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Mountains rising for Opportunity
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/31 10:11 CDT
Mountains rising for Opportunity
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Closes in on Endeavour as Team Bids Farewell to Spirit
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2011/07/31 11:24 CDT
Opportunity seemed to sail with the wind behind her back toward the western rim of Endeavour Crater this month as the Mars Exploration Rover team shifted gears in preparation for a whole new adventure, taking time out only to bid a final farewell both privately and publicly to Spirit.
What's up in the solar system in August 2011
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/30 05:05 CDT
What's up in the solar system in August 2011
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 have completed thermal vacuum testing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/30 02:20 CDT
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 have completed thermal vacuum testing
A different face of Vesta (oh, *there's* the craters!)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/29 12:30 CDT
A different face of Vesta (oh, *there's* the craters!)
What's up in human spaceflight: a Dragon approaches
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/07/29 11:58 CDT
Private spaceflight company SpaceX has secured tentative approval with NASA to combine its next test flight with an actual ISS docking.
Juno's getting real! Launch NET August 5 15:34 UTC
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/27 10:03 CDT
Juno's getting real! Launch NET August 5 15:34 UTC
Dawn Journal: Dawn has arrived!
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2011/07/26 11:55 CDT
After covering 2.8 billion kilometers (1.7 billion miles) on its own, after traveling for nearly four years through the lonely emptiness of interplanetary space, after being bound by the gravity only of the sun, Dawn is finally in orbit around Vesta.
Pretty movie: Everything in the Saturn system is in motion!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/26 06:28 CDT
Pretty movie: Everything in the Saturn system is in motion!
Planetary Society Statement on the Pioneer Anomaly
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2011/07/22 03:17 CDT
Planetary Society Statement on the Pioneer Anomaly
It's official now: Curiosity is going to Gale
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/22 12:50 CDT
It's official now: Curiosity is going to Gale
Vesta does a Hyperion impression
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/21 06:25 CDT
Maybe it's my own peculiar variant of pareidolia, but every time I see a new image of Vesta I'm reminded of some different other lumpy body in the solar system. In the image released just now by the Dawn team, taken from 10,500 kilometers away, I'm seeing Hyperion.
Opportunity's horizon rises -- and maybe brings Cape York into view
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/21 03:12 CDT
Opportunity's horizon rises -- and maybe brings Cape York into view
Beginning of the post-shuttle era
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/07/21 11:58 CDT
At 5:57AM EDT (9:57 UTC) this morning, Atlantis gracefully rolled to a stop on runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center Landing Facility, completing the 135th and final mission of the space shuttle program that started in 1981.
Spiffy human spaceflight T-shirt!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/21 11:44 CDT
Spiffy human spaceflight T-shirt!
What a Day! From Earth to the Moon and Mars
Posted by Bill Nye on 2011/07/21 03:02 CDT
Mission accomplished! It's been thirty great years for the Space Shuttle program. With this venerable space vehicle retired, it's on to the next adventure.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/20 01:38 CDT | 2 comments
That's right: Hubble observations have yielded the discovery of a third small body orbiting Pluto and Charon.
Your guide to a shuttle landing
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/07/19 11:58 CDT | 1 comments
The final installment of my three-part series on the basics of shuttle launches and landings. Part III: de-orbiting, re-entering and landing.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/19 11:27 CDT
Vesta in infrared color!
Yet another new image of Vesta
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/18 07:21 CDT
Yet another new image of Vesta
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