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Emily Lakdawalla's blogs from 2008
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/26 01:04 CDT
OMG!! Parachute!!!!
Some context for the "Sol 0" images
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/26 10:42 CDT
Some context for the "Sol 0" images
Phoenix: last press briefing of the day after the successful landing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/26 12:25 CDT
Phoenix: last press briefing of the day after the successful landing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 10:59 CDT
I spoke too soon about color!
A litle update from the press room
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 10:22 CDT
A litle update from the press room
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 10:18 CDT
A deployed solar panel
Early version of the horizon mosaic, still missing two of six panels
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 10:03 CDT
Early version of the horizon mosaic, still missing two of six panels
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 09:05 CDT
Solar panel deployed
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 08:59 CDT
First images from Phoenix!
Data is now coming down from Odyssey!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 08:47 CDT
Data is now coming down from Odyssey!
Landing time was 23:53:44, Earth Received Time
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 08:45 CDT
Landing time was 23:53:44, Earth Received Time
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 08:09 CDT
PHOENIX HAS LANDED!
Entry, Descent, and Landing events...refresh this often...
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 08:02 CDT
Entry, Descent, and Landing events...refresh this often...
Sorry for the crash -- we may have been attacked -- but we're back and Phoenix landed successfully!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 08:01 CDT
Sorry for the crash -- we may have been attacked -- but we're back and Phoenix landed successfully!
Entry, Descent, and Landing events...refresh this often...
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 06:13 CDT
Entry, Descent, and Landing events...refresh this often...
Getting close to the critical time...
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 05:56 CDT
Getting close to the critical time...
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 05:33 CDT
The press room is buzzing...
Live video chat is over; maybe one more tonight
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 03:14 CDT
Live video chat is over; maybe one more tonight
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 02:45 CDT
Have some courage, NASA!
Some thoughts on relativity and simultaneity
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 01:57 CDT
Some thoughts on relativity and simultaneity
Live video chat Sunday, May 25, at 1:30 pm Pacific (20:30 UTC)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/25 12:16 CDT
Live video chat Sunday, May 25, at 1:30 pm Pacific (20:30 UTC)
Inspired by Phoenix: "Arrival," by Stuart Atkinson
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/24 03:39 CDT
Inspired by Phoenix: "Arrival," by Stuart Atkinson
News from the Phoenix press briefing Saturday
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/24 03:16 CDT
News from the Phoenix press briefing Saturday
Where to Watch Phoenix' Landing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/23 05:01 CDT
Where to Watch Phoenix' Landing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/23 02:01 CDT
Carnivals and Storms
Notes from the Thursday Phoenix press briefing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/22 05:13 CDT
Notes from the Thursday Phoenix press briefing
Live video chat Thursday, May 22, at 1 pm Pacific (20:00 UTC)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/22 01:23 CDT
Live video chat Thursday, May 22, at 1 pm Pacific (20:00 UTC)
New version of Mars24 software released for Phoenix landing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/22 12:36 CDT
New version of Mars24 software released for Phoenix landing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/21 05:32 CDT
Checking in at JPL
Gearing up for the Phoenix landing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/20 10:22 CDT
Gearing up for the Phoenix landing
Up-to-the-minute map of the Phoenix landing site
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/20 01:22 CDT
Up-to-the-minute map of the Phoenix landing site
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/19 05:51 CDT
Some random items and updates
What's up in the solar system for the week of May 19
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/19 03:11 CDT
What's up in the solar system for the week of May 19
Hunting for Mars Polar Lander with HiRISE
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/16 03:59 CDT
Hunting for Mars Polar Lander with HiRISE
A little Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter news
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/15 03:31 CDT
A little Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter news
Live video chat Wednesday, May 14, at 3pm Pacific (22:00 UTC)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/13 01:29 CDT
Live video chat Wednesday, May 14, at 3pm Pacific (22:00 UTC)
Some beautiful video from the Spirit and Opportunity landing sites
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/12 06:02 CDT
Some beautiful video from the Spirit and Opportunity landing sites
What's up in the solar system for the week of May 12
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/12 04:01 CDT
What's up in the solar system for the week of May 12
Kaguya full Earth-rise and Earth-set videos
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/10 04:05 CDT
Kaguya full Earth-rise and Earth-set videos
Anybody know how to grab an .asx stream to disk?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/09 02:55 CDT
Anybody know how to grab an .asx stream to disk?
White Rock through the Ages: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2006-present)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/08 05:48 CDT
White Rock through the Ages: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2006-present)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/08 05:47 CDT
Carnival of space #53
What's left to do in assembling the Space Station
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/07 06:25 CDT
A little project I've been wanting to do for some time, combing the NASA archives for photos that document the assembly of the International Space Station.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots dust devils at Phoenix landing site
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/06 05:02 CDT
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots dust devils at Phoenix landing site
What's up in the solar system for the week of May 5
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/05 02:46 CDT
What's up in the solar system for the week of May 5
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/02 06:46 CDT
Send Your Name to the Moon!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/02 05:26 CDT
Solar systems in motion
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/01 07:11 CDT
Seeing Mars in many colors
Carnival of Space: The Anniversary Edition
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/05/01 10:35 CDT
Carnival of Space: The Anniversary Edition
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/30 02:08 CDT
Where are all the women?
New names for features on Mercury and Tethys
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/29 05:53 CDT
New names for features on Mercury and Tethys
What's up in the solar system for the week of April 28
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/28 09:56 CDT
What's up in the solar system for the week of April 28
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/25 01:35 CDT
The Phoenix landing site
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/24 11:33 CDT
Carnival of Space #51
Opportunity's arthritic shoulder is flaring up again
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/24 11:24 CDT
Opportunity's arthritic shoulder is flaring up again
Website issues seem to be over
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/23 01:05 CDT
Website issues seem to be over
Rocky planets and website problems
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/21 02:47 CDT
Rocky planets and website problems
Preliminary thermal modeling accounts for some (but not all) of the Pioneer Anomaly
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/17 09:59 CDT
Preliminary thermal modeling accounts for some (but not all) of the Pioneer Anomaly
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/17 09:45 CDT
Carnival of Space #50
A bit of fun with Mars Express images of Phobos
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/16 05:59 CDT
A bit of fun with Mars Express images of Phobos
At last: Some bits of Kaguya video online in reasonable detail
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/15 05:24 CDT
At last: Some bits of Kaguya video online in reasonable detail
Cassini's mission extension has (finally!) been formally approved
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/15 11:24 CDT
Cassini's mission extension has (finally!) been formally approved
Shadows cast from Victoria's capes and bays
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/14 03:51 CDT
Shadows cast from Victoria's capes and bays
Beautiful new Earthrise and Earthset movies from Kaguya
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/11 03:26 CDT
Beautiful new Earthrise and Earthset movies from Kaguya
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/10 07:01 CDT
Phoenix Targets Green Valley
It's so crazy it just might work: Send Cassini between the rings and the planet
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/10 05:27 CDT
It's so crazy it just might work: Send Cassini between the rings and the planet
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/09 06:17 CDT
Beautiful Phobos photos
Opportunity update: Approaching Cape Verde
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/08 03:43 CDT
Opportunity update: Approaching Cape Verde
Cassini at a close apoapsis at Saturn
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/07 05:17 CDT
Cassini at a close apoapsis at Saturn
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/07 01:27 CDT
Frame a Pluto portrait
Does Venus Express smell volcanoes?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/04 01:39 CDT
Does Venus Express smell volcanoes?
Playing around with Cassini images of Janus
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/03 06:22 CDT
Playing around with Cassini images of Janus
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/02 12:26 CDT
Topography on Titan
A new surprise from Mars Global Surveyor
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/04/01 11:07 CDT
A new surprise from Mars Global Surveyor
Some random items: Clouds on Mars, telescopes on Earth, missions to the Moon
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/31 05:31 CDT
Some random items: Clouds on Mars, telescopes on Earth, missions to the Moon
White Rock through the ages: Mars Express (2004-present)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/27 05:28 CDT
White Rock through the ages: Mars Express (2004-present)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/27 01:02 CDT
Carnival of Space #47
Cassini Finds Enceladus Tastes Like a Comet
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/26 06:22 CDT
Cassini Finds Enceladus Tastes Like a Comet
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/26 11:31 CDT
Alan Stern has resigned
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/25 12:37 CDT
Saturn, Tethys, and Titan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/25 11:44 CDT
Spot three spacecraft
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/24 05:46 CDT
Spirit, seen from space
Stars Above, Earth Below and Arthur C. Clarke
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/24 03:49 CDT
Stars Above, Earth Below and Arthur C. Clarke
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/21 11:17 CDT
Carnival of Space #46
When Titan's Winds Blow, Mountains Move
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/20 06:09 CDT
When Titan's Winds Blow, Mountains Move
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/20 01:34 CDT
The Enceladus flyby, in color
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/19 12:28 CDT
Deimos arts and crafts
Remembering Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/19 11:17 CDT
Remembering Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
Eurotas Chasmata, Janiculum Dorsa, and Evander Crater
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/18 03:30 CDT
Eurotas Chasmata, Janiculum Dorsa, and Evander Crater
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/17 11:59 CDT
LPSC, Friday: Mostly Titan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/14 04:45 CDT
Cassini flies by Enceladus
Stretching out Ulysses' life as long as possible
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/14 04:00 CDT
Stretching out Ulysses' life as long as possible
LPSC: Wednesday: NASA Town Hall with Alan Stern
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/14 03:58 CDT
LPSC: Wednesday: NASA Town Hall with Alan Stern
LPSC: Thursday: Rovers, Titan, Mars, Venus Express, Neptune
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/14 03:49 CDT
LPSC: Thursday: Rovers, Titan, Mars, Venus Express, Neptune
Ted Stryk: Revealing the night sides of Uranus' moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/13 09:54 CDT
Ted Stryk: Revealing the night sides of Uranus' moons
LPSC: Finally, some notes on the MESSENGER presentations
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/13 06:06 CDT
LPSC: Finally, some notes on the MESSENGER presentations
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