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Methane on Mars varies with the seasons
Methane on Mars varies with the seasons
Stardust flies by Earth today
Stardust flies by Earth today
2008 - the Year in Pictures - Now a wall calendar!
2008 - the Year in Pictures - Now a wall calendar!
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
Where are they now?
Where are they now?
The wind blows rocks on Mars?
The wind blows rocks on Mars?
One last plea for donations
One last plea for donations
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.
The Antarctic Deep Field Is Not for the Impatient
The Antarctic Deep Field Is Not for the Impatient
The Santorini panorama
A tip of the hat to Ryan over at Martian Chronicles for posting this lovely version of the Santorini panorama, which Opportunity captured just before Mars dipped too close to the Sun in late November of last year.
More images and data from Chandrayaan-1
More images and data from Chandrayaan-1
Spirit moved!
Hallelujah! For the first time in almost an Earth year, amateur mars mapper Eduardo Tesheiner is able to scratch a tiny little line on his map of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's peregrinations across Gusev Crater.
I am totally hooked on Scott Maxwell's new Mars Exploration Rover blog
Scott Maxwell is one of those many guys (and gals) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who rarely gets his name in the news but who is absolutely indispensable to the success of a space mission. I don't know what his official title is, but whatever it is, it's not as good as the colloquial name given to his position: Rover Driver.
Astronomy Cast is broadcasting press conferences from the AAS meeting
Astronomy Cast is broadcasting press conferences from the AAS meeting
Dawn Journal: Conjunction Junction
Having fulfilled all of its assignments for 2008, the Dawn spacecraft has been unusually quiescent recently.
The Antarctic search for meteorites: not for the impatient
The team makes progress while facing extreme weather conditions.
Five Years of Spirit on Mars
On January 3, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on Mars, and I was with the science team at JPL when it happened! I can't believe it's been five years since the successful landing.
A Moon Among Stars
A very pretty picture of a moon among stars. Happy 2009, everyone!