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New Horizons to take new photos of Pluto and Charon, beginning optical navigation campaign
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/07/18 05:06 CDT | 5 comments
Technically, Pluto science observations don't begin for New Horizons until 2015, but the spacecraft will take a series of photos of Pluto and Charon from July 20 to 27 as it begins the first of four optical navigation campaigns.
Capitol Hill Responds to the Lure of Europa
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2014/07/18 01:54 CDT | 2 comments
A standing-room only crowd learned the lure of Europa, the moon of Jupiter with more liquid water than the Earth, at a special Planetary Society event on capitol hill.
Posted by Stuart Atkinson on 2014/07/18 12:02 CDT | 16 comments
A European space enthusiast, children's author, and volunteer astronomy outreach worker asks for more images from Rosetta.
45 Years after Apollo 11, NASA Prepares for Another Big Splashdown
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/07/17 04:02 CDT | 2 comments
A new version of Apollo 11's splashdown will play out when the first astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft return to Earth.
How Arecibo Observatory Transmits to the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
Posted by Alessondra Springmann on 2014/07/16 03:51 CDT | 1 comment
Talking to spacecraft is a normal occurrence at Arecibo Observatory, but sometimes the nuts and bolts are a little unconventional.
I've been asteroided! (274860) Emilylakdawalla
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/07/16 07:22 CDT | 13 comments
What a great piece of news to receive upon returning home from vacation! There is now a small piece of the solar system named for me: asteroid 274860 has been formally named "Emilylakdawalla" by the International Astronomical Union. Here is everything I've been able to learn about my namesake asteroid.
Quick Rosetta update: Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a contact binary!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/07/15 08:42 CDT | 17 comments
I could not wait to post these amazing new images of comet Churymov-Gerasimenko from Rosetta. The nucleus of the comet is clearly a contact binary -- two smaller (and unequally sized object) in close contact.
Posted by Mark Robinson on 2014/07/11 12:01 CDT | 1 comment
High resolution images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera detail the 1973 path of the Soviet rover Lunokhod 2.
LightSail update: Launch dates
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/07/09 09:00 CDT | 2 comments
I’m excited to report some big news on The Planetary Society’s LightSail project: actual launch dates on actual launch vehicles!
Posted by Peter Rosén on 2014/07/08 02:15 CDT | 3 comments
In 1979, the Voyager 1 probe took a stunning series of images on its final approach to Jupiter. Thirty-five years later, almost to the day, a group of seven Swedish amateur astronomers set out to replicate this odyssey, but with images taken with their own ground-based telescopes.
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