. 20, 2011 | 15:53 PST | 23:53 UTC
Separating fact from speculation about Kepler-20's Earth-sized planets
There's an exciting story circulating today: A large team of researchers has announced in a Nature article the discovery of not one, but two, Earth-sized planets orbiting a star named Kepler-20. Previously, the smallest-reported exoplanet was 1.42... More»
Dec. 19, 2011 | 17:57 PST | Dec. 20 01:57 UTC
Do you have an iPhone? Do you like the Mars rovers? Check out the awesome my3D viewer.
If you have an iPhone, and you are into Mars rovers, I very strongly recommend that you acquire a Hasbro my3D viewer without delay. (If you don't have an iPhone, there's still 3D coolness in this post for you, so keep reading.) The my3D basically... More»
Dec. 17, 2011 | 15:31 PST | 23:31 UTC
NASA, NOAA Spared Further Cuts for Now
By Charlene Anderson
Last night, the U.S. Senate voted down the House of Representatives bill that would have sliced an additional 1.83 percent from discretionary spending accounts – which includes NASA and NOAA.
The Senate did approve spending... More»
Dec. 16, 2011 | 16:18 PST | Dec. 17 00:18 UTC
NASA and NOAA Hit Again by Across-the-Board Budget Cuts
By Charlene Anderson
This year, the United States suffered 12 billion-dollar disasters caused by "extreme weather events" – tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, heat waves, droughts. More than 1,000 people died in these disasters.
To help the victims... More»
Dec. 16, 2011 | 15:55 PST | 23:55 UTC
MalloMars Rover: Search for S'more Data
I got a fun email from one of my former students, Abigail Fraeman, this morning. She said: "Every week the Washington Post runs a contest called the Style Invitational which usually asks entrants to come up with some sort of witty word play in... More»
Dec. 16, 2011 | 11:20 PST | 19:20 UTC
NASA Changes Approach to Send Astronauts Back to Orbit
By Charlene Anderson
This week, NASA announced a change in the way it will procure the development of new commercial crew transportation systems to launch astronauts to the International Space Station. While the change in approach may at first... More»
Dec. 16, 2011 | 09:00 PST | 17:00 UTC
Guest Post: Jason Davis: Expedition 30, SpaceX and Stratolaunch
For many folks around the world, the holiday season means spending time time with friends and family. It may seem like a lonely time to be an astronaut or cosmonaut isolated in the International Space Station, 400 kilometers above the Earth's... More»
Dec. 15, 2011 | 10:18 PST | 18:18 UTC
What do we know about planetary rings? Quite a lot, actually!
Short version of this blog entry: for everything you ever wanted to know about planetary ring systems, read a new review article by Matt Tiscareno titled, laconically, "Planetary Rings," now available on arXiv. (Thanks to Luke Dones for the... More»
Dec. 14, 2011 | 08:37 PST | 16:37 UTC
Video: Comet Lovejoy entered SOHO's LASCO C3 field of view this morning!
Jason Davis has been following the sunward dive of comet Lovejoy, and this morning he put together a spiffy animation of the comet entering the field of view of one of SOHO's Sun-monitoring cameras. SOHO has three coronagraphs, cameras built with... More»
Dec. 13, 2011 | 09:29 PST | 17:29 UTC
Anahita's first eclipse
So there was a lunar eclipse on Friday, and being on the West Coast and enjoying clear skies we were well positioned for a pretty view of the Moon entering eclipse and then setting. But it was all happening painfully early, with the Moon first... More»
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