Pluto Images Show Changing Surface
New Hubble images of Pluto have revealed that the surface of the dwarf planet changed between 2000 and 2002.
Tag Archives: NASA
Bombing the Moon
On Friday, NASA’s LCROSS Moon mission ended with the probe taking a nose dive onto the Lunar surface. This was all planned and was a great way to see what lay underneath the surface at the Moon’s intriguing South Pole. LCROSS was impacting inside a crater that is perpetually in shadow. Such conditions could allow [...]
Hubble Brewing
Herschel and Planck will be occupying our attention late next week, but before then, Hubble once again takes centre stage.
Servicing mission 4 (SM4) will launch on Monday from Cape Canaveral (2pm EST) this coming Monday (May 11th). The shuttle Atlantis is performing the mission. There will be another shuttle on standby, acting as a lifeboat [...]
Astronomy in a Paperless Universe
What is the best time of day to submit to astro-ph? Do astro-ph and ADS harm publishers? I’ll be trying to answer these questions and others as I discuss the effect of the Internet on scientific papers.
Carnival of Space 61
Mang is hosting his first Carnival of Space this week. I’d like to highlight a couple of articles from the list here, too.
GLAST Launched Today
GLAST has now launched after a few delays in the last couple of weeks. But no worries! Soon the £350 million mission between NASA and the US Department of Energy will begin showing us the gamma-ray sky. GLAST will orbit about 350 miles above the Earth has a five year mission to undertake. For more [...]
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.
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