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More from the Planetary Defense Conference: Shoemaker Grant Winners
More from the Planetary Defense Conference: Shoemaker Grant Winners
Updates on the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients (27 April 2009)
Our 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant winners have been extremely busy over the past two years. Take for example Quanzhi Ye of Guangzhou, China: He was only 18 when he received the award but already the principal investigator of the sky survey at the Lulin Observatory in Taiwan.
Pretty Dunes in Gale Crater
This is a tiny subframe from the HiRISE image PSP_009294_1750.
Updates from the IAA Planetary Defense Conference
Updates from the IAA Planetary Defense Conference
Goodbye for a while
Goodbye for a while
More from the Conference on NEO Law and Policy
More from the Conference on NEO Law and Policy
Update from the Conference on NEO Law and Policy
Update from the Conference on NEO Law and Policy
Spirit Update: Generally healthy, but "amnesiac?"
Spirit Update: Generally healthy, but "amnesiac?"
Big Picture and other good links for today
Big Picture and other good links for today
A couple of space carnivals
A couple of space carnivals
What to do if the big one is headed our way?
What to do if the big one is headed our way?
The Planetary Society's Solar Sail featured in The Atlantic
The Planetary Society's Solar Sail featured in The Atlantic
Ted Stryk: Europa Jupiter System Mission Colloquium
Ted Stryk: Europa Jupiter System Mission Colloquium
COLBERT is going to space!!
COLBERT is going to space!!
Moon shadow, moon shadow
Moon shadow, moon shadow
Spirit hiccup
Another of those dreaded
Update on the Mars dust event
Update on the Mars dust event
Kepler's removed the lens cap
Kepler's removed the lens cap
LPSC: Friday afternoon on Martian basins and planning for future lunar missions
LPSC: Friday afternoon on Martian basins and planning for future lunar missions
Sorry for the quiet last week -- time to catch up
Sorry for the quiet last week -- time to catch up