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Hyperion in color

Emily Lakdawalla • October 10, 2005

Here is a gorgeous color mosaic of Hyperion assembled by amateur image processor Mattias Malmer from images from the recent flyby.

A new Cassini data release to the Planetary Data System

Emily Lakdawalla • October 06, 2005

Yesterday, this quarter's release of Cassini data showed up at the Planetary Data System (PDS). The PDS is the public repository for all of NASA's data.

A piece of a new picture from Hayabusa

Emily Lakdawalla • October 04, 2005

The Hayabusa mission has proven to be a bit of a tease -- they were releasing lots of images to the public as they approached asteroid Itokawa, but once they arrived, the image releases shut down entirely. There is finally a little postage stamp of an image captured by Hayabusa at "home position," only 7 kilometers from the asteroid, compared here to a picture taken from "gate position," 20 kilometers away.

A moon for the "10th planet," 2003 UB313

Emily Lakdawalla • October 02, 2005

Amazing views of Hyperion

Emily Lakdawalla • October 01, 2005

I've finally worked my way through all of the Hyperion images that were returned from the last flyby. It's a wonderful data set.

The End of Cosmos 1, the Beginning of the Next Chapter

Louis D. Friedman • September 30, 2005

Cosmos 1 was—and is—a great effort, and one we are proud The Planetary Society tried to do. Our independent grassroots organization built and launched a spacecraft whose technology promises to one day open up interstellar travel.

Another day, another natural disaster on Earth seen from space...

Emily Lakdawalla • September 29, 2005

...but this one is much closer to home than Katrina and Rita were.

An opportunity for Spirit to see Earth and Venus together?

Emily Lakdawalla • September 26, 2005

I received the following question by email last week: "Do you know if the Mars rovers team has any plans to photograph Venus and Earth together in the evening sky from either rover site? They will be closest together around Sept. 29th."

Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Revels in Science at Husband Hill Summit as Opportunity Closes in on Erebus Crater

A.J.S. Rayl • September 22, 2005

Despite a few unexpected bumps and curves in their explorations at Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, the Mars Exploration Rovers have been working away and both Spirit and Opportunity have put in a very productive month's worth of work on the Red Planet.

Modest scopes could help with the Hyperion observations

Emily Lakdawalla • September 22, 2005

I got an email last night from Anne Verbiscer, whom I had contacted about rounding up some amateur astronomers to help the Cassini mission with some photometric observations of Hyperion.