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Jun. 26, 2008 | 12:09 PDT | 19:09 UTC
Cassini camera data has been released through September 30, 2007
The Cassini camera team has delivered early on the scheduled July 1 release of data to the Planetary Data System, the archive from which all researchers (and members of the public) can locate and retrieve data from nearly every NASA (and some... More»
Jun. 25, 2008 | 13:34 PDT | 20:34 UTC
Ustream chat archived
Thanks to the 90-plus people who tuned in to see today's Ustream webcast! And also to Richard Hendricks for serving as question wrangler and spammer basher.
I'm finally following through on something I've been intending to do for a while, which is... More»
Jun. 24, 2008 | 16:39 PDT | 23:39 UTC
A milestone for the Phoenix mission success panorama
I mentioned at the end of my earlier blog entry that on sol 28 Phoenix downlinked the last of the images necessary to make the first complete 360-degree color view around the lander. That's true, sort of. Here's the first attempt I've seen to... More»
Jun. 24, 2008 | 10:59 PDT | 17:59 UTC
Phoenix sol 29 update: Anomalies here and there, but minimum mission success is on the horizon
I just got off the phone with Phoenix mission manager Barry Goldstein, who filled me in on what's been happening with Phoenix over the last few sols. In a nutshell:The sol 22 anomaly is now understood; it was a two-part bug, the first part of which... More»
Jun. 24, 2008 | 09:06 PDT | 16:06 UTC
What's new with Cosmos 2?
Lou Friedman has just posted an update on the next solar sail mission. We launched Cosmos 1 to test the principle of steering a spacecraft using light pressure back in 2005 but our launch vehicle failed. We're planning on building a similar... More»
Jun. 23, 2008 | 15:38 PDT | 22:38 UTC
What's up in the solar system for the week of June 23
Let's check in on what's going on with our trusty robots around the solar system.
Cassini continues its stable once-per-week orbits of Saturn; it just this morning passed periapsis (its closest approach) of Rev 73, crossing to the sunlit side of... More»
Jun. 23, 2008 | 11:15 PDT | 18:15 UTC
Ustream chat Wednesday June 25 at 12:00 PDT / 19:00 UTC
Join me live for a video chat this Wednesday, June 25, at 12:00 my time / 19:00 UT at my Ustream homepage. I'll probably focus on the current status of Phoenix for half an hour, then open it up to any topic that you find to be of interest after... More»
Jun. 20, 2008 | 14:43 PDT | 21:43 UTC
Yep, it's ice!
The Phoenix mission confirmed it this morning: the disappearing act pulled by those chunks of bright material in the Dodo trench pretty much nails the identification of the bright material as ice, which is great news for the mission. Ice is what... More»
Jun. 20, 2008 | 14:42 PDT | 21:42 UTC
Carnival of Space #59
Go to scienceblogs.com to check out this week's Carnival of Space. Hey! I got firsties this week!
And while you're wandering around the Web, you can take in a few new offerings from our website:Mat Kaplan interviews Ralph Lorenz on his latest... More»
Jun. 19, 2008 | 15:36 PDT | 22:36 UTC
Phoenix sol 24: A disappearance from Dodo?
As promised yesterday, Phoenix' sol 24 seems to have been a very busy one for imaging. I've been checking the raw images site regularly throughout the day (using the handy-dandy download tool Mike Howard built into his Midnight Mars Browser... More»
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