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Mars Exploration Rover

Spirit gets brushed off

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

LightSail 1 in Earth orbit

Making Light Work

Professional Pilot Magazine asked me to contribute a prediction about the future of flight for the next century. Naturally, I wrote about solar sailing.

Rhea mosaic, 27 May 2007

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.

Titan mosaic: T3, February 15, 2005

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.

Many Cassini views of Tethys

Many Cassini views of Tethys

Here we bring you fifteen different Cassini views of the same world, a cratered ball of ice called Tethys.

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