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Pretty picture: Three moons of Saturn

The Cassini Raw Images Website always offers rewards to the browser. This evening I found the raw images necessary to create this color composite, showing the hazy orange moon Titan, the mid-sized icy moon Dione, and the tiny rock Prometheus all at the same time.

In which I report on w00tstock and wonder how to get nerds more excited about real space exploration

(I promise that this post will get around to the subject of space exploration in a couple of paragraphs.)

What's up in the solar system in November 2010

The major event of the month will be, of course, Deep Impact's flyby of small comet Hartley 2, which happens at 13:50 UTC on November 4. But there's some other things to take note of.

Epimetheus and Janus mutual event, 25 December 2005

An update to the Cassini Tour Page

Where's the Cassini Saturn orbiter going to be in the next week -- or hundred weeks? It's all already planned out.

Timeline for the Phobos Sample Return Mission (Phobos Grunt)

In mid-October, I attended the First Moscow Solar System Symposium. Its focus was mostly on Phobos science and plans for next year's launch of the Phobos Sample Return Mission (also known as Phobos-Grunt), on which The Planetary Society will be flying the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment.

Holy cow, is it really the 175th Carnival of Space already?

175th Carnival of Space!? That means the Carnival of Space has been going on for nearly 4 years. Or just about 2 Mars years. Pretty amazing.

A couple of tidbits from today's Deep Impact preview briefing

Today was the press briefing that previewed the upcoming Deep Impact flyby of Hartley 2.

DPS 2010: Pluto and Charon opposition surges, Nix and Hydra masses, Pluto and Eris compositions

An awful lot of the talks in the Pluto session on Tuesday morning, October 5, at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting spent more time focusing on how bad weather conditions were during the astronomers' attempts to view Pluto as it occulted background stars than they did on any measurements or science that came out from the data.

Bill Nye shows how the solar sail deploys

A Marathon Day Two at the USA Science & Engineering Festival

Day Two of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and it started with a game of

Timeline for 2011 Mission to Phobos

Lightsail 1 Lands on National Mall

The Planetary Society showcased our solar sail mission, Lightsail 1, at day one of the USA Science & Engineering Festival on Washington DC's National Mall.