Barbylon
Jet-setting planetary scientist roams the world ... and beyond.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
LRO Locates Lunokhod 1 Rover and its Laser Retroflector
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The first successful robotic lunar rover, Lunokhod 1, landed on 17 November 1970. For the next ten months the rover was driven by operators ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Perigee Moon & Mars at Opposition
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The last weekend of January 2010 promised two very special "close encounters" with our nearest neighbors. Planetary scientist Barb...
Saturday, September 12, 2009
A Day at Desert-RATS
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I spent an amazing couple of weeks in northern Arizona with the Desert-RATS team this year. The Desert RATS field test activity coordinates...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Decadal Survey in 140 characters or less
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I'm a member of the Inner Planets panel of the Planetary Science Decadal Survey . We're responsible for representing the communities...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
ILN update
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Several of you have asked for a mission status for the ILN. Things have been in flux for the last couple of weeks but look like they are set...
Friday, July 10, 2009
The Moon is a planet too
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The Moon would totally be its own planet if it weren't orbiting the Earth. Also, it deserves its own capital letter. However, style-conf...
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Uranium on the Moon?
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A spate of recent articles is covering the presentation of the first orbital uranium maps of the lunar surface, like this article in SpaceRe...
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