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The Planetary Report June Solstice 2012 Volume 32, Number 2 THE PLANETARY REPORT JUNE SOLSTICE 2012 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 2 www.planetary.org DARK SKIES? LIGHT POLLUTION IS OBSCURING OUR VIEW OF THE STARS REMEMBERING RAY C ENTRY, DESCENT, AND LANDING C FISCAL YEAR 2011 ANNUAL REPORT SNAPSHOTS FROM SPACE EMILY STEWART LAKDAWALLA blogs at planetary.org/blog. Image: NASA/JPL/SSI/Gordan Ugarkovic Image: NASA/JPL/SSI/Gordan Saturn’s two largest moons Color cameras shine on board Cassini HAZE-SHROUDED TITAN SITS BEHIND ICY RHEA in a view captured by Cassini on November 19, 2009. Titan is almost exactly twice as far from Cassini as Rhea is, so Rhea’s size is exaggerated by a factor of two. Cassini takes “mutual event” photos featuring two or more moons in order to provide precise positional information for determining the moons’ orbits. Late in 2009, Cassini’s engineers switched from taking mutual event pictures in black and white to using the red, green, and blue filters necessary for composing color images. The result has been an explosion in the number of beautiful images like this one, of orange Titan (outlined in blue haze), yellow Saturn, and ocher rings paired with gray-brown moons. —Emily Stewart Lakdawalla CONTACT US LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS IMAGE PLANETARY.ORG/SNAPSHOTS The Planetary Society 85 South Grand Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105-1602 SEE MORE EVERY DAY! PLANETARY.ORG/BLOG General Calls: 626-793-5100 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: planetary.org 2 THE PLANETARY REPORT C JUNE SOLSTICE 2012 SNAPSHOTS FROM SPACE CONTENTS JUNE SOLSTICE 2012 In Memoriam 6 Louis Friedman reflects on the death of a longtime friend. COVER STORY Into the Dark 7 W. Scott Kardel hopes for a darker sky. NEW YORK Planetfest2012™: Curiosity Knows No Bounds! 14 Celebrate with us in Pasadena and around the world. Entry, Descent, and Landing 16 How is Curiosity going to land? Bruce Betts fills us in. The Magnificent Aurora Society members traveled to see the Aurora Borealis. Image: NASA/JPL/SSI/Gordan Ugarkovic Image: NASA/JPL/SSI/Gordan 18 Zapping Rocks with Lasers 20 Bruce Betts reports on a Star Wars solution for rogue asteroids. Annual Report to Our Members Looking back 22 at the year in numbers and milestones passed. By Dan Geraci MIDDLE OF THE MAGAZINE Planetary Society Kids Make your own Marsdial! DEPARTMENTS 2 Snapshots from Space Cassini sets double moons in its sight. 4 Your Place in Space Bill Nye sees us making history. 11 Planetary Radio Are you listening to this award-winning show? 12 Members’ Dialogue Opinions on the current U.S. budget debate as it applies to space science and economics. 13 Factinos A dissolving planet?; more risky asteroids than expected. 15 Q&A What is the definition of a planet? 17 Volunteer Spotlight More than 30 volunteers helped Bill Nye at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in April 2012. 21 What’s Up? Planets and meteor showers. ON THE COVER: A love affair with space exploration began early in life for many of us, when we first gazed at a sparkling night sky and wondered what kinds of worlds might fill the universe. Many Earthlings—denizens of cities and densely populated areas—have never seen a truly clear sky, however. Excess, unshielded light at night creates light pollution. Not only do runaway photons cloud our view of the heavens, but they also can disrupt ecosystems and the well-being of animals such as birds, reptiles, and humans. Photo: Maximilian Stock, Ltd./Science Photo Library CONTACT US The Planetary Report (ISSN 0736-3680) is published quarterly at the editorial Editor JENNIFER VAUGHN The Planetary Society offices of The Planetary Society, 85 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105-1602, Associate Editor DONNA ESCANDON STEVENS 85 South Grand Avenue 626-793-5100. It is available to members of The Planetary Society. Annual dues in Art Director LOREN A. ROBERTS for HEARKEN CREATIVE Pasadena, CA 91105-1602 the United States are $37 (U.S. dollars); in Canada, $40 (Canadian dollars). Dues Copy Editor A. J. SOBCZAK General Calls: 626-793-5100 in other countries are $57 (U.S. dollars). Printed in USA. Third-class postage at Proofreader LOIS SMITH E-mail: [email protected] Pasadena, California, and at an additional mailing office. Canada Post Agreement Technical Editor JAMES D. BURKE Internet: planetary.org Number 87424. Science Editor BRUCE BETTS Viewpoints expressed in columns and editorials are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent positions of The Planetary Society, its officers, or its advisers. © 2012 by The Planetary Society. All Rights Reserved. The Planetary Society and The Planetary Report: Registered Trademarks ® The Planetary Society. Planetary Radio and Planetfest ™ The Planetary Society. YOUR PLACE IN SPACE COFOUNDER BILL NYE is chief executive CARL SAGAN 1934–1996 officer of The Planetary Society. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman of the Board DAN GERACI President JAMES BELL Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Making History Arizona State University Getting Involved in Politics, Missions, and Change Vice President HEIDI HAMMEL Senior Research Scientist and Co-Director, Research, Space Science Institute WELCOME, PLANETARY SURFERS FROM ALL vestment in space exploration. Being in the Chief Executive Officer over the world. The Planetary Society has United States, we petition the U.S. govern- BILL NYE science educator a new website and a new logo. As people ment often. On the first of May, I went around LOUIS D. FRIEDMAN living on Earth here at the start of the 21st to the offices of three influential congress- Cofounder century, you and I are able to communicate men—Adam Schiff, John Culberson, and Frank G. SCOTT HUBBARD professor, Stanford University with more people than any humans before us, Wolfe—with our colleague in Washington, Bill Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED Duncan James Photo: WESLEY T. HUNTRESS JR. ever—since the beginning of time. It’s remark- Adkins. We described the situation: planetary Director Emeritus, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington able. Our new site makes it easier for you and science is getting cut for reasons that, frankly, LON LEVIN me to be in touch, and especially for you to aren’t clear. Whatever the reason, we did our SkySevenVentures be in touch with our growing community of best to convince the staffers that cuts to plan- ALEXIS LIVANOS Corporate Vice President and Chief space enthusiasts, buddies, colleagues, new etary exploration would not be in anyone’s Technology Officer, Northrop Grumman acquaintances, and button-wearing Space best interest. JOHN LOGSDON Professor Emeritus, Space Policy Institute, Geeks®. Please enjoy this issue of The Plan- The following week, on Tuesday, May 8, The George Washington University etary Report you’re holding in your hands our Board of Directors organized a “lunch and BRUCE MURRAY Cofounder right now, but in the next few days (or even learn” for U.S. Congress members and their BIJAL “BEE” THAKORE minutes), check out planetary.org. We’ve staffers. I led off as the emcee. Our colleague Regional Coordinator for Asia Pacific, made more than one big change and dozens Louise Prockter from the Applied Physics Lab, Space Generation Advisory Council NEIL deGRASSE TYSON of smaller ones. where they build exquisite spacecraft like New astrophysicist and Director, We very much wanted to get the site up Horizons and MESSENGER, explained the Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History and running in time for the USA Science & missions outlined in the National Research INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. I Council’s Planetary Science Decadal Survey. ROGER-MAURICE BONNET Executive Director, admit I didn’t quite believe the estimates Then our own Neil deGrasse Tyson was up, International Space Science Institute of the expected number of visitors … until as the final speaker, and gave the staffers and YASUNORI MATOGAWA Associate Executive Director, I was there. I’m pretty sure the festival had members of Congress an oration about the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 100,000 visitors, and several thousand of great intrinsic value of the space program. MAMORU MOHRI Director, National Museum those came by our booth. It was gratifying We made the case for the importance of of Emerging Science and Innovation to meet so many young people who have a planetary exploration for our economic well- RISTO PELLINEN Director of Science in Space Research, strong interest in space exploration. For the being—no other organization besides NASA Finnish Meteorological Institute many of you who came by to say “hi,” or can land spacecraft on Mars, for example. If ADVISORY COUNCIL BUZZ ALDRIN listen to one of our very compelling speakers, we lose that capability, we may never get it RICHARD BERENDZEN or get a book autographed, or just wanted to back. Missions to other worlds enrich us all. JACQUES BLAMONT ROBERT. D. BRAUN spend time with like-minded space enthusi- As your CEO, I am, to many, the face and DAVID BRIN JAMES CANTRELL asts, thank you. It was great to see you, and voice of your Society. As such, I’ve been busy. FRANKLIN CHANG-DIAZ FRANK DRAKE we appreciate your support. I was a speaker at TED, the Technology, En- OWEN GARRIOTT GARRY E. HUNT At the festival, we showed off our new logo tertainment, and Design meeting in Long BRUCE JAKOSKY for the first time. Just like the Society these Beach, California; at Eastern Missouri State THOMAS D. JONES SERGEI KAPITSA days, the new logo has motion. It’s taking us University; at the University of Colorado; CHARLES E. KOHLHASE JR. LAURIE LESHIN to new places while respecting our origins. I and at the National Space Symposium in JON LOMBERG ROSALY LOPES hope you like it as well as we do.
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