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Gaia Prepares for Ultimate Galactic Census

Posted by Jason Davis on 2013/10/06 10:42 CDT

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft is set to embark on a five-year, billion-star census next month.

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Planetary evangelism

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/10/06 02:51 CDT | 5 comments

It's so exciting when the small talk that lubricates social interactions with strangers turns into an excited discussion of space and science.

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Congratulations to LADEE on arrival at the Moon!

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/10/06 08:33 CDT | 1 comments

After a one-month journey from Earth to the Moon, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) safely entered orbit at 10:57 UTC today, October 6.

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Photos: India's Mars Orbiter Mission arrives at launch site

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/10/05 02:39 CDT

ISRO posted five photos from the momentous day of the Mars Orbiter Mission's shipment to Sriharikota.

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On space kindness and the Chelyabinsk meteor

Posted by Vitaliy Egorov on 2013/10/04 07:04 CDT | 1 comments

Through an act of kindness, we now have images of the Chelyabinsk meteor trail from Russia's Elektro-L satellite.

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Government shutdown closes 3 of 4 National Radio Astronomy Observatories

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/10/04 06:38 CDT | 3 comments

The shutdown of the federal government continues to claim casualties. Today, the Green Bank Telescope, Very Large Array, and Very Long Baseline Arrays all shut their doors, blinding us to the radio sky and scuttling long-term research projects.

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The 45th Division for Planetary Sciences meeting, Oct 6-11, 2013

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/10/04 03:21 CDT

The annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society begins on Sunday and runs for a week in Denver, Colorado. I'll be attending all week, bringing you the latest news from across the solar system.

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Google+ Hangout with ESA about Europe's Mars exploration

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/10/04 09:00 CDT

The European Space Agency invited me to join Mars Express project scientist Olivier Witasse, and spacecraft oeprations manager Michel Denis for a Hangout on Europe's recent and future exploration of Mars and Phobos.

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NASA's MAVEN Mission Spared from Shutdown

Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/10/03 04:40 CDT | 3 comments

Launch preparations will resume for NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, due to launch to Mars on November 18th. Work had previously been suspended, potentially causing the spacecraft to miss its once-every-26-month launch opportunity.

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Super cool Phobos and Deimos animations from Mars Express

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/10/03 02:17 CDT

I've been delving in to the Mars Express image archive this week, checking out its images of Phobos, and found a couple of really cool time-series of images to assemble into animations.

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