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Emily Lakdawalla's blogs from 2008
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/13 01:08 CDT
Enceladus flyby pics
LPSC, Wednesday: More from the Moon -- SMART-1 and radar
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/13 11:01 CDT
LPSC, Wednesday: More from the Moon -- SMART-1 and radar
LPSC, Tuesday: lunar talks, poster session, and Io
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/12 08:50 CDT
LPSC, Tuesday: lunar talks, poster session, and Io
LPSC: Spiders and Swiss cheese on Mars, and a lunar lander network
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/11 09:26 CDT
LPSC: Spiders and Swiss cheese on Mars, and a lunar lander network
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/11 02:51 CDT
LPSC: Kaguya sessions
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/10 09:32 CDT
Enceladus encounter blogs
LPSC: A short visit already over
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/10 09:05 CDT
LPSC: A short visit already over
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/10 10:52 CDT
Reporting in from LPSC
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/08 12:32 CST
Rhea rings: the evidence
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/06 11:06 CST
Popping down to LPSC
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/06 11:05 CST
Carnival of Space #44
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/05 04:42 CST
Phobos arts and crafts
White Rock through the ages: 2001 Mars Odyssey (2001-present)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/04 05:23 CST
White Rock through the ages: 2001 Mars Odyssey (2001-present)
Before, during, and after avalanches on Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/03/03 04:46 CST
Before, during, and after avalanches on Mars
Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/29 02:10 CST
Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves
Pretty pictures from Cassini: Rhea, Saturn, and Janus
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/28 10:30 CST
Pretty pictures from Cassini: Rhea, Saturn, and Janus
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/28 10:04 CST
Carnival of Space #43
Five Myths About the Satellite Smash-Up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/27 04:31 CST
Five Myths About the Satellite Smash-Up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/27 01:45 CST
How dark is your sky?
Chandrayaan-1 launch delayed to July
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/26 01:20 CST
Chandrayaan-1 launch delayed to July
Apophis Mission Design Winners Announced!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/26 11:18 CST
Apophis Mission Design Winners Announced!
Ulysses to fall silent, its voyage to continue forever
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/25 11:39 CST
Ulysses to fall silent, its voyage to continue forever
White Rock through the ages: Mars Global Surveyor (1997-2006)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/22 11:24 CST
White Rock through the ages: Mars Global Surveyor (1997-2006)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/21 02:54 CST
Carnival of space #42
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/21 12:21 CST
Dark-halo craters on Mercury
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/20 12:42 CST
Lunar eclipse tonight
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/19 04:40 CST
There was a press release from the Cassini mission today about a pile of papers (14 of them!) being published in the journal Icarus about Saturn's icy moons. I haven't had time to read more than the overview article yet, but I wanted to come up with a graphic for an overview of Saturn's moons, and I couldn't resist delving into the massive database of Cassini images to produce something new
Accounting for general relativity at Mercury
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/15 02:48 CST
Accounting for general relativity at Mercury
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/15 09:32 CST
Carnival of space #41
Nonfunctioning descending U.S. spy satellite to be blown up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/14 03:56 CST
Nonfunctioning descending U.S. spy satellite to be blown up
Triple near-Earth asteroid discovered
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/13 05:20 CST
Triple near-Earth asteroid discovered
White Rock through the ages: Viking (1976-1980)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/13 01:10 CST
White Rock through the ages: Viking (1976-1980)
Opportunity watches the clouds drift by
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/12 04:11 CST
Opportunity watches the clouds drift by
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/11 02:23 CST
Two Things to Watch Tomorrow
White Rock through the ages: Mariner 9, 1972
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/08 02:31 CST
White Rock through the ages: Mariner 9, 1972
Atlantis and Columbus embark for the International Space Station
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/07 02:36 CST
Atlantis and Columbus embark for the International Space Station
Name a telescope in 25 words or less
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/07 01:34 CST
Name a telescope in 25 words or less
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/06 03:10 CST
Finding images from Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/05 01:25 CST
NASA's 2009 budget
Lecture by G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of ISRO
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/04 04:38 CST
Lecture by G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of ISRO
WD5 most likely missed Mars, but we may never know
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/04 01:15 CST
WD5 most likely missed Mars, but we may never know
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/01 11:36 CST
Have a happy day on Mars
Target Earth, asking candidates about science, SETI, and the rovers
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/02/01 11:09 CST
Target Earth, asking candidates about science, SETI, and the rovers
Ride along with Cassini at Saturn!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/31 03:17 CST
Ride along with Cassini at Saturn!
First science results from the MESSENGER Mercury flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/30 11:23 CST
First science results from the MESSENGER Mercury flyby
Hubble is pointing at 2007 WD5 (and Mars) tomorrow
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/29 01:40 CST
Hubble is pointing at 2007 WD5 (and Mars) tomorrow
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/28 04:43 CST
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/25 03:28 CST
Back-of-the-envelope calculations on Mercury
Pluto is still a long, long way away
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/25 12:02 CST
Pluto is still a long, long way away
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/23 01:41 CST | 2 comments
Teeny little Bigfoot on Mars
Playing around with some New Horizons data
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/21 04:30 CST
Playing around with some New Horizons data
MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby Highly Successful
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/18 03:59 CST
MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby Highly Successful
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/17 12:45 CST
Looking over Mercury's limb
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/16 02:31 CST
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/15 11:22 CST
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
MESSENGER image released after all!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/15 06:11 CST
MESSENGER image released after all!
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/15 01:29 CST
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/14 12:45 CST
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/14 11:26 CST
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
Just a million kilometers away
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/13 02:18 CST
Just a million kilometers away
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/12 10:00 CST
The latest from Mercury
Titan's south pole looks pretty dry
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/11 04:31 CST
Titan's south pole looks pretty dry
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/11 11:45 CST
Mercury's getting bigger...
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/10 03:45 CST
MESSENGER flyby preview
Mars impact chance drops to 1 in 10,000, which may as well be zero
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/10 10:19 CST
Mars impact chance drops to 1 in 10,000, which may as well be zero
MESSENGER's cameras are working
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/09 03:24 CST
MESSENGER's cameras are working
Mars impact probability now 1 in 40
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/08 03:43 CST
Mars impact probability now 1 in 40
American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin this week
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/08 10:34 CST
American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin this week
Maybe, possibly, a nuclear-powered Discovery mission?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/08 10:13 CST
Maybe, possibly, a nuclear-powered Discovery mission?
MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby is coming up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/07 04:36 CST
MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby is coming up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/04 11:39 CST
Antares tours Saturn's rings
GRAIL, the next Discovery mission
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/04 05:41 CST
GRAIL, the next Discovery mission
Amazing Saturn ring-plane crossing animation
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/03 12:40 CST
Amazing Saturn ring-plane crossing animation
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/03 11:17 CST
Carnival of Space #35
Mars impact chances at 1 in 28
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/02 09:54 CST
Mars impact chances at 1 in 28
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2008/01/02 12:37 CST
Mimas and the F ring
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