Mars

Most of the action is on Mars this week.  The Phoenix science team have confirmed the presence of droplets of liquid water, most likely a brine, on the legs of the Phoenix lander.  Also both rovers have now upgraded to version R9.3 of the flight software and are doing fine, and Opportunity has now logged more than 9 miles of driving.  And, finally, HiRISE has acquired some spectacular images of Deimos.

Deep Space

The Dawn spacecraft has successfully completed a gravitational boost maneuver on its way to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres.  Also, a minor bug caused the spacecraft to enter safemode, at least they call it a “minor” bug.  Actually, if it had been only a little worse it would have ended the mission, and it was a pretty stupid bug too.  But, alls well that ends well.

DSR 2.4