A.J.S. Rayl • October 31, 2010
For the Mars Exploration Rovers, October was a lot like September, which was a lot like August: Spirit continued hibernating at Gusev Crater or so it appears since the rover didn't phone home; and Opportunity picked up the pace to Endeavour Crater again, setting new driving records and marking more milestones along the way.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 29, 2010
Comet Hartley 2, the target for Deep Impact's close flyby (now just six days away!) made its closest approach to Earth on October 20, at a distance of 17.7 million kilometers.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 29, 2010
The Cassini Raw Images Website always offers rewards to the browser. This evening I found the raw images necessary to create this color composite, showing the hazy orange moon Titan, the mid-sized icy moon Dione, and the tiny rock Prometheus all at the same time.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 28, 2010
(I promise that this post will get around to the subject of space exploration in a couple of paragraphs.)
Emily Lakdawalla • October 27, 2010
The major event of the month will be, of course, Deep Impact's flyby of small comet Hartley 2, which happens at 13:50 UTC on November 4. But there's some other things to take note of.
Louis D. Friedman • October 27, 2010
In mid-October, I attended the First Moscow Solar System Symposium. Its focus was mostly on Phobos science and plans for next year's launch of the Phobos Sample Return Mission (also known as Phobos-Grunt), on which The Planetary Society will be flying the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 27, 2010
Where's the Cassini Saturn orbiter going to be in the next week -- or hundred weeks? It's all already planned out.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 26, 2010
175th Carnival of Space!? That means the Carnival of Space has been going on for nearly 4 years. Or just about 2 Mars years. Pretty amazing.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 26, 2010
Today was the press briefing that previewed the upcoming Deep Impact flyby of Hartley 2.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 25, 2010
An awful lot of the talks in the Pluto session on Tuesday morning, October 5, at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting spent more time focusing on how bad weather conditions were during the astronomers' attempts to view Pluto as it occulted background stars than they did on any measurements or science that came out from the data.
Susan Lendroth • October 24, 2010
Day Two of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and it started with a game of "dodge the marathoners."
Susan Lendroth • October 23, 2010
The Planetary Society showcased our solar sail mission, Lightsail 1, at day one of the USA Science & Engineering Festival on Washington DC's National Mall.
Louis D. Friedman • October 23, 2010
Susan Lendroth • October 22, 2010
The Planetary Society booth is ready to go for the USA Science & Engineering Festival being held this weekend on the National Mall in Washington DC.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 22, 2010
Curiosity Cam: Watch Men and Women in White build a Mars rover live!
Emily Lakdawalla • October 22, 2010
Tyler Nordgren's awesome "Planetary Park" posters
Emily Lakdawalla • October 21, 2010
LCROSS finds lots of water in accessible places at the Moon's south pole -- but we'll have to tread carefully
Emily Lakdawalla • October 21, 2010
DPS 2010: Triton's craters, a friendly dispute
Emily Lakdawalla • October 21, 2010
Hey Federal employees! Send your CFC funds to the Planetary Society
Emily Lakdawalla • October 20, 2010
A Rhea flyby and a cloudy Titan with Tethys in color
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