Astro Event of the Week 9-16th, 2008.
June 9, 2008 by David Dickinson
Filed under Weekly Astro-events
Welcome to a new weekly feature here at Astroguyz… each Monday, our goal will be to present some new and interesting celestial event that you can see from your own backyard. If the event is happening anytime from Monday evening, US East Coast time, up through early next Monday, you’ll read about it here. [...]
June 2008:News & Notes.
June 6, 2008 by David Dickinson
Filed under Astro News
Lander with Chute Deployed (left), Lander firmly on Martian polar soil (right). Courtesy JPL.
-The Phoenix has Landed: The Phoenix lander made the first successful Martian polar landing on May 25th. This marks the sixth successful surface landing and the first successful soft landing since the Viking missions in 1976. The HiRse orbiter also snapped some [...]
