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Emily Lakdawalla

The Sulfur Springs of Borup Fiord Pass, Ellesmere Island, offer an excellent Europa analog.

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New Horizons is spending the summer traversing the asteroid belt. I haven't written a lot about New Horizons lately because the mission has been going so uneventfully well. But now I've got something to write about: data!!

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Today Nature published an article titled

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This week's releases from the Mars Odyssey THEMIS team included a gorgeous one of the layered interior of Gale crater.

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OK, I finally got a story written about the latest and greatest of the Cassini RADAR data based upon a conversation I had with with Ralph Lorenz late last week.

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Since the last Titan flyby on April 30, the Cassini RADAR team has been releasing quite a large number of pieces of the swath to the Web.

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After the political discussions of the morning, Mike Brown stood up to give the

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The next presentation at OPAG was given by Ralph Lorenz and Tom Spilker on a Titan Montgolfiere Mission Study. What's a Montgolfiere, you ask?

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Heidi Hammel gave a brief but spirited presentation designed to wake up the audience to the fact that Uranus is fast approaching its equinox, an event that will happen on December 7, 2007.

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Next up at the Outer Planets Assessment Group meeting was an overview of the plans for future Europa missions.

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Before I get to my notes from OPAG I want to minimally acknowledge today's news, which I'll have to get to in more detail later.

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I just wanted to point out a couple of new items on the website.

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Get used to this view of Home Plate and Husband Hill, because Spirit will be seeing a lot of it over the next 8 months, whenever power levels permit the rover to eke a little bit of science activity out of the day.

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The audience was rapt as Project Manager Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi stood up to give an introduction to the Hayabusa spacecraft and described the saga of the mission to date.

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So after those two rover talks I skipped over to the other large room to listen to what the Cassini science teams had to say about Enceladus.

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I said earlier I was going to cover the poster sessions next, and there are some cool things that I want to write about, but I thought I'd better get to something a bit more topical a bit sooner: Europa and the other Galilean satellites, and when (if!?) we'll be exploring them again.

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This morning at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference began with Titan, and then later in the morning I had to choose between skipping Titan and going over to rover sessions, or staying with Titan. I elected to stay with Titan.

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I just posted a very brief story about all of the press releases that have been whizzing around today about the possibility of liquid water on Enceladus.

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This one is

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I received quite a number of emails containing suggested names for Pluto's moons -- thanks! I just sent all the suggestions to Alan Stern; here they are for everybody's enjoyment.