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The Planetary Society Blog
Archive
Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Jul. 26, 2011 | 04:28 PDT | 11:28 UTC
Pretty movie: Everything in the Saturn system is in motion!
A few weeks ago a producer for a public television space documentary asked me if I knew of any cool Cassini animations and my answer was "Ooh, what a great excuse to have some fun digging around in the Cassini data archives." Here is the most fun... More»
Jul. 22, 2011 | 13:17 PDT | 20:17 UTC
Planetary Society Statement on the Pioneer Anomaly
By Charlene Anderson
Planetary Society Members have been supporting Slava Turyshev and his colleagues in their scientific quest to solve the famous Pioneer Anomaly. They have just published a peer-reviewed paper that reports on what may be the... More»
Jul. 22, 2011 | 10:50 PDT | 17:50 UTC
It's official now: Curiosity is going to Gale
The news leaked a few weeks ago has turned out to be true: the next Mars rover, Curiosity, will be headed for Gale crater on Mars when it launches at the end of this year. I had no particular horse in this race -- I'm just glad that the selection... More»
Jul. 21, 2011 | 16:25 PDT | 23:25 UTC
Vesta does a Hyperion impression
Maybe it's my own peculiar variant of pareidolia, but every time I see a new image of Vesta I'm reminded of some different other lumpy body in the solar system. In the image released just now by the Dawn team, taken from 10,500 kilometers away, I'm... More»
Jul. 21, 2011 | 13:12 PDT | 20:12 UTC
Opportunity's horizon rises -- and maybe brings Cape York into view
For miles and miles of Martian terrain, Opportunity's view forward has contained a distinctive line of hills. These are not the hills Opportunity has been aiming for, on the near rim of Endeavour crater. These hills are part of Endeavour, but they... More»
Jul. 21, 2011 | 13:10 PDT | 20:10 UTC
Guest post: Jason Davis: Beginning of the post-shuttle era
The post-space shuttle era has begun.
At 5:57AM EDT (9:57 UTC) this morning, Atlantis gracefully rolled to a stop on runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center Landing Facility, completing the 135th and final mission of the space shuttle program that... More»
Jul. 21, 2011 | 09:44 PDT | 16:44 UTC
Spiffy human spaceflight T-shirt!
From Chop Shop, the same guys who brought you my favorite space T-shirt ever, there is now a very cool shirt celebrating the spacecraft and missions of 50 years of human spaceflight, and as before they're donating five bucks to the Planetary Society... More»
Jul. 21, 2011 | 01:02 PDT | 08:02 UTC
What a Day! From Earth to the Moon and Mars
by Bill Nye
Mission accomplished! It's been thirty great years for the Space Shuttle program. With this venerable space vehicle retired, it's on to the next adventure.
The Shuttle has taken more than 10,400 1,600 tons into orbit, a fantastic... More»
Jul. 20, 2011 | 11:38 PDT | 18:38 UTC
A fourth moon for Pluto
That's right: Hubble observations have yielded the discovery of a third small body orbiting Pluto and Charon. The faint thing, mellifluously designated S/2011 (134340) 1 but which is being referred to as P4, is only 10% as bright as Nix, the... More»
Jul. 19, 2011 | 10:55 PDT | 17:55 UTC
Guest Blog: Jason Davis: Your guide to a shuttle landing
Welcome to the final installment of my guest blog series on the countdown, ascent, and landing of the space shuttle (here are the first and second parts). On Thursday, July 21 at 5:56AM EDT (9:56 UTC), the space shuttle program will come to an end... More»
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