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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Sep. 16, 2008 | 11:27 PDT | 18:27 UTC
MSL landing site meeting: Getting beaten up is good for science
These landing site selection meetings are fascinating because I don't know of any other venue in which so many scientists get together and participate in open discussion (and, yes, even pointed argument). Ordinarily, in planetary science, there are... More»
Sep. 15, 2008 | 21:09 PDT | Sep. 16 04:09 UTC
MSL landing site meeting: Where on Mars to look for ancient life
I'm attending the third landing site selection meeting for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover today and tomorrow. The talk I most enjoyed today was the first one I saw, by Roger Buick, who presented on the challenges of locating the most... More»
Sep. 15, 2008 | 14:39 PDT | 21:39 UTC
MAVEN will be the second Mars Scout mission
Congratulations are due to Bruce Jakosky and the University of Colorado at Boulder and its Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics: NASA announced today that the second in the low-cost Mars Scout mission series will be MAVEN. MAVEN stands for... More»
Sep. 15, 2008 | 11:07 PDT | 18:07 UTC
MSL landing site meeting, September 15-17, 2008
So as I mentioned in my Ustream announcement I'm now attending the third Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) landing site selection meeting, which takes place September 15-17, 2008. For some context, you can check out the posts I wrote at last year's... More»
Sep. 15, 2008 | 10:21 PDT | 17:21 UTC
Ustream Chat Wednesday, September 17 at 1900 UTC: Mars Science Laboratory landing site selection
This week I am attending a large meeting of the Mars community, which is trying to reach consensus on the best landing site to send Mars Science Laboratory, scheduled for launch next October. So for this week's Ustream broadcast I'll tell you about... More»
Sep. 12, 2008 | 11:56 PDT | 18:56 UTC
Phoenix Sol 106 Update
Operationally speaking, it looks like most of the last week for Phoenix was spent attempting to get a sample into the third cell of the Wet Chemistry Laboratory, without much success. In last week's update I showed an animation where you could see... More»
Sep. 11, 2008 | 11:06 PDT | 18:06 UTC
An amazing animation of Halley's comet from Vega 1
With so much talk of asteroids and comets lately I thought it'd be a good time to post this amazing artifact from the past. It's actually not from the very distant past, but it's data from the first framing CCD cameras sent into space, aboard the... More»
Sep. 10, 2008 | 15:14 PDT | 22:14 UTC
The Face on Steins?
Here's one last image from Rosetta that I couldn't resist posting. When I was closely examining the images that Rosetta took of Šteins as it departed, this is what I saw:The Face on Šteins?I couldn't help but see a sad face staring out at me from... More»
Sep. 10, 2008 | 14:46 PDT | 21:46 UTC
Ustream chat archived; comparing Itokawa and Eros
A recording of today's Ustream chat is now available; you can also read the chat log here.
One of the things I discussed in my presentation is the fact that Itokawa stands out from the other asteroids because it looks so different -- other... More»
Sep. 10, 2008 | 09:02 PDT | 16:02 UTC
LORRI is one powerful camera
So in Monday's "what's up in the solar system" post I mentioned that New Horizons will soon be observing Uranus and Neptune using its LORRI camera, but since the planets will be so far away -- roughly three and four billion kilometers, respectively... More»
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