Please save this message for reference. Discuss the Outer Solar System, from the Moons of Jupiter to the outer reaches of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. It is...
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Mar 1, 2005 11:55 am
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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=33328 Cassini has just sent a whole series of these to the Raw Images file...
..or, Move Over, Muad'dib. I've finally, belatedly, gotten around to reading his 2002 book "Lifting Titan's Veil", and was amazed at how many of Huygens'...
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/05_releases/press_030205.html Chandra Probes High-Voltage Auroras on Jupiter March 2, 2005 CXC RELEASE: 05-04 Steve Roy ...
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Mar 2, 2005 9:24 pm
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective_03_2005.html New Horizons Mission News March 2, 2005 The PI's Perspective An Inside Look at New Horizons from...
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Mar 2, 2005 9:33 pm
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http://carnegieinstitution.org/news_releases/news_050303.html Carnegie Institution of Washington For Immediate Release March 3, 2005 Contact Alan Boss at...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 3, 2005 8:43 pm
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I certainly hope Alan's optimistic outlook is justified. My gut feeling is that funding will be quietly withdrawn a la Hubble, JIMO, etc. and the mission will...
Cassini Significant Events for 02/24/05 - 03/02/05 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired today from the Goldstone tracking station. The Cassini...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 4, 2005 10:39 pm
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http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/XMM_Jupiter.asp Jupiter: A cloudy mirror for the Sun? Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council March 7, 2005 Astronomers using...
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Mar 7, 2005 11:30 pm
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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 8, 2005 12:40 am
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Gretchen Cook-Anderson Headquarters, Washington March 8, 2005 (Phone: 202/358-0836) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center,...
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Mar 8, 2005 8:36 pm
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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 9, 2005 7:55 pm
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http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=912 CASSINI IMAGES DISCOVER A WINDY, WAVY TITAN ATMOSPHERE MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE CASSINI IMAGING CENTRAL LABORATORY...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 9, 2005 11:04 pm
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The observation of Titan and the discovery over the last ~15 years of extrasolar planets makes the two moon-worlds from the Star Wars movies- Yavin in Episode...
... years of extrasolar planets makes the two moon-worlds from the Star Wars movies- Yavin in Episode IV and Endor in Episode VI- entirely within the realm of...
From the first news page of the March 10 "Nature": "NASA has told scientists working on some of the agency's longest-running missions -- including the twin...
Take a look at the closest raw image released yet -- http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=34984 , from 4177 km...
In Doug Ellison's "MER Forum", Jason Perry has replied to my comment above by saying, "Those may still be just shadows -- we're not sure yet." But, looking at...
... [expletive!] It would be nice if funding for these things could be rerouted to academic and private organisational interests to keep them in operation, but...
... The backstory, as I recall from 20 years ago, was that Endor was an escaped moon, although the two Ewok made-for-TV movies (originally aired on ABC, now...
My heart is ripped My soul split For these spacecraft are surely humanity's greatest (technical) wonders And achievement of a good human spirit. Alas, another...
... The Voyager probes, in particular, are still on an important mission- For now. ... Not quite. It is fortunate that we live in an age where there is more...
But, one must admit, there does come a point where the money can be better spent on new experiments. As much as I love the voyager probes, maybe it is time to...
Not so, boy! Why, we's gonna land ourselves some folks on Mars! We jus' need some money from them there other useless missions first! Yuheaw! Gawd bles'...
... The trouble here is, that money ISN'T being shifted to newer experiments- They're getting cut too, remember? ... I think I said that in my first response-...
... First, we have to get back out there. And not just LEO, either! We've had no manned mission beyond LEO since 1972, we may have forgotten how to do it. But...
If you want to know where all this money is going to go, it's not to any scientific endeavours at all Not even to education or anything constructive- It's all...
Like on Iraq... now Syria... Iran.... Only 78million for JPL... NO way 78BILLION for Cheney & Co. Yes, yes, yes! No worries! Volunteer for The WARs of Karl...