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Sep. 14, 2010 | 10:22 PDT | 17:22 UTC
More from the Ozma@50 Workshop
by Jon Lomberg
Today's sessions at the Ozma@50 conference stretched the mind as these multidisciplinary gatherings usually do. Chris Impey from the University of Arizona set the stage by summarizing the state of the known Universe in terms of life.... More»
Sep. 14, 2010 | 09:15 PDT | 16:15 UTC
Book review: Older than the Stars
Older than the stars is a book about Big Bang cosmology, solar system formation, and human evolution for young children. It's hard to imagine that such a thing could succeed, but it does. The main text is a repetitive, singsongy, catchy rhyme in... More»
Sep. 13, 2010 | 13:14 PDT | 20:14 UTC
Browse the Cassini RPWS data set
Periodically, usually after I've posted some images pulled out of an image archive, a reader asks me: "What about all the non-image data? Are those public too?" The answer is yes; all of the different kinds of data from space missions are stored... More»
Sep. 13, 2010 | 09:49 PDT | 16:49 UTC
Mars Exploration Challenge Launches Today
by Charlene Anderson
The explorers who will someday walk on Mars are in school today.
Exactly who they are, we don't yet know. But we do know that they are among the students who are captivated by the wonders of science and the challenges of... More»
Sep. 12, 2010 | 20:50 PDT | Sep. 13 03:50 UTC
365 Days of Astronomy Podcast: The Flight of Hayabusa
Today the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast aired my contribution, The Flight of Hayabusa, a 10-minute recap of that dramatic mission. Here's a link to the podcast, and following is the transcript. At the end of the podcast, I promise a video version... More»
Sep. 12, 2010 | 12:26 PDT | 19:26 UTC
Report from SETI workshop marking 50 years since Project Ozma
by Jon Lomberg
I am at NRAO--the National Radio Astronomy Observatory-- in Greenbank, West Virginia for a SETI workshop marking the 50th anniversary of Project Ozma. All Planetary Society members should know that Ozma was the first attempt to... More»
Sep. 10, 2010 | 14:02 PDT | 21:02 UTC
Pretty picture: crescent Dione
I was busy with other projects today, so today's post just asks you to look at this gorgeous three-image mosaic of a crescent Dione, taken during Cassini's most recent flyby a week ago. There are many more fine views from this flyby; go visit the... More»
Sep. 9, 2010 | 21:40 PDT | Sep. 10 04:40 UTC
NASA: NOT Grounded
So I just received my "special anniversary issue" of Discover magazine, to which I've been a subscriber since, I think, 1986. I was elated when I saw that their 30th anniversary feature article, "How Far We've Come," a group effort by, I think, 13... More»
Sep. 9, 2010 | 15:12 PDT | 22:12 UTC
China's Yinghuo-1 Mars Orbiter
A helpful reader has sent me copies of three recently published papers on China's first planetary probe, the Yinghuo-1 orbiter. Yinghuo-1 is planned to launch late next year, hitching a ride to Mars on the Russian Phobos sample return mission,... More»
Sep. 8, 2010 | 11:31 PDT | 18:31 UTC
Early warning for close approaches of two house-sized asteroids
Most of you have probably heard by now of two small asteroids, both in the neighborhood of 10 meters in diameter, recently discovered on trajectories that pass unusually close to Earth. They were discovered on September 5 by the Catalina Sky... More»
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