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Emily Lakdawalla's blogs from 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/19 11:43 CDT
Pretty picture: Messier 83
Opportunity: longest-lived landed Mars mission
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/19 10:26 CDT
Opportunity: longest-lived landed Mars mission
The most amazing image of Enceladus Cassini has captured yet
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/19 01:05 CDT
The most amazing image of Enceladus Cassini has captured yet
Pictures hitting Earth from Cassini's close Enceladus flyby today
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/18 05:48 CDT
Pictures hitting Earth from Cassini's close Enceladus flyby today
Dione and Telesto, close on camera but far apart in fact
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/18 12:28 CDT
Dione and Telesto, close on camera but far apart in fact
Akatsuki and IKAROS new launch date set
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/18 12:56 CDT
Akatsuki and IKAROS new launch date set
Voyager 2 status update: Yep, it was a flipped bit
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/17 07:22 CDT
Voyager 2 status update: Yep, it was a flipped bit
Akatsuki and IKAROS launch scrubbed due to weather
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/17 04:56 CDT
Akatsuki and IKAROS launch scrubbed due to weather
Akatsuki and IKAROS to launch today
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/17 11:59 CDT
Akatsuki and IKAROS to launch today
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/17 11:40 CDT
Sighting the homeworld
Photos of your names on the IKAROS spacecraft
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/14 03:11 CDT
Photos of your names on the IKAROS spacecraft
Venus, and the Moon, and Atlantis, and ISS, and Magellan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/14 10:41 CDT
Venus, and the Moon, and Atlantis, and ISS, and Magellan
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/14 08:40 CDT
Solstice? What solstice?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/13 09:51 CDT
Update on Voyager 2 status
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/13 04:43 CDT
Happy solstice -- on Mars
New maps of Enceladus and other moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/13 02:26 CDT
New maps of Enceladus and other moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/13 11:46 CDT
Carnival of space 3D special
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/12 04:15 CDT
Moon Zoo is ready for you
A Martian Moment in Time, revisited
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/12 02:30 CDT
A Martian Moment in Time, revisited
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/11 04:53 CDT
Radar glories in Titan rivers
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/10 05:22 CDT
Via Daniel Fischer's Tweet about a blog entry by Astro BobI learned of something which should be obvious to anyone who has trained even a rather small telescope on Jupiter over the past few weeks: one of its iconic stripes is just plain gone.
Akatsuki and IKAROS getting ready for launch, with your names aboard
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/07 04:55 CDT
Akatsuki and IKAROS getting ready for launch, with your names aboard
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/06 10:07 CDT
Some trouble on Voyager 2
13 things that saved Apollo 13
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/06 01:12 CDT | 1 comments
13 things that saved Apollo 13
Morphology and mineralogy on Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/05 11:16 CDT
Morphology and mineralogy on Mars
Saturn's hexagon recreated in the laboratory
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/04 12:32 CDT | 6 comments
Saturn's hexagon recreated in the laboratory
Space carnival, rover update, Planetary Radio Live!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/03 04:01 CDT
Space carnival, rover update, Planetary Radio Live!
Snapshots from the move, part 1
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/05/02 11:46 CDT
Snapshots from the move, part 1
The Planetary Society is moving on up
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/30 04:41 CDT
The Planetary Society is moving on up
What's up in the solar system in May 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/30 02:20 CDT
What's up in the solar system in May 2010
Naming X: A contest for kids to name small bodies
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/29 02:44 CDT
Naming X: A contest for kids to name small bodies
Arecibo saves us from another potentially hazardous asteroid
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/29 02:04 CDT
Arecibo saves us from another potentially hazardous asteroid
How radio telescopes get "images" of asteroids
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/29 02:04 CDT
How radio telescopes get "images" of asteroids
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/28 12:01 CDT
Spirit: Schrödinger's Rover
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/27 02:08 CDT
New names for Rhea
APOLLO program pinpoints location of Lunokhod 1 retroreflector
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/26 05:37 CDT
APOLLO program pinpoints location of Lunokhod 1 retroreflector
3D Anaglyph: Weird channels of Olympica Fossae
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/26 05:05 CDT
3D Anaglyph: Weird channels of Olympica Fossae
Anticipating the end of Hayabusa
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/23 02:08 CDT
Anticipating the end of Hayabusa
Titan and Dione: The same, but different
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/22 05:29 CDT
Here's a new lovely color composition of Titan and Dione captured by Cassini. This one was taken on April 20, 2010; a set of 15 raw images taken of the two moons just showed up on the Cassini raw images website.
More detail on the Hayabusa return timeline
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/22 04:25 CDT
More detail on the Hayabusa return timeline
Solar Dynamics Observatory unveils "first light" movies
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/21 02:06 CDT
Solar Dynamics Observatory unveils "first light" movies
Discovery's penultimate mission to the Space Station
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/21 01:09 CDT
Discovery's penultimate mission to the Space Station
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/21 10:12 CDT
Hayabusa's coming home
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/20 04:02 CDT
Hey, I'm on APOD today!
Volcanism across the solar system: Earth
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/20 03:26 CDT
Volcanism across the solar system: Earth
Bill Nye on Planetary Radio, and Space Carnival #150
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/19 02:38 CDT
Bill Nye on Planetary Radio, and Space Carnival #150
21 Lutetia, Rosetta's July target
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/16 01:13 CDT
21 Lutetia, Rosetta's July target
Some Pictures from President Obama's Florida Space Conference
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/15 05:41 CDT
Some Pictures from President Obama's Florida Space Conference
Programming note: Florida space conference
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/15 01:00 CDT
Programming note: Florida space conference
What it looks like when a CME explodes toward us
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/14 11:46 CDT
What it looks like when a CME explodes toward us
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/14 12:40 CDT
No signal from Phoenix
A feast of pretty pictures from Cassini
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/12 01:28 CDT
A feast of pretty pictures from Cassini
Hayabusa update: a little east of Pollux
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/12 11:45 CDT
Hayabusa update: a little east of Pollux
Venus Express evidence for recent hot-spot volcanism on Venus
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/09 04:51 CDT
Venus Express evidence for recent hot-spot volcanism on Venus
A busy day for Cassini: Dione plus bonus Enceladus and Janus
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/08 12:39 CDT
A busy day for Cassini: Dione plus bonus Enceladus and Janus
Pretty (strange) picture from HiRISE: Dust flow crater?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/08 11:38 CDT
Yesterday was the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE team's latest flood of archived images, 1,025 of them. I skipped forward to page 42 (what other number would I pick?) and started browsing from there.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/07 04:43 CDT
Carnival of Space #148
Water on the Moon: Direct evidence from Chandrayaan-1's Moon Impact Probe
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/07 04:03 CDT
Water on the Moon: Direct evidence from Chandrayaan-1's Moon Impact Probe
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/07 02:25 CDT
Planetary Radio LIVE!
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 3, and that's it
Posted by Abigail Fraeman on 2010/04/07 12:12 CDT
Our favorite astronaut has moonwalked off the dance floor, and we want to thank him for showing us that you're never too old to try something new. This is my last post -- I hope you've enjoyed reading these little interjections of space-related pop culture.
Pretty picture: Rhea, rings, and two little moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/06 03:07 CDT
Pretty picture: Rhea, rings, and two little moons
Pretty picture: Fly through the aurora
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/05 04:37 CDT
Pretty picture: Fly through the aurora
Strong geomagnetic storm today
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/05 09:18 CDT
Strong geomagnetic storm today
Pretty picture: An unexplained chain of elliptical craters on the Moon
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/02 02:41 CDT
Pretty picture: An unexplained chain of elliptical craters on the Moon
My arduous journey to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/02 02:41 CDT
My arduous journey to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images
HiWish fulfilled (or, be careful what you HiWish for)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/01 03:48 CDT
HiWish fulfilled (or, be careful what you HiWish for)
Quaoar: A rock in the Kuiper Belt
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/01 12:48 CDT
Quaoar: A rock in the Kuiper Belt
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/31 06:48 CDT
Sweet dreams, Spirit
What's up in the solar system in April 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/31 12:07 CDT
What's up in the solar system in April 2010
Downloading the "First Voyage into the PDS" class
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/30 04:07 CDT
Downloading the "First Voyage into the PDS" class
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 2
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/30 09:01 CDT
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 2
Mimas' cold region: another new mystery for Cassini to explore
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/29 05:19 CDT
Mimas' cold region: another new mystery for Cassini to explore
Space Imaging 3: First Voyage into the PDS
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/28 11:24 CDT
Space Imaging 3: First Voyage into the PDS
Opportunity's at the twin craters
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/27 05:09 CDT
Opportunity's at the twin craters
Happy, happy day: We may see the right MastCam on MSL after all
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/26 12:01 CDT
Happy, happy day: We may see the right MastCam on MSL after all
Hayabusa update: Traverse to night-side approach successful
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/26 11:27 CDT
Hayabusa update: Traverse to night-side approach successful
In which I dip my toes into an ocean of Hubble data
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/25 02:21 CDT
In which I dip my toes into an ocean of Hubble data
Opportunity at Concepción from orbit
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/24 03:01 CDT
Opportunity at Concepción from orbit
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/24 11:43 CDT
Carnival of Space #146
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/23 01:18 CDT
What planet is THIS?
Hayabusa update: Last modifications to Earth return trajectory
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/23 01:09 CDT
Hayabusa update: Last modifications to Earth return trajectory
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 1
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/23 09:08 CDT
Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 1
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/22 05:00 CDT
Where neon falls like rain
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/22 04:34 CDT
A new view of Callisto
LROC spots Russian "monument" to International Women's Day
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/19 09:25 CDT
LROC spots Russian "monument" to International Women's Day
Akatsuki arrives at Tanegashima Space Center
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/19 03:57 CDT
Akatsuki arrives at Tanegashima Space Center
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/19 02:19 CDT
A trio of pretty Cassini pics
Making a difference through the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/18 04:39 CDT
Making a difference through the Shoemaker NEO Grants
And now for Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/17 04:39 CDT
And now for Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1
Propose for a Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grant
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/17 01:39 CDT
Propose for a Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grant
Lunokhod found on the Moon -- and on Earth, too
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/17 12:26 CDT
Yesterday I posted a bit of a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera image showing the tracks of the Russian Lunokhod 2 rover. Today, I can post for you an image showing the rover's final resting place
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/16 05:18 CDT | 2 comments
Titan: Callisto with weather
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/16 09:47 CDT
The far side of Phobos
Soviet landers Luna 20, 23, and 24, plus the tracks of Lunokhod 2
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/15 10:55 CDT
Soviet landers Luna 20, 23, and 24, plus the tracks of Lunokhod 2
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/15 10:30 CDT
Phobos from Mars Express
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