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The Reasons Behind the MSL Delay
There are a pair of excellent articles in this week's Space Review by Adrian Brown, looking at the Technical and Budgetary reasons that the Mars Science Lab launch was delayed until 2011.
Mapping Mars, now and in history
Planetary cartographer Phil Stooke has been working on a cool project to compose and compare maps of Mars that show how we saw the planet throughout the Space Age.
Looks like the Dawn flyby of Mars went well
Looks like the Dawn flyby of Mars went well: here' a photo of Mars taken by Dawn near its closest approach to Mars during its February 17 flyby.
What do we know about Uranus' moons? Part 2
Here is every single image of the last two moons discovered prior to the Voyager 2 encounter, Titania and Umbriel.
Hooray for Hayabusa!
According to JAXA (the Japanese space agency), poor little Hayabusa has successfully restarted its ion engine and has resumed powered flight today. Hooray! This is good news for Hayabusa's eventual return to Earth.
New Google Mars
Google Earth's latest edition was just released and guess what? It has a Mars setting!
A pretty new Hubble image of Mars
A set of Mars image data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope a year ago was just released to Hubble's data archive. It was captured by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on January 30, 2008 when Mars was about 115 million kilometers from Earth.
The Antarctic search for meteorites: return to civilization
The team returns to civilization, having completed their Antarctic mission.
Treasures from Mars' ancient history
In which I discover Earl Slipher's Mars: The Photographic Story.
The Antarctic search for meteorites: snow ends the season
The team wraps up their collection activites.
365 Days of Astronomy Podcast: Five Years of Living Vicariously on Mars
Next in The Planetary Society's 365 Days of Astronomy doubleheader is Planetary Society President Jim Bell, whose show, airing today, is on
What are the rovers up to? January 2009
Spirit's been getting some nice views of the spot it spent all of 2008 in,
What do we know about Uranus' moons? Part 1
I got an urge to dive in to the Voyager image archives and see what exactly we have here on Earth to base our understanding of the Uranian moons on.
Mars Methane Movie
NASA has put together a nice movie of Dr. Mike Mumma summarizing his discovery of methane on Mars.
The Antarctic search for meteorites: tantalizingly close to the 500-meteorite mark
The season total is at 489, tantalizingly close to the 500 meteorite barrier.
Some events for the 5th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity's landing on Mars
Tonight at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, Jim Bell and Bill Nye will be celebrating the 5th anniversary of the landing of the rovers; Jim will be showing lots of pretty 3D pictures.
The Antarctic search for meteorites: bad days make for more blog fodder
Writer's block strikes the expedition, as the group continues to collect meteorites.
On the pronunciation of "Uranus"
On the pronunciation of
The Antarctic search for meteorites: 237 meteorites await the long drive to Houston
Fifty-five meteorites are collected by the team in a single day.