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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Exits Victoria Crater, Spirit Picks Up Pace on Panorama
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2008/08/31 12:00 CDT
Clear skies and a warming Sun brightened winter in the southern hemisphere of the Red Planet, giving the Mars Exploration Rovers, appropriately enough, an august month. Opportunity packed up, left Cape Verde in the dust, and made headlines when it roved out of Victoria Crater last Thursday. On the other side of the planet, Spirit picked up the pace of photographing its surroundings for its next big, 360-degree, full color panorama.
Opportunity's ready for a new adventure!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/29 03:43 CDT
Opportunity's ready for a new adventure!
Catching up with Phoenix, through sol 91
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/29 03:27 CDT
Catching up with Phoenix, through sol 91
Dawn Journal: Some explanations of orbital dynamics
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2008/08/28 01:14 CDT
Dawn Journal: Some explanations of orbital dynamics
Pictures from the past: Viking 2 approaches Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/27 12:56 CDT
Pictures from the past: Viking 2 approaches Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/26 06:51 CDT
GLAST has a new name: Fermi
Asteroids and comets to scale, as a single image for printing or Powerpoint
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/26 11:06 CDT
Asteroids and comets to scale, as a single image for printing or Powerpoint
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 25
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/25 04:12 CDT
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 25
Three great new pages on Don Davis' website
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/24 09:40 CDT
Three great new pages on Don Davis' website
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/22 03:12 CDT
Carnival of Space #68
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/21 10:21 CDT
Watching the clouds drift by
Things that probably won't ever be called planets, but maybe they should
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/20 06:39 CDT
Things that probably won't ever be called planets, but maybe they should
Beautiful mosaic from the Enceladus encounter
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/19 10:06 CDT
Beautiful mosaic from the Enceladus encounter
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 18
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/16 05:12 CDT
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 18
Phoenix sol 79: TEGA oven 7 opened
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/15 11:42 CDT
Phoenix sol 79: TEGA oven 7 opened
First image of a speck of Mars dust from the Atomic Force Microscope
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/15 11:04 CDT
First image of a speck of Mars dust from the Atomic Force Microscope
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/14 10:42 CDT
Carnival of Space #67
My thoughts on the Great Planet Debate
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/14 03:36 CDT
My thoughts on the Great Planet Debate
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/08/13 06:07 CDT
Phoenix sol 76 update: Digging at Neverland, Cupboard, Stone Soup, Snow White, Burn Alive; samples for microscope and TEGA 5; and more











