MachineMachine /stream - tagged with solarsystem http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4337315.html?do=print Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the intervening decades, new instruments and methods have acted together to form one giant, interdisciplinary zoom lens on our planetary companions in the solar system. We now not only have hi-res images of planets, we can also predict their weather, dig for water under their surfaces and send spacecraft through icy plumes on their moons. Planet by planet, here's a quick guide to how our vision of the solar system… ]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:00 -0700 http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4337315.html?do=print 50 Years of Space Exploration http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/

Adam Crowe posted a photo:

50 Years of Space Exploration

via: www.stevey.com/2009/01/21/50-years-of-space-exploration/

by: books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/index

]]> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:26:00 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/