Spotted in the Washington Post….
Hubble: Servicing Mission 4 postponed
September 30, 2008 By
Astronaut Steve Smith works on Hubble during Servicing Mission 2 in 1997.
Astronomers around the world are quite concerned today following NASA’s announcement yesterday of a serious problem with the Hubble Space Telescope that has forced them to delay the all-important 4th servicing mission to next year. The fault, which occurred last weekend in the telescope’s command and data handling system, is preventing data from being sent down from the telescope. The telescope itself, they stressed, is absolutely fine – but this is a pretty serious fault nonetheless.
Lights out for Mars Phoenix?
September 30, 2008 By
As the light is fading at Mars’ Northern pole, Mars Phoenix, the lander that has explored the surface of the planet since May this year (and everyone’s favourite Twitter feed) faces a race against time to gather more science data.
Nine images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the sun rising on the morning of the lander's 101st Martian day after landing. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
Science-Girl-Blog-Power
September 27, 2008 By
Um yeah. Wot she said.
ScienceWoman recently posted a very long blogroll of female science bloggers, so go on, spice up your life and check it out! It’s great to see what everyone else on the internets is writing about. I’d love to read all of them but then I probably won’t do any work until 2009. I’ll do my best!
Galaxy Zoo: Research = Outreach = Education
September 26, 2008 By
I already talked quite a bit about .Astronomy in Cardiff this week, and some of the great ways that scientists have come up with to use the web to facilitate research, our communicate with the public. But Chris Lintott‘s talk on Galaxy Zoo showed us how we can take this one step further still: in the web-based Galaxy Zoo project, the research equals outreach and education.
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