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		<title>&#8220;Landing a lab on Mars&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2009/01/18/landing-a-lab-on-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will MSL now land close to a methane rich area (in red)? Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The recent story about methane being detected in Mars&#8217; atmosphere has lead to huge interest around the world, simultaneously renewing fervent media speculation of the &#8220;is there/isn&#8217;t there life on Mars?&#8221; question. There is, as there often is in these things, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=1169&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Ellison&#8217;s Open University Mars talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just started &#8216;following&#8217; unmanned spaceflight expert Doug Ellison on Twitter and, out of curiosity, I went back and had a look at a few of his most recent tweets. I&#8217;m glad I did, because I spotted a mention from him about a talk he recently gave to the Open University about Mars. Entitled &#8220;Exploring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix: 21 sols in</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix has now been on Mars for 21 sols (I guess that&#8217;s still 3 Mars weeks right?!) and it&#8217;s great to see the probe doing so well. At first it sent back some brilliant pictures (and even seems to have spotted ice underneath itself!) and now is sending back the real science &#8211; the results [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=159&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An image that has to be seen to be believed&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/05/27/an-image-that-has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 19:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a good part of today marvelling at this image (below) from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). I simply can&#8217;t take my eyes off it. It&#8217;s just stunning. Two nights ago NASA&#8217;s Mars Phoenix lander tore through the martian atmosphere on its way to the northern plains of Mars. As it unfurled its parachute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=148&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s Phoenix probe successfully lands on Mars</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/05/26/nasas-phoenix-probe-successfully-lands-on-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 00:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago NASA&#8217;s latest mission to Mars, Phoenix, successfully landed on the northern Arctic region of the red planet. The lander is now sitting almost exactly where it was expected to come down, on a slope which is tilting the lander by about a 0.25 degrees. Phoenix is also aligned beautifully east-west so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=145&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix lands tonight!</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/05/25/phoenix-lands-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 10:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NASA Phoenix probe will come to the end of its journey to Mars tonight/tomorrow morning, landing on Mars at about 12:53am UK time. To keep up-to-date with how the probe is doing there are lots of blogs and live TV feeds for you to read and &#8216;tune&#8217; into. NASA will have a live feed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=144&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The lure of &#8216;life&#8217; on Mars</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/05/14/the-lure-of-life-on-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 13:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With less than two weeks until the NASA Mars Phoenix mission arrives on Mars there&#8217;s been a lot of news about how the probe is going to go about looking for life on the red planet. It&#8217;s an exciting mission and one I&#8217;m really interested in, but we have to be careful when talking about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=130&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Mars image and an update</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/03/31/new-mars-image-and-an-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always impressed by the images that come back from Mars Express&#8217; High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). This new one released a few days ago (below) is no exception. It shows a region called Hebes Chasma, a vast gauge into the martian surface around 8 kilometres deep! The incredible feature is located just above the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=109&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2008 so far&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/01/25/new-year-round-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s been a long time since a post due to an extraordinarily busy time (without-Internet) over the festive season, but I am finally back from Germany and connected to the blogosphere again. A lot has happened in the astronomy world in the past month and a bit, not least the AAS astronomy meeting in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=44&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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