Category Archives: Mars

Free Astronomy Tools

My latest Houston public library sidewalk astronomy event was moved indoors to the “program place” on the 4th floor so I thought I would throw together some free and easy astronomy tips to share. When the weather won’t cooperate there … Continue reading

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Animated Solar System Rendered in HTML & CSS

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Awesome Mars Express view of Phobos and Deimos together – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society

Awesome Mars Express view of Phobos and Deimos together – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society. share

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Bad Astronomy Talks about Deimos

The Bad Astronomy blog has a post up about the HiRISE imaging of Deimos with a cool new image of the smaller Martian moon. From BA: Deimos is the smaller of the two moons, a lumpy ball 15 x 12 … Continue reading

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