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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Dec. 24, 2009 | 22:32 PST | Dec. 25 06:32 UTC
Planetary Society Advent Calendar for December 25: Double planet
To those of you who celebrate the holiday, merry Christmas! I hope Santa was good to you. I have just completed my first real tour of duty as Santa (at previous Christmases, Anahita was too young to be indoctrinated into the Cult of Claus, but... More»
Dec. 24, 2009 | 09:42 PST | 17:42 UTC
Happy Christmas on Mars!
This was so cute I had to repost it -- and record it too. This was posted to unmannedspaceflight.com this morning by forum member Astro0.
Prefer to listen than read? Here's an mp3 recording of "Happy Christmas on Mars" (2MB)
(and if you'd like... More»
Dec. 24, 2009 | 07:51 PST | 15:51 UTC
Planetary Society Advent Calendar for December 24: Ganymede
I think if you polled most space fans about their favorite moons of Jupiter, Ganymede would come in a consistent third behind Europa and Io. Those other two are showier than Ganymede, Europa with its smooth, fresh surface and Io with its constantly... More»
Dec. 24, 2009 | 07:50 PST | 15:50 UTC
A Space Carnival and a radio show
Wander on over to Cumbrian Sky to check out a special Christmas edition of the Carnival of Space! The Carnival will be on a one-week hiatus next week -- fortunately this week's is especially good.
While I'm posting links, be sure to check out this... More»
Dec. 23, 2009 | 12:04 PST | 20:04 UTC
Awesome Cassini mutual event movies
I love posting animations of Cassini images that I compose from frames grabbed from the mission's raw images website, but they are shoddy compared to the versions that eventually come out from the mission's imaging team. Today they released four... More»
Dec. 23, 2009 | 11:29 PST | 19:29 UTC
Planetary Society Advent Calendar for December 23: Deimos
Mars' moon Deimos never gets as much love as Phobos. Deimos is the smaller of the two, about half the diameter of Phobos, but it's not because of Deimos' size that it's underappreciated; it's an accident of the orbits of the moons, or more... More»
Dec. 23, 2009 | 11:21 PST | 19:21 UTC
Celebrate exploration with Stephen Hawking and Buzz Aldrin!
The Planetary Society is hosting a luncheon on January 23, 2010 that will celebrate the achievements of two renowned heroes of space exploration, physicist Stephen Hawking and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. And yes, they will both be in... More»
Dec. 22, 2009 | 17:24 PST | Dec. 23 01:24 UTC
What Will Be the Top Space Story in 2010?
by Susan Lendroth
What do you think will be the top trend in space in 2010? In his Cosmic Log on MSNBC, Alan Boyle suggests that The Planetary Society's solar sailing project may be a contender. In fact, he includes it in his short list of... More»
Dec. 22, 2009 | 11:13 PST | 19:13 UTC
Planetary Society Advent Calendar for December 22: Venus
Venus is such a beautiful, brilliant light in the sky. (When it's up; just now Venus is actually near solar conjunction, so we'll have to wait a bit for it to grace the heavens.) It's often called Earth's twin, because its mass is so similar to our... More»
Dec. 21, 2009 | 15:09 PST | 23:09 UTC
Planetary Society Advent Calendar for December 21: Miranda
Miranda is the one moon of Uranus for which we have very good images from Voyager 2, and that was a stroke of luck, because low-resolution shots of all of Uranus' moons would have told us that it was, geologically speaking, the most dramatic of the... More»
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