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Off to MarsSed 2010
I’m headed off to El Paso Texas tomorrow! Why? Because that’s where the Mars Sedimentology and Stratigraphy workshop is!
Pretty picture: Fly through the aurora
Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi is an awesome photographer. This image is going straight into the
Strong geomagnetic storm today
This morning I received a bulletin warning of a
What's your favorite planet?
Before you answer, check out these images!
Mars and a moonbow
Moonbows represent the same phenomenon as rainbows, it's just that the light from the Sun has reflected off of the Moon first before it's separated into its colors by the myriad tiny water droplets in the cloud.
Last Door in the Planetary Society Advent Calendar: Earth, again
I know I already posted Earth once before. But I could not resist winding up the calendar with this view of a new Earth, for the new year.
Planetary Society Advent Calendar for December 25: Double planet
To those of you who celebrate the holiday, merry Christmas! I hope Santa was good to you.
The Norway Spiral
I had a fun conversation with Paul Harris just now on his show at KTRS about the crazy spiral that showed up in Norwegian skies yesterday.
Copenhagen Needs More Space - Space Science Has Critical Role to Play in Climate Science
Climate change and Copenhagen are dominating the world news this week, as politicians, diplomats, scientists, and protesters gathered in the Danish city for the 2009 meeting for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
If Earth had rings
I am the very last space blogger in the universe to post about this video, but that doesn't make it any less cool.
Rosetta Earth swingby successful
Rosetta appears to have operated flawlessly as it streaked past Earth for its flyby early this morning. Here are a few more gems from the flyby.
Crescent Earth
Just hours away from its Earth flyby, Rosetta is busily snapping images and gathering other science data.
Tracking the stars -- and Earth
This was a neat photo from ESA today.
Netherlands fireball
I was debating whether to write anything about a reported fireball that streaked across the sky in the Netherlands at roughly 19:00 local time (17:00 UTC) yesterday, October 13, but seeing this image ended my internal debate.
AMASE 2009: Testing future Mars surface instruments in the Arctic
I have just posted four more blog entries from Juan Diego Rodgriguez-Blanco detailing the work conducted during this year's Artic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE).
Apophis is less scary than it used to be
Based on analyses of previously unstudied telescopic data, NASA scientists have released new predictions for the path of the 300-meter-diameter asteroid Apophis.
Exploring Mars on Earth: The Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition
High in the Arctic, just below Earth's north polar ice cap, biologists, geologists, and engineers come together in Svalbard every August to practice and prepare for an expedition to Mars.
Reports from the 2009 AMASE Field Expedition
Now that it's high summer in the Arctic, it's time for research expeditions to swarm northward to explore icy landscapes as analogues to Mars and other far-off places.
Dunes in the Outback Red Center
Jani talks about the importance of understanding analogs we can easily visit on Earth to processes happening across the solar system.
Planetary Surface Processes Field Trip: Day 7
Friday was the last day of the field trip, and we spent it at the Petrified Forest National Park.