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The Planetary Society and the Search for Extrasolar Planets

Posted by Amir Alexander on 2005/10/27 12:00 CDT

Almost since it was founded in 1980, The Planetary Society has been there for the search for other worlds.

An evening with Dava Sobel

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/10/24 11:05 CDT

I've just come home from Caltech, where I saw author Dava Sobel give a presentation on her latest book, The Planets.

Many worlds: Dione, Titan, Prometheus, and rings

A way-cool Cassini picture: rings, Titan, Dione, Prometheus

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/10/19 07:12 CDT

I just noticed this picture on the Cassini raw images website. I love these "many worlds" pictures.

Animation from Cassini's approach to Dione

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/10/12 09:01 CDT

The images from Cassini's Dione encounter yesterday have started coming back, and there is a really cool set of 16 pictures of Dione and Rhea.

A new Cassini data release to the Planetary Data System

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/10/06 09:29 CDT

Yesterday, this quarter's release of Cassini data showed up at the Planetary Data System (PDS). The PDS is the public repository for all of NASA's data.

A piece of a new picture from Hayabusa

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/10/04 06:21 CDT

The Hayabusa mission has proven to be a bit of a tease -- they were releasing lots of images to the public as they approached asteroid Itokawa, but once they arrived, the image releases shut down entirely. There is finally a little postage stamp of an image captured by Hayabusa at "home position," only 7 kilometers from the asteroid, compared here to a picture taken from "gate position," 20 kilometers away.