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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Jan. 8, 2010 | 12:08 PST | 20:08 UTC
Spirit's still "extricating"
I want to apologize for some confusion I created when I got confused earlier this week about the current status of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. Although Spirit's outlook remains gloomy and she's still buried in soil at Troy, JPL has not (as I... More»
Jan. 8, 2010 | 09:21 PST | 17:21 UTC
Sorry folks: Hawking/Aldrin event cancelled, but birthday card's still on
Stephen Hawking's doctors have recommended that he not get on a plane for a planned jaunt to Pasadena in which he would have (among other things) appeared at our "Celebrate Exploration" event. As a result, the event has been canceled. We apologize... More»
Jan. 7, 2010 | 14:34 PST | 22:34 UTC
400 Years of the Galilean Satellites
It was 400 years ago today that Galileo discovered smaller planets attending the planet Jupiter. Jason Perry is doing a far better job than I could of writing about the momentous discovery on his blog, the Gish Bar Times. This post serves as an... More»
Jan. 6, 2010 | 11:51 PST | 19:51 UTC
Congratulations to the WISE team on a beautiful "First Light" photo!
Congratulations are due to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) team on their lovely "First Light" image, unveiled at the 215th American Astronomical Society meeting today. Here it is:Click to enlarge >First light for WISEThis infrared... More»
Jan. 6, 2010 | 11:28 PST | 19:28 UTC
New Mercury Atlas
The United States Geological Survey has just released a new atlas of Mercury, the first to be based upon the three flybys worth of image data gathered by the MESSENGER mission. Past published atlases of Mercury have only shown the half of the... More»
Jan. 6, 2010 | 10:50 PST | 18:50 UTC
Evaporating exoplanet
CoRoT-7b was the first unambiguously rocky planet to be discovered and was quite small, at under five Earth masses. But a press release issued today suggests that its history probably has little to do with Earth's. Instead, CoRoT-7b may be all... More»
Jan. 5, 2010 | 13:51 PST | 21:51 UTC
Dawn Journal: Patiently accelerating
Here's our monthly checkup with the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. Thanks Marc! --ESLClick to enlarge >Marc RaymanBy Marc Rayman
Dear Dawnters and Sons,
The Dawn mission continues to go smoothly, as... More»
Jan. 5, 2010 | 10:36 PST | 18:36 UTC
Send birthday wishes to Buzz Aldrin!
On January 20, 2010, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin turns 80 years old. (Wow.) You can sign up here to send him birthday wishes on the ginormous card we will be presenting to him at our "Celebrate Exploration" event on January 23.
Better yet, though, wish... More»
Jan. 4, 2010 | 12:29 PST | 20:29 UTC
What's up in the solar system in January 2010
EDIT Jan 8: Corrected the entry on the status of Spirit; extrication efforts continue.
EDIT Jan 6: Corrected the launch date of Akatsuki (to July) and Hartley 2 encounter date of Deep Impact (to November).
2010! Wow. Here we are. Where's my Moon... More»
Jan. 4, 2010 | 11:06 PST | 19:06 UTC
Bruce Betts: Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets
by Bruce Betts
Congratulations to NASA's Kepler mission team on their announcement of the discovery of its first five exoplanets (planets around other stars). All five are "hot Jupiters," meaning that they are the sizes of the gas giants in our... More»
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