Thursday, June 12, 2008

Recent Planetary News: 6-12-2008

Scientists on the Mars Pheonix Lander project succeed in shaking their booty of Mars Soil into an oven designed to analyze its chemical composition.

Mars Soil Scoop

And Pluto has become the eponymous namesake of a class of objects in the solar system, the Plutoids. Yep, that's all us nerds needed. A nice new term for bullies to employ against us. ;-)

Pluto, Seen by Hubble