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Emily Lakdawalla

There has been big news from Moon and Mars here at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, but I can't find the time to wrap that stuff up into a properly illustrated blog post; while I'm still on site at the conference I'll be tossing the easier-to-digest bits into the blog.

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Where to begin with the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)?

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This is just a brief note to advertise this evening's edition of NOVA on public television here in the U.S. The show is

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The first talk I attended at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston was my one icy satellite talk for the day.

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Despite the best efforts of many different kinds of gremlins, I have managed to arrive in Houston to attend the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, at least the first 2.5 days of it.

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I've written before about a serious problem looming for planetary exploration: the aging infrastructure of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN).

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I am getting an early start on this month's

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The Cassini mission released a pile of images today from the super-close flyby of Enceladus that happened on November 21.

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There are all kinds of neat things to see in this recently released image from the Mini-RF synthetic aperture radar instrument aboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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I gave a presentation this morning to the Next-generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) on

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I visited the Cassini raw images site today and was pleased to see another couple of sets of images have been captured on Iapetus.

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Today the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE) team released a small album of beautiful astrophotos.

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Wander on over to StarryCritters for the 141st Carnival of Space!

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My enormously long page describing the details of Cassini's tour -- each and every Cassini orbit of Saturn -- is now updated to include the entire Solstice Mission, which doubles its length.

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On Saturday, Cassini flew within 9,500 kilometers of Mimas, the innermost of the medium-sized icy moons of Saturn.

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Cassini got pretty close to Calypso yesterday, on the way in to Mimas. Calypso is one of the smaller moonlets of Saturn.

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On Sunday comes the twentieth anniversary of an iconic image from the Voyager mission: the

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Yesterday, the European wing of the Hubble PR machine released this cool image of Saturn and its aurorae, with an associated video.

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I think a goodly proportion of you readers have already figured this out for yourselves since it was launched last March, but I didn't download and install it until last weekend, so this is new to me: Google Mars is awesome.

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This week the Carnival of Space is over at one of my favorite new blogs, Lights in the Dark. Actually it's not so new -- evidently this week marks its first anniversary!