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Emily Lakdawalla

I've just posted my annual roundup of significant images from planetary exploration in 2010.

Emily Lakdawalla

Ready for the New Year? It's going to be an exciting one.

Emily Lakdawalla

Time to open the thirtieth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this ridged crater?

Emily Lakdawalla

Time to open the twenty-ninth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this fractured flowing ice?

Emily Lakdawalla

Did you know that before Bill Nye was the Planetary Guy or even the Science Guy he was an aerospace engineer, designing components for the Boeing 747?

Emily Lakdawalla

SOHO was launched more than 15 years ago to study the Sun, primarily; but a side benefit of its constant observation of the Sun has been its ability to notice

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Time to open the twenty-eighth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this cratered and streaked surface?

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Today the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast aired my contribution, Small Worlds, about the smaller denizens of the solar system visited in the past year, and due to be visited in the next.

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Time to open the twenty-seventh door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this flat-floored depression?

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In a move that's kind of hard to understand in the wake of the immense public outreach success of the Hayabusa mission, JAXA is closing JAXA i, its public information center in Tokyo today (December 28 in Japan).

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Time to open the twenty-sixth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this rayed crater?

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Time to open the twenty-fifth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these conjoined craters?

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Each day 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 squirrely spots?

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Time to open the twenty-third door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this oozing wound?

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Time to open the twenty-second door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these degraded craters?

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Cassini's busy downlinking photos from yesterday's close pass by Enceladus, including some neat shots of Dione and this one where Mimas skipped briefly in to the field of view.

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Time to open the twenty-first door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this rumpled blanket?

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Ordinarily it's not my thing to do so many updates on a mission that failed to arrive in orbit, but I know that it's difficult for English-speaking readers to locate information on Asian missions so I'm keeping up the reporting on Akatsuki.

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Time to open the twentieth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this diffuse blob and stripy sea?

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Unless you live under a rock you probably know that there is a total lunar eclipse tonight, one that should be particularly favorable for viewing from North America but which will be at least partially visible to viewers in South America, Europe, and easternmost Asia and Australia too.