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  • Mar. 7, 2010 | 22:20 PST | Mar. 8 06:20 UTC
    Stephen Hawking Receives Cosmos Award
    by Louis D. Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society The Planetary Society presented the Cosmos Award for Outstanding Public Presentation of Science to Stephen Hawking in Cambridge England on February 27. Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow... More»
  • Mar. 7, 2010 | 20:30 PST | Mar. 8 04:30 UTC
    WISE's weekly featured image
    Every space mission has its own style of public outreach; you never know quite what you're going to get until it launches and is in the full swing of operations. So I'm pleased to point out that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission... More»
  • Mar. 5, 2010 | 15:05 PST | 23:05 UTC
    Cassini's Helene flyby
    I was much anticipating Cassini's encounter with Helene on Wednesday. It looks like there was a problem with the pointing of the spacecraft, something that used to happen much more frequently on Cassini, but I don't see it much anymore, so that... More»
  • Mar. 5, 2010 | 13:20 PST | 21:20 UTC
    Pretty picture: Io, labeled
    Jason Perry just posted this lovely labeled image of Io over at his blog, the Gish Bar Times. It's a nice image for providing context whenever any of the named volcanoes are discussed, so I thought I'd toss it in our image library and post it... More»
  • Mar. 5, 2010 | 12:40 PST | 20:40 UTC
    LPSC, Day 3: Opportunity, and what the heck is Marquette?
    I wrote earlier about some results from Spirit reported at this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas; here are the rest of my notes on rover-related talks, from Opportunity's site on the opposite side of Mars. And now that... More»
  • Mar. 5, 2010 | 11:56 PST | 19:56 UTC
    Join the Fight for NASA's Future!
    by Louis D. Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society The U.S. Administration's request for the 2011 NASA budget calls for a bold recasting of the agency's path for human space exploration. With the new plan NASA will receive more... More»
  • Mar. 4, 2010 | 17:48 PST | Mar. 5 01:48 UTC
    Back from LPSC
    Just a quick note to all that I've collected both children from the family I left them with and we've all now arrived home from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. LPSC was so busy with me attending sessions, talking with friends and... More»
  • Mar. 4, 2010 | 07:40 PST | 15:40 UTC
    Pretty Picture: ISS in the X-band
    This is from the "Just Plain Cool" department: a picture of the International Space Station taken in microwave radar. The specific radio wavelength involved is the X-band, radio with wavelengths of a few centimeters. (I've noticed some bloggers... More»
  • Mar. 4, 2010 | 07:22 PST | 15:22 UTC
    Greetings From Space Up in Sunny San Diego!
    When Lyford Rome posted to unmannedspaceflight.com about this SpaceUp "unconference," I was intrigued, and I asked him to write a post about it for the blog. --ESLby Lyford Rome Well, the weather may not have lived up to the title, but spirits... More»
  • Mar. 3, 2010 | 15:00 PST | 23:00 UTC
    Gorilla seen in Nasa Snap from Mars? Umm....no.
    Yes, I'm totally not kidding, that is the headline in the Sun: "'Gorilla' seen in Nasa Snap from Mars." The article goes on to quote a Mr. Nigel Cooper, "who has studied thousands of photos taken by Nasa rovers and posted online" as saying that... More»