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Emily Lakdawalla

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.

Emily Lakdawalla

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.

Emily Lakdawalla

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.

Emily Lakdawalla

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced yesterday that the venerable 70-meter dish at the Goldstone Deep Space Network station is being taken offline so that major surgery can be performed.

Emily Lakdawalla

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

Emily Lakdawalla

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.

Emily Lakdawalla

I'm pleased to point out that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission (WISE) has started an

Louis D. Friedman

The Planetary Society presented the Cosmos Award for Outstanding Public Presentation of Science to Stephen Hawking in Cambridge England on February 27.

Emily Lakdawalla

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.

Louis D. Friedman

The U.S. Administration's request for the 2011 NASA budget calls for a bold recasting of the agency's path for human space exploration.

Emily Lakdawalla

Jason Perry just posted this lovely labeled image of Io over at his blog, the Gish Bar Times.

Emily Lakdawalla

I was much anticipating Cassini's encounter with Helene on Wednesday.

Emily Lakdawalla

Just a quick note to all that I've collected both children from the family I left them with and we've all now arrived home from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

Emily Lakdawalla

This is from the

Lyford Rome

Well, the weather may not have lived up to the title, but spirits were not dampened one bit at the first SpaceUp

Emily Lakdawalla

Yes, I'm totally not kidding, that is the headline in the Sun:

Emily Lakdawalla

There has been big news from Moon and Mars here at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, but I can't find the time to wrap that stuff up into a properly illustrated blog post; while I'm still on site at the conference I'll be tossing the easier-to-digest bits into the blog.

Emily Lakdawalla

Where to begin with the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)?

Emily Lakdawalla

This is just a brief note to advertise this evening's edition of NOVA on public television here in the U.S. The show is

Charlene Anderson

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