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Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts

10/27/2008

NASA/JPL News on Dana Backman's upcoming paper on asteriod belts around Epsilon Eridani.

New images Show Seasons on Uranus

10/14/2008

Near-infrared images from the Keck II telescope show the planet Uranus in 2005 (left), with the rings at an angle of 8 degrees, and at equinox in 2007 (right pair), with the planet’s ring system edge-on. In all images, the south pole is at the left and the equator is directly below the rings. Uranus, which has an 84-year orbit around the sun, has seasons that last twenty-one years. With the aid of new imaging technologies and telescopes, scientists had their best chance to observe the change of seasons on the distant planet and to look for seasonal effects on some of the solar system’s most mysterious weather features.

SETI Institute scientists Kathy Rages and Mark Showalter are members of a team studying new Keck II telescope images of Uranus to probe the seasonal dynamics of Uranus. Read the article from the University of Wisconsin.

Sharper Jupiter Images from Next-Generation Adaptive Optics

10/2/2008

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A two-hour observation of Jupiter using an improved technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from the ground, according to astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, the SETI Institute (Franck Marchis), and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

UC Berkeley Press Release

ESO Press Release

September Perseid Meteor Outburst 2008

9/10/2008

Dr. Peter Jenniskens
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Martian Clays Tell Story of a Wet Past

8/29/2008

Dr. Janice Bishop

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Hydrated silicate minerals on Mars observed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM instrument by Dr. Janice Bishop, co-author

7/25/2008

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