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Spirit Point and Odyssey crater in sight, and new rock under Opportunity's wheels

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/07 04:26 CDT

Spirit Point and Odyssey crater in sight, and new rock under Opportunity's wheels

Junocam will get us great global shots down onto Jupiter's poles

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/05 03:31 CDT | 1 comments

Junocam will get us great global shots down onto Jupiter's poles

Juno is on the way to Jupiter!

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/05 02:21 CDT

It almost looked like it wasn't going to happen today, but it did! At 16:25 UTC, a huge Atlas V 551 lifted off with the Juno spacecraft and sent it on its way to Jupiter.

Fun for the whole family: Watch an enormous rocket blast a spacecraft to Jupiter!

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/04 01:19 CDT

Fun for the whole family: Watch an enormous rocket blast a spacecraft to Jupiter!

Pretty picture: five moons for Cassini

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/03 09:57 CDT

Explaining how to combine the red, green and blue images from a recent Cassini image session containing five of Saturn's moons: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea.