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The Scale of the Universe, by Cary and Michael Huang
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/02/16 10:14 CST
Cary and Michael Huang present a basic "powers of ten" visualization starting at human scale from which you can scrub downward smaller than quarks or upward to the scale of the entire universe.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/02/09 12:26 CST
A week ago, the New Horizons team announced an effort to gather signatures in support of a petition to the U.S. Postal Service to commemorate the historic flyby of Pluto on a stamp.�
Geek craft: GRAIL twins Ebb and Flow in plastic canvas
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/25 12:10 CST
Geek craft: GRAIL twins Ebb and Flow in plastic canvas
The Dawn spacecraft, modeled in an unlikely medium
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/17 02:04 CST | 3 comments
The Dawn spacecraft, modeled in an unlikely medium
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.











