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| Url: | http://www.planetary.org/blog/ |
| Author(s): | Emily Lakdawalla |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | space, science, planets |
| Description: | The Planetary Society Blog is a guide to interesting stuff going on in space science, space exploration, and space advocacy. I post daily on the news, science, and images from planetary missions, past, present, and future. |
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| Popularity: | 233 Followers |
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Saturn's aurora, even better than before
| The Cassini imaging team have posted their own processed and captioned version of the Saturn's aurora movie that I posted a preview of about six weeks ago, and it was worth the wait. It turns out ...more |
2009-11-24
Two more awesome pictures from the Enceladus flyby
| I'm getting to be a broken record here, but I can't stop looking at these photos from the Enceladus flyby. This first one I put together from two of the south polar plume images you can see all ...more |
2009-11-22
Another great Enceladus shot
| Here's a 4-frame mosaic of Enceladus images -- just another everyday spectacularly alien landscape. By the way, if you checked the Cassini raw images website earlier in the day, you should return,...more |
2009-11-21
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Prepare for your jaw to hit the floor when you see these pictures of Enceladus
| Wow, just wow. I didn't know what to expect from the second flyby of Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus in November, which happened yesterday. I knew the cameras were given control of spacecraft poin...more |
2009-11-21
Encouraging motion on Spirit
| It really looks like the second attempt at driving Spirit out of the trap has had the hoped-for result: some forward progress (maybe about a centimeter), and no evidence for further downward sinkin...more |
2009-11-19
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Space Imaging II: Getting Started with MER and Cassini Raw Images now available for download
| I probably crammed too much into today's class: an hour-and-a-half whirlwind tour through the cameras on the rovers and Cassini, how to access their raw images on the Internet, and some basic proce...more |
2009-11-19
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Space Imaging II: Getting Started with MER and Cassini Raw Images ON NOW
| The class is going on now (10:30-11:30 PST / 18:30-19:30 UTC). To join: 1. Go to this site. 2. Enter your name and email address. 3. Enter the meeting password: imaging 4. Click "Join Now". I...more |
2009-11-19
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Hayabusa's still coming home: JAXA engineers come up with yet another creative solution
| Ideally, you'd like to have a space mission that faces no problems. But in the real world, spacecraft run into trouble. Trouble has come time and again to JAXA's little Hayabusa asteroid sample r...more |
2009-11-19
Opportunity's poking at Marquette Island; Cassini's catching dancing moons
| Since tomorrow's class is going to be on playing with raw images from the rovers and Cassini, I've been playing with recent raw images from the rovers and Cassini! I just thought I'd share a coupl...more |
2009-11-18
Atlantis Rockets to Orbit on crucial ISS resupply flight
| Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he watched the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Monday, November 16. Kremer is a research scientis...more |
2009-11-18
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