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From the Ground and from Space, New Planetary Systems Unveiled

Posted by Amir Alexander on 2010/08/27 02:32 CDT

From the Ground and from Space, New Planetary Systems Unveiled

Jupiter's swirling storms from Voyager 1

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/26 05:28 CDT

Jupiter's swirling storms from Voyager 1

Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' Atmosphere

Posted by Bruce Betts on 2010/08/26 12:00 CDT

One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere.

Review: Phil Plait's Bad Universe, new series on Discovery

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/26 12:56 CDT

Review: Phil Plait's Bad Universe, new series on Discovery

A first look at distant hills

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/25 12:36 CDT

A first look at distant hills

Finding a fireball in a Voyager 1 image of the dark side of Jupiter

The August 20, 2010 Jupiter fireball -- and the March 5, 1979 one

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/08/24 11:36 CDT

Following up on the story I first posted on August 22, the Jupiter impact fireball first noticed by Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa has been independently confirmed by two other Japanese astronomers.