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Results of ten Venus years of cloud tracking by Venus Express
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/08/29 10:55 CDT | 4 comments
What Venus Express' Visual Monitoring Camera images of Venus have taught us about the motions of Venus' atmosphere.
"Water on Mars" in Sky & Telescope
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/08/08 11:44 CDT | 7 comments
A shameless plug for my article on "Water on Mars," the cover story in the September issue of Sky & Telescope.
Is the study of astrophysics self-indulgent?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/07/23 09:55 CDT | 15 comments
Is the study of astrophysics self-indulgent? I was caught aback by that assertion, made by a recent graduate in the latest issue of the Brown University alumni magazine.
Report from the Starship Century Conference: Monday
Posted by Jon Lomberg on 2013/05/21 10:42 CDT | 11 comments
This week Jon Lomberg is attending the Starship Century conference, which brings together scientists, writers, and futurists to imagine the future of interstellar travel. The organizers are Greg and Jim Benford, and among the attendees are: David Brin, Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge, Joe Haldeman, Alan Steele, Geoffrey Landis, Freeman Dyson, Jill Tarter, Paul Davies, Nalaka Gunawardene, and Daniel Richter.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/04/04 11:37 CDT | 29 comments
I've been to a lot of conferences and seen a lot of talks and it's amazing to me how a bad presentation can get in the way of really exciting science. Here are my recommendations for how to approach a talk, and tips and tricks to make your talk better.
An editorial on the LPSC 2013 oral sessions
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/03/28 12:26 CDT | 6 comments
In which I complain just a little bit about talks at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Scientists: Register to be a Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Microblogger!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/01/30 01:20 CST
Hey planetary scientists! Many of you know that the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) is a great meeting in a venue that is perfect except for one thing: Internet access is positively lousy. So I'm really excited that a solution that I advocated to conference organizers is being adopted.
The Curiosity Kerfuffle: the big (and increasing) difference between data and discovery
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/12/03 03:12 CST | 17 comments
I'm in San Francisco, reporting from the American Geophysical Union meeting. This morning, there was a much-anticipated press briefing featuring the latest results from Curiosity.
A dispatch from J-school: two short videos
Posted by Jason Davis on 2012/10/23 11:05 CDT
Two short videos produced by Jason Davis on astronomy and planetary science work taking place at the University of Arizona.
Can tweets recap a new media space workshop?
Posted by Jason Davis on 2012/07/24 10:01 CDT | 1 comments
Recapping the 2012 University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics new media workshop with attendees' tweets.
A plea to Mars Science Laboratory team members: write your experiences down
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/07/17 10:04 CDT | 2 comments
In which I beg the people working on Curiosity to write about what happens in the coming weeks, even if you never share those writings publicly.
Happy LPSC Deadline Day, especially to composers of abstract haiku
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/10 06:33 CST
January 10, 2012 was a high-stress day for many in the world of planetary geology: the deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC). One creative coping mechanism for the stress of completing the LPSC abstract submission process is the tradition of capturing the essence of one's work in the seventeen syllables of the Haiku form.
Eris and embargoes (or: don't fear Ingelfinger!)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/10/12 04:49 CDT
Eris and embargoes (or: don't fear Ingelfinger!)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/16 08:42 CDT
In their own words
The role of press releases in space news coverage
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/11 12:05 CDT
The role of press releases in space news coverage
The 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/03/07 11:16 CST
Science is all about asking questions, coming up with ideas that might explain the answers, and then poking at those ideas to see if they work. Scientists spend much of their time in solitary research working out those ideas. But they also devote big chunks of time to meetings where they pitch their ideas and see what their peers think of them.
Bill Nye Connects with Space People at IAC
Posted by Susan Lendroth on 2010/09/30 12:23 CDT
The 61st International Astronautical Congress (IAC)is being held in Prague in the Czech Republic, and Bill Nye is attending on behalf of the Planetary Society.
Posted by 5thstar on 2009/06/26 05:39 CDT
A group of Japanese astronauts and astronaut applicants, all members of a mailing list called "Astronaut2008," got together in Tokyo.
Europlanet : CoRoT - Preliminary Results
Posted by Doug Ellison on 2007/08/20 03:48 CDT
ESA's planet-hunting satellite COROT bagged its first exoplanet in observations of the star COROT-Exo-1.
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