I’m falling behind on my blogging of the MOC “book”! We read a lot this week, so I will just stick to the highlights. In other words: mostly pictures, less text. This paper is really all about the pictures anyway! (if you’re just tuning in to the MOC series, check out posts 1,2,3 and 4) [...]
Archive for February 2009
The MOC Book: Polar Processes
February 28, 2009A Glimpse at NASA’s future…
February 27, 2009…Or at least at the future budget. The fiscal year 2010 budget summary was released by the White House yesterday, and there was a little bit of info about NASA. First and foremost, NASA is getting some more money! A total of $2.4 billion, counting the stimulus also. That in and of itself is refreshing. [...]
A Tidally Locked Earth
February 25, 2009A while ago, I posted about an interesting abstract and poster at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference discussion the possibility that tidally locked exoplanets might still be habitable. Well, apparently the new Discovery series entitled “The World Without…” is doing an episode about what would happen if the Earth stopped rotating. One of their [...]
First Look at NASA Video Game
February 22, 2009Remember when I posted a while ago about NASA’s plans to develop its own Massively Multiplayer Online video game (MMO)? Well, the first glimpses of the game have been made public, and it sounds promising. Some quotes from the article over at Big Download: the goal is to allow gamers to create their own content, [...]
NASA/ESA Mission to Europa
February 19, 2009In case you haven’t heard yet, NASA and ESA have decided that the next big outer planets flagship will be going to Jupiter. I’m generally in favor of this decision. Titan is fascinating, but Cassini is still in the process of studying it. We’ve learned pretty much all we can about Jupiter and its moons, [...]
Scientifically Accurate Astronomy Sci-Fi!
February 18, 2009Check it out, I just found out about “Diamonds in the Sky“: an anthology of scientifically accurate sci-fi stories. It is edited by astronomer and sci-fi writer Mike Brotherton as his “education and public outreach” for NSF. What a great way to bring science to non-scientists! Did I mention the stories are free to download?
The MOC “book”: Dunes, Ripples and Streaks
February 16, 2009This is the fourth in a series of posts about the huge paper by Malin and Edgett summarizing the results from the Mars Orbital Camera’s (MOC’s) primary mission. If you’re just tuning in, get caught up by reading the first three posts, and if you want to read along, download a pdf of the paper [...]
The Big Picture: Progress on NASA’s Constellation
February 16, 2009The Big Picture has a cool series of photos today showing NASA’s progress on the constellation program. From the article: NASA’s Constellation program, established in 2005, continues its work toward the building the future of manned space exploration in the U.S. The first test flight of the Ares I-X rocket – a functional mockup of [...]
The MOC “Book”: Subsurface Patterns and Properties
February 15, 2009The MOC paper saga continues. If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been writing a series of posts detailing a slow and detailed reading of the classic 2001 paper summarizing the results from the Mars Orbital Camera (MOC), the first high-resolution camera in orbit around Mars. Check out the previous posts here and here. Also, a [...]
Carnival of Space #90
February 15, 2009Apologies for a slow week here at Martian Chronicles. Research and non-blog writing got in the way this week for me, but the rest of the space-related blogosphere has been posting away as usual. Check out this week’s Carnival of Space for all your space-blogging needs!
