April 12th, 2008
Official Good News Day
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After all the funding news and politics of the last few weeks, today is dedicated to only wonderful, hopeful news.
Firstly, NASA’s lander, Phoenix, has made a near-final course correction, selecting a landing site near the north pole of Mars. Emily has more details.
Secondly, SCUBA-2, the world’s most advanced sub-mm camera, has arrived at the JCMT in Hawaii. This instrument is the result of an enormous amount of hard work, and to see it arrive at the telescope and seeing pictures of it being lifted into position makes my mouth water in anticipation of the results we’ll get from it. Rob has the full story.
Thirdly, I’m off observing in a couple of weeks. You can see a preview of the trip on the Galaxy Zoo blog.
