The Curiosity rover on Mars has taken some pictures at night time of Martian rock using the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the robotic arm and with both whitelight and UV illumination: Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera At Night – Mars Science Laboratory/JPL
MAHLI’s First Night Imaging of Martian Rock, White Lighting:
MAHLI’s First Night Imaging of Martian Rock Under Ultraviolet Lighting:
Kristian von Bengston of Copenhagen Suborbitals posts his hardware design sketchbooks, which have a nice esthetic quality to them in addition to their technical interest: Sketch Books by Kristian von Bengtson.
Jeff Foust reports on the “Lost in Space” panel discussion on space policy (see earlier post) at Rice University : In the search for a “definitive” national space policy, no definitive answers – Space Politics
The latest episode of Spacevidcast Live focuses on “the yet-to-be-realized space mining industry. Two companies are now looking to the stars for mining materials, Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources” : The upcoming Asteroid Mining Industry – Spacevidcast
Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.
ANS 027 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – January 26, 2013:
* AMSAT-NA Website Outage * K6GSJ Donates OSCAR-1 Historical Artifacts to ARRL Archives * Open Source Satellite OSSI CubeSat Launch in April 2013 * IARU Satellite Coordination Board Says DOVE-1 Will Not Use 145.825 * Vote for Your Favorite Photos From Japan's PRISM Satellite * February 14 PSLV-C20 Launch Planned by India * Surrey Satellite Selected to Evaluate Small Satellites for GPS * NASA History Program Office Summer 2013 Internships * Satellite Shorts From All Over