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The Planetary Society Weblog
Special Coverage from the Weblog
Periodically, special events such as scientific conferences, spacecraft
launches, and expeditions to planetary analogs generate multiple entries
in The Planetary Society Weblog. Following are links to wrapups of
these special events, including all the related Weblog entries.
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July 31-October 22, 2006
Guest Bloggers
From July 31 to October 22, 2006, The Planetary Society Weblog
featured a variety of guest bloggers from around the world
of space exploration, as Emily Lakdawalla was on maternity
leave.
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June 21-July 6, 2006
From June 21 to July 6, 2006, a four-person team traveled to Borup
Fiord Pass to perform field studies of the geology and to
gather ground-truth data to compare with satellite images that
would be acquired at the same time. Periodically, expedition
leader Stephen Grasby contacted The Planetary Society by satellite
phone to report on their progress. |
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May 4-5, 2006
Emily Lakdawalla attended a two-day meeting in Pasadena in May
2006 of the Outer
Planets Assessment Group, a body established by NASA to identify
scientific priorities and pathways for exploration in the outer
solar system. |
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May 1-2, 2006
Emily Lakdawalla attended a two-day meeting in Pasadena in May
2006 of the Venus
Exploration Analysis Group, a body established by NASA to
identify scientific priorities and strategy for exploration of
Venus. |
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April 10-14, 2006
Emily Lakdawalla traveled to Darmstadt, Germany to
file these special reports on the arrival of the European Space
Agency's Venus
Express at Venus. |
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March 13-20, 2006
Emily Lakdawalla traveled to Houston, Texas to file these
special reports on the 37th Lunar
and Planetary Science Conference, held annually by the Lunar and Planetary
Institute near Houston, Texas in March. |
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December 28, 2005-January 19, 2006
In anticipation of New Horizons' long-awaited launch to Pluto, science
team member John Spencer sent these missives to The Planetary Society,
giving us all a window into the life of one of the workers on this daring
mission in its final days on Earth. |
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September 4-9, 2005
Emily Lakdawalla traveled to Cambridge, Englandto file these special
reports on the 2005 Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences
of the American Astronomical Society. |
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