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Friday, 28 August 2015

A miniature mission to the Moon, and what the hell ARE those spots on Ceres?

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A Miniature Moon mission  to search out lunar ice: Over the last ten or fifteen years a quiet revolution has been going on in space technol...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

The exploding glaciers of Pluto

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A year ago the (dwarf) planet Pluto was only a dot in the eye of the Hubble Space Telescope. Now New Horizons has flown past Pluto , making ...
Monday, 27 July 2015

I'm off on my honeymoon!

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Above: A recently released high resolution map of Pluto's surface. courtesy of NASA Hi everyone, I've just got married so I'...
Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Water on Ceres?

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Update: you can find the actual talk (mentioned below) by Chris Russel here , or if that's not working try going through the websit, her...
Saturday, 18 July 2015

What in the worlds made Pluto and Charon so complex?

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Above: An artists impression of Charon, as seen from Pluto. OK, at this point the New Horizons flyby of Pluto is well over. Data is tri...
Wednesday, 15 July 2015

The news from Pluto....

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The first batch of the data New Horizons collected during its fly-through of the Pluto system has made it home. I think the best way to sum ...
Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Some quick notes: New Horizons survives hazardous passage through the Pluto system, control team now eyes the next target....

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Above: Images from new Horizons approach to Pluto. There's so much going on with the New Horizons mission right now that it's...