Planetary Society logo
  • “Exploration is in our nature.” - Carl Sagan
Author

All

Keyword

All

Stories, updates, insights, and original analysis from The Planetary Society.

The final resting place of Lunokhod 2

Lunokhod found on the Moon -- and on Earth, too

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

Luna 17 on the Moon

And now for Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1

I am delighted to report that within a day of the first view of Luna 21 and Lunokhod 2 since the end of that mission in 1973, the sister mission, Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1, has also been found.

Titan's internal structure

Titan: Callisto with weather

It's the second time I've posted with this provocative title. This time, it's in response to a new paper published last week in Science.

Helene in color

Helene has two faces

Yes, it's yet another post on Helene! I keep on finding new stuff to post. This time it is a really cool montage assembled by Ian Regan.

Cassini's 3 March 2010 Helene flyby

Pointing at Helene

I posted already some neat images from Cassini's flyby of Helene last week, and commented on how most of the images from that encounter missed Helene entirely or only caught the moon at one edge of the camera field of view. Here's an example of one of those images.

Bereghinia Planitia, Venus

LPSC: Venus

Despite the fact that I began my career in science doing research on Magellan images of Venus, I've often avoided Venus sessions at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference because they've tended to be pointlessly contentious. But I decided to attend the one this year to see how things went.

Flight path for Mars3d Candor Chasma animation

Unbelievably spectacular flight through Candor Chasma

This is one of the things that came out during LPSC last week and all I could do at the time was Tweet it—so here it is in blog form: the most unbelievably spectacular 3D animation of a bit of Mars I've seen yet, produced by Adrian Lark.

Phobos closeup from Mars Express

Phobos has gravity!

Last week Mars Express had its closest-ever flyby of Mars' larger, inner moon Phobos.

Orientale Basin on the Moon

LPSC: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter results

A week later and I am finally getting to the mountains of notes I took on Moon-related talks I saw at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) held in Houston last week.

Concepción crater

LPSC, Day 3: Opportunity, and what the heck is Marquette?

I wrote earlier about some results from Spirit reported at this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas; here are the rest of my notes on rover-related talks, from Opportunity's site on the opposite side of Mars.

< 1 ... 130 131132 ... 165 >