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Off to France! DPS-EPSC 2011 (a big planetary meeting)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/30 11:40 CDT
Off to France! DPS-EPSC 2011 (a big planetary meeting)
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Digs In at Endeavour Crater, Team Remembers 9/11
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2011/09/30 11:24 CDT
Since leaving the plains of Meridiani, pulling up to Endeavour Crater and checking out its first rock last month, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has wasted no time in getting the "new mission" underway.
China's first space station takes flight
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/09/30 10:58 CDT
A Long March rocket carried China's first space station, Tiangong-1, into orbit September 29.
What's up in the solar system in October 2011
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/29 12:12 CDT
What's up in the solar system in October 2011
Dawn Journal: Fourth year in space, and arrival in HAMO
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2011/09/29 08:12 CDT
Dawn's fourth anniversary of being in space is very different from its previous ones. Indeed, those days all were devoted to reaching the distant destination the ship is now exploring. Celebrating its anniversary of leaving Earth, Dawn is in orbit around a kindred terrestrial-type world, the ancient protoplanet Vesta.
Pretty pictures: Dancing moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/28 12:28 CDT
Pretty pictures: Dancing moons











