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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Sep. 24, 2009 | 10:17 PDT | 17:17 UTC
The Moon as seen by Cassini VIMS, processed by an amateur
One of the pieces of the Big Super Secret Moon Water Story that's all over the Web and will be the topic of a press briefing in under an hour is an observation of the Moon made by Cassini more than a decade ago during its flyby of Earth. As some of... More»
Sep. 24, 2009 | 09:40 PDT | 16:40 UTC
An ALMA antenna journeys to its pad
This is a significant week for radio astronomy, but I'll admit that I am posting the photos and video below for no other reason than that they are gorgeous. I'll give this to all of you traditional astronomers (i.e. people who look at space from... More»
Sep. 23, 2009 | 17:14 PDT | Sep. 24 00:14 UTC
Beautiful 3D animation of Spirit's environs in Gusev Crater
Doug Ellison has done it again: he's created a spectacular overflight of Gusev crater based upon digital elevation models of the terrain produced by the United States Geological Survey from HiRISE data. This time he gave the atmosphere a... More»
Sep. 23, 2009 | 14:30 PDT | 21:30 UTC
Looking forward to MESSENGER's third flyby of Mercury
I've just posted a news story containing more detail than most of you probably want on the science plans for the upcoming MESSENGER Mercury flyby, which will happen at 21:55 UTC on September 29. Go read! They're getting tricky with their science... More»
Sep. 22, 2009 | 14:11 PDT | 21:11 UTC
Planetary Radio Q and A: Boom-boom!
This week's Planetary Radio is the second of two with Robert Zubrin. On "Questions and Answers" I answered my own question:
When Space Shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base, I stood outside to listen for its boom. I was surprised to... More»
Sep. 22, 2009 | 11:57 PDT | 18:57 UTC
How would you destroy the Earth?
by Bruce Betts
The Planetary Society is working to prevent bad things from happening to Earth. In particular, we have projects to help prevent near Earth object impacts that can ruin thousands of square kilometers of forest (Tunguska, 1908) or 70%... More»
Sep. 21, 2009 | 21:04 PDT | Sep. 22 04:04 UTC
More Saturn equinox image goodies
More goodies are now posted in this news story, including a neato video with data from the CIRS instrument showing how the temperatures on Cassini's rings have changed as the sun set on the southern face of the rings. Cool stuff.... More»
Sep. 21, 2009 | 15:11 PDT | 22:11 UTC
Saturn equinox image goodies
Well I'd hoped to get a full story on these amazing images posted before I had to dive into afternoon kid-related duties, but I just ran out of time. So here's a preview. Much more to come later!Click to enlarge >Saturn at equinoxJust a day after... More»
Sep. 21, 2009 | 10:00 PDT | 17:00 UTC
No more rumors: It's now fact that Phobos-Grunt will be delayed to 2011
Today, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, officially announced a delay from 2009 (next month!) to 2011 of the launch of their Phobos sample return mission, Phobos-Grunt. This is a move that has long been anticipated, but until today the official... More»
Sep. 21, 2009 | 09:54 PDT | 16:54 UTC
Venus looks more boring than you think it does
The MESSENGER team posts one captioned image per week from their previous encounters. These have mostly been of Mercury but once in a while they toss in an image from one of their two Venus encounters, which happened on October 24, 2006 and June 5,... More»
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