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Mar. 26, 2009 | 13:52 PDT | 20:52 UTC
LPSC: Asteroids and Mercury
Thanks to Ted Stryk for contributing the following notes on Wednesday's sessions from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on small bodies and Mercury. --ESL
by Ted Stryk
I began the day in the small bodies session. Mark Burchell... More»
Mar. 26, 2009 | 12:56 PDT | 19:56 UTC
Brown-Vernadsky Microsymposium 2009: The talks
Yesterday Samuel Schon sent me his extensive notes from the two-day Microsymposium held last weekend, before the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference started, on the topic of volcanism on the Moon and Mercury. Sam is a third-year graduate student... More»
Mar. 25, 2009 | 15:55 PDT | 22:55 UTC
LPSC: Triton's crescent
As he did last year, Ted Stryk has been sending me lots of notes on the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, including the following report on the poster he presented at the meeting on Tuesday. His abstract (PDF format) contains more details on... More»
Mar. 25, 2009 | 10:29 PDT | 17:29 UTC
LPSC: Saltwater at the Phoenix landing site?
It's the Phoenix sessions at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) that received the most advance buzz, because of a press release issued by Nilton Renno, a researcher at the University of Michigan, to the effect that those mysterious... More»
Mar. 25, 2009 | 09:12 PDT | 16:12 UTC
Mars Express VMC is back online!
Great news arrived in my inbox this morning: after several months' hiatus around the period of Mars' solar conjunction, the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express is back in business. VMC is an engineering camera on Mars Express whose purpose was... More»
Mar. 24, 2009 | 15:02 PDT | 22:02 UTC
Aurora Expedition: Aurorae and a volcano
Rosaly Lopes is sending us reports from The Planetary Society's member trip to view the Aurora Borealis in Alaska from March 19-25. Lopes is Lead Scientist for Geophysics and Planetary Geosciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an... More»
Mar. 24, 2009 | 12:17 PDT | 19:17 UTC
LPSC, Day 2: Morning sessions on our Moon and Saturn's moons
This morning at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference would have presented a challenge to me. On the one hand, there's the Moon, with a whole session devoted to Chandrayaan-1 and Chang'e 1 (actually, upon reading the abstracts, it was mostly... More»
Mar. 24, 2009 | 11:09 PDT | 18:09 UTC
Brown-Vernadsky Microsymposium 2009: Introduction
Every year at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference there is a weekend meeting co-hosted by Brown University and the Vernadsky Institute called "Microsymposium," with a narrowly-defined theme. This year's Microsymposium was titled "Volcanism... More»
Mar. 24, 2009 | 07:15 PDT | 14:15 UTC
Spirit puts the pedal to the metal
Way to go, Spirit! The last two drives for the five-wheeled rover have taken it a total of about 40 meters west, traveling around the north edge of Home Plate. If I'm not mistaken, that's more than Spirit has driven in the last 400 sols combined. ... More»
Mar. 23, 2009 | 22:10 PDT | Mar. 24 05:10 UTC
Name Orcus' moon!
There's lots of name-this-and-that in space right now -- there's the story about Stephen Colbert taking over the naming contest for Node 3 of the International Space Station (hilarious) and the recently announced list of possible names for Mars... More»
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