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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»
Jun. 23, 2008 | 11:15 PDT | 18:15 UTC
Ustream chat Wednesday June 25 at 12:00 PDT / 19:00 UTC
Join me live for a video chat this Wednesday, June 25, at 12:00 my time / 19:00 UT at my Ustream homepage. I'll probably focus on the current status of Phoenix for half an hour, then open it up to any topic that you find to be of interest after... More»
Jun. 20, 2008 | 14:43 PDT | 21:43 UTC
Yep, it's ice!
The Phoenix mission confirmed it this morning: the disappearing act pulled by those chunks of bright material in the Dodo trench pretty much nails the identification of the bright material as ice, which is great news for the mission. Ice is what... More»
Jun. 20, 2008 | 14:42 PDT | 21:42 UTC
Carnival of Space #59
Go to scienceblogs.com to check out this week's Carnival of Space. Hey! I got firsties this week!
And while you're wandering around the Web, you can take in a few new offerings from our website:Mat Kaplan interviews Ralph Lorenz on his latest... More»
Jun. 19, 2008 | 15:36 PDT | 22:36 UTC
Phoenix sol 24: A disappearance from Dodo?
As promised yesterday, Phoenix' sol 24 seems to have been a very busy one for imaging. I've been checking the raw images site regularly throughout the day (using the handy-dandy download tool Mike Howard built into his Midnight Mars Browser... More»
Jun. 19, 2008 | 11:42 PDT | 18:42 UTC
Women's names in the solar system
A while back I wrote about the way that women's names have been assigned to maps throughout the solar system. Because features on Venus may only be named for women, factual and fictional, there are precious few women's names to be found on features... More»
Jun. 18, 2008 | 15:25 PDT | 22:25 UTC
An anomaly on Phoenix Sol 22, but the spacecraft is in no danger
Today I received a press release from the University of Arizona about Phoenix' sol 22 activities. It talked about the new trench called "Snow White" in the Wonderland area (which I wrote about yesterday), and mentioned that TEGA was continuing... More»
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