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Women on Spacecraft Missions: Are we moving towards parity with the percentage in the field?
Posted by Julie Rathbun on 2016/09/16 09:01 CDT
How far have we come and how far do we still need to go to welcome women into planetary science, and, particularly, spacecraft missions?
Successful launch for China's Tiangong-2 space station
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2016/09/15 09:37 CDT
Today, China launched its second modular space station, Tiangong 2.
One year remains in the Cassini mission
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2016/09/15 09:27 CDT | 5 comments
Cassini ends a year from today, which is sad. But the final year of the mission is going to be awesome.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2016/09/14 02:45 CDT | 3 comments
The astronomy world is abuzz today because of ESA's announcement of the first release of data from the Gaia mission. Gaia is a five-year mission that will eventually measure the positions and motions of billions of stars; this first data release includes positions for 1.1 billion of them, and proper motions for 2 million.
A deep dive into the highest-resolution Voyager Jupiter data
Posted by Björn Jónsson on 2016/09/14 08:00 CDT
A few weeks before the first Juno high resolution imaging, I decided to take a look at Voyager color images at various resolutions, with particular attention to high-resolution mosaics.
Cassini's camera views of Titan's polar lakes in summer, processed into pseudocolor
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2016/09/12 01:50 CDT | 1 comment
Titan's north polar lakes are well-lit by summer sun in these recent Cassini images. Image processing enthusiast Ian Regan shares his recipe for processing the longer-wavelength Titan images into visually pleasing "pseudocolor."
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2016/09/09 12:40 CDT | 5 comments
The European Space Agency has shared plans for the end of the Rosetta mission scheduled for September 30, just three weeks from now. The landing site will be located on the "head" of the comet, next to a prominent pit now named Deir el-Medina.
Field Report From Mars: Sol 4482 - September 2, 2016
Posted by Larry Crumpler on 2016/09/09 09:04 CDT
Opportunity is about to leave Marathon Valley for good and head south into the next valley, marking the beginning of the current extended mission plan.
OSIRIS-REx blazes into evening sky, starting journey to asteroid Bennu
Posted by Jason Davis on 2016/09/08 08:56 CDT | 5 comments
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is safely en route to asteroid Bennu following an evening liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Carrying names of 440,000 well-wishers, OSIRIS-REx ready for journey to Bennu and back
Posted by Jason Davis on 2016/09/07 12:24 CDT | 7 comments
OSIRIS-REx is ready to begin its journey to Bennu and back. The asteroid was named by a Planetary Society contest winner, and the spacecraft bears the names of 440,000 well-wishers.
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