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Dawn's cryptic image release titles
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/14 04:44 CDT
Dawn's cryptic image release titles
Pretty picture: Talking to GRAIL
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/12 07:47 CDT
Pretty picture: Talking to GRAIL
From the "Just Plain Cool" department: Time-lapse photo of GRAIL's Delta 2 tower rollback
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/08 01:01 CDT
The terrific launch photographer Ben Cooper is at the Cape waiting for GRAIL's Delta 2 rocket to take off, and last night he took this very cool photo.
Blast from the past: Pioneer 10 and 11 pictures of Jupiter
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/07 02:06 CDT
Here's a few pretty pictures that were recently dusted off by Ted Stryk. Pioneer 10 and 11 passed by Jupiter on December 4, 1973, and December 3, 1974, respectively. Here are three pictures from those two encounters, in versions newly processed by Ted from scanned photographic prints found during a research trip to NASA's Ames Research Center.
Titan crater and programming note
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/02 11:58 CDT
Titan crater and programming note
Pretty picture: Earth and Moon from JunoCam
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/30 11:53 CDT
Pretty picture: Earth and Moon from JunoCam
Pretty picture: Saturn from very close up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/24 05:13 CDT
Pretty picture: Saturn from very close up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/19 10:36 CDT
Martian clouds in motion
Gale's not the only Martian crater with an "enigmatic mound"
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/17 07:33 CDT
Gale's not the only Martian crater with an "enigmatic mound"
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/16 09:26 CDT
Vesta's wacky craters
Looking down on a shooting star
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/15 06:19 CDT
Looking down on a shooting star
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/12 12:52 CDT
Amateur astronomer Patrick Wiggins sent me this neat little animation of comet Garradd moving against background stars through an hour's worth of observing. I'm not any kind of astronomer but if I were I think I would get a kick out of looking at things that appear to move within one night of watching -- asteroids, comets, Jupiter's spots. I'm impatient that way.
Jupiter's southern belt is coming back
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/01 09:34 CDT
In a story that I've been following for quite a while, Jupiter's southern equatorial belt, having faded to white in 2009, is now well on its way back to its former red glory.
Vesta does a Hyperion impression
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/21 06:25 CDT
Maybe it's my own peculiar variant of pareidolia, but every time I see a new image of Vesta I'm reminded of some different other lumpy body in the solar system. In the image released just now by the Dawn team, taken from 10,500 kilometers away, I'm seeing Hyperion.
Cassini animations: Rhea and Dione and Titan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/06/28 04:12 CDT
I've been mucking about in the Cassini data archives (as I often do when procrastinating) and unearthed a neat, if short, mutual event sequence of two crescent moons passing by each other.
Cassini finally catches Helene
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/06/20 04:41 CDT
Cassini finally catches Helene
In Memory of Spirit, and Why Cuteness Matters
Posted by Melissa Rice on 2011/06/15 02:21 CDT
An analysis of "cuteness", and why it matters when talking about science.
Summer Sights of the Solar System
Posted by Ray Sanders on 2011/06/07 03:23 CDT
What can you expect to see if you look at the night sky this summer(2011)?
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