Monthly Archives: September 2010

The scientific tourist #139 — Mariner 10

Posted on 6 September, 2010 by admin

This week’s image is a scan of a slide I took at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory back in the summer of 1989 — it’s a model of the Mariner 10 spacecraft…

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Casual Friday — asteroid discoveries, visualized

Posted on 3 September, 2010 by admin

You’ve likely seen this elsewhere already — but just in case there’s somebody out there that’s missed out, here’s a video presentation of the pace of asteroid discoveries over the past 30 years

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