I was worried I’d miss out on the final launch of Atlantis – I had a company event to leave for at the same time as the scheduled launch yesterday morning, but thankfully the countdown proceeded with only a brief pause at thirty seconds, and then she rocketed skyward for the very last time. She’ll [ Read More ]
Tonight, NASA will be sending their final transmission to the Mars rover Spirit, who hasn’t been heard from since March of last year. Easily the popular favourite of the two Martian rovers, the aptly named robot lost use of a wheel in 2006 (requiring her to drive backwards across the rocky terrain while dragging the [ Read More ]
I had to share this animation, taken from a press release made by NASA this morning, and YouTube’d by the ever-awesome Phil Plait (who has a great blog post about it here). It’s an exceptionally clear and powerful illustration of just what that high-tech toy known as the Kepler Space Telescope is doing way up [ Read More ]
From January 6 to February 3, 1979, the Voyager I spacecraft covered a distance of 27 million kilometers during its approach of Jupiter. A selection of photos from this period, taken at the same longitude each Jovian rotation (about once every ten hours) was assembled into a time-lapse animation by the folks back on Earth [ Read More ]
Can you see us? The Earth, as a tiny pale dot caught in a shaft of scattered sunlight as seen from the Voyager I spacecraft, at a distance of six billion kilometers away. Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever [ Read More ]
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Birder with a sketchbook, skeptic and popular science junkie. Spends too much on books. Fearful of spiders. Is well trained.
Currently resides in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
