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Phobos-bound Tardigrades Portrayed

Category: Space

Stacy L. Mason is an Aard regular and a talented artist. Check out his awesome interpretation of the Swedish tardigrades that are going to Phobos! In other news, I have issues with the lyrics of the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas...

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First Interplanetary Travellers Will Be Little Swedes

Category: Space

Those microdaddies will go to Phobos and back, and then biologists will be able to compare them to their stay-at-home buddies to learn what the environment out there in interplanetary space really does to an Earth creature.

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Don't Miss the Perseids

Category: Space

Did you notice something funny about the Google logo yesterday? It was full of falling stars.

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Mars Rovers Still Working After Five Years

Category: Space

These machines were originally meant to work for three months, yet they continue to trundle around that cold, distant planet.

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Astronomy Nerds In Love

Category: Space

Two of my favourite song writers have revealed themselves as astronomy nerds in love songs. Frank Black in "Sir Rockaby" (1994):How many stars girl Can you both count And then classify? I'm standing here in this big swirl Singing this...

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Jeff Had Some Good Last Days

Category: Space

Jeff Medkeff's friend, co-blogging under the pen-name Iatros Polygenos ("mongrel doctor" if my Greek serves me), offers a detailed account of our friend's last days. Turns out that Jeff died during a trip to England where he was having...

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Shermer and the Drake Equation

Category: History

Extraterrestrials won't be interested in the political details of small parts of Earth's surface over time.

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Phoenix Lander Contortionist Video

Category: Space

Here's an ace animated film clip showing how the Phoenix Lander manoeuvered its camera/digger arm to take a picture of the surface under its own belly a few days ago. Gives you a good sense of how the thing looks...

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Junior Meets the Astronaut

Category: Children

It was a good talk, ranging from abstruse physics to everyday practicalities of life in space.

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W00t! Phoenix Survived!

Category: Space

It has deployed its solar panels successfully and is transmitting pictures!

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Jeff Medkeff on Automated Optical Astronomy

Category: Space

They aren't looking for planet-sized objects anymore, they're down to bits of rock and ice a kilometer across.

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Mars Rovers Still Working After Four Years

Category: Space

These machines were originally meant to work for three months, yet they continue to trundle around that cold, distant planet.

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