Bruce's Blog
What's Up
with Bruce Betts
Our resident planetary scientist and Director of Projects will keep you up to date on all the exciting projects we are working on. From searching for dangerous asteroids to flying our very own solar sail spacecraft, Bruce will make sure you know what's going on plus enlighten you with his unique bits of space trivia with Random Space Facts, too!
Search Blog Posts:
Planetary Defense Conference: Apophis Mission Design Competition
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2009/04/29 05:15 CDT
Planetary Defense Conference: Apophis Mission Design Competition
More from the Planetary Defense Conference: Shoemaker Grant Winners
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2009/04/27 06:54 CDT
More from the Planetary Defense Conference: Shoemaker Grant Winners
Updates from the IAA Planetary Defense Conference
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2009/04/27 06:27 CDT
Updates from the IAA Planetary Defense Conference
Updates on the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2009/04/27 12:00 CDT
Our 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant winners have been extremely busy over the past two years. Take for example Quanzhi Ye of Guangzhou, China: He was only 18 when he received the award but already the principal investigator of the sky survey at the Lulin Observatory in Taiwan.
Updates on the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2008/06/27 12:00 CDT
Mars Climate Sounder Collects 20 Millionth Sounding
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2008/03/10 12:00 CDT
Last week Mars Climate Sounder collected its 20 millionth sounding at Mars. Mars Climate Sounder is scanning without problems, collecting science observations of the atmosphere of Mars. Mars Climate Sounder has now been observing Mars for over 17 months (three quarters of a Mars year and also approximately three quarters of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter primary science mission).
Planetary Society's Optical SETI Telescope Offers Online View of Night sky
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2007/10/30 12:00 CDT
The Planetary Society's Optical SETI Telescope was built solely to search for possible light signals from alien civilizations. Located at Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, it is the first dedicated Optical SETI telescope in the world. Its 72-inch primary mirror also makes it larger than any optical telescope in the U.S. east of the Mississippi river.
Millions of soundings yield clues to Mars' weather
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2007/04/03 12:00 CDT
Two months after the start of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's primary science phase, the Mars Climate Sounder instrument has already acquired more than four million soundings, building toward a vast data set on the three-dimensional structure of Mars' atmosphere over the full Martian year of the orbiter's nominal mission.
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2007/03/01 11:00 CST
Update as of March 4, 2007 Thanks to The Planetary Society Shoemaker Grant, the 1.06-meter KLENOT telescope optics was completed at the Klet Observatory. Regular observations of the KLENOT project started in March 2002 under the new IAU/MPC code 246, so we can now present results covering 5 years of this work.
Featured Images
Featured Video
Connect With Us
Facebook! Twitter! Google+ and more…
Continue the conversation with our online community!
