Ted Stryk • February 21, 2017
Amateur image processor Ted Stryk revisited Voyager 1 data of Enceladus and came across a surprise.
Bill Dunford • October 10, 2016
More than seven years after the end of its mission, JAXA has released the entire data set from Kaguya's HDTV cameras.
Emily Lakdawalla • June 23, 2015
Only about three weeks remain until the flyby — it's getting really close! I almost don't want the anticipation to end. New Horizons is now getting color images and is seeing features on Charon. Deep searches have yielded no new moons.
Emily Lakdawalla • June 16, 2015
I've spent a happy couple of days playing with raw data downloaded from the New Horizons website, making animations of the dances of Pluto and Charon.
Emily Lakdawalla • June 09, 2015
Pluto and Charon are growing larger in New Horizons' forward view, beginning to develop distinct personalities. A version of recent New Horizons photos processed by Björn Jónsson reveals an enigmatic dark line. Our maps of Pluto's surface are now as good as our maps of Mars and Venus, circa 1900!
Emily Lakdawalla • June 01, 2015
Last week the New Horizons mission released a few new processed versions of their latest and greatest images of Pluto. They're the best images of Pluto that Earth has ever seen, but they're still a long way from what New Horizons will be able to show us, six weeks from now.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 14, 2014
Today the Mars Orbiter Mission released a nice four-image animation of teeny dark Phobos crossing Mars' huge orange disk. Mars Orbiter Mission joins a long line of Mars missions that have produced images of Mars and Phobos together.
Val Klavans and Ian Regan • April 30, 2014
The Cassini mission has already returned an array of images of other solar system members from Saturn orbit: Earth (and the Moon), Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. It’s time to add another world to that list!
Emily Lakdawalla • March 12, 2014
With all the excitement happening on missions criscrossing the solar system, I often forget to enjoy the views of our solar system that we can achieve from home. Amateur astronomers don't make the same mistake. Here's a lovely photo that Stuart Atkinson sent me, captured last night from Kendal, England, showing four special wanderers.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 05, 2014
A few days ago, Curiosity looked westward after sunset and photographed Earth setting toward the mountainous rim of Gale crater.
Casey Dreier • November 25, 2013
The Voyager mission may be the ultimate expression of our desire to explore, but why does that will exist in the first place? Why is it unique to humans?
Emily Lakdawalla • October 03, 2013
I've been delving in to the Mars Express image archive this week, checking out its images of Phobos, and found a couple of really cool time-series of images to assemble into animations.
Mat Kaplan • October 01, 2013
The Benford brothers provide inspiration and hard fact in their excellent new anthology about interstellar travel.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 15, 2013
A lovely view of the ringed planet and its hazy moon seen from nearly behind them just a few days ago.
Bill Dunford • July 29, 2013
Pushing back the frontier, and filling in the blank spaces on the map.
Emily Lakdawalla • June 17, 2013
For this evening's Planetary Radio Live event, Mat Kaplan asked me to do a presentation of some favorite space images. I told him that picking favorite space images is like picking favorite children; it's not possible because they're all my favorite. To narrow things down, I decided to explore a theme: "Many Worlds."
Emily Lakdawalla • February 01, 2013
On a lonely evening, what is one to do but to dip into archival space image data and surface with a gorgeous photo of a crescent Neptune and Triton?
Emily Lakdawalla • October 03, 2012
Curiosity has been shooting photos of the Sun as Phobos and Deimos cross its face, and -- as far as I can tell -- captured sunspots as well.
Bill Gray • August 25, 2012
An update on China's second lunar orbiter, Chang'e 2, which is now heading for asteroid Toutatis.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 04, 2012
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.
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