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Emily Lakdawalla

Another recent, cool set of images that came down from Cassini was a series taken last week as the spacecraft crossed the ring plane.

Emily Lakdawalla

I got an email from John Spencer this morning telling me that the mission had posted all of New Horizons' most recently acquired images on the mission website.

Emily Lakdawalla

Over the weekend, Cassini acquired a set of images that will (I am assuming) eventually be used to produce a glorious portrait of the ringed planet from a point of view that's never been seen before.

Emily Lakdawalla

Cassini just flew by Titan again on Saturday, and should have acquired a new swath of RADAR data.

Emily Lakdawalla

New Horizons' Jupiter encounter is officially underway!

Emily Lakdawalla

The first peer-reviewed article on Titan's lakes comes out in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature.

A.J.S. Rayl

Defying all the odds, the Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) are wrapping up 2006 in new locations and roving into their fourth Earth year of exploring the Red Planet. Spirit is slated to celebrate the milestone on January 3, 2007 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), with Opportunity marking the milestone just 3 weeks later, on January 24, 2007.

Emily Lakdawalla

A couple of weeks ago there were press releases coming out of the American Geophysical Union meeting about the discovery of a

Emily Lakdawalla

There's a new image product released from the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) on Cassini, an instrument that is capable of measuring the temperatures on the extremely cold surfaces of Saturn's moons and rings.

Emily Lakdawalla

Ever since I first read about the plans for Cassini's tour of the Saturn system I've been looking forward to the current phase of the mission.

Emily Lakdawalla

This week's Cassini Project Update was particularly interesting, because it contained a story about how a difficult decision was made regarding the prioritizing of different science teams' desires for an upcoming Titan flyby.

Emily Lakdawalla

Yesterday, the VIMS team released several images from Cassini's

Emily Lakdawalla

According to an update posted on the Athena website by Steve Squyres this morning, the Mars Odyssey orbiter has gone in to safe mode.

A.J.S. Rayl

With both a superior conjunction and a long, Martian winter behind them, the Mars Exploration Rovers picked up the pace in November and drove on to new locations and research.

Emily Lakdawalla

Yesterday the New Horizons team released a flicker animation showing the spacecraft's first sight of Pluto, using the LORRI long-range imaging instrument.

Emily Lakdawalla

The IAU has just approved new names for 35 craters, dorsa, fossae, and sulci on the surface of Enceladus, based upon Cassini's high-resolution mapping of the little moon. What are dorsa, fossae, and sulci, you might ask?

Emily Lakdawalla

It's now been nine days since Mars Global Surveyor was last heard from.

Emily Lakdawalla

John Spencer, erstwhile guest blogger (see here and here), just sent me a few notes on the recent Outer Planets Assessment Group meeting.

Emily Lakdawalla

Alan Stern just posted a detailed update on the status of New Horizons in his PI's Perspective blog on the mission website.

A.J.S. Rayl

The Mars Exploration Rovers managed to log another couple of significant milestones this month even as they worked in place, on autopilot, for the last two weeks during superior conjunction, the period that occurs every 2 years when Earth and Mars orbit into positions on opposite sides of the Sun, obscured from each other. With the conjunction now over, the rovers are slated to be back in command operation by tomorrow, All Hallow's Eve or, more popularly, Halloween.