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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!

The Mars Exploration Rovers Update: As Spirit and Opportunity Rove On, We Look Back on 2008

As 2008 fades to the pages of history, Spirit and Opportunity are closing in on the end of their fifth year of exploration on the Red Planet and moving the Mars Exploration Rover mission forward into a new year of bold scientific objectives.

I spotted Mercury last night!

The Antarctic search for meteorites: put-in at last; week of productive searches

A week of productive searching near the Davis Nunataks.

From the "playing with particle accelerators" department

ANSMET Blogs: Finally in the field and bagging lots of meteorites

Another longevity milestone for Spirit and Opportunity

We're getting close to the fifth anniversary of the landings of Spirit and Opportunity, but was we approach that milestone, we're passing another. I've been told that as of yesterday, Spirit and Opportunity have operated on Mars for a combined length of time that is longer than the combined number of sols that the twin Viking landers operated.