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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Mission Declared Over, Opportunity Roves Closer to Endeavour
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2011/05/31 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration mission suffered the loss of Spirit and shifted to one-rover operations in May, but Opportunity carried on, blasting across the plains of Meridiani to within 2 miles (3.5 kilometers) of its next major destination and discovery.
What's up in the solar system in June 2011
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/31 08:06 CDT
What's up in the solar system in June 2011
Dawn Journal: Vesta to choose Dawn's arrival time
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2011/05/30 12:52 CDT
Dawn Journal: Vesta to choose Dawn's arrival time
Posted by Ryan Anderson on 2011/05/27 09:01 CDT
Laser beams and space exploration are perfect for each other, and not just because all self-respecting starship captains know their way around a blaster. It turns out that zapping rocks with a laser is not only fun, it also can tell you what they're made of!
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: NASA Ends Spirit Mission
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2011/05/26 12:00 CDT
The intensified effort to recover Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit came to an end early Wednesday morning Pacific time and NASA has now transitioned the mission to a single-rover operation focused on Spirit's still-active twin, Opportunity.
NASA Selects Next New Frontiers Mission
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2011/05/25 05:47 CDT
NASA Selects Next New Frontiers Mission: OSIRIS-REx
A picture of Spirit that's too poetical for words
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/25 01:25 CDT
A picture of Spirit that's too poetical for words
Posted by Meg Schwamb on 2011/05/25 08:30 CDT
The last decade has seen an explosion in our understanding of the solar system with the discovery of the largest Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) of comparable size to Pluto.
Sad news for Spirit: It's All Over But the Crying
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/24 03:05 CDT
Sad news for Spirit: It's All Over But the Crying
Tantalizing photos of Titan, Dione, Tethys, and Saturn
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/23 02:23 CDT
Tantalizing photos of Titan, Dione, Tethys, and Saturn
Searching for one planet, finding another
Posted by Konstantin Batygin on 2011/05/23 07:35 CDT
Guest blog: Konstantin Batygin: Searching for one planet, finding another
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/19 12:27 CDT
Titan's lack of lightning
This year's Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award recipient is...me!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/19 11:56 CDT
This year's Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award recipient is...me!
It's opposite day at the Curiosity landing site selection meeting
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/18 01:20 CDT
It's opposite day at the Curiosity landing site selection meeting
Chang'E 2 to depart for L2 on June 16
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/18 12:58 CDT
Chang'E 2 to depart for L2 on June 16
We did it -- Shuttle LIFE launches!
Posted by Bill Nye on 2011/05/16 09:39 CDT
Today at 8:56 a.m. EDT, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on its final mission, and we are part of this historic moment!
Björn Jónsson's Voyager 1 Jupiter animation, new and improved
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/05/16 11:32 CDT
Björn Jónsson's Voyager 1 Jupiter animation, new and improved
SETI@home Following Up on Kepler Discoveries
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2011/05/13 06:15 CDT
Remember SETI@home? The ground-breaking computing project is now taking a look at candidate Earth-like planets that have been detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
Galileo's still producing discoveries: A magma ocean within Io!
Posted by Jason Perry on 2011/05/13 11:44 CDT
A fresh report was published online yesterday in Science Express on the discovery of a magma ocean beneath the surface of Io. Big news! This is a paper I've been looking forward to seeing for more than year and half.
Citizen Science projects for Planetary Science: Get Involved! Do Science!
Posted by Mike Malaska on 2011/05/12 05:13 CDT
Citizen Science projects let volunteers easily contribute to active science programs. They're useful when there is so much data it overwhelms computing algorithms (if they exist) or the scientific research team attempting to process it.
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