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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

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Pretty picture: Talking to GRAIL

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/12 07:47 CDT

Pretty picture: Talking to GRAIL

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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.

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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.

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Outside In

Posted by Bill Nye on 2011/09/07 02:05 CDT | 1 comments

Outside In

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Titan crater and programming note

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/02 11:58 CDT

Titan crater and programming note

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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

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Holey Hyperion!

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/26 05:43 CDT

Holey Hyperion!

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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

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Martian clouds in motion

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/19 10:36 CDT

Martian clouds in motion

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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"

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Vesta's wacky craters

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/16 09:26 CDT

Vesta's wacky craters

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Looking down on a shooting star

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/15 06:19 CDT

Looking down on a shooting star

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Comet Garradd in 3D (sort of)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cassini finally catches Helene

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/06/20 04:41 CDT

Cassini finally catches Helene

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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.

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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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