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LCROSS Centaur separation and braking burn successful

LCROSS and its Centaur upper stage have separated successfully, and the LCROSS shepherd spacecraft has braked in order to follow behind the Centaur when both impact the Moon tomorrow.

Impact site of the Apollo 14 S-IVB from LROC

LROC nabs image of the Apollo 14 S-IVB impact site

As a reminder that we've been crashing stuff into the Moon for decades, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team released today a photo of the crater made by the spent upper stage of the Saturn rocket that lofted the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon.

A podcast, a space carnival, and a New Horizons Planetary Radio Q and A

App review: Moon Globe and Mars Globe: Five stars!!

DPS: The amazing wound-up C ring, by Josh Colwell

MESSENGER is fine

The caption to today's image release from the MESSENGER team concerns their long-term campaign to study Mercury's brightness through a range of phase angles.

Prizes for Steve Squyres, Toby Owen, Kelly Beatty, and Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay

The September-October 2009 issue of The Planetary Report is out

Changes in Titan's southern lakes

Today's science press release out of the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting concerns changes in lakes near Titan's south pole observed during Cassini's mission. In brief, repeat Cassini RADAR observations of the same spots during different Titan flybys turned up places where there appeared to be dark lakes in earlier images and dry lakes in later images.

Another possible piece of evidence for a Rhea ring

2008 TC3: One year later (a 365 Days of Astronomy podcast)

Massive MESSENGER Mercury Mosaic

It would appear that Opportunity has stumbled upon another meteorite

I wonder if this came from the same original body as Block Island, or if Meridiani is the kind of slowly deflating landscape that accumulates meteorites at its surface, like the ANSMET meteorite hunting spots in Antarctica?