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Jul. 3, 2008 | 07:48 PDT | 14:48 UTC
GLAST is returning data to Earth
Phil Plait reports that the Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope, or GLAST, is now returning data to Earth! Phil's been kind enough to send traffic my way for my Phoenix coverage; I'm only too happy to send you guys his way for GLAST, since he used to... More»
Jul. 2, 2008 | 16:23 PDT | 23:23 UTC
Phoenix sol 36 update: Scraping in Wonderland, next steps for TEGA
The Phoenix team is lying somewhat low this week. With Phoenix' sols aligned almost perfectly with Arizona days, the team has to work through the local night, and at least two members of the JPL newsroom team have taken the week off. And an... More»
Jul. 2, 2008 | 13:39 PDT | 20:39 UTC
Ustream webcast archived
For those of you who tuned in today, I'm sorry I forgot to put in a direct link to the webcast! If you missed my webcast on "Be an Armchair Planetary Scientist," you can now watch the recorded version here, and get the chat log and PowerPoint... More»
Jul. 1, 2008 | 12:34 PDT | 19:34 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of June 30
Time to take my weekly census of the spacecraft exploring the solar system. I wrote the Cassini part of this update yesterday but didn't have time to finish, and I've been trying to be a good girl about not working after hours -- so I'm a day later... More»
Jun. 30, 2008 | 21:58 PDT | Jul. 1 04:58 UTC
Ustream webcast Wednesday July 2 at 19:00 UTC: How to Be an Armchair Planetary Scientist
Please join me Wednesday at noon my time for my next Ustream broadcast. I'm going to do something different this time: I'll start out my broadcast by giving the presentation I gave to the workshop at the Astronomy Society of the Pacific meeting on... More»
Jun. 30, 2008 | 09:29 PDT | 16:29 UTC
Dawn Journal: Cruising past Mars' orbit
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 Dawnlettantes,
Now using an ion thruster that had been powered off since October,... More»
Jun. 27, 2008 | 14:31 PDT | 21:31 UTC
Strange things under Phoenix
I've received two questions very frequently from readers: "Have they taken another look at Holy Cow yet to see if it's changed?" and "What were those splotches on the leg of the lander in the first image of Holy Cow?" Well, I can now tell you that... More»
Jun. 27, 2008 | 10:17 PDT | 17:17 UTC
Carnival of Space number 60
This week's carnival of space can be found at Slacker Astronomy.
And, while I'm posting links, here's some new stuff on our website...
Amateur astronomers: we've just announced the next round of Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants, so prepare... More»
Jun. 26, 2008 | 15:11 PDT | 22:11 UTC
Phoenix sol 30 update: Alkaline soil, not very salty, "nothing extreme" about it!
Or: "pHoenix!" (Sorry. MECA team leader Michael Hecht is responsible for that joke.)
There was a teleconference on the status of the Phoenix mission up to sol 30 today. (Like all of these media teleconferences, if you'd like to listen to it... More»
Jun. 26, 2008 | 12:09 PDT | 19:09 UTC
Cassini camera data has been released through September 30, 2007
The Cassini camera team has delivered early on the scheduled July 1 release of data to the Planetary Data System, the archive from which all researchers (and members of the public) can locate and retrieve data from nearly every NASA (and some... More»
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