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Door 15 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the fifteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this cratered world?
Opportunity drives within 20 meters of Santa Maria, spots alligator's tail
Today Opportunity has driven to within 20 meters of Santa Maria crater, and the blocks around it are really, really cool-looking. This one is a dead ringer for the severed tail of an alligator.
Phobos Photobomb
Don't blink when you play the video below -- it's only 15 seconds long, but it's so cool.
Door 14 in the 2010 advent calendar
Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door each day onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these red freckles?
Opportunity: "So close we can taste it" to Santa Maria
Opportunity is on a kilometers-long eastward road trip across Meridiani Planum toward the rim of a large ancient crater named Endeavour; it'll be many months yet before she gets there.
Door 13 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the thirteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these parallel gouges?
Boulders and Ponds on 433 Eros
There is really cool geology being explored on large, oddly shaped asteroids. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission reached 433 Eros in 2000, and one of the exciting results was the discovery of features called
Door 12 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the twelfth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this trapezoidal mountain?
Door 11 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the eleventh door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these sinuous ridges?
Door 10 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the tenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this jumble of bouldery fissures?
Come back, Venus.....
This image is so, so beautiful, and so, so sad.
Door 9 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the ninth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this jumble of boulders and fissures?
Door 8 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the eighth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this nearly flat plain?
Door 7 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the seventh door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this icy bridge?
Door 6 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the sixth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these snowy slopes?
Akatsuki enters orbit at Venus today!
In just a few hours, Venus will have a second orbiter. Japan's Akatsuki is due to start firing its orbit insertion engines on December 7.
Door 5 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the fifth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this meandering river?
Door 4 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the fourth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this crater-specked mound?
Door 3 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the third door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system is this wispy terrain?