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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Aug. 29, 2008 | 13:43 PDT | 20:43 UTC
Opportunity's ready for a new adventure!
It's official: Opportunity is out of Victoria. A news release from JPL stated today that Opportunity has, as of late yesterday (sol 1,634), exited Victoria crater. Opportunity has been inside Victoria since sol 1,293 (September 13, 2007), nearly... More»
Aug. 29, 2008 | 13:27 PDT | 20:27 UTC
Catching up with Phoenix, through sol 91
We're now almost done with sol 93 on Phoenix. As I write, it's 21:45 at its landing site. I last checked in with Phoenix on sol 76, after it had spent two weeks doing a carnival of digging. It's been another two weeks, but there is less news for... More»
Aug. 28, 2008 | 11:14 PDT | 18:14 UTC
Dawn Journal: Some explanations of orbital dynamics
Here's our monthly checkup with the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. Thanks Marc! --ESL
by Dr. Marc D. Rayman
Dear Dawnivores,
The Dawn spacecraft continues to make good progress on its adventure to... More»
Aug. 27, 2008 | 11:30 PDT | 18:30 UTC
Ustream chat with Lou Friedman -- sadly, no recording
Despite some initial technical difficulties I got today's Ustream chat running, pulling our esteemed leader Lou Friedman in to the broadcast from his own Webcam as a Ustream "cohost." Sadly, though, the "record" feature on Ustream did not appear to... More»
Aug. 27, 2008 | 10:56 PDT | 17:56 UTC
Pictures from the past: Viking 2 approaches Mars
On Monday I pointed to the awesome new website for the VMC instrument on Mars Express and mentioned that the camera can get views of Mars in a crescent phase. I thought it might be the first spacecraft to do so, but a couple of readers wrote in to... More»
Aug. 26, 2008 | 16:51 PDT | 23:51 UTC
GLAST has a new name: Fermi
The erstwhile Gamma-Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) has today received a new name: Fermi. More officially, it is the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, one of the flagship orbiting observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space... More»
Aug. 26, 2008 | 09:06 PDT | 16:06 UTC
Asteroids and comets to scale, as a single image for printing or Powerpoint
After posting the montage of asteroids and comets to scale last week I got a lot of requests for a single-image version of the montage. Your wish is my command! Here is a single image of all of the asteroids and comets that have been visited by... More»
Aug. 25, 2008 | 15:53 PDT | 22:53 UTC
Ustream Chat Wednesday, August 27 at 1900 UTC: Space Policy with Lou Friedman
In my past Ustream broadcasts I've always demurred on space policy questions, since I consider myself far from an expert on such matters. So this week I'll have a special guest on to discuss space policy: my boss. Lou Friedman is cofounder and... More»
Aug. 25, 2008 | 14:12 PDT | 21:12 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 25
Well, we had a lovely family vacation at the beach and I managed to keep from doing any work. The same can't be said for my computer: I gave it plenty of work to do, downloading the complete set of Venus Express camera data, which was just last... More»
Aug. 24, 2008 | 07:40 PDT | 14:40 UTC
Three great new pages on Don Davis' website
Don Davis is a space artist who takes the question of color in space very seriously. So I was very happy to get an email from him a few weeks ago, telling me that he had revamped and updated several pages on his website pertaining to colors in... More»
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