May 2008
| 5/29/08 |
It's Carnival time again...! posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Yes, it's Thursday so it must be time to go wander over to the weekly Carnival of Space... This w... |
|
|
| 5/28/08 |
Phoenix: Hmmm, I wasn't far off... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) Remember how, a month or so before Phoenix actually landed on Mars, there was great speculati... |
|
|
| 5/27/08 |
Phoenix: Better and better... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) Just when you thought the Phoenix images couldn't get any better...!! Yesterday we had... |
|
|
| 5/27/08 |
Phoenix: my first colourisation... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) I've been able to do this more quickly than I'd hoped - combine three of the black and white ... |
|
|
| 5/26/08 |
Phoenix: Spotted from orbit... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) Now this is an amazing image... What is it? A jellyfish? A shutt |
|
|
| 5/26/08 |
PHOENIX: Oh what a night... posted by stuartatk (2 comments) ** Welcome to Carnival of Space reader |
|
|
| 5/25/08 |
PHOENIX: FIRST PICTURES!! posted by stuartatk (0 comments) They're in! The first pictures!!! And they're FANTASTIC!! |
|
|
| 5/25/08 |
PHOENIX: Phew...! posted by stuartatk (1 comments) Well, we're back - on Mars! Woo-HOO!!!! Phoenix touched down safely on th |
|
|
| 5/25/08 |
Phoenix: SUCCESS!!!!! posted by stuartatk (2 comments) PHOENIX IS DOWN SAFELY ON MARS!!!! :-)))) |
|
|
| 5/25/08 |
Phoenix: one HOUR to go... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) I can't believe we're now, after all the waiting, just one HOUR away from landing... NASA TV is n... |
|
|
| 5/25/08 |
Phoenix: Landing minus 7 hours and counting... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Here at Mission Control Kendal, preparations are well under |
|
|
| 5/25/08 |
Phoenix: Landing Day Dawns... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) So, here we are: Landing day. It's finally here. We're finally here. Watching th |
|
|
| 5/24/08 |
Listen to "Arrival"... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) I really don't know what to say really, except Thank you Emily, I'm honoured... |
|
|
| 5/23/08 |
Phoenix: Arrival Imminent... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Well here we are... Friday evening in the UK, and this afternoon I finished work |
|
|
| 5/22/08 |
Carnival time again... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Wow, how the days fly... yes, it's Carnival time again! This week's "Carnival of Space" is th... |
|
|
| 5/21/08 |
A Phoenix Landing Survival Kit... posted by stuartatk (1 comments) |
|
|
| 5/20/08 |
See the International Space Station... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) It's easy! Just look at the timetable I've put |
|
|
| 5/19/08 |
Phoenix - Britain's involved too! posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Tom Pike, one of the scientists involved in the Phoenix mission, very generously |
|
|
| 5/19/08 |
Phoenix Landing - when is everything happening..? posted by stuartatk (0 comments) If you've been reading the JPL updates and NASA websites which give all the timings for the weeke... |
|
|
| 5/19/08 |
A "double crater" on Tethys..? posted by stuartatk (0 comments) The CASSINI raw images website has just released some new pictures of Saturn's icy moon Tethy... |
|
|
| 5/18/08 |
Phoenix - 7 days from Mars... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Wow.. look at that... after all the months and weeks of waiting, we're now just |
|
|
| 5/16/08 |
9 Days To Go..! posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Wow... look at that... 9 days to go... just 9 more days left to go until Phoenix |
|
|
| 5/15/08 |
Carnival of Space time again... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) The 54th (54th!!!) Carnival of Space is now up online. Click here to go take a look! |
|
|
| 5/15/08 |
NASA'S Big Announcement posted by stuartatk (2 comments) ... so what was it? What had NASA found after 50 years of searching? A black hole in our cosm... |
|
|
| 5/14/08 |
Eleven Days from Mars - Part 1 posted by stuartatk (0 comments) |
|
|
| 5/14/08 |
Eleven days from Mars - Part 2 posted by stuartatk (1 comments) I was convinced of this fact when I was faced with a very self-righteous individual who had come a |
|
|
| 5/13/08 |
EAS Meeting Report - May 2008: Talk by Doug Ellison, UMSF posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Last night's meeting of the Eddington Astrononomical Society - Kendal's astronomical society,... |
|
|
| 5/11/08 |
Phoenix: 14 days from Mars... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Yes, it's now just two weeks until Landing Day. Two weeks until the Phoenix prob |
|
|
| 5/10/08 |
I give up... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) The "astrology vs astronomy" battle is as eternal and endless as the battles between good and... |
|
|
| 5/10/08 |
So what IS NASA about to announce..? posted by stuartatk (2 comments) Now this is interesting... On the always-excellent Universe Tod |
|
|
| 5/9/08 |
VERY special guest speaker at next EAS meeting... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Next Monday - May 12th |
|
|
| 5/9/08 |
Carnival of Space time again... posted by stuartatk (0 comments) It's the weekend so time to wander over to the Carnival of Space again, this week brought to ... |
|
|
| 5/4/08 |
Preserving Tranquility Base posted by stuartatk (4 comments) WELCOME TO |
|
|
| 5/2/08 |
Pssst... want to go to the Moon? posted by stuartatk (1 comments) Not in person, sadly, but you can send your NAME to the Moon by going to a NASA website and a... |
|
|
| 5/1/08 |
So what's this "LHC" fuss all about then? posted by stuartatk (0 comments) I'm sure you've heard on the radio, or seen on the TV news, that a huge new piec |
|
|
| 5/1/08 |
Carnival of Space - Anniversary edition! posted by stuartatk (0 comments) Yes, it's Carnival of Space time again, but this week's Carnival is even more special than usual,... |