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Jan. 27, 2011 | 16:32 PST | Jan. 28 00:32 UTC
Butterfly crater on Mars
I've spent the day noodling around in the current issue of Icarus, following up some of the more interesting stories within its table of contents, and came across a picture of this very cool crater -- actually, set of craters -- on Mars: Click to... More»
Jan. 26, 2011 | 19:37 PST | Jan. 27 03:37 UTC
Stardust update: Tempel 1 Ahoy!
It is with great relief that I now report that JPL announced this evening the sighting of Tempel 1 by Stardust, a mere month before the planned flyby. It's not that I didn't think Stardust would be able to find the comet; but the longer it took for... More»
Jan. 26, 2011 | 10:18 PST | 18:18 UTC
IKAROS: self-portrait with Venus; primary mission complete
JAXA posted a report today stating that IKAROS "has completed its regular operations." As a part of that report, they included this tiny photo, taken from the cameras that were used to monitor the deployment of the sails. See that little crescent... More»
Jan. 25, 2011 | 09:18 PST | 17:18 UTC
Animation of Phobos rotating from recent Mars Express flyby images
On Friday I posted some terrific images of Phobos captured by Mars Express' High Resolution Stereo Camera. The views included a set of five images captured by the five panchromatic channels on the camera, each of which points in a different... More»
Jan. 24, 2011 | 12:01 PST | 20:01 UTC
Ted Stryk: Report from the 2011 New Horizons Science Team Meeting
You've seen Ted Stryk's image processing work frequently on this blog. As with last year, he was invited to attend the annual New Horizons science team meeting, and sent in this report. --ESL
Click to enlarge > On his way to the team meeting Ted... More»
Jan. 22, 2011 | 14:13 PST | 22:13 UTC
Stardust update: Tempel 1 not yet spotted by spacecraft, hopefully next week
A new update has been posted to the Stardust website:January 19, 2011
The spacecraft continues to operate as expected and all subsystems are healthy on approach to comet Tempel 1. This week the spacecraft started to tip back and forth to the imaging... More»
Jan. 21, 2011 | 16:09 PST | Jan. 22 00:09 UTC
Mars Express' January 2011 Phobos images show how camera works
The Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) team has just released several images from the most recent series of Phobos flybys to the Mars Express blog. As I've mentioned before, Mars Express, which is now on its umpteenth mission... More»
Jan. 21, 2011 | 11:26 PST | 19:26 UTC
Nanosail-D released into space
by Louis D. Friedman
NASA's Nanosail-D spacecraft surprised everyone, including its controllers, by suddenly deploying from its parent FASTSAT spacecraft and beginning its mission in space. NASA is providing a live look at the mission's status at... More»
Jan. 20, 2011 | 17:00 PST | Jan. 21 01:00 UTC
It's Alive! It's Alive!
by Charlene Anderson
It was once thought lost in space, but it looks like NanoSail-D has ejected from its FastSat carrier and is preparing for deployment.
We just pulled this off the Nanosail-D Twitter:
"Hello all! Checking in! I will open... More»
Jan. 20, 2011 | 10:23 PST | 18:23 UTC
Two fine color Cassini animations: Prometheus rotating, Tethys and Dione dancing
Cassini flew rather close to Prometheus on January 27, 2010, passing within 40,000 kilometers. At the time I made my own rather poor color version of one set of the images. But now that the high-quality, archived versions of the images have become... More»
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