Blog Archive
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/03/01 06:43 CST | 2 comments
Last week I trawled the archives to find all of Galileo's images of asteroid Ida; this week, I turned to Gaspra.
Posted by Ted Stryk on 2013/02/28 12:59 CST | 1 comments
Presenting a newly-processed version of Voyager 2's best images of Uranus' moon Umbriel.
Posted by Bill Dunford on 2013/02/25 12:44 CST | 4 comments
Nineteen years ago this month, the Clementine mission sent some amazing views from the moon.
Galileo got so many more images of Ida than I realized
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/02/22 04:14 CST | 1 comments
While writing up the cruise-phase issues of the Galileo Messenger a couple of weeks ago, I came across a fuzzy montage of images of Ida that I had not seen before. So I decided to spend some time digging into the Planetary Data System to see if there were more images to be found. I found lots and lots pictures that I'd never seen before!
Pretty picture: a moon transit
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/02/21 05:52 CST | 5 comments
A reader comment inspired me to dig up an oldie but a goodie: a sequence of photos of the Moon transiting Earth, seen from a very long way away,
Why don't we have any photos of asteroid 2012 DA14 if it came so close?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/02/19 03:13 CST | 2 comments
A frequently-asked question last week was: if asteroid 2012 DA14 is coming so close to Earth, why hasn't anyone taken any pictures of it? Now that 2012 DA14 has whizzed past us, we do finally have some radar pictures of it, but they still may not satisfy everyone.











