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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Hibernates Still, Opportunity Pulls into Cambridge Bay
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/08/31 12:00 CDT
With the Sun beginning to warm the landscape in the southern hemisphere of the Red Planet and winds whipping up here and there forming dust devils that kick the powdery, rust-colored topsoil into the atmosphere, the Mars Exploration Rovers have been experiencing sure signs of a Martian spring this month.
What's up in the solar system in September 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/30 05:24 CDT
What's up in the solar system in September 2010
Successor to Mars Climate Orbiter will fly aboard ExoMars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/30 03:20 CDT
Successor to Mars Climate Orbiter will fly aboard ExoMars
New Flickr collection of historical NASA photos
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/30 11:23 CDT
New Flickr collection of historical NASA photos
The Potential to Destroy Civilization ? Now on YouTube
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2010/08/29 11:58 CDT
The Potential to Destroy Civilization ? Now on YouTube
Bringing MOLA altimetry tracks into Google Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/27 05:02 CDT
Bringing MOLA altimetry tracks into Google Mars
From the Ground and from Space, New Planetary Systems Unveiled
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2010/08/27 02:32 CDT
From the Ground and from Space, New Planetary Systems Unveiled
Jupiter's swirling storms from Voyager 1
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/26 05:28 CDT
Jupiter's swirling storms from Voyager 1
Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' Atmosphere
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2010/08/26 12:00 CDT
One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere.
Review: Phil Plait's Bad Universe, new series on Discovery
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/26 12:56 CDT
Review: Phil Plait's Bad Universe, new series on Discovery
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/25 12:36 CDT
A first look at distant hills
The August 20, 2010 Jupiter fireball -- and the March 5, 1979 one
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/24 11:36 CDT
Following up on the story I first posted on August 22, the Jupiter impact fireball first noticed by Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa has been independently confirmed by two other Japanese astronomers.
A space calendar in "the cloud"
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/23 05:47 CDT | 3 comments
A space calendar in "the cloud"
Yet another Jupiter impact!? August 20, seen from Japan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/22 05:03 CDT
Yet another Jupiter impact!? August 20, seen from Japan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/20 05:38 CDT
Three things to watch
Posted by Jason Perry on 2010/08/20 05:15 CDT
Thanks to its active volcanic activity and sulfur-rich surface, Io is one of the most colorful worlds yet seen in the Solar System, save the Earth of course
Review: "The Complete Sky & Telescope: Seven Decade Collection"
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/19 05:25 CDT
Review: "The Complete Sky & Telescope: Seven Decade Collection"
The edge of "round": Three half-megameter moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/18 05:28 CDT
The edge of "round": Three half-megameter moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/17 12:04 CDT
MESSENGER: A snapshot of home
Posted by Emily Martin on 2010/08/16 01:42 CDT
In response to Emily's entry about finally getting her hands on a subscription to the planetary science journal Icarus, I thought I would report on an article from the most recent issue: Geology of the Selk crater region on Titan from Cassini VIMS observations, by Jason Soderblom and 11 other scientists.
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