How Have the 2012 Doomsday Myths Become Part of our Accepted Lexicon?
The whole “December 21st, 2012 Doomsday” hype had pretty much fallen off my radar. I hadn’t received an email from…
Valles Marineris: The Grandest Canyon of All
A digital terrain model of a portion of Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU…
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: October 22-28, 2012
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's going to be a great week to enjoy lunar studies, but why don't we take a…
Notes from an Amateur Telescope Maker’s Journal, Part 1
A home-made equatorial wedge used with an off-the-shelf telescope, just one of the ways you can improve your telescope experiences.…
Book Review: “Planetfall” by Michael Benson
Review written by Lois Merritt Armchair astronomer alert! If you love looking at the images sent back by the spacecraft…
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Gorgeous Glenelg – ‘Promised Land’ Panorama on Mars
Image Caption: Panoramic mosaic shows gorgeous Glenelg snapped by Curiosity on Sol 64 (Oct. 10) with eroded crater rim and…
Surprise! Galaxies Still Evolving in Present Universe
A giant spiral of gas dust and stars, Messier 101 spans 170,000 light-years and contains more than a trillion stars.…
Go Inside the Dragon Capsule with New Interactive Panorama
Wish you could be on the International Space Station right now, helping to unload the SpaceX Dragon capsule that is…
Mars Sample Return Mission? Naaah… Just Beam Back Martian DNA
Artist concept of a Mars Sample Return mission. Credit: Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion. A Mars sample return mission has long…
Rover Update: Sample Delivered to On Board Lab
We've been telling you about this the past few days, but here's this week's 'official' rover update video from JPL.…