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False color view of Titan's northern lakes

Titan's Lakes

The first peer-reviewed article on Titan's lakes comes out in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature.

A mountain range on Titan

Mountain range on Titan

A couple of weeks ago there were press releases coming out of the American Geophysical Union meeting about the discovery of a

Enceladus' south polar hot spot

CIRS gets another view of Enceladus' south polar hot spot

There's a new image product released from the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) on Cassini, an instrument that is capable of measuring the temperatures on the extremely cold surfaces of Saturn's moons and rings.

Solar system montage with eight planets

Saturn from above (2006)

Ever since I first read about the plans for Cassini's tour of the Saturn system I've been looking forward to the current phase of the mission.

Cassini-Huygens at Saturn

Breaking a tie on the Cassini science teams

This week's Cassini Project Update was particularly interesting, because it contained a story about how a difficult decision was made regarding the prioritizing of different science teams' desires for an upcoming Titan flyby.

First Glimpse of Pluto

New Horizons spots Pluto!

Yesterday the New Horizons team released a flicker animation showing the spacecraft's first sight of Pluto, using the LORRI long-range imaging instrument.

Named features on Enceladus' south pole

New names for Enceladus' features

The IAU has just approved new names for 35 craters, dorsa, fossae, and sulci on the surface of Enceladus, based upon Cassini's high-resolution mapping of the little moon. What are dorsa, fossae, and sulci, you might ask?

Venus as seen from MESSENGER

MESSENGER's Venus flyby successful

A press release just hit my mailbox stating that MESSENGER has been heard from since its Venus flyby, so there are now only four flybys to go before MESSENGER will be in orbit at Mercury!

Saturn's night side (color)

Cassini's view from the backside of Saturn

Over time, Cassini's orbit apoapsis—the point on the orbit that is farthest from Saturn—has been shifting slowly toward Saturn's night side. Lately, this point of view has resulted in some truly lovely photos of the planet.

Solar system montage with eight planets

Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants (18 July 2006)

Using the Shoemaker NEO Grant funds, Minor Planet Research has purchased a 1.7-terabyte data server for our Asteroid Discovery Station (ADS) education outreach program Through the generosity of Dr. Philip Christensen, this server is housed at the Mars Space Flight Facility (MSFF) at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Asteroid 2002 JF56 (two views)

New Horizons tracks an asteroid

New Horizons is spending the summer traversing the asteroid belt. I haven't written a lot about New Horizons lately because the mission has been going so uneventfully well. But now I've got something to write about: data!!

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