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More Evidence for a Habitable Mars from EGU 2013
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/08 06:36 CDT | 3 comments
NASA's Curiosity rover has acquired further evidence that Mars's atmosphere was once dense enough to support liquid water on the surface.
Will the Sequester Take an Outsized Bite from Planetary Science at NASA?
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/06 09:11 CDT | 2 comments
Despite a $223 million boost from Congress this year, NASA's Planetary Science Division may not be allowed to use that money so NASA can prevent cuts in other programs.
Pretty pictures: Gliding flight for SpaceShipTwo
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/04/05 12:46 CDT | 8 comments
Some beautiful photos of a recent gliding flight test of SpaceShipTwo.
Covering the European Geosciences Conference in Vienna
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/04 05:50 CDT | 3 comments
Live in Vienna? Attending EGU? I'll be covering the conference next week for the Society.
April 12, 2013: Yuri’s Night Rocks the Planet!!!
Posted by Danielle Hannah on 2013/04/04 03:15 CDT | 2 comments
On April 12, 2013, the world’s biggest space party will take place across the globe. So far there are 190 parties in 32 countries on 6 continents registered and counting!!
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.
What To Watch For In The 2014 Budget
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/03 06:34 CDT | 3 comments
Here are the big items to watch for when the White House proposes its 2014 budget on April 10th.
Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: Programming in the Sciences
Thursday, Apr 4th at noon PDT/1900 UTC
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/04/03 02:30 CDT
Thursday, Apr 4th at noon PDT/1900 UTC we continue our weekly Live Hangouts. Join us this week with Chase Million, founder of Million Concepts, a company devoted to providing high-quality code to scientists.
LPSC 2013: Seeing in Permanent Shadow
Posted by Michael Poston on 2013/04/03 01:21 CDT | 1 comments
The case for water ice hidden in permanently shadowed regions at the north pole of the planet Mercury received another boost recently. On Wednesday March 20, 2013 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Nancy Chabot presented the very first visible-light images of what is in the shadows of these polar craters.
Posted by Van Kane on 2013/04/03 01:08 CDT | 6 comments
Aviation Week and Space Technology reports that the President’s next budget request for NASA will include funds to begin developing a mission to bring an asteroid to the Earth-moon system. The initial goal will be to provide a destination for a manned mission to an asteroid, but if the idea works, it could kick start asteroid mining.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/04/03 11:14 CDT | 2 comments
Some silly fun to brighten your Wednesday.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Hunkers Down for Solar Conjunction, Final Science on Matijevic Hill
Sols 3236 - 3265
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2013/04/02 02:07 CDT | 5 comments
As the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission trekked further into its tenth year of exploring the Red Planet, Opportunity spent the month of March finishing up its science investigations on Matijevic Hill.
Book Review: Cosmochemistry, by Harry McSween and Gary Huss
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/04/02 01:43 CDT | 1 comments
This very accessible textbook begins at the beginning, explaining how all the things in the solar system were made from star stuff.
Ice Cap to Ice Cap with Mars Odyssey
Posted by Bill Dunford on 2013/04/02 11:24 CDT | 2 comments
Explore the mysterious Martian landscape with the workhorse of the Solar System, Mars Odyssey.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/04/01 02:36 CDT | 2 comments
India's Mars Orbiter Mission has been much in the news in Asian media over the last week as a result of the release of ISRO's Annual Report 2012-2013. Also, ISRO and NASA issued a joint statement from Washington a week ago endorsing interagency cooperation in the space sciences
Dawn journal: Staying warm en route to Ceres
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2013/03/30 10:05 CDT | 4 comments
Marc Rayman's latest Dawn journal explains the temperature adjustments engineers make to save power and keep the spacecraft warm.
A Major Political Victory for The Planetary Society
New Funds for 2013 Restore $223 million to Planetary Science at NASA
Posted by Bill Nye on 2013/03/29 02:18 CDT
The Planetary Society just achieved a major victory in our efforts to ensure strong funding for NASA’s planetary exploration.
Sols 3237-3262 - March 4-29, 2013
Posted by Larry Crumpler on 2013/03/29 11:27 CDT
Flash memory or computer problems oddly occurred on both Curiosity and Opportunity around Feb 27. One possibility is that a large solar flare resulted in radiation at Mars sufficient to temporarily corrupt the memory on both rovers.
Curiosity update, sol 227: Some sharpshooting and a dusty deck
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/03/29 10:50 CDT | 4 comments
Curiosity is back to science operations, though the activities are limited in scope by the fact that conjunction is fast approaching. Here's a couple of neat images from sol 227.
Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: Reports from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/03/28 02:00 CDT | 5 comments
On Thursday at noon PDT / 1900 UTC I'll report on some of my favorite findings from LPSC, and answer your questions about the latest planetary science.
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