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The Planetary Society Blog
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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Mar. 7, 2011 | 10:16 PST | 18:16 UTC
The 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
Science is all about asking questions, coming up with ideas that might explain the answers, and then poking at those ideas to see if they work. Scientists spend much of their time in solitary research working out those ideas. But they also devote... More»
Mar. 4, 2011 | 12:16 PST | 20:16 UTC
Glory Lost - But Its Mission Must Go On
By Charlene Anderson
Another painful loss to NASA's mission to study Earth from space: Today a Taurus XL rocket failed to lift the Glory satellite into Earth orbit when its clam-shell nosecone refused to open, forcing the rocket and its payload... More»
Mar. 3, 2011 | 16:08 PST | Mar. 4 00:08 UTC
Public service announcement: How to use Wget to grab the 2011 LPSC abstracts
The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is happening next week, and today I went to the meeting website as I usually do to peruse the listed talks for the sessions and abstracts in advance. The sessions and abstracts are all in PDF format, so... More»
Mar. 3, 2011 | 11:47 PST | 19:47 UTC
What does decommissioning a spacecraft entail?
In my last couple of posts about the Stardust spacecraft, which is now basically out of fuel after a remarkably successful extended mission to comet Tempel 1, I've mentioned that it's soon to be decommissioned. A reader asked me: what does it mean... More»
Mar. 2, 2011 | 14:45 PST | 22:45 UTC
Endeavour on Opportunity's horizon: Are we there yet?
Last week the Mars Exploration Rover team dumped another 90 sols' worth of data from Mars into NASA's Planetary Data System, the national repository for space mission data. As I did once before, I dove into this fresh pile of data to pull out... More»
Mar. 1, 2011 | 13:29 PST | 21:29 UTC
Explore the Moon in 3D through the Chandrayaan-1 TMC image data set
Data from two of the cameras aboard Chandrayaan-1 are now available through the ISRO Science Data Archive (ISDA), a new(?) site that is being established to host the data from ISRO's deep-space missions. Chandrayaan-1 was India's first mission... More»
Mar. 1, 2011 | 10:48 PST | 18:48 UTC
Map the world's light pollution by participating in GLOBE at Night
Now in its sixth year, GLOBE at Night is a citizen science program that marshals the eyes of thousands of people around the world once a year to assess the degree to which light pollution diminishes our views of starry skies. It's very simple;... More»
Feb. 28, 2011 | 15:10 PST | 23:10 UTC
The Future of Women in Chemistry and Science
by Charlene Anderson
Are you concerned about the future of women in science? Well, you should be, since the women working in science today and tomorrow will help shape the world you live in. On March 1 (next Tuesday) you can tune in to "The Future... More»
Feb. 28, 2011 | 13:43 PST | 21:43 UTC
What's up in the solar system in March 2011
I don't think there's any question what the big event of this month will be: MESSENGER is finally, finally entering orbit at Mercury on March 18 at 00:45 UTC (March 17 at 16:45 for me). If everything goes well, of course. As of today MESSENGER has... More»
Feb. 28, 2011 | 11:44 PST | 19:44 UTC
Announcing the winners of the "Are We There Yet?" contest
I'm pleased to announce the winners of the Planetary Society's "Are We There Yet?" Stardust contest! The following ten people were the ones who submitted the closest guesses to the 5,673,464,575 kilometers actually traveled by Stardust from its... More»
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