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Cosmic Views: May 15, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Monday, May 16. Opportunity's present view at Meridiani. The rover Opportunity has been stuck for weeks now in some very strange fine powdery material, but after a lot of analysis and testing on Earth, its wheels started moving again on Friday and it made about an inch of progress in getting out of the low dune-like ripple where all six of its wheels had gotten stuck axle-deep or more. Posted by DLC @ 12:16 AM. Massachusetts, United States.
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Cosmic Views: March 27, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Friday, April 1. Here it is, at long last! An actual photo that clearly shows water on Mars! Posted by DLC @ 10:26 PM. Tuesday, March 29. More amazing Mars images. The amazing new images from Mars just keep on coming. Here are a couple of the latest:. Shows a sequence of 4 images taken on Spirit's Sol 438, showing a dust devil sweeping across the plain. This is continuing to be a very active dust devil season. Posted by DLC @ 5:10 PM. Mars ...
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Cosmic Views: July 03, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Monday, July 4. Looking back at the collision scene. We may know in the next few days. Posted by DLC @ 4:53 PM. Hubble sees the hit. These images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the huge plume kicked up by the Deep Impact strike, which continued to grow and expand for hours. The third image was taken more than an hour after impact. Posted by DLC @ 3:42 PM. Posted by DLC @ 1:59 AM. PASADENA - The excitement is building here at NASA-JPL,...
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Cosmic Views: March 13, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Saturday, March 19. NASA: best of times, worst of times. There seem to be a lot of strong feelings in both directions right now about the way the space agency is heading. On the plus side, I haven't found anyone yet who has a bad word to say about the choice of Mike Griffin as the new NASA administrator. For one thing, assuming he's confirmed (and nobody seems to doubt that), he'll be the first head of NASA who actuall is. Thursday, March 17.
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Cosmic Views: July 24, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Saturday, July 30. One proposal that makes sense to me is that we set an arbitrary cutoff at 1,000 km radius. Nice round number. Pluto and the new planet qualify, nothing else yet discovered does. If we find more of these big objects, so be it, then the solar system grows. And there's a lovely new lake on Mars, from Mars Express, frozen (all the way down? Posted by DLC @ 2:55 AM. Thursday, July 28. Last flight of the shuttle? This is a sad ...
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Cosmic Views: March 20, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Friday, March 25. Another idea about Mars methane. Yet another possible explanation has been suggested for the methane that three different groups say they have detected in the Martian atmosphere. And as a bonus, the new hypothesis also could explain some unusual formations seen in the Meridiani Planum region, which the rover Opportunity has been studying. In places where there are large kerogen formations, methane continually seeps upward,...
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Cosmic Views: April 10, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Sunday, April 10. New vistas on Mars. Spirit and Opportunity just keep chugging along. Spirit has just about reached the crest of Husband Hill, and the view is already amazing. The hoped-for layered formations? Looks like it. I'm sure we'll be seeing more and hearing something about it in the coming days. Spirit's view ahead. (Images from JPL, processed by WhatonMars.com). See full size original HERE. Beginnings of etched terrain? New Scien...
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Cosmic Views: July 10, 2005
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Notes, news, images and thoughts about what's going on in space. Wednesday, July 13. No, it wasn't the weather after all. It wasn't even the dinged tiles from yesterday, or anything to do with falling debris on the orbiter. Posted by DLC @ 8:00 PM. Tuesday, July 12. T minus 1 and counting. I've been betting against it for a while, but NASA might just surprise me and launch the shuttle Discovery, on the first post-Columbia mission, on tomorrow's opening of the launch window after all. Not that there haven...