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Mars Science Laboratory is going to be HUGE

Yesterday I deposited the baby with her grandmother and went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a press junket to the opening of their new Mars Yard.

Spirit gets brushed off

There was great news last night from Mars Exploration Rover mission operations: Spirit seems to have enjoyed another

Cassini catches Rhea, and more, against Saturn

MESSENGER returned 614 images from Venus

Dione and Tethys: New members in the club of active bodies?

In memoriam: Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert, 1917-2007

The original "Puddles on Mars" story has been retracted

Today, New Scientist and researcher Ron Levin retracted the

...and MESSENGER's flyby was successful!

The Applied Physics Lab issued a press release this evening stating that the MESSENGER mission's second flyby of Venus was successful.

Flyby of Venus Speeds MESSENGER Onward to Mercury

The MESSENGER spacecraft is zeroing in on Venus for the most significant gravity assist maneuver of its long journey to Mercury.

Mimas, Dione, Rhea

There's been quite a lot of Mars on this page for the last week; it's time to remind ourselves that there are other places besides Mars in the solar system.

Cave entrance on the flank of Arsia Mons (detail)

Windows Onto the Abyss: Cave Skylights on Mars

Today's set of image releases from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE team included this one, of a fairly bland-looking lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons. Bland, that is, except for a black spot in the center.

New territory on Titan

The other day I posted a global view of Titan featuring new territory near the north pole. Now the imaging team has released a much higher resolution version of this view.