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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.
Project for Awesome Video On Behalf of the Planetary Society
Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2011/12/22 12:22 CST | 1 comments
WhirledSol posted a cool Youtube tribute to the Planetary Society a year ago, and we just now found it! It has a nice explanation of why we are so passionate about space exploration.
MalloMars Rover: Search for S'more Data
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/16 04:55 CST
Abigail Fraeman took third place in the Washington Post's 2011 Style Invitational edible-art contest with her entry, "MalloMars Rover: Search for S'more Data".
One-astronaut game of baseball in the International Space Station
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/01 07:18 CST
A fun video of Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa playing baseball aboard the ISS.
Photos: Preparations for Curiosity's launch proceeding (don't show these to Blofeld!)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/10/11 11:27 CDT
Photos: Preparations for Curiosity's launch proceeding (don't show these to Blofeld!)
Rapping the elements, by Oortkuiper
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/18 04:45 CDT
Rapping the elements, by Oortkuiper
In Memory of Spirit, and Why Cuteness Matters
Posted by Melissa Rice on 2011/06/15 02:21 CDT
An analysis of "cuteness", and why it matters when talking about science.
Posted by Bill Nye on 2011/05/05 02:32 CDT
Last Saturday, April 30, 2011, the Planetary Society roasted and toasted Lou Friedman -- our cofounder and retiring Executive Director.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/04/08 12:03 CDT
The photo I took of Curiosity's "face" and posted on Monday seems to have tickled a lot of people. I understand it's the subject of a "Photoshop this Mars rover" challenge at Fark, and a couple of the guys over at unmannedspaceflight.com have been having a field day with it.
Encouragement from space for Japan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/03/22 11:05 CDT
I saw this posted by @Akatsuki_JAXA (the Akatsuki Venus mission's official Twitter identity) and thought it was cute so I'm sharing it here.
Happy Valentine's Day from Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/02/14 01:35 CST
I dug around and found something unique: this cool heart-shaped feature on Mars -- my Valentine to you all!
A Worldwide Game of "Telephone" Distorts NASA Meeting
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2011/01/18 11:48 CST | 1 comments
In the last couple of weeks, media outlets around the world have been reporting that NASA recently convened a private meeting at JPL to identify the worst movies ever made, scientifically speaking. It seemed like a good story. The problem was that it wasn't true.
A Marathon Day Two at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Posted by Susan Lendroth on 2010/10/24 10:41 CDT
Day Two of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and it started with a game of "dodge the marathoners".
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 3, and that's it
Posted by Abigail Fraeman on 2010/04/07 12:12 CDT
Our favorite astronaut has moonwalked off the dance floor, and we want to thank him for showing us that you're never too old to try something new. This is my last post -- I hope you've enjoyed reading these little interjections of space-related pop culture.
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 2
Posted by Abigail Fraeman on 2010/03/30 09:01 CDT
It's the second week of ABC's television program Dancing with the Stars, which means two things: (1) Someone will be getting the boot from the competition on Tuesday night, and (2) Our favorite rocket man had a second chance to prove to judge Bruno Tonioli that he could dance without looking like he was still wearing his moon boots.
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 1
Posted by Abigail Fraeman on 2010/03/23 09:08 CDT
This past Monday night Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin appeared as a contestant on the ABC television program "Dancing the Stars," where he showed off the dancing skills he first perfected as a cadet attending "hops" at West Point (as in, "let's go to the hop.")
"He walked on the Moon. Now let's see what those feet can do on Earth."
Posted by Susan Lendroth on 2010/03/19 02:14 CDT
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is about to add another line to his resume when he appears on the television program, "Dancing with the Stars."
Your chance to shoot your own high-resolution pictures of Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/01/20 11:48 CST
The HiRISE public suggestion tool, called HiWish, is a Web site that allows you to log in and select a spot on Mars as a suggestion for where the HiRISE instrument should take an image.
Ted Stryk: Report from New Horizons science team meeting
Posted by Ted Stryk on 2010/01/19 07:55 CST
The New Horizons science team is meeting this week. Ted Stryk was invited to attend the meeting, and he sent the following notes from the first day.
Climb Aboard Apollo 11 Time Machine
Posted by Susan Lendroth on 2009/07/16 01:01 CDT
Grab your bell bottoms and Tang, and travel back to 1969 when Apollo 11's journey to the Moon captivated the world, and Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's boot prints in the lunar dust transformed us into a multi-world species.
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