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NEWSLETTER JULY 2013

PLANETVAC IS MOVING FORWARD
Meet the Team and Learn What They are Doing

Meet the PlanetVac TeamWe are very excited that after lots of discussion, planning, and raising of funds from, our Planetary Society Members and supporters, the PlanetVac project is now underway.

PlanetVac, which stands for Planetary Vacuum, is a concept that effectively vacuums up planetary surface materials for quick and reliable surface sampling. In practice it actually blows materials up tubes using compressed gas. This technique can conceptually be used to feed surface dirt to science instruments and/or feed it into sample return rockets on landers on Mars, asteroids, or the Moon

Learn more about PlanetVac »


REMEMBERING THE PLUTO CAMPAIGN: A SUCCESS STORY
You Worked for Years to Help Launch a Mission to Pluto

New Horizons at PlutoThere's a fascinating Pluto conference, "The Pluto System on the Eve of Exploration by New Horizons", going on this week at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. Excitement is really building for New Horizons' encounter with Pluto, which will culminate in July 2015 but which will really span the entire year.

It is quite likely that this mission would still be a beautiful dream, and that Pluto and its icy moons would continue to remain a mystery for decades to come were it not for The Planetary Society's Members' efforts to make this mission a reality.

Thank you to all who supported this effort!

More on our Pluto Mission Campaign »

The Pluto Campaign Advocacy Timeline »


LASER BEES PAPERS
Boring into Asteroids with Lasers to Move Them

Laser Bees sandstone rock narrow ejecta coneFor those wishing to bore into more details of the Planetary Society's Laser Bees project itself, graduate student Alison Gibbings from the University of Strathclyde has sent their technical paper that resulted from the 2013 Planetary Defense Conference.

Read it here »

 


SAVE OUR SCIENCE VIDEO UPDATE
From CEO Bill Nye

SOS Video UpdateWe’ve made huge progress. At this very moment there are multiple bills in Congress that authorize our recommended level of funding for Planetary Science and a new mission to Europa. This is very much thanks to you.

Here’s the latest on this disastrous NASA budget and our efforts to Save Our Science.

Watch a video update »


CELEBRATE CURIOSITY'S FIRST YEAR
Google+ Hangout with Deputy Scientist Ashwin Vasavada

Curiosity on MarsJoin The Planetary Society on Monday, Aug 5th from 4:00 PM PDT - 5:00 PM as we host the Deputy Project Scientist of the Curiosity rover, Ashwin Vasavada.

We'll talk about what discoveries Curiosity has made in its first year in operations, what's ahead, and revisit those seven terrifying minutes of landing.

We'll take your questions via the hashtag #planetarylive  on Twitter, or on the comments on this event.

Join us on August 5th»


LOOKING BACKWARD
From Saturn to Earth

Here it is! Did you wave at Saturn?

Earth From Cassini

The view from Saturn of our Earthly home -- one and a half billion kilometers away. We see Earth and the Moon through a thin veil of faintly blue ice crystals, the outskirts of Saturn's E ring. Earth is just a bright dot -- a bit brighter than the other stars in the image, but no brighter than any planet (like Saturn!) in our own sky.

More on this image »

Listen to Planetary Radio from the imaging party at JPL and in England »


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