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May. 16, 2011 | 19:39 PDT | May. 17 02:39 UTC
We did it -- Shuttle LIFE launches!
by Bill Nye
Today at 8:56 a.m. EDT, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on its final mission, and we are part of this historic moment!
The Planetary Society's Shuttle LIFE experiment will now begin to test the effects of spaceflight on our specially... More»
May. 16, 2011 | 09:32 PDT | 16:32 UTC
Björn Jonsson's Voyager 1 Jupiter animation, new and improved
Late last year I posted an amazing video of Jupiter's moving clouds, an animation made from images that Voyager 1 took as it approached. Below is a new and improved version of that animation. The first one was based on 16 Voyager color photos;... More»
May. 13, 2011 | 16:15 PDT | 23:15 UTC
SETI@home Following Up on Kepler Discoveries
by Charlene Anderson
Remember SETI@home? The ground-breaking computing project is now taking a look at candidate Earth-like planets that have been detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope. Using the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia,... More»
May. 13, 2011 | 13:56 PDT | 20:56 UTC
Guest post: Jason Davis: The Commercial Crew Development players
NASA is expected to launch the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday, May 16. After that, only one flight remains in the shuttle program; Atlantis heads for the International Space Station (ISS) in July. The Obama Administration's current space policy... More»
May. 13, 2011 | 09:44 PDT | 16:44 UTC
Galileo's still producing discoveries: A magma ocean within Io!
Upon reading the headlines yesterday about the discovery of a liquid hot magma ocean within Io, my first thought was, "I sure hope Jason Perry writes something about this." I knew he couldn't stay away, and indeed he attempted to revive his... More»
May. 12, 2011 | 15:13 PDT | 22:13 UTC
Citizen Science projects for Planetary Science: Get Involved! Do Science!
I've been meaning to write up a blog entry on this topic for a while so was very happy to have someone do it for me -- Mike Malaska. By day, Mike is a Ph.D. organic chemist leading drug discovery projects for a pharmaceutical company. By night, he... More»
May. 11, 2011 | 10:23 PDT | 17:23 UTC
Land ho!
It's hard to convey just how excited I am to see Dawn's first image of asteroid Vesta. In itself the image is not particularly noteworthy, just a few pixels' worth of sunlight brightly reflecting off a lonely asteroid; and it's not yet as detailed... More»
May. 10, 2011 | 15:59 PDT | 22:59 UTC
Day 2: Planetary Defense conference in Bucharest, Romania
by Bruce Betts
Click to enlarge >Bruce Betts and Alison GibbingsBruce Betts, Director of Project for the Planetary Society, and Alison Gibbings, graduate student at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, at the Planetary Defense Conference 2011... More»
May. 10, 2011 | 11:51 PDT | 18:51 UTC
Why haven't we found evidence for life starting in asteroids?
Here's a theoretical paper that asks an interesting question: When the solar system was very young and still very hot, could medium-sized asteroids have been habitable abodes for life? It's not a crazy question, because there's abundant... More»
May. 9, 2011 | 15:00 PDT | 22:00 UTC
Bruce Betts reports from the Planetary Defense Conference in Romania
by Bruce Betts
It's time once again to hang out with a bunch of professionals in a foreign land and talk about saving the world. I am at the International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference in Bucharest, Romania. We are... More»
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