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Oct. 30, 2008 | 15:37 PDT | 22:37 UTC
Early science results from MESSENGER's second Mercury flyby
I've just posted a news story detailing the preliminary science results of MESSENGER's second Mercury flyby, based on a press conference that the team held yesterday. Go check it out!
Whenever I watch a MESSENGER press briefing I always find... More»
Oct. 29, 2008 | 16:00 PDT | 23:00 UTC
Phoenix update: Entry into and exit from safe mode, no science for a few days' recharging
The Phoenix mission just issued a statement announcing that, in response to a "low power fault," the spacecraft went into safe mode yesterday. This much was actually expected to happen because of the instructions sent yesterday to the spacecraft to... More»
Oct. 29, 2008 | 12:28 PDT | 19:28 UTC
Chandrayaan-1 update: Still in Earth orbit, closer to the Moon
According to an update posted to the Chandrayaan-1 website this morning, the Indian lunar orbiter has now performed four orbit-raising maneuvers, and is now (after a maneuver at 02:08 UTC today) on an orbit with an apogee of 267,000 kilometers. ... More»
Oct. 28, 2008 | 16:27 PDT | 23:27 UTC
Schedule notes for tomorrow: Constellation and MESSENGER
Some sharp-eyed folks have noticed that there are two colliding press briefings being held by NASA tomorrow at 1:00 Eastern time (17:00 UTC). One is a long-planned, probably triumphant science update on early results from MESSENGER's second flyby... More»
Oct. 28, 2008 | 15:33 PDT | 22:33 UTC
The beginning of the end for Phoenix: No more robotic arm operations
NASA and JPL issued a statement today that marks the beginning of Phoenix' descent into death. But by taking the steps outlined in today's statement, the mission hopes to put off that death as long as possible.
With less and less sunlight each... More»
Oct. 28, 2008 | 11:10 PDT | 18:10 UTC
Opportunity is really hitting the highway
Opportunity's drivers are not messing around! Victoria crater, the site of a Mars year's worth of study, is now far over the horizon, as Opportunity has lately completed a series of very long drives. Opportunity is once again sailing the sand seas... More»
Oct. 27, 2008 | 14:59 PDT | 21:59 UTC
One Hubble camera ready for business
Just a quick update on Hubble here: As you may recall, a glitch within a computer system on September 27 caused it to quit most science operations, and an earlier attempt to revive it didn't work as expected. But the news is getting better: a few... More»
Oct. 24, 2008 | 07:21 PDT | 14:21 UTC
Why is only half of Mars magnetized?
I'm working my way through a horrendously high pile of magazines that I haven't had time to read, and came across an article in the September 26 issue of Science that is really cool: it neatly explains why only the southern half of Mars is strongly... More»
Oct. 23, 2008 | 11:49 PDT | 18:49 UTC
Chandrayaan-1 raises its orbit
Chandrayaan-1's journey to the Moon is going smoothly. A press release issued today by the Indian Space Research Organisation stated that Chandrayaan-1 has completed the first of many maneuvers that will transfer it to lunar orbit over the coming... More»
Oct. 22, 2008 | 15:18 PDT | 22:18 UTC
Mimas, Prometheus, and rings in motion
Here's an entry from the "just plain cool" department: an animation of 20 recent Cassini images, watching Mimas occult Prometheus as the shadowed face of the rings moves across the background. Cassini takes these "mutual event" movies mostly to... More»
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