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Stories, updates, insights, and original analysis from The Planetary Society.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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