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One month, one journal, so many missed space stories!

Or: Emily reads you the table of contents of Icarus.

Using Earth to Study the Moon

Exploring Earth analogues of space landscapes is a valuable activity that can help planetary scientists correctly interpret what their instruments are telling them.

Earth as seen from Akatsuki's IR1 camera

Akatsuki captures goodbye shots of Earth

Three of Akatsuki's six science instruments have now checked in as operating normally, producing lovely photos of the receding homeworld.

Sighting the homeworld

Coming closer every day, Mr. Hayabusa has sighted his final destination: his homeworld, Earth, and its attendant Moon.

GOES geostationary weather satellite views of Earth, 15:00 May 2

A Martian Moment in Time, revisited

A good start to my day today: The New York Times' Lens Blog featured the

MarsSed 2010 Field Trip Day 2: Stromatolites, Gypsum and Layers

We started off Day 2 of the field trip by driving up onto the eroded rocks of what used to be the tidal flats of the ancient reef, between the shore and the continental shelf.

MarsSed 2010 Field Trip Day 1: Guadalupe Mountains and Evaporites

Hello everyone, I’m back from the MarsSed 2010 meeting in El Paso!

Volcanism across the solar system: Earth

Yesterday I asked for suggestions for topics to write about, and you readers seem to have volcanoes on your minds!

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!

Strong geomagnetic storm today

This morning I received a bulletin warning of a

Pretty picture: Fly through the aurora

Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi is an awesome photographer. This image is going straight into the

What's your favorite planet?

Before you answer, check out these images!

Mars rising over moonbow in Haleakala Crater in Maui

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.