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Dust storm update: A rover's-eye-view

I haven't written an update on the dust storm at Mars recently for two reasons. For one, the rovers are out of immediate danger, so it wasn't as urgent. The other reason is that Jim Bell wanted Cornell to issue a press release with updated versions of the images and animations I've been putting together from the rovers'

Poised on the threshold of Victoria Crater

Although Mars' atmosphere continues to be rather dusty, the storm has abated enough that both Mars Exploration Rovers have resumed a relatively normal level of activity. For Opportunity, that means a drive to the very edge of Victoria crater.

A little good news on the rovers

The skies aren't quite as dark as they have been, for both Spirit and Opportunity. In fact, Spirit has enough power now to be doing a little work with its robotic arm.

Yet another active world: Charon

I've just posted a news story on a recently published paper that suggests that Pluto's moon Charon may have active ice volcanoes.

Bedtime for New Horizons

According to the mission website, the New Horizons spacecraft has drifted off to sleep, entering its

Spirit gets brushed off

There was great news last night from Mars Exploration Rover mission operations: Spirit seems to have enjoyed another

Mimas, Dione, Rhea

There's been quite a lot of Mars on this page for the last week; it's time to remind ourselves that there are other places besides Mars in the solar system.

Windows Onto the Abyss: Cave Skylights on Mars

Today's set of image releases from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE team included this one, of a fairly bland-looking lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons. Bland, that is, except for a black spot in the center.

New territory on Titan

The other day I posted a global view of Titan featuring new territory near the north pole. Now the imaging team has released a much higher resolution version of this view.

Many Cassini views of Tethys

Here we bring you fifteen different Cassini views of the same world, a cratered ball of ice called Tethys.

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