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		<title>New EPOXI images of Comet Hartley 2</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2010/11/04/new-epoxi-images-of-comet-hartley-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, 21 million kilometres from the Earth, NASA’s EPOXI mission flew by Comet Hartley 2. In the process, it captured some of the most stunning close-up pictures of an active comet ever seen. Hartley 2 as seen by the EPOXI mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD Hartley 2 has been visible in the night sky for many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=3410&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>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/12/20/doug-ellisons-ou-mars-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Gater</dc:creator>
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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>Tool infinity and beyond</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/11/26/tool-infinity-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting a few emails asking about the toolkit that an astronaut dropped from the International Space Station last week, and whether it is visible from the Earth. Well the answer, apparently, is yes it is. According to the Spaceweather.com website the bag has been spotted by amateur astronomers and should be visible from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=856&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look back &#8211; you never know what you might see</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/10/10/look-back-you-never-know-what-you-might-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often the most captivating space pictures come, not from looking out into the depths of the Universe, but back towards home and the Earth &#8211; our little round oasis in space. I say this particularly today in light of two images I chanced across whilst researching on the web. The first is from the brilliant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=624&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now wash your wheels!</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/06/30/now-wash-your-wheels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clandestine agents and heroic citizens of blockbuster sci-fi movies are often portrayed as defending the Earth from the alien miscreants of the Universe. Blasting slimy green extraterrestrials might be great cinema, but it doesn’t always represent the shrewdest of scientific moves. That’s because whilst the chances of ne’er-do-well space-faring aliens wandering around our towns and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=180&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix: 21 sols in</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/06/16/phoenix-21-sols-in/</link>
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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>Cassini gets go for two more years</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/04/16/cassini-gets-go-for-two-more-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was great to see this news drop in my inbox this morning. Firstly because (in my opinion) the Cassini-Huygens mission is one of the most important planetary missions ever undertaken by humankind but also because it gives me the excuse to put up one of Cassini&#8217;s dazzling images on the blog. The Cassini-Huygens mission [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=120&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>Britain&#8217;s Moon shot</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/03/16/britains-moon-shot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new feature article (my first cover feature!) in April&#8217;s issue of BBC Sky At Night magazine, which is in the shops on Tuesday 18th March. The article covers the proposed MoonLITE probe, a UK mission to send a small spacecraft to the Moon deploying four missiles to study the lunar surface. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=99&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all happening in the next few days&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/03/08/its-all-happening-in-the-next-few-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a handful of very cool things going on in space over the next few days. Here&#8217;s my very quick run down of what not to miss. The first event is happening in the wee small hours of tomorrow morning. The European Space Agency is launching the ATV, the Automated Transfer Vehicle, atop its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=98&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Odyssey&#8217;s end in sight for Ulysses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After just over seventeen years in space the Ulysses space probe looks as if its mission is drawing to a close. According to the European Space Agency Ulysses is beginning to show the signs of age, after nearly two decades touring the Solar System in orbit around its main interest &#8211; the Sun. The spacecraft [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=90&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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