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Oct. 8, 2009 | 14:25 PDT | 21:25 UTC
A couple of helpful visualizations of LCROSS impact
The visualization studio at Goddard Space Flight Center has just posted some handy simulations of what we can expect the LCROSS impact to look like. First, here's a movie that zooms in from the entire moon to the ejecta curtain in Cabeus; the blue... More»
Oct. 8, 2009 | 12:19 PDT | 19:19 UTC
LCROSS impact preview
Way early tomorrow morning, LCROSS and its Centaur upper stage will crash into the lunar south pole. To the Moon, it'll be just another day; stuff the size of these two spacecraft crashes into the Moon about once a week, on average. (They crash... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 13:15 PDT | 20:15 UTC
Bruce Betts: Apophis is less scary than it used to be
by Bruce Betts
Based on analyses of previously unstudied telescopic data, NASA scientists have released new predictions for the path of the 300-meter-diameter asteroid Apophis. Because they were able to better define Apophis' orbit, scientists... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 13:11 PDT | 20:11 UTC
MESSENGER is fine
The caption to today's image release from the MESSENGER team concerns their long-term campaign to study Mercury's brightness through a range of phase angles. But the real take-home message of this image is that, after the burp in operations when... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 12:07 PDT | 19:07 UTC
DPS: The amazing wound-up C ring, by Josh Colwell
Hooray! Here's my first contribution from a scientist attending the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting this week in Puerto Rico, from Josh Colwell. Josh is an associate professor of physics at the University of Central Florida, where he is... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 11:23 PDT | 18:23 UTC
App review: Moon Globe and Mars Globe: Five stars!!
I'm a recent adopter of the iPhone so have been fiddling around with various Apps -- which, for those of you who don't own an iPhone or iPod Touch, means "software that runs only on the iPhone or Touch." So I apologize to the vast majority of my... More»
Oct. 7, 2009 | 10:54 PDT | 17:54 UTC
A podcast, a space carnival, and a New Horizons Planetary Radio Q and A
I'm a bit late to posting these three items:
Yesterday's 365 Days of Astronomy podcast was recorded by yours truly, on the anniversary of the impact of 2008 TC3.
You can find Carnival of Space #123 at Weird Warp.
And this week's Planetary Radio... More»
Oct. 6, 2009 | 14:19 PDT | 21:19 UTC
Changes in Titan's southern lakes
Today's science press release out of the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting concerns changes in lakes near Titan's south pole observed during Cassini's mission. In brief, repeat Cassini RADAR observations of the same spots during different... More»
Oct. 6, 2009 | 11:48 PDT | 18:48 UTC
The September-October 2009 issue of The Planetary Report is out
By now Planetary Society members should have gotten (or should shortly get) their copy of the September-October 2009 issue of The Planetary Report in the mail. This one features a fascinating article by Tom Jones and Ellen Stofan on comparative... More»
Oct. 6, 2009 | 09:50 PDT | 16:50 UTC
Prizes for Steve Squyres, Toby Owen, Kelly Beatty, and Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay
One of the highlights of the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society is the awarding of several prizes. The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of planetary... More»
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