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Ride along with Cassini at Saturn!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/31 03:17 CST
Ride along with Cassini at Saturn!
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2008/01/31 11:00 CST
The Mars Exploration Rovers celebrated their fourth birthdays and began their fifth year of exploring this month -- and for the first time since the big dust storm hit the headlines last summer, Spirit and Opportunity made the news. It wasn't for the notable exploration or engineering milestone they had just achieved or the discoveries they've helped scientists make about a once very different Mars. It was because of an alleged "Bigfoot" sighting.
First science results from the MESSENGER Mercury flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/30 11:23 CST
First science results from the MESSENGER Mercury flyby
Hubble is pointing at 2007 WD5 (and Mars) tomorrow
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/29 01:40 CST
Hubble is pointing at 2007 WD5 (and Mars) tomorrow
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/28 04:43 CST
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/25 03:28 CST
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Pluto is still a long, long way away
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/25 12:02 CST
Pluto is still a long, long way away
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/23 01:41 CST | 2 comments
The story of a Sasquatch-shaped rock visible in a recent panorama from Spirit is getting a lot of play in the mainstream media, but fortunately, it's not being taken very seriously. (My favorite take on this picture is the lead from the Times Online story about it: "Is it a rock? A trick of Martian light on the eye? Or Osama Bin Laden waving from his barren hideout 300 million miles from planet Earth?")
Playing around with some New Horizons data
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/21 04:30 CST
Playing around with some New Horizons data
MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby Highly Successful
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/18 03:59 CST
MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby Highly Successful
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/17 12:45 CST
Looking over Mercury's limb
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/16 02:31 CST
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/15 11:22 CST
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
MESSENGER image released after all!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/15 06:11 CST
MESSENGER image released after all!
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/15 01:29 CST
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2008/01/15 11:00 CST | 1 comments
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/14 12:45 CST
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/14 11:26 CST
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
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