Kiss My Knits!

I’d been interested in this, and Planetary Joe mentioned it at the Schiele yesterday, but looks like it worked!

Phoenix touches down safely on Mars

Emily Lakdawalla at JPL labs is diligently posting on the Planetary Society blog as things happen, including “you saw ’em here first” pictures of Mars from Phoenix. A young woman named Emily helping with the Mars mission? Is there, perhaps, time travel involved here?

While we’re at it, a few other science-y links:

Earth to Jupiter: it’s called Clearasil.
New telescope designed to look for oceans.
Teen figures out how to get plastic bags to degrade in mere months.
Best viewing spots for the Northern Lights

Not strictly scientific, but fun:
That one looks like a bunny.

And now, goodnight!