The new results from astronomers using two telescopes on Hawaii – NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility and the giant Keck telescope – which reveal the presence of methane in the atmosphere of Mars are enormously exciting. As far as we know, methane signals the presence of one of two things – either life or, more likely [...]
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Remember Phoenix’s discovery of snow on Mars?. In the last public talk of the AAS conference yesterday, Principal Investigator Peter Smith updated those of us who normally think about galaxies rather than planets on Phoenix’s mission and the analysis that’s underway. There wasn’t too much new to say, but he did let slip that late [...]
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It turns out that it’s hard to launch a new shiny website while traveling through four airports and three countries in the space of less than 15 hours. With apologies to my talented co-presenter, Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO, I’m going to post our latest Living Space here.
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As we’ve gone through the sessions here about Astronomy and New Media (aka the internet), the example I keep returning to (apart from Galaxy Zoo) is Phoenix’s use of the internet. The way they’ve distributed images and talked to the public has been exemplary, and the most fun example of this is their use of [...]
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Yes, there is ice just beneath the surface at the Phoenix landing site, and they’ve touched the ground.
The shuttle is on its way back to the Space Station.
The launch of GLAST is just a few days away.
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This month’s Guide to the Night Sky is up over at the Times. I found myself getting increasingly interested in the topic of noctilucent (’night shining’ clouds), so here’s the image of one made by the exhaust of the rocket that carried Phoenix to Mars.
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It seems macabre to be thinking about the end of Phoenix’s mission when it’s only just landed, but the odds are that the lander will fail to survive the Martian winter. In the Martian Arctic circle, Phoenix will not see the sun set until it’s September here on Earth, but the nights will get longer [...]
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Just a reminder to join us this evening from
7pm British Summer Time
(That’s 6pm GMT/UTC and 2pm Eastern Time).
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Crosspost from Mars Live where we’ll be providing live coverage of Phoenix’s descent on Sunday night.
While planning for our coverage of Phoenix’s landing, I took the chance to talk to Mars expert and host of Unmanned Spaceflight about results published in Science today from Spirit.(Listen in browser or download by right clicking here).
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