Books Forty-seven and forty-eight

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back the first pictures of Apollo landing sites!


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The galactic center tastes vaguely like raspberries and smells kind of like rum.
In the latest survey, astronomers sifted through thousands of signals from Sagittarius B2, a vast dust cloud at the centre of our galaxy. While they failed to find evidence for amino acids, they did find a substance called ethyl formate, the chemical responsible for the ( Read more... )

July 21, 1969. It becomes apparent that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are stranded on the lunar surface. Perhaps it was mechanical failure, perhaps a circumstance which they could not have foreseen. Either way, they're not coming home. What would Nixon have said to the world in such an event?

Well, now we know.“They will be mourned by their ( Read more... )

Link the First: Boston.com's The Big Picture is rapidly turning into the highlight of my week. This week: photos from the Cassini orbiter's flyby of Enceladus, Saturn's white, mysterious moon. The pictures are just unreal. Seriously, take a look:


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Space.com - Minerals needed for life found on MarsI guess Phoenix has found things like potassium, magnesium and chloride, and found that the soul is quite alkaline. While the high levels of UV radiation on the surface might be harmful to Life As We Know It, there could very well be something living quite happily in the Martian regolith. They've ( Read more... )

The Mars Phoenix Lander has touched down!Mars missions have about a 50/50 chance of success, so I'm thrilled that this one appears to have bumped up the average a bit ( Read more... )

First, an image of everything in the solar system over 200 miles in diameter.

Second, a Nikon site that allows you to scroll through scale, from the outermost limits of the universe to the innermost limits of the atom.

Coolness.