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Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears End
The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.
Generations of Stars Pose for Family Portrait
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history.
Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer.
Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large
Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass.
Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.
Young Thinkers Get to Tinker at JPL
More than 300 students have swelled JPL's ranks this summer, hailing from high schools, community colleges, four-year universities and graduate schools across the country.
Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Cassini has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby
Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began
sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
JPL Camera Marks Hubble's 100,000th Orbit
To commemorate Hubble's 100,000th orbit on Aug. 10, scientists used a JPL-designed and -built camera onboard the space telescope snapped this dazzling region of a nebula 170,000 light-years away.
Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars Lander
Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday got enough soil into the oven begin analysis of the sample.
Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon
Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's
moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini
spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.
Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific Process
Mission scientists today discussed their current investigation into percholate salts detected in Martian soil. The salts are neither good nor bad for life, said one scientist, but do make us reassess how we think about life on Mars.
NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil Data
Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy.
NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
have identified water in a soil sample.
NASA Confirms Liquid Lake on Saturn Moon
NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane.
Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans
Less than a month after launch, the new NASA-French space agency Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps.
Quake Demonstrates Ongoing Forecasting Experiment
This week's magnitude 5.4 earthquake in Southern California marks another demonstration of an ongoing experiment by a NASA/Department of Energy-funded research team to forecast the location of large earthquakes in California.
Close-Up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show Changes
A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil
Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments.
Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample
Phoenix's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven.
Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs to Work on Delivery
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander's ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples.
Phoenix Scoop Ready for Sampling
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scoop is primed and ready to collect a soil sample from the northern region of Mars to analyze for the presence of water and other possible ingredients.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Next Sample Analysis
The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.
NASA's JPL, Ames Win 2007 NASA Software of Year Award
NASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system.
New NASA 'Fire and Smoke' Web Page Shows Latest Fire Views, Research
NASA satellites, aircraft and research know-how, including resources and expertise from JPL, comprise a wealth of cutting-edge tools to help firefighters battle wildfires.
Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift
Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night
To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.
Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with Rasp
The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.
3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander.
NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of
the moon passing in front of Earth as seen from the spacecraft's
point of view.
Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter
A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a
planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's
atmosphere.
JPL Enters the Blogosphere
A new JPL blog features scientists and engineers who will offer insights into their areas of expertise - ranging from Mars, Saturn and other solar system bodies to the universe beyond. Topics closer to home, like climate change, will also be discussed. Public comments are welcome.
NASA Spacecraft Shows Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars
Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life.
Ocean Surface a Boon for Extreme Event Forecasts, Warnings
For humans in the path of destructive hurricanes and tsunamis, an accurate warning of the pending event is critical for damage control and survival.
Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
Brightest Star in the Galaxy Has New Competition
A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer
A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them.
Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant Universe
Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the
very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000
per year.
Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources
Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's
ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite
maps from NASA.
NASA Mission to be Crystal Ball into Oceans' Future, Mirror to the Past
Imagine the lives that could be saved from flash floods, and the homes that could be spared from the effects of coastline erosion if only scientists could more accurately predict the dynamics of Earth's often unpredictable oceans.
Sample-Collection Tests by NASA's Phoenix Lander Continue
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA).
NASA's Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.
Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next Week
The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will be ice-rich.
New Mission Helps Offshore Industries Dodge Swirling Waters
Hurricanes aren't the only hazards spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico -- they have a liquid counterpart in the waters below called ocean eddies.
Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
100 Years of Space Rock: The Tunguska Impact
At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch.
Cassini to Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await!'
NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets-Titan and Enceladus.
Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for Science
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry experiment
on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that
for Phoenix scientists was like winning the lottery.
NASA Mission to Answer Lingering Questions From Deep Blue Sea
Ocean tides and currents across the globe still hold within their watery grasp the key to unanswered questions about our planet.
NASA Spacecraft Reveal Largest Crater in Solar System
New analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next Steps
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time.
Phoenix Poised to Deliver Sample for Wet Chemistry
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander repositioned its robotic arm slightly today and is now poised to deliver Martian soil to its wet chemistry laboratory.
New NASA Website Focuses on Global Climate Change
A new website from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is devoted to educating the public about Earth's changing climate.
Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian
soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis
tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Saturday beamed back images showing that Phoenix's Robotic Arm successfully sprinkled soil onto the delivery port of the lander's Optical Microscope.
NASA Launches Ocean Satellite to Keep a Weather, Climate Eye Open
A new oceanography satellite launched on a globe-circling voyage to continue charting sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change.
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water
Scientists relishing confirmation of water ice near the surface beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead.
Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice
Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.
NASA Mars Lander to Dig; Team Probes Flash Memory
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission generated an unusually high volume of spacecraft housekeeping data on Tuesday causing the loss of some non-critical science data.
Phoenix Makes First Trench in Science Preserve
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging in an area called "Wonderland"
early Tuesday, taking its first scoop of soil from a polygonal surface feature
within the "national park" region that mission scientists have been preserving
for science.
NASA Mission Poised to Help Us Gauge Our Rising Seas
The newest ocean-observing satellite takes flight this week to make precise measurements of rising global sea level.
NASA Phoenix Lander Bakes Sample, Arm Digs Deeper
One of the ovens on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continued baking its first sample of Martian soil over the weekend, while the Robotic Arm dug deeper into the soil to learn more about white material first revealed on June 3.
Students Chosen as Cassini Scientists for a Day
Four students have won the Cassini Scientist for a Day contest, with
most choosing Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, as the best place
for scientists to study using NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil Samples
New observations from Phoenix provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale.
International Mission Studying Sun to Conclude
Ulysses, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission to study the sun,
will end on or about July 1, after 17 years of pioneering sun studies.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope
Phoenix sprinkled a spoonful of Martian soil Wednesday onto the sample wheel of the spacecraft's robotic microscope station, images received early Thursday confirmed.
NASA's Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil.
NASA Lander Will Sprinkle Martian Soil for Microscope to View
The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to instruct the spacecraft in the next few days to use its Robotic Arm to sprinkle a spoonful of Martian soil onto a wheel that will rotate the sample into place for viewing by the spacecraft's Optical Microscope.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Testing Sprinkle Technique
Engineers are testing a revised method for delivering soil samples to laboratory instruments on Phoenix's deck now that researchers appreciate how clumpy the soil is at the landing site.
Phoenix Sifts for Samples, Continues Imaging Landing Site
On Sunday, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer on Phoenix will attempt to loosen clumped soils on the device's screens to allow material to fall into the oven for analysis later in the week.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Checking Soil Properties
The arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander released a handful of clumpy Martian soil onto a screened opening of a laboratory instrument on the spacecraft Friday, but the instrument did not confirm that any of the sample passed through the screen.
NASA Mars Lander Scoops First Soil Sample for Laboratory Analysis
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander made its first dig into Martian soil for science studies and is poised to deliver the scoopful to a laboratory instrument on the lander deck.
Highest Resolution View Ever From Mars Comes From NASA Lander
A microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken
images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever
returned from another planet.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Ready to Gather Samples
Two practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave scientists and engineers gathered at the University of Arizona confidence to begin using Phoenix's Robotic Arm to deliver soil samples to instruments on the lander deck.
NASA's Phoenix Retesting Release of Martian Soil
Engineers and scientists operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided early today to repeat a practice test of releasing Martian soil from the scoop on the lander's Robotic Arm.
Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our Galaxy
More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched
together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy.
Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing
New images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess.
NASA's Phoenix Scoops Up Martian Soil
One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm.
NASA's Phoenix Lander Makes an Impression on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.
Camera on Arm Looks Beneath NASA Mars Lander
A view of the ground underneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander adds to evidence that descent thrusters dispersed overlying soil and exposed a harder substrate that may be ice.
NASA'S Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm Camera Sees Possible Ice
TUCSON, Ariz.-- Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25.
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Arm and Other Tools to Work
NASA's Mars lander is returning more detailed
images from the Martian surface and is now preparing its instruments
for science operations.
Scientists Hold Seance for Supernova
Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted
apart in a supernova explosion long ago.
NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded to Unstow Arm
Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today.
Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens.
Experts Discuss How to Find Another Earth
On May 29 and 30, astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect possible life on it.
NASA Mars Lander Prepares to Move Arm
NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its
wrist and then flexing its elbow.
NASA Satellites Illuminate Pollution's Influence on Clouds, Climate
Using data from instruments in a
constellation of NASA satellites, scientists have discovered
that they can see deep inside of clouds.
Orbiter Relays Second-Day Information From NASA Mars Lander
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully received information from the Phoenix Mars Lander Tuesday evening and relayed the information to Earth.
Camera on Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing
A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.
Mars Pulls Phoenix in
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander sped on Sunday morning toward its arrival at Mars, as the tug of the Red Planet's gravity accelerated the craft during the final day of its trip from Earth to Mars.
NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Lands at Martian Arctic Site
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing
A NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars.
No Final Nudge Needed for Phoenix
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will reach Mars this evening with no further adjustments to its flight path.
Phoenix Lander Update: No Saturday Night Maneuver
Mission controllers for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided Saturday afternoon, May 24, to forgo the second-to-last opportunity for adjusting the spacecraft's flight path.
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Alabama
Mobile Astronomical Society, Mobile, AL.
web site: http://skywatch.brainiac.com/astroland
Members: 30 members.
Contact: Rod Mollise rmollise@hotmail.com
Meetings: Monthly, 1st Thursday of each month at the Mobile Public Schools'
Environmental Studies Center on Girby Road. Meetings start promptly at 7pm.
Activities: Monthly "Members-only Star Parties" (MOSP) at a local dark site,
public outreach.
Dues: $15.00 for individuals and $20.00 for families per year. Membership
benefits include a subscription to the AL's _Reflector_ magazine and
eligibility to attend monthly MOSPs.
Alabama
Alabama
Birmingham Astronomical Society.
web site: http://bas-astro.com
Members: 70 members.
Contact: Ed Knight webmaster@bas-astro.com
Meetings: Monthly, 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Samford university Christenberry Planetarium
Meetings start promptly at 7pm.
Activities: Monthly "Public Star Parties" at a Oak Mountain State park and Monthy dark site star parties , public outreach.
Dues: $12.50 Students, $20.00 for individuals and $25.00 for families per year.
Arizona:
Anycase Sirius Lookers Astronomy Club
mailing address:
Dennis Young
PO Box 87
Sedona, Az 86339
website: http://www.siriuslookers.org
We meet every 3rd Wednesday of each month. 6:30pm during winter hours and 7:00pm for summer hours.
The Meeting is held at:
Sedona Public Library off of Dry Creek road in their meeting room.
3250 White Bear Road
(1st izquierda de Dry Creek Road)
Sedona, Arizona 86336
NO membership FEEs.
Stargazing weather permitting after the meet.
Contact: Dennis@dennis-young@hotmail.com
Arkansas
The Arkansas Oklahoma Astronomical Society is a registered not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising the public's awareness about the science of astronomy and to increasing the application of astronomical science in education. The AOAS primary focus is the region around Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Website: http://www.aoas.org/
Massachusetts
Aldrich Astronomical Society
Biweekly - 2nd and 4th Saturday - 7:00 PM
Location:
Anna Maria College - Science Building
50 Sunset Lane
Paxton, MA 01615
Description: Aldrich Astronomical Society was founded in 1932 and is currently
in the process of a large expansion.
Contact Information email:
aas@aldrichastro.org
Website: http://www.AldrichAstro.org
New Mexico
Meetings: Monthly Third Friday of each month 7:30 PM
Location NM Museum of Space History
Hubbard Building Hwy 2001
Alamogordo, SouthWest, NM 88310
Description
Astronomy Club, 44 Members. all skill levels, observing after meetings.
Contact Information
PO Box 4151,
Alamogordo NM 88311
Website - http://www.zianet.com/aacwp/
Directions - From Scenic Blvd, drive up the hill on HWY 2001, past the Tombaugh
IMAX. The Hubbard building is the only one on the right
Oklahoma
Astronomy Club of Tulsa
P. O. Box 470611,
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74147-0611
website: http://www.astrotulsa.com/
The Astronimy Club of Tulsa is a non-profit, tax exempt, organization. They have been active in Tulsa and it's surrounding communities for over fifty years.
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