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Emily Lakdawalla

Looking over the list of planets, moons, and smaller bodies I posted so far, I realized I didn't have an image of a comet yet.

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Here's Neptune, but not quite like you've ever seen it before.

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Proteus is a weird name for this world. It's the second-largest moon of Neptune, and so it's named (as are all of Neptune's moons) for deities associated with the sea.

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Holy cow, look at that right front wheel spin. I am alternately amazed and horrified by this animation.

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Mimas is the anti-Enceladus.

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Here's the information on how to watch the class on how to work with Mars Express VMC images, which I conducted to a small audience this morning.

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Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I've been fiddling with images from the Mars Webcam, more officially known as the Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC), for the last couple of weeks.

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We have three orbiters and two rovers currently exploring Mars, each of which returns breathtaking photos on a daily basis.

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The ever-vigilant Doug Ellison just posted this animation, which really actually does show a teeny tiny bit of motion in the right front wheel. If you don't notice any motion, look closer.

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The Moon is the most familiar of the objects in the heavens.

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If you don't think Pluto gets enough respect, just imagine what it's like to be a satellite of an asteroid.

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Cassini's amazing cameras have set a new standard for the quality, sharpness, resolution, beautiful color, and all-around spectacularness of images returned from the outer solar system.

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This is a special post for all of my readers who are lighting the first candle on their menorot this evening.

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My inbox was exploding this morning with messages about a tremendously cool animation released this morning by ESA's Mars Express team. It shows Phobos crossing Deimos, in what's known as a

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Welcome to the tenth post in my

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Here's another weird-looking one, though it's less weird from this particular, polar point of view than it is when viewed from the side.

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I love this asteroid. It's just so weird-looking.

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Jupiter has been high overhead at sunset for several months, a brilliant light that's easy to spot even when the sky is still bright at dusk; but it's now moving quickly to the west as Earth speeds ahead of Jupiter's more stately march around the Sun.

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Umbriel is the darkest moon in a pretty dark place in the solar system, the Uranus system.

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Epimetheus is one of the many small moons of Saturn that are referred to by the Cassini mission team as