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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Oct. 19, 2010 | 10:48 PDT | 17:48 UTC
365 Days of Astronomy to Continue in 2011!
The award-winning 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is announcing today that the project will continue for yet another year – its third year — and is now accepting sign-ups for participants for another 365 podcasts in 2011. To sign up, send an email to... More»
Oct. 18, 2010 | 22:34 PDT | Oct. 19 05:34 UTC
Every-other-line truncation of Cassini images
If you have ever looked at Cassini images of icy moons, either on the raw images website or at the Planetary Data System, you may have noticed images that look like they are being eaten by weird black sawtooth pattern. Some images have just a... More»
Oct. 18, 2010 | 16:27 PDT | 23:27 UTC
Deep Impact Hartley 2 encounter timeline
I have just posted a timeline for Deep Impact's encounter with Hartley 2; I put it in the evergreen part of this website rather than in the blog because some of the details are likely to change before November 4 and I don't want to perpetuate... More»
Oct. 15, 2010 | 13:45 PDT | 20:45 UTC
Voyager Mission Status Bulletins: The Voyager 2 Uranus flyby
After a hiatus of more than three years since the Saturn encounters, in 1985, the Voyager mission bulletins started issuing forth from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory again. Bulletins 68 through 80 cover the Uranus encounter. These were a little... More»
Oct. 14, 2010 | 17:02 PDT | Oct. 15 00:02 UTC
Crack the code for a message from Mars, redux
Waaaay back when Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004, the Planetary Society helped the public participate in the missions with a number of projects, including one where we printed "secret codes" around the edges of the two... More»
Oct. 14, 2010 | 12:59 PDT | 19:59 UTC
Discovery's Final Cargo Arrives at Launch Pad
by Ken Kremer
The final cargo for Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission to space arrived at launch pad 39 on October 7, 2010. Discovery is slated to lift off on the STS 133 space station assembly mission on 1 November 2010 at 4:40 PM EDT from the... More»
Oct. 14, 2010 | 11:07 PDT | 18:07 UTC
Update from the First Moscow Solar System Symposium
by Louis D. Friedman
This week, I am attending the First Moscow Solar System Symposium. Its focus is mostly on Phobos science and the plans for next year's Phobos Sample Return Mission (PhSRM), on which The Planetary Society will be flying the... More»
Oct. 13, 2010 | 15:07 PDT | 22:07 UTC
Congratulations to the IKAROS team for their "8th Web Creation Award"
This news is a little old but worth mentioning: On September 9, the Japanese solar sail mission, IKAROS, won a Web award in Japan for their work to publicize the mission via Twitter. The Google translation of the particular award they won is the... More»
Oct. 12, 2010 | 14:30 PDT | 21:30 UTC
"A very sad story": No rings for Rhea after all
A couple of years ago, a story published in Science made a big splash: Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, appeared to have rings. The evidence was from the MIMI instrument on Cassini. During a flyby on November 26, 2005, MIMI detected something... More»
Oct. 11, 2010 | 09:20 PDT | 16:20 UTC
Space Station transit of Venus
Let's count how many amazing things there are about this photo.
1) Theo Ramakers and Frank Garner caught the Space Station transiting Venus. In the whole wide sky, these two tiny objects were right next to each other.
2) Venus was at a magnitude... More»
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