Blog Archive

CEO Bill Nye Joins NASA Advisory Council on Education and Public Outreach

Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/25 06:25 CDT | 7 comments

Planetary Society CEO, Bill Nye, just joined the NASA Advisory Council for Education.

Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: 2014 NASA Budget Update and Planetary Defense Conference Recap

Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/25 12:44 CDT | 3 comments

We take your questions on the 2014 NASA Budget, the Planetary Defense Conference, and Mars One.

Awesome interactive solar system exploration history infographic

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/04/25 11:26 CDT | 2 comments

Check out this absolutely wonderful infographic, produced by Olaf Frohn, that summarizes the entire history of solar system exploration.

House NASA Budget Hearing Live-blog

Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/24 12:59 CDT | 3 comments

Live blog of comments and analysis from the House Science Committee's hearing on NASA's 2014 Budget.

An Amazing Evening for Planetary Defense

Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2013/04/23 07:12 CDT | 1 comments

Bill Nye, Bruce Betts, Mat Kaplan, Meteorite Man Geoffrey Notkin and stars of planetary science at the Planetary Defense Conference public event in Flagstaff.

One of my favorite image processing tricks: colorizing images

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/04/23 02:11 CDT | 2 comments

An easy image processing trick -- using lower-resolution color data to colorize a black-and-white photo -- is relied upon by many space missions to keep data volumes low. Here's how to do it.