Oppy spots a meteormight…

Opportunity is now scooting at a fair old speed across Meridiani Planum, so fast that you’d think she saw something crawling about inside “Block Island” that scared her…! Now she has spotted something else up ahead that might, or might not, be another meteorite… Here’s a 3D view of the new “mysterious rock”, which you’ll [...]

FAO Moon Hoax believers: Look! A new LRO image of Tranquility Base!

You might remember that earlier this year I wrote a piece on here predicting that it was unlikely that the images released by NASA’s Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter, showing the Apollo landing sites, would finally silence the people who insist that the Moon landings were faked. Although my predictions turned out, sadly, to be true, it [...]

Carnival of Space #122

Welcome to the 122nd Carnival of Space! If you’re a Carnival regular, then you’ll know exactly what to expect, and you should feel free to skip this part and just scroll down and start reading this week’s entries. But if you’re a newcomer, directed here from another website or a Google search, or a friend’s [...]

New MER short story…

I’ve just posted a new MER short story, “Descent”, over on my “Barsoom Tales” blog, if anyone would like a look… http://barsoomtales.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/descent/

Look up! There’s water, water everywhere…

…or so it seems! Unless you’ve been living in a cave on Miranda the past week you’ll know that last Thursday there were two big announcements concerning the discovery of water “out there” in the solar system- well, one big, in fact one HUGE announcement, and one not-so-big-but-WAS-ACTUALLY-MORE-IMPORTANT!!! announcement. The first one came after a day [...]

Gorgeous gullies… :-)

The latest release of images from the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera includes a picture of a crater wall streaked with some of the famous ”gullies” that planetary scientists and armchair astronauts alike find so intriguing. I was looking at it this morning, zooming in on sections of it with the wonderful IAS Viewer, and noticed [...]

It’s Carnival time…!

Want to catch up on the best of the week’s space- and astronomy-blogging? Ees seemples! Just go to the 120th Carnival of Space, which is being hosted this week at the “Music of The Spheres” blog…

How to see the International Space Station…

Recently, I’ve had so many comments and emails asking for advice on how to see the International Space Station in the sky that I’ve updated the “Space Station” page, turning it into a “Beginner’s Guide” to space station spotting.  You can go there by clicking on the “Space Station” tab at the top there, or [...]

Farewell Block Island…

Opportunity has left the meteorite “Block Island” and is now heading north and west again. Rather than look back at her studies of this fascinating meteorite here, I’ve resurrected my “The Road To Endeavour” blog with a post all about it there… I hope you’ll go take a look! http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/oppys-2009-tour-of-block-island

Stop worrying, the shuttle is fine… :-)

Quite a few of the people who posted comments on my blog last night after watching the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station crossing the sky (and hey, all of you, welcome, wherever you’ve come from! Thanks for stopping by my blog! ) were clearly worried by something they saw – a bright [...]