by Emily Lakdawalla
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Follow the thrilling adventures of planetary missions, past and present, and see the stunningly beautiful photos that they return from space!
Emily Lakdawalla • April 25, 2019
The Curiosity team is touring Glen Torridon, the Valley of Clay, south of Vera Rubin Ridge, happily photographing everything and zapping rocks. It’s clearly a delight for the team to be in a place they’ve been hoping to reach for 7 years.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 23, 2019
InSight has finally detected its first Marsquakes, but so far, none have been large enough to produce good science. Still, it’s great news that the seismometer is producing sensible data.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 01, 2019 • 2
The Hayabusa2 team held a press briefing last week at LPSC to report newly published results on asteroid Ryugu.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 12, 2019 • 5
I’m very pleased to announce the publication of the March Equinox issue of The Planetary Report: “Inside the Ice Giants.” The print issue shipped to members yesterday!
Emily Lakdawalla • March 01, 2019 • 1
The HP3 mole started hammering itself today, and almost immediately (after just 5 minutes) appears to have encountered a rock. No matter; they'll try again Saturday.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 28, 2019
The OSIRIS-REx team recently issued their first data release to the Planetary Data System. This release doesn’t include any closeup pictures of asteroid Bennu, but it does include all the pictures they took during their September 2017 Earth flyby.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 20, 2019 • 3
InSight has placed its second science instrument on the ground and set it free. Now it's time to bury the heat probe in the soil.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 12, 2019 • 2
InSight has gone two for two, placing the second of its instruments gently on the Martian ground.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 08, 2019 • 1
A crescent view of MU69 reveals its bizarre shape. Let's look at lots of other fun-shaped space crescents.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 06, 2019 • 1
Curiosity completed work at Vera Rubin Ridge with an easy drilling activity at Rock Hall. Now it has finally driven on to mineral-rick rocks that were seen from orbit, long before Curiosity arrived. The team plans a lengthy traverse of the clay-bearing unit.
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