Credit where credit’s due
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...
View ArticleA Phoenix footnote
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...
View ArticleThe little spacecraft that struggled
Last week’s Nature had a series of stories about the feature by Eric Hand. My reaction on reading it was a sense that he’d got it absolutely right, hitting a tone that is best described as qualified...
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Living Space with Douglas Pierce-Price
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,...
View ArticleTwittering on Mars
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...
View ArticleTake a deep breath and…
Try to keep up with everything that’s happening 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...
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Cloud gazing
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...
View ArticleThey don’t call it Lazarus for nothing
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,...
View ArticleJoin us tonight
Just a reminder to join us this evening from 7pm British Summer Time (That’s 6pm GMT/UTC and 2pm Eastern Time). We’ll have streaming video on this website, and will be blogging and hopefully vodcasting...
View ArticleSilica on Mars
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...
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