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A summer of fun for space students
A summer of fun for space students
What's up in the solar system for the week of July 7
What's up in the solar system for the week of July 7
Beautiful mosaic of the Voyager mountains
One of my favorite amateur image magicians, Gordan Ugarkovic continues to play around with the amazing data recently released by the Cassini mission, covering the Iapetus encounter of last September. Here's a lovely mosaic he just put together of the Voyager Mountains.
GLAST is returning data to Earth
GLAST is returning data to Earth
Carnival of Space #61
Carnival of Space #61
MESSENGER Scientists 'Astonished' to Find Water in Mercury's Thin Atmosphere
As MESSENGER flew past the night side of Mercury in January, its Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) scooped up ions from an atmosphere so tenuous that it's usually called an
Phoenix sol 36 update: Scraping in Wonderland, next steps for TEGA
Phoenix sol 36 update: Scraping in Wonderland, next steps for TEGA
What's up in the solar system for the week of June 30
What's up in the solar system for the week of June 30
Dawn Journal: Cruising Past Mars' Orbit
Now using an ion thruster that had been powered off since October, Dawn continues to make steady progress on its journey deeper into space.
The Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Shudders Through Solstice, Opportunity Shoots Cape Verde Base
The Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) celebrated a landmark milestone in June as they
Updates on the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients (27 June 2008)
Amateur astronomers play a critical role in retiring the risk of impact from near-Earth objects. When the Shoemaker NEO Grant program began in 1997, the focus was on finding previously undiscovered objects one kilometer in diameter and larger. Thanks to professional NEO survey programs like LINEAR (the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program run by MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories) and the Catalina Sky Survey (run from the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory), the goal of discovering the vast majority of large NEOs is within reach, and the focus of the Shoemaker NEO Grant Program has shifted to astrometric follow-up and physical studies.
Strange things under Phoenix
Strange things under Phoenix
Carnival of Space number 60
Carnival of Space number 60
Cassini camera data has been released through September 30, 2007
Cassini camera data has been released through September 30, 2007
Phoenix sol 30 update: Alkaline soil, not very salty, "nothing extreme" about it!
Phoenix sol 30 update: Alkaline soil, not very salty, "nothing extreme" about it!
What's new with Cosmos 2?
What's new with Cosmos 2?
Phoenix sol 29 update: Anomalies here and there, but minimum mission success is on the horizon
Phoenix sol 29 update: Anomalies here and there, but minimum mission success is on the horizon
A milestone for the Phoenix mission success panorama
A milestone for the Phoenix mission success panorama
What's up in the solar system for the week of June 23
What's up in the solar system for the week of June 23
New Developments on the Road to Cosmos 2
The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios remain committed to flying the first flight with light. Our spacecraft, Cosmos 2, is a maneuverable solar sail that may be the precursor to a new mode of interplanetary travel, and could one day take us to the stars.