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Changes to the Deep Impact encounter timeline
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/30 05:13 CDT
A reader has pointed out that JPL has changed their online press kit for Deep Impact, which was my primary source material for the encounter timeline.
News: All of Earth's Eyes Are on Tempel 1 as Deep Impact Zeroes In on Comet...
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/29 02:20 CDT
With four days remaining until Deep Impact crashes into comet Tempel 1, the comet is looming larger and larger in the public view.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/28 02:18 CDT
Apparently there is a bogus email circulating around the Web with the following text: "The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!" But Mars is not about to appear "as large as the full Moon."
News: Dark Spot Near the South Pole: A Candidate Lake on Titan?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/28 11:00 CDT
The Cassini imaging team has released an image containing a feature unlike any other that they have seen on Titan. The very dark color, curvaceous outline, and sharp edge of the feature have led them to the conclusion that it could well be the long-theorized but never-before-seen body of liquid hydrocarbons on the surface of Titan.
Heads up: the Deep Impact encounter is coming up!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/28 10:56 CDT
Less than a week remains before the Deep Impact mission is set to meet its fate at Tempel 1. A mission like this has been a dream for planetary scientists for a long time.
A couple of pics from Cassini at periapsis
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/27 08:20 CDT
Cassini's been in orbit around Saturn for almost exactly a year now, and the mission seems pretty much to have dropped off of the public radar screen. But there's still three years to go on the primary mission, and lots left to do, and I for one am not at all bored.
The Story of Cosmos 1 is Not Over: A Personal Report
Posted by Louis D. Friedman on 2005/06/25 12:00 CDT
Cosmos 1 Solar Sail will Carry CD into Orbit
Posted by Susan Lendroth on 2005/06/16 12:00 CDT
When Cosmos 1, the first solar sail spacecraft, launches on June 21, 2005, it will carry into Earth orbit a CD containing the names of over 75,000 members of The Planetary Society and the Japan Planetary Society, along with the works of early visionaries who inspired solar sailing.
Cosmos 1: Another rehearsal...
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/15 06:21 CDT
Rehearsals don't always go so well, which is the whole point of rehearsals. That was true both for us and for the Russians today, in separate simulations of mission operations.
Cosmos 1 "Mated" to Volna Rocket in Preparation for Tuesday Launch
Posted by Louis D. Friedman on 2005/06/15 12:00 CDT
"Our works with the spacecraft are finished successfully.""
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/10 10:56 CDT
Here at Cosmos 1 Project Operations Pasadena -- or POP -- we are scrambling to get our mission operations plans and procedures ready for our launch, just 11 days from now.
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