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John Smith

Each Titan flyby is not a fork in the road, but rather a Los Angeles style cloverleaf in terms of the dizzying number of possible destinations. So how did our current and future plans for the path of the Cassini spacecraft come to be? That's the question Dave Seal put to me since that's my job -- I am a tour designer.

David Seal

David Seal explains the complications for Cassini coming from Titan's atmosphere and Solar Cycle.

Ken Edgett

Looking at Mars with the MRO CTX

Emily Lakdawalla

After posting my brief

Emily Lakdawalla

I was delighted to receive an email from Morten Bo Madsen, who I knew from the Mars Exploration Rover mission as

Emily Lakdawalla

JAXA has released a 30-minute video of the Hayabusa mission,

Doug Ellison

Doug Ellison

ESA's planet-hunting satellite COROT bagged its first exoplanet in observations of the star COROT-Exo-1.

Emily Lakdawalla

The next presentation at OPAG was given by Ralph Lorenz and Tom Spilker on a Titan Montgolfiere Mission Study. What's a Montgolfiere, you ask?

Emily Lakdawalla

It's already 9:00 and I've hardly begun assimilating my 16 pages of notes, so I am going to have to just post a short summary with some highlights from today's meeting of the Outer Planets Assessment Group, or OPAG.

Emily Lakdawalla

Live blog from the press room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as Deep Impact's Impactor meets its fate at the comet....

Emily Lakdawalla

Earth's radio astronomers have saved the day for one of the Huygens instrument teams. Today, the Doppler Wind Experiment (DWE) team announced their first science results, despite losing nearly all of their expected data.

Amir Alexander

The Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer crams six sub-instruments into a tiny footprint within the Huygens probe.