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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new post up at the new home of The Martian Chronicles about a recent study that suggests that one in four sun-like stars had earth-sized planets. Head on over and check it out, and update your bookmarks and subscriptions for the new site! I won&#8217;t be posting here for much longer&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right folks! As of today, this blog has moved over to the AGU Blogosphere! So, head over to check out my new digs and update your bookmarks and RSS feeds While you&#8217;re there, take a look at the other excellent blogs that are part of the network. I&#8217;ll keep cross-posting here for a little [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Tubes of Mars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week was my birthday, and I unexpectedly got a gift in the mail from my cousin. We don&#8217;t normally exchange birthday gifts, but she came across a t-shirt called &#8220;Tubes of Mars&#8221; and just had to buy it for me. Apparently, this line of shirts is capitalizing on various wacky conspiracy theories and they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>RIP Mandelbrot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Outpost Tavern and the End of an Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Outpost Tavern burned down Friday night. The Outpost was a rickety little tavern in Houston a couple miles from Johnson Space Center, famous as a hang-out for astronauts and other NASA folks. It went out of business earlier this year and it has apparently now met its fiery demise. I first visited the Outpost [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Martian Chronicles is Moving!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Big news folks! Sometime next week, this blog will be moving over to the American Geophysical Union&#8216;s new blog network! AGU is the organization responsible for the Journal of Geophysical Research &#8211; Planets, which is one of the most important journals in planetary science, particularly for the terrestrial planets. AGU also hosts the enormous &#8220;fall&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Huchra</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I learned that observational cosmologist John Huchra passed away on Friday. I only met him once, when I was a summer intern at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He very graciously gave the group of summer interns an hour and a half of his time and told us about his research, and about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Steampunk Lunar Lander</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I always found the contrast between Soviet and US engineering fascinating. The goals were generally similar, but while the US seemed to aim for elegant, lightweight, optimized designs, Soviet spacecraft always look like they&#8217;re bolted together out of cast iron or something. That&#8217;s why I love this gallery of photos of the Soviet lunar lander [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The 4th MSL Landing Site Workshop: Day 3 &#8211; Final Discussion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We wrapped up the landing site workshop on wednesday afternoon by revisiting each of the four sites and discussing them in turn. Unfortunately, the way that we did this was very disappointing, and made for a frustrating afternoon. The discussion was centered around a word document that was projected up on the screen in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The 4th MSL Landing Site Workshop: Day 3 &#8211; Engineering and Safety</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the details of all four landing sites on the table, we started day 3 of the meeting by hearing from the engineers and several scientists about the properties of the ellipses, the risks for landing and the capabilities of the landing system. First on the schedule was Mike Watkins, who explained why MSL is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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