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18 August 2008
Volcano Pictures!
The folks at the Boston Globe clearly knew ahead of time that I would be making a series of posts about volcanoes, and therefore chose to feature some spectacular eruption photos in their “big picture” section. Check it out! Update: Also, I just noticed that there is an incredible amount of stupid going on in the comments to those photos, with people pointing at the CO2 release from volcanoes and …
13 August 2008
Dusk at Cape Verde
Hello everyone! I am back from my adventures in Hawaii, and have learned a lot about volcanism and conducted some valuable research on the consistency of Hawaiian beach sand… I have a bunch of emails to catch up on before making a real substantive post, but I couldn’t resist sharing the latest view of Cape Verde from Opportunity. This mosaic was taken at dusk after the sun had set, and …
26 July 2008
Pretty Phoenix Pictures
Stuart Atkinson from Cumbrian Sky has just created a second blog to serve as a gallery of cool images from Phoenix that he has put together. Go check it out, he has some really great pictures!
25 July 2008
Hawaii Field Work
I have a pretty cool job. I look at data coming down from spacecraft orbiting around and driving on another planet, and try to figure out what it used to be like there. To be able to interpret images of Mars, it helps to first be able to interpret images of our own planet. And that’s why I’m going to Hawaii in a couple of days! On Saturday, I head …
21 July 2008
One small step
39 years ago today, the first human set foot on another world. Here’s hoping that we follow in those footsteps sooner rather than later. I don’t have time to say more, but Phil Plait has already said it better than I could, so go see what the Bad Astronomer has to say.
18 July 2008
Moon Transits Earth!
If you know me, you know that I can’t get enough of pictures of our planet from space. I have the Pale Blue Dot quote posted above my desk, and the famous “Earthrise” picture on my office door. So maybe that’s why I find the two new videos posted on the EPOXI (formerly known as Deep Impact) mission website, so amazingly cool. The top one depicts infrared light as red, …
16 July 2008
Spirit's Bonestell Panorama
Hey folks, as you may know, the Spirit rover has been sitting at the north rim of home plate all Martian winter, struggling to stay alive through the short winter days and long nights. She’s been doing some science though: every day or so, we’ve been taking a few more pictures that will eventually go into a gigantic panorama. After more than 120 sols, we recently hit the halfway point …
11 July 2008
X-Prize Blog
Hey, remember the X-Prize? Now that the first X-prize has been won, the X-prize foundation is broadening its scope. The next X-prizes include a privately funded mission to the moon, a car that can get 100 miles per gallon, and the ability to sequence 10 human genomes in a day. Even better, there is a new X-Prize blog, where you can keep up with everything X-prize related! Check it out!
The Largest Star
I was giving a public talk a couple days ago and one of the kids asked: “What is the biggest star?” The question reminded me of this awesome gif animation. I just wish it kept going past the largest star, comparing the star with clusters, the clusters with nebulae, the nebulae with galaxies, etc.
8 July 2008
The Moon: Then and Now
Boston.com has a fantastic photo-essay showing some of the new hardware that NASA is testing for the return to the moon, plus some classic images from the Apollo missions. You should really check it out, and pass the link on to everyone you know. More people need to know that NASA is serious about returning to the Moon! Here’s a sample picture from the site: These are the All-Terrain Hex-Legged …
