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Emily Lakdawalla

Today the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast aired my contribution, Unmanned Space Exploration in 2011, about what to look forward to in solar system exploration this year.

Emily Lakdawalla

I was browsing JPL's Planetary Photojournal today and noticed that they've posted an updated artist's concept of the Juno spacecraft, which is set to launch in August for a 2016 arrival at Jupiter.

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This week is the end for Kodachrome film. It's a casualty of the digital revolution.

Emily Lakdawalla

I've just posted my annual roundup of significant images from planetary exploration in 2010.

Emily Lakdawalla

Time to open the twenty-eighth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this cratered and streaked surface?

Emily Lakdawalla

Time to open the twenty-fifth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these conjoined craters?

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Time to open the twenty-second door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these degraded craters?

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Cassini's busy downlinking photos from yesterday's close pass by Enceladus, including some neat shots of Dione and this one where Mimas skipped briefly in to the field of view.

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Time to open the twentieth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this diffuse blob and stripy sea?

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Time to open the fifteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this cratered world?

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Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door each day onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these red freckles?

Emily Lakdawalla

Time to open the twelfth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this trapezoidal mountain?

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Time to open the tenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this jumble of bouldery fissures?

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Time to open the eighth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this nearly flat plain?

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Time to open the sixth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these snowy slopes?

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Time to open the third door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system is this wispy terrain?

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December really has arrived, and that means that the year is racing to a close. Continuing last year's tradition, I'm counting the days to the New Year with an advent calendar, where each

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I'm surprised no one's emailed me demanding the last batch of Voyager mission status bulletins! Well, here they are.

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Ready to see something beautiful? Here's a team effort by Björn Jónsson and Ian Regan to create a really mesmerizing view of the motions of Jupiter's clouds.

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The Cassini Raw Images Website always offers rewards to the browser. This evening I found the raw images necessary to create this color composite, showing the hazy orange moon Titan, the mid-sized icy moon Dione, and the tiny rock Prometheus all at the same time.