Space News to make your head spin

If you are looking for a place to keep up with all of humanity’s recent space missions and/or to get cool space photos, give spacespin.org a try. This blog features news and images from these topics:

• Mars Recon. Orbiter (17)
• Stardust (17)
• Cassini-Huygens (103) [Mission to Saturn]
• Mars Exploration Rovers (49)
• New Horizons (22)
• Deep Impact (11)
• Dawn (3)
• MESSENGER (3) [Mission to Mercury]
• Space Observatories (116)
• European Space Agency (56)
• Space Sci-Tech (71)
• Mars (110)

Images from currently operating space probes appear to be available on this site the same day they are issued, and Spacespin’s RSS/Atom feed at http://spacespin.org/backend/atom.xml will direct those images to your feed reader.

Recent stories have included:

• Mars Odyssey THEMIS images – August 7-11, 2006
• Hubble identifies stellar companion to distant planet
• Winter solstice on Mars: Rovers look forward to a second Martian spring
• An oblique look on the north lunar far west
• Mars Global Surveyor images – August 3-9, 2006

All articles appear to link back to official space agency sites, so I’d recommend this service to anyone interested in astronomy and/or space exploration. Also seems like it would be great for K-20 science students.

Thanks to Max, the individual who describes his site this way:

Welcome to Space Spin!

I focus mainly on robotic space exploration. Most stories are based on press releases* by various organizations. This is done purely for fun and helps me being up to date on this subject.

* ESA Web Portal (esa.int) and ESA Science & Technology (sci.esa.int) content are © European Space Agency and published with their kind permission.

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