Tag: "ice"

Last Gasps from Phoenix?

Last Gasps from Phoenix?

It seems like only last month that we witnessed the drama of NASA's Phoenix landing on Mars. We were on the edge of our seats in Chabot's planetarium during those "seven minutes of terror" as Phoenix burned a meteoric path through Mars' atmosphere.

 
Ben Burress

Post on Nov 07, 2008 by

Weather Mystery: Warm Rain and Icy Hail?

Weather Mystery: Warm Rain and Icy Hail?

For this past patriotic weekend, I was on the other side of the coast. Namely, driving from Washington DC into the rural wilderness of Virginia for a get away. It was not the man-made fireworks that grabbed my attention but the activity of thunderclouds. I was reading out loud as we drove down I-64 towards [...]

 
Cat

Post on Jul 10, 2008 by

Phoenix on Ice?

Phoenix on Ice?

A patch of what might be ice, exposed by Phoenix's landing rockets.So, did it land on ice? Huh? Did it? Two blogs ago I wrote about the then upcoming landing of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars, near the Northern polar ice cap (Probing the Martian Pole). The entire point of landing on Mars' extreme northern [...]

 
Ben Burress

Post on Jun 09, 2008 by