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Posted by Timothy Reed on 2009/06/15 03:56 CDT
Timothy Reed explains how optical telescopes are tested for gravity sag, and the methods used to counteract or compensate for it.
LRO & LCROSS Up Close Tour: Poised on Atlas V Rocket at Launch Complex 41
Posted by on 2009/06/14 01:19 CDT
LRO & LCROSS Up Close Tour: Poised on Atlas V Rocket at Launch Complex 41
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/06/12 01:39 CDT
Planning for Pluto
News from Mars and Capitol Hill
Posted by Louis D. Friedman on 2009/06/11 05:44 CDT
News from Mars and Capitol Hill
Posted by John Spencer on 2009/06/09 11:03 CDT
Mysteries, Small and Large
Posted by John Spencer on 2009/06/08 01:49 CDT
Taking a look at Jupiter's moon, Io, from Hawaii.
Posted by John Smith on 2009/06/07 12:01 CDT
Each Titan flyby is not a fork in the road, but rather a Los Angeles style cloverleaf in terms of the dizzying number of possible destinations. So how did our current and future plans for the path of the Cassini spacecraft come to be? That's the question Dave Seal put to me since that's my job -- I am a tour designer.
Canto IV: A Cog in the Wheel, a New Star in the Sky
Posted by David Seal on 2009/06/06 01:02 CDT
David Seal talks about his experience working with Kevin Beurle.
LRO & LCROSS Up Close Tour: Part 2, Hunting for Lunar Water
Posted by on 2009/06/06 01:06 CDT
LRO & LCROSS Up Close Tour: Part 2, Hunting for Lunar Water
The Steven J. Ostro Memorial Symposium on Planetary Radar and Near-Earth Objects
Posted by David Seal on 2009/06/05 08:05 CDT
The Steven J. Ostro Memorial Symposium on Planetary Radar and Near-Earth Objects
Posted by David Seal on 2009/06/04 06:31 CDT
Saturn is rapidly approaching equinox, where the Sun passes through the ring plane (south-to-north, i.e. the northern vernal equinox), and its ring system (i.e. its great now-gloomy poorly-lit circles of large blocks of water ice) is starting to show some really interesting behavior.
Kaguya impact information available to observers
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2009/06/04 05:45 CDT
Kaguya impact information available to observers
Canto II: Titan's Atmosphere and the Solar Cycle
Posted by David Seal on 2009/06/03 04:44 CDT
David Seal explains the complications for Cassini coming from Titan's atmosphere and Solar Cycle.
Star Trek designer Mike Okuda will be honored by NASA
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2009/06/03 01:19 CDT
Star Trek designer Mike Okuda will be honored by NASA
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2009/06/02 04:15 CDT
Early Data from Ibuki
Posted by David Seal on 2009/06/02 01:58 CDT
David Seal muses on his time as the mission planner for Cassini, and the history behind its name, and astronomy in Rome.
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