Carnival of Space 125
I am pleased to be hosting this week’s quasquicentennial Carnival of Space – a collection of the best space-related blog posts from the past week.
Tag Archives: Mars
Tonight: A Line of Planets
Tonight, July 5, look west and you’ll see a temporary “Belt of Three Stars”. Saturn, Mars and the star Regulus are sitting by Leo in a chance alignment that literally will only happen tonight. Very cool.
Martian Skies
An awesome page about atmospheric effects on Mars, including a great dust devils animation. Mars has a rich atmosphere and this is the first planet for which we are really starting to understand the climate.
Mars Ice Sublimates
There is ice on Mars. Phoenix has made a significant step with this great shot of ice turning into vapour.
Phoenix Descends
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YouTube – Phoenix Descends – a video from Bad Astronomy which I rather enjoyed.
Phoenix from HiRISE
The incredible image of Phoenix, that was snapped last week by HiRISE as the lander descended, is both technologically awesome and personally inspiring.
Obligatory Phoenix Post
Plantetary landers are far from my speciality, so I’ll not dwell on Phoenix too long. Last night’s landing was well-covered by the blogosphere and in particular (took the BBC ages to catch up in fact), I was following the MarsPhoenix Twitter feed and The Planetary Society. The University of Arizona has an excellent webpage covering the [...]
Phoenix
Phoenix will soon land on Mars to read the water meter (amongst other things). You can keep up to date via The Planetary Society and interestingly via Twitter.
Retrograde Motion
Planets move relative to the stars always moving from west to east in the sky. Well almost always. Every once in a while, a planet will slow down in its apparent slide across the constellations each night. For a few nights it may even appear to have stopped. Then it will start moving in the [...]
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