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Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3!
Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3!
Station fire update: Mount Wilson safe, ready for "another hundred years" of science
Station fire update: Mount Wilson safe, ready for "another hundred years" of science
Dust storm update: Skies clearing for Spirit
For a while, Mars was beating Spirit while she was down, throwing a dust storm at the rover where it's bogged up to its hubcaps in fluffy soil When lots of dust is lofted into the sky, the hazard is that when it comes down, it may come down on the rover and its solar panels. But it appears things on Spirit are still pretty clean.
Dawn Journal: Earth Catches Up
As Dawn continues its long solar system journey to match orbits with Vesta and later with Ceres, some readers may note a surprising trend in the statistics for the mission.
Planetary Radio Q and A: How do you make a mark on a planet made of gas?
Planetary Radio Q and A: How do you make a mark on a planet made of gas?
Cassini goodies: Telesto, Janus, Prometheus, Pandora, F ring
Cassini goodies: Telesto, Janus, Prometheus, Pandora, F ring
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Celebrates 3 Martian Years, Opportunity Finds Blockbuster in Block Island
The Mars Exploration Rovers hunkered down in place in August and delivered more mission
Exploring Mars on Earth: The Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition
High in the Arctic, just below Earth's north polar ice cap, biologists, geologists, and engineers come together in Svalbard every August to practice and prepare for an expedition to Mars.
What's up in the solar system in September 2009: MESSENGER's 3rd Mercury flyby coming up!
What's up in the solar system in September 2009: MESSENGER's 3rd Mercury flyby coming up!
Carnival of Space #118
Carnival of Space #118
Station Fire update: Mount Wilson Observatory still there, but still under threat
Station Fire update: Mount Wilson Observatory still there, but still under threat
Chandrayaan-1 lost
Chandrayaan-1 lost
The Station Fire is near JPL and even closer to Mt. Wilson
The Station Fire is near JPL and even closer to Mt. Wilson
"WISE Guys"
"WISE Guys"
Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T.
If you were a member of an alien civilization trying to communicate across the immeasurable distances of space, how would you go about it?
Updates from the Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE)
Updates from the Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE)
Planetary Radio Q and A: Why isn't New Horizons stopping at Pluto?
Planetary Radio Q and A: Why isn't New Horizons stopping at Pluto?
Carnival of Space #117
Carnival of Space #117
A sunset into the dust
While Spirit has been stuck at Troy, it's been taking numerous opportunities to capture photos with dramatic twilight lighting. On sol 2,002 (three sols ago, or August 21), it gazed toward the setting Sun, snapping the shutter roughly once a minute.