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Sep. 7, 2010 | 05:01 PDT | 12:01 UTC
Bill Nye Given the World(s)
by Susan Lendroth
Lou Friedman handed off the keys to the Planetary Society -- and a few worlds as well -- to new Executive Director Bill Nye, all captured in a tongue-in cheek video.
Bill also presented Lou, a dyed-in-the-wool Yankees fan, with... More»
Sep. 6, 2010 | 20:39 PDT | Sep. 7 03:39 UTC
Neptune from two slightly different perspectives
Coincidentally, two new images of Neptune were posted today, from two very different sources. One came from Earth. It was from the Hubble Space Telescope, our most impressive eye on objects in the sky, in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths... More»
Sep. 3, 2010 | 12:12 PDT | 19:12 UTC
Planetary Society Open House on YouTube
by Lu Coffing
Perhaps it was an impossible dream: the staff wishing that all of our members and supporters could attend the Planetary Society Open House. If you didn't attend in person -- or even if you did -- we invite you to join us on a virtual... More»
Sep. 2, 2010 | 21:09 PDT | Sep. 3 04:09 UTC
Fly over Saturn's icy moons
A couple of weeks ago Paul Schenk posted a few really cool videos to his personal blog. Paul's subspecialty is the topography of icy moons, and he's been doing a lot of work on the moons of Saturn lately. My favorite of the three videos he posted... More»
Sep. 2, 2010 | 14:01 PDT | 21:01 UTC
Special report by Bill Nye from the VEXAG Meeting
by Bill Nye
Is Venus the forgotten planet, or just one that's hard to figure out? Absorbing the presentations at the Venus EXploration Advisory Group (VEXAG) meeting in Madison, Wisconsin in the U.S. this week, I can tell you Venus is both. Many... More»
Sep. 2, 2010 | 12:34 PDT | 19:34 UTC
Dawn Journal: Getting warmer, farther from the Sun?
Here's our monthly checkup with the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. Thanks Marc! --ESLClick to enlarge >Marc RaymanBy Marc Rayman
Dear Papardawnzzi,
Dawn's journey ever-deeper into the asteroid... More»
Sep. 1, 2010 | 19:41 PDT | Sep. 2 02:41 UTC
Help explorers from Earth travel to new places in our Solar System
by Bill Nye
It can't be easy to bring Nobel Prize laureates and high government officials together over the same issue. But two Planetary Society board members, Scott Hubbard and John Logsdon, have done it – and produced a letter to Rep. Bart... More»
Sep. 1, 2010 | 16:40 PDT | 23:40 UTC
Possibly the best view of the Great Red Spot ever
Icelandic amateur image processor Björn Jónsson just posted this to unmannedspaceflight.com and I thought it was so spectacular that I had to post it -- and his explanation -- here directly. It never ceases to amaze me what can be... More»
Sep. 1, 2010 | 14:14 PDT | 21:14 UTC
Getting to the real science image data: It's not that hard!
If I have to, I will drag reluctant people one at a time to plunge into NASA's Planetary Data System. The PDS, as I've mentioned before, is the repository for space missions' science data; it's the public clearinghouse, the Library of Congress for... More»
Aug. 30, 2010 | 15:24 PDT | 22:24 UTC
What's up in the solar system in September 2010
This month there will be approximately a hundred different planetary science meetings (a list of which is at the end of this post). In the meantime, business goes on as usual in space, with the biggest event this month being the start of Deep... More»
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