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Emily Lakdawalla • March 02, 2018 • 1
The Planetary Society has always enjoyed the connections between science and art, so when I saw Leila Qışın's sketches pop up on her Twitter feed during the recent New Horizons team meeting, I knew I had to share them with you.
Emily Lakdawalla • January 25, 2018 • 2
In a new preprint, Mike Brown and Bryan Butler show evidence that two Kuiper belt moons are even bigger than we used to think. They are Eris' moon Dysnomia, and Orcus' moon Vanth.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 27, 2017 • 2
Google Maps released several new map products that allow you to see the locations of named features on many solar system planets and non-planets, spinning them around in space with your mouse.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 25, 2016 • 4
Last week's Division for Planetary Sciences/European Planetary Science Congress meeting was chock-full of science from New Horizons at Pluto.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 14, 2016 • 14
One year after the New Horizons Pluto flyby, Emily reflects on its significance.
On July 6 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, the science team convened at the place where Pluto was discovered. Ted Stryk reports from the meeting.
Sarah Morrison • April 08, 2016 • 3
Want to make your own globe of Pluto? Here's how!
Sarah Hörst • March 24, 2016 • 4
What types of aerosols do we find in the atmospheres around the Solar System, and why does what we call them—clouds vs. haze vs. dust—matter? Sarah Hörst explains.
Emily Lakdawalla • December 21, 2015 • 7
Pluto is reluctant to give up its secrets. Last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting I attended sessions featuring results from the New Horizons mission, and most of the presentations could be summed up thusly: the data sets are terrific, but there are still a lot of Pluto features that have scientists scratching their heads.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 02, 2015 • 9
I have a newly updated scale comparison graphic to share: all the round worlds in the solar system smaller than 10,000 kilometers in diameter, now with added Pluto, Charon, and Ceres.
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