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Some fun with Curiosity MARDI images
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/08/16 11:36 CDT | 9 comments
Yesterday Curiosity returned a pile of full-resolution descent imager photos to Earth. The full-resolution MARDI images are just as great as we anticipated.
Daphnis cruises through the Keeler Gap
Posted by Jason Davis on 2012/08/16 11:03 CDT
A recent series of ring images by the Cassini spacecraft reveal Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis cruising through the Keeler Gap.
Curiosity's Marsdial is on Mars!
Posted by Bill Nye on 2012/08/14 04:24 CDT | 6 comments
Following the successful landing of the Curiosity rover, it is gratifying indeed to see the third MarsDial© photometric calibration (cal) target on the planet Mars. It is something near and dear to me personally, and it's good for all of us, because it helps us do good science.
Curiosity's high-res Navcam panorama in striking color
Posted by Jason Davis on 2012/08/10 07:10 CDT | 4 comments
A color-processed version of Curiosity's high-resolution Navcam panorama.
Curiosity sol 3: First Mastcam color thumbnails down, everything "flawless," "nominal"
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/08/09 03:25 CDT | 13 comments
Curiosity's third day on Mars has been completed flawlessly, and the first preliminary color view from her Mastcam is lovely.
Curiosity: Most of sol 2 Navcam panorama, plus 18 full-res Descent Imager frames available
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/08/09 12:48 CDT | 10 comments
A look at the latest raw data dump from Curiosity: our first sharp view of the rover and immediate surroundings, plus 18 of the full-resolution descent imager frames are now available. Check out the gravel on Curiosity's deck!!
Grab your 3D glasses for this view of Curiosity's landscape on Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/08/08 09:58 CDT | 4 comments
Curiosity fired up her Navigational Cameras on Sol 2 and began to take a look around her. The first four full-resolution frames are enough for a small 3D panorama that shows a lovely landscape. I think we're going to like it here!
First full-resolution MARDI frame: Bye-bye, heat shield
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/08/07 11:50 CDT | 11 comments
The thumbnail versions of the Mars Descent Imager images have shown up on the Curiosity raw images page, and hiding among them was a single full-resolution frame containing the heat shield.
Getting the most out of those first images from Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/08/06 09:25 CDT | 5 comments
Pretty Panoramas: Opportunity at Whim Creek
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/07/30 01:11 CDT | 2 comments
I know it’s been all Curiosity, all the time on this blog for the last couple of weeks, and that’s not likely to change much for the next couple of weeks. But I don’t want people to forget that there’s another rover exploring Mars’ ancient geology. Opportunity has been taking spectacular photos of Whim Creek and Endeavour Crater this last week.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/06/20 02:40 CDT
Just a pretty global view of one of Saturn's flock of icy moons, newly processed from archival data by Gordan Ugarkovic.
Pretty picture: Halo on a halo?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/06/15 05:21 CDT | 6 comments
An interesting set of images of Titan that Cassini took recently shows a peculiar cap at Titan's south pole.
Steins, a jewel in the asteroid belt
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/06/13 09:00 CDT | 1 comments
A notice of some new names for features on asteroid 2867 Steins inspired me to dig up the data set from the September 5, 2008 Rosetta flyby and explore it to see what it contained.
Video: Saturn makes its own drama (with a little help)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/22 05:43 CDT | 5 comments
The apparently simple device of running Cassini images together like a flipbook makes for a dramatic movie, especially with the help of well-timed musical cues.
Methone, an egg in Saturn orbit?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/21 02:58 CDT | 8 comments
Cassini obtained its first high-resolution images of Methone on May 20, 2012. Methone is one of the smallest regular moons of Saturn, having a diameter of only about 3 kilometers. It was the first moon that Cassini discovered, very early in Cassini's mission at Saturn, in 2004.
A stunning view of Mars from Argyre to Thaumasia
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/18 06:33 CDT
Image magician Daniel Machacek has done it again, producing a jaw-dropping view of Mars from Viking Orbiter 1, featuring a frosty Argyre basin and stretching across to a series of faults called Thaumasia Fossae.
In Honor of JUICE, a New View of Europa
Posted by Ted Stryk on 2012/05/07 05:30 CDT | 2 comments
To celebrate ESA's selection of the JUICE mission to Jupiter, Ted Stryk produced a new global view of Europa from Galileo data.
Pretty pictures from Cassini's recent Dione flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/04 05:44 CDT
Cassini performed its last of three close encounters with Enceladus for 2012 two days ago, and followed the flyby with some spectacular images of Dione.
3D view of an unnamed lunar crater
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/03 03:18 CDT
Grab your red-blue 3D glasses and dive in to this small but spectacular unnamed lunar crater as seen in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photo.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/04/20 01:01 CDT | 2 comments
I enthused about these Helene images the first time they came down from Cassini, and then forgot about them, and then was thrilled anew a couple of weeks ago when Daniel Macháček posted his version, processed from data published by the Cassini imaging team on April 1.
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