Emily Lakdawalla

Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist

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Emily Lakdawalla is a passionate advocate for the exploration of all of the worlds of our solar system. Through blogs, photos, videos, podcasts, print articles, Twitter, and any other medium she can put her hand to, Emily shares the adventure of space exploration with the world.

Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology from Amherst College and a Master of Science degree in planetary geology from Brown University. She came to The Planetary Society in 2001 to oversee a portion of the Society's Red Rover Goes to Mars project, an education and public outreach program on the Mars Exploration Rover mission funded by LEGO. She has been writing and editing the Planetary Society Blog since 2005, reporting on space news, explaining planetary science, and sharing beautiful space photos. She appears weekly on the Society's Planetary Radio podcast, answering listener questions or rounding up the latest space news from the blog.

Emily has been an Administrator of the forum UnmannedSpaceflight.com since 2005, supporting a worldwide community of amateur space image processors. She is also a contributing editor to Sky & Telescope magazine and a frequent host of Cosmoquest Google+ Hangouts. Emily can be found on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, and wherever else she finds people who are equally passionate about space images.

Emily can be reached at blog@planetary.org or @elakdawalla on Twitter.

Latest Planetary Radio Appearance

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Beginning a New Year In Space

12/31/2012 | 28:50
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Planetary Society experts review the challenges and triumphs of 2012 and look forward to a new and exciting year. You’ll hear Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily Lakdawalla on new missions, Casey Dreier on “Saving our Science,” and Bruce Betts’ review of great projects, as well as a musical rendition of “Random Space Fact.”

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Latest Blog Posts

Planetary evangelism

Posted 2013/10/06 02:51 CDT | 5 comments

It's so exciting when the small talk that lubricates social interactions with strangers turns into an excited discussion of space and science.

Congratulations to LADEE on arrival at the Moon!

Posted 2013/10/06 08:33 CDT | 1 comments

After a one-month journey from Earth to the Moon, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) safely entered orbit at 10:57 UTC today, October 6.

Photos: India's Mars Orbiter Mission arrives at launch site

Posted 2013/10/05 02:39 CDT | 0 comments

ISRO posted five photos from the momentous day of the Mars Orbiter Mission's shipment to Sriharikota.

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Latest Processed Space Images

Titan_Cassini_Crescent

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Cassini captured this view of a crescent Titan on February 7, 2009. It is an approximate true-color composite of images W1612723860, 893, and 926.

High-phase Phobos and Deimos mutual event from Mars Express

Posted 2013/10/03 | 0 comments

This 131-frame animation documents a "mutual event" of Phobos and Deimos -- the two appeared to pass by each other as the Mars Express orbiter moved along its own path.

Phobos flies over Mars (HRSC animation)

Posted 2013/10/02 | 0 comments

Mars Express captured the 6 images in this animation on its orbit 6128 (October 10, 2008) using the Super Resolution Channel of its High Resolution Stereo Camera (SRC). Mars Express was 10,258 kilometers from Phobos when the series of images was taken. Phobos is visible against the backdrop of Mars. Phobos is much darker than Mars; the dark appearance of Mars suggests Phobos is near Mars' terminator (day-night boundary).

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