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Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Pluto is still a long, long way away
Pluto is still a long, long way away
I spy Callisto
I spy Callisto
Teeny little Bigfoot on Mars
The story of a Sasquatch-shaped rock visible in a recent panorama from Spirit is getting a lot of play in the mainstream media, but fortunately, it's not being taken very seriously. (My favorite take on this picture is the lead from the Times Online story about it:
Mercury in color
Mercury in color
Playing around with some New Horizons data
Playing around with some New Horizons data
MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby Highly Successful
On the evening of Tuesday, January 15, the MESSENGER science team crowded around a computer screen, anxiously awaiting their first view of the previously unseen hemisphere of Mercury.
Looking over Mercury's limb
Looking over Mercury's limb
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape
In the beginning was SETI@home, the first large-scale volunteer computing project, launched in 1999 with seed money from The Planetary Society. Within months the project had millions of volunteers around the world joining to form the most powerful computer network ever assembled.
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
MESSENGER image released after all!
MESSENGER image released after all!
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
Just a million kilometers away
Just a million kilometers away
The latest from Mercury
The latest from Mercury
Titan's south pole looks pretty dry
One of the major results from the Cassini mission last year was the production of a mosaic of images from its RADAR instrument covering Titan's north pole. Titan's north pole has lakes upon lakes, some big, some small, but everywhere you look, there they are.
Mercury's getting bigger...
Mercury's getting bigger...