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Oct. 16, 2008 | 11:13 PDT | 18:13 UTC
Phobos: New gravity data and an update on the Phobos-Grunt landing site
ESA issued a press release today announcing that Mars' moon Phobos is a rubble pile because it has an anomalously low density, measured during a recent flyby by Mars Express. As far as I can tell from a bit of Googling, both the fact that it's... More»
Oct. 15, 2008 | 13:52 PDT | 20:52 UTC
DPS meeting: Sunday: Lakes on Titan
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction.
This time around DPS features three separate oral sessions on... More»
Oct. 15, 2008 | 11:46 PDT | 18:46 UTC
DPS meeting: Sunday: Some respect for Pallas
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction.
I was psyched for Britney Schmidt's talk, on a five-telescope... More»
Oct. 15, 2008 | 09:20 PDT | 16:20 UTC
DPS meeting: Sunday: Three tiny moons of Saturn orbit within rings
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction. Now I'm going in to the talks from Sunday, where I faced a lot of... More»
Oct. 14, 2008 | 15:58 PDT | 22:58 UTC
DPS meeting: Saturday: Enceladus -- it's cooler than we thought
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction. I got distracted by the fires yesterday, but things are looking less... More»
Oct. 13, 2008 | 14:23 PDT | 21:23 UTC
Phoenix "battens down the hatches" for its first dust storm
Looks like the weather is starting to get unfriendly for Phoenix. According to an entry in the Phoenix blog, a dust storm has blotted out enough of Phoenix' sunlight that the lander had to "hunker down for the weekend until the storm clears, taking... More»
Oct. 13, 2008 | 11:15 PDT | 18:15 UTC
DPS meeting: Saturday: Studying extrasolar planets with planetary spacecraft
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction.
One of the first sessions at DPS was on results from the EPOXI... More»
Oct. 13, 2008 | 09:33 PDT | 16:33 UTC
Following the Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting from home
This week (actually from Saturday through Wednesday) is the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, which is typically referred to as just "DPS." I'm not overly fond of acronyms but here's one case... More»
Oct. 10, 2008 | 14:21 PDT | 21:21 UTC
MSL is still on target for a 2009 launch, no matter what anybody says
Last week an article in Aviation Week inspired rampant speculation about the fate of the next Mars rover mission, MSL, which is scheduled to launch in 2009. The article suggested that after a NASA Headquarters review being held today, Friday... More»
Oct. 10, 2008 | 11:46 PDT | 18:46 UTC
Carnival of Space #74
Go visit the bluegrass state for the 74th carnival of space!
Also, this week's Planetary Radio features Roger Buick, who struggles to find fossils from Earth's earliest history and considers the challenges of finding them on Mars.
And Lou Friedman... More»
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