space exploration
Science Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.
This image was ganked mercilessly from the brilliant Road to Endeavour blog. That celebration of the Mars rovers is put together by the same person […]
Last chance to see.
On 4:39 Sunday morning, go out and turn to face Cape Canaveral. It’s your last chance to ever see a space shuttle launch. Last. Chance. […]
Ships on Titan.
Well, this is a news item from before this week’s NASA budget came out. Think of it as a kind of desperate inspiration, perhaps, from […]
Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia
Click to embiggen vastly This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake […]
A moment of silence for NASA?
ScienceBlogs (and the Orlando Sentinel) are not sounding very pleased about Obama’s proposed budget for NASA: As a final frying pan upside the head, you […]
A moment of silence for Spirit.
The Mars rover has been officially abandoned. The Tech Herald: However, although the Mars rover has now been written off in terms of fulfilling its […]
Monkey and Robot go to Mars.
PopSci says the Russians are floating the idea of sending a monkey and robot to Mars. For real: Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks […]
Getting stuck a stroke of luck
PhysOrg looks at the sunny side of the Mars Rover Spirit getting stuck – in exactly the right place to make some major discoveries: “Spirit […]
All they need is glove.
Glove is all they need. NASA, that is, according to New Scientist. They’ve got somewhere to go, but aren’t all dressed up yet – not […]
“Our Place in the Cosmos” by Symphonies of Science.
So. They’ve done it again. Carl Sagan (and a host of other cosmologists) now have soul. I mean, they had soul all along, but thanks […]
Science Art: Light-Toned Deposits in Noctis Labyrinthus (ESP_014353_1685)
Click to embiggen Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. It’s part of their project called HiRISE in which they’re taking photographs of Mars. High Resolution […]
Limpid moon.
NASA inspires my hopes again. I’ll look up at the moon and know there’s water up there: “The full understanding of the LCROSS data may […]
The Robot Blimps of Mars
Wired has me eager for interplanetary conquest with their look at our armada of airships and robotic rovers: With the miniature lab tests complete, [Wolfgang […]
SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out
SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “A Rocket for the 21st Century”, from […]