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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Aug. 16, 2008 | 15:12 PDT | 22:12 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 18
I'm posting my weekly update a bit early because I'm going on vacation this week. I was writing like crazy last week to have stuff ready for posting next week, so there will still be posts to read, but if you're wondering next week why I'm not... More»
Aug. 15, 2008 | 09:42 PDT | 16:42 UTC
Phoenix sol 79: TEGA oven 7 opened
Images returned from sol 79 show that the Phoenix team has commanded open the doors over oven number 7. This is the fourth (out of eight) TEGA oven to be opened. It's on the same side of the instrument as the problematic doors on ovens 4 and 5. ... More»
Aug. 15, 2008 | 09:04 PDT | 16:04 UTC
First image of a speck of Mars dust from the Atomic Force Microscope
Hats off to the team that drives the Atomic Force Microscope within Phoenix; on sol 69 they finally achieved an image of a Mars dust particle, showing details of its shape as small as 100 nanometers across. I pointed before to a neat Phoenix Diary... More»
Aug. 14, 2008 | 20:42 PDT | Aug. 15 03:42 UTC
Carnival of Space #67
David Chandler is hosting the Carnival of Space this week over at Discovery Space. Check it out!... More»
Aug. 14, 2008 | 13:36 PDT | 20:36 UTC
My thoughts on the Great Planet Debate
I've been listening in all day to the Great Planet Debate conference being held at the Applied Physics Laboratory. The scientific presentations have been fascinating; I especially enjoyed the one from Sara Seager describing the diversity of... More»
Aug. 13, 2008 | 16:07 PDT | 23:07 UTC
Phoenix sol 76 update: Digging at Neverland, Cupboard, Stone Soup, Snow White, Burn Alive; samples for microscope and TEGA 5; and more
I am way overdue with an update on the daily activities of the Phoenix lander; that whole perchlorate kerfuffle last week threw me off of my routine. So here is an attempt to do a whirlwind update of the last two weeks on the mission. To set the... More»
Aug. 13, 2008 | 11:13 PDT | 18:13 UTC
Ustream Chat Wednesday, August 13 at 1900 UTC: Enceladus and Phoenix updates: archived
In today's Ustream chat we roamed across the surface of Enceladus as revealed by Cassini during its recent flyby. Go to the webcast archive page for a link to the show and the chat log.... More»
Aug. 12, 2008 | 21:55 PDT | Aug. 13 04:55 UTC
More Enceladus image fun
Wow, I'm going to have a lot to talk about tomorrow during my Ustream chat!
At about 7:15 my time a great many more of the Enceladus flyby images hit the Cassini raw images website. I've put all the remaining Skeet Shoot images on this page, and a... More»
Aug. 12, 2008 | 17:06 PDT | Aug. 13 00:06 UTC
Enceladus is so close I can touch it
At least that's how it seems -- ridges, valleys, sunlit peaks and shadowed hollows, all covered with boulders, in amazingly sharp focus considering Cassini had to spin at top speed to compensate for just part of the amazing 18 kilometer-per-second... More»
Aug. 12, 2008 | 12:39 PDT | 19:39 UTC
Enceladus flyby images are starting to appear
Cassini's flyby of Enceladus seems to have ended with the spacecraft in good health and lots of data being returned to Earth. The first images are now beginning to show up on the raw images website, and, interestingly, they are pictures taken at... More»
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