Emily Lakdawalla • April 13, 2011
I've got some lovely pictures from Saturn to show you! Every three months, the Cassini mission dumps gigabytes worth of precious Saturn data into the Planetary Data System, and the latest gift came on April 1. This particular pile of data, which was taken between April 1 and June 30, 2010, contains a lot of really terrific moon observations.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 14, 2011
As the disaster of the magnitude 8.9 Sendai quake of Friday, March 11, at 05:46:23 UTC continues to unfold in Japan, I have been unable to tear my attention away.
Emily Lakdawalla • December 25, 2010
Time to open the twenty-fifth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these conjoined craters?
Emily Lakdawalla • December 21, 2010
Cassini's busy downlinking photos from yesterday's close pass by Enceladus, including some neat shots of Dione and this one where Mimas skipped briefly in to the field of view.
Emily Lakdawalla • December 10, 2010
Time to open the tenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this jumble of bouldery fissures?
Emily Lakdawalla • August 14, 2010
Over the last couple of days Cassini flew past Enceladus, Tethys and Dione, so there are lots of treats to see on the raw images website! You should go check it out for yourself, but here are a couple of real favorites.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 09, 2010
You know, I could fill this blog almost entirely with the amazing images that Gordan Ugarkovic locates, processes into prettiness, and uploads to his Flickr account.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 19, 2010
Every time I think Cassini has captured the coolest image of Enceladus ever, it does better.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 18, 2010
Cassini flew within 436 kilometers of Enceladus' surface today. Although it's Cassini's 11th targeted flyby of Enceladus, these close buzzes are never routine.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 13, 2010
Every time Cassini gets reasonably close to one of the moons of Saturn, whether the close approach is a targeted one or just an opportunistic encounter, its planners usually take advantage of the proximity to take a bunch of photos.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 12, 2010
Cassini has it almost too easy. Point at anything in the Saturn system and you're guaranteed of a shot that looks, at least, pretty.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 08, 2010
The Cassini Saturn orbiter just completed its second very close flyby of Saturn's mid-sized iceball moon Dione, and the images from that encounter have been streaming onto the Cassini raw images website this morning.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 23, 2010
The Cassini mission released a pile of images today from the super-close flyby of Enceladus that happened on November 21.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 09, 2010
This week the Carnival of Space is over at one of my favorite new blogs, Lights in the Dark. Actually it's not so new -- evidently this week marks its first anniversary!
Emily Lakdawalla and John Spencer • February 03, 2010
NASA has just announced that once Cassini's Equinox Mission runs out in June of this year, they will extend it a further seven more years, long enough for the spacecraft to see Saturn through its solstice!!
Emily Lakdawalla • January 19, 2010
An amateur named Bernhard Braun ("nirgal" on unmannedspaceflight) has been posting the results from a new piece of software he's developed that generates 3-D models of landscapes from single photos.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 22, 2009
I'm getting to be a broken record here, but I can't stop looking at these photos from the Enceladus flyby.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 21, 2009
Here's a 4-frame mosaic of Enceladus images -- just another everyday spectacularly alien landscape.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 21, 2009
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.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 18, 2009
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 couple of the fun items I've been working with.
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