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Blogs in Space!

Thanks to Linkmeister for passing along the Dr. Fox listing of the LiveJournal blogs "written by" various space exploration objects. I blogged about the Spirit and Opportunity journals back on January 28 (thanks again, Lis!), but I had no idea there were so many others! Here's a partial listing; almost all have been added to my Bloglines subscriptions, as LiveJournal seems to have a good RSS feed set up:

Almost at the Heliopause (journal of Pioneer 10 - no entries at present)

Cassini's Big Adventure (Cassini mission to Saturn)

Contour's Journal - A Probe Scorned (NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour)

eo1_sat (journal of Earth Observing-1)

Far Far away... (journal of Voyager 2)

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (musings on life in low Earth orbit)

For Soviet Interplanetary Glory! (journal of Mars3 orbiter; funnier than Yakov Smirnoff!)

Gravity Probe B (best to check around April 17)

Mars Beagle (*snif* I miss that li'l Beagle)

Neo Inbound (your guess is as good as mine)

Opportunity Rover (working on Mars)

Sibling Rivalry: Satellite Style (from the Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites)

SOHO (exploring the sun)

Sojourner's Journal (Mars Pathfinder)

Spirit Rover (also working on Mars)

Star Dust (NASA's comet sample return mission)

The Hubble Blog (journal of the space telescope)

The view from 90 AU (journal of Voyager)

Transmissions from a hot planet (journal of the Venera 14 Venus probe)

uf0's Journal (not really sure what this one is but it's cute)

Viking1's Journal (Viking mission to Mars)

Would you like bits with that? (journal of the Hughes Global Satellite)
Kudos to the Spacers Journal Community. I just think this is such a neat idea, to combine a personification of the objects in question with actual information. A great way to entice kids to learn more about science and space! Oh, Mars has its own blog too.