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Category Archives: Space
Carnivalia — 11/23 – 11/29
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals awaits your reading attentions…
Casual Friday — getting ready for Curiosity
If all goes well, the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity will launch from Florida tomorrow morning (10:25 a.m. Eastern Time, 1525 GMT). JPL put together this video of highlights in the rover’s planned mission…
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Tagged Astronomy, Geology, Space, Technology
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Carnivalia 11/16 – 11/22
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals for your Thanksgiving weekend (in the U.S.) reading…
Casual Friday — Fobos-Grunt, how it was *supposed* to happen
Well, if you are at all tuned into space news, you’ve heard that the Russian space agency’s latest attempt to send a spacecraft to Mars is pretty much dead. Here’s a video (11+ minutes long) of how things were supposed to play out…
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Tagged Mars, Russia, Space, spacecraft, Technology
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Carnivalia — 11/02 – 11/08
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals for your reading fun…
Casual Friday — watch Shenzhou-8 dock with Tiangong-1
So now China’s joined the orbital “club,” and performed it’s first rendezvous and docking of two spacecraft
Carnivalia — 10/19 – 10/25
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals for your reading fun…
Casual Friday — a global map of Saturn’s moon Titan
As Cassini has been orbiting the planet Saturn, from time to time it’s had the opportunity to fly past Titan and take a peek. Over six years, this has added up to 78 flybys, each with different viewing geometry and … Continue reading