Amateur Astronomers: Get Ready for Brand New Space Science Badges for Girl Scouts! The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), as part of a team led by the SETI Institute that includes Girl Scouts of Northern California, Girl Scouts of the USA, University of Arizona, and Aries Scientific at Goddard Space Flight Center, are creating […]
Several of the mapping tasks here at CQ include marking the size and position of impact craters. Why is this so important, and how does so much science come out of these measurements? We’ll answer these questions in a series of posts about impact craters, starting here with Impact Events. Impact craters are the scars […]
Planetary surfaces never cease to amaze. Take a look at this new radar image of Titan from Cassini. These long, flowing curves are sand dunes on Saturn’s largest Moon, a familiar feature on an utterly alien world. Titan has familiar features such as lakes, mountain, rivers and dunes, but it is not like Earth as […]
