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A Moon Through the Plumes

Talk at AGU today: "Snapshots from Space"

I had planned to be in San Francisco today to present at the 2010 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, in an Education and Public Affairs session.

Asteroid 433 Eros

Boulders and Ponds on 433 Eros

There is really cool geology being explored on large, oddly shaped asteroids. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission reached 433 Eros in 2000, and one of the exciting results was the discovery of features called

Solar system montage with eight planets

Door 11 in the 2010 advent calendar

Time to open the eleventh door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these sinuous ridges?

Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki (PLANET-C)

Akatsuki update, two days later

I've got two more pieces of information to share on Akatsuki further to what I posted yesterday. The first one is a worrying detail about what went wrong during orbit insertion.

Year in Space 2011 desk calendar

Enjoy a year in space

Every year, The Planetary Society and Starry Messenger Press collaborate on a

Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki (PLANET-C)

Akatsuki update, a day after the failure to enter orbit

JAXA held two press briefings about Akatsuki yesterday. Reports in both English and Japanese based on these press briefings have cleared up some, but not all, of the mystery about what happened and what is to happen with Akatsuki.

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