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Emily Lakdawalla • December 03, 2012 • 17
I'm in San Francisco, reporting from the American Geophysical Union meeting. This morning, there was a much-anticipated press briefing featuring the latest results from Curiosity.
Larry Crumpler • December 03, 2012
Here at station 14 we have decided to do a detailed investigation of an outcrop that is well exposed and lies within an area where there is orbital remote-sensing evidence for clay minerals. These particular rocks are interesting in that they contain a lot of thin veins and alteration zones along joints (cracks) in the outcrops.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 30, 2012
Good news, everyone! The OSIRIS-REx team wants to give as many kids as possible a chance to Name That Asteroid! The contest entry deadline has been extended to December 31.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 30, 2012 • 26
With all the hoopla surrounding the unknown results of the first analysis of a soil sample by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, I thought an explainer would be useful. What is SAM, what is it designed to measure, and what is the nature of its results? Here you go.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 29, 2012
Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal critiques NASA's announcement style.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 29, 2012 • 9
Water ice at Mercury's poles? That's crazy, right? The MESSENGER team has made a very good case that radar-bright material seen by the Arecibo telescope is, in fact, water ice, covered in most places by a veneer of dark organic material.
Daniel Macháček • November 29, 2012 • 4
A few days ago, the Dawn mission finally published their archival data. During the year of delay I often looked with anticipation to the Planetary Data System to check whether or not images were there, and I am delighted that they are finally available. Was the wait worth it? Definitely!
Emily Lakdawalla • November 28, 2012 • 2
Remember the amazing photo of Saturn's north pole that I posted yesterday? Now, thanks to an amateur image processor, it moves, and the motions of the individual clouds within the belts are mesmerizing.
Casey Dreier • November 28, 2012
Emily Lakdawalla and Casey Dreier will both attend this year's AGU conference in San Francisco as representatives of the Planetary Society.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 27, 2012 • 12
Amazing photos have just come back from Cassini, of swirling clouds surrounding Saturn's north pole.
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