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What planet is this?

What planet is THIS?

Check out this watery world! It's clearly a computer simulation of something, but of what? Can you guess?

Jupiter from Cassini

Where neon falls like rain

As if Titan's methane rain weren't weird enough, Jupiter's now thought to have helium-neon rain.

Callisto from Voyager 1

A new view of Callisto

Here's a lovely amateur-produced color image of Jupiter's moon Callisto, or, as its artist Daniel Macháček calls it,

Titan's ring

A trio of pretty Cassini pics

It's been a little while since I posted any Cassini pictures just because they were pretty, so here's a few recent ones, produced by amateurs from the images available on the Cassini raw images website.

Luna 17 on the Moon

And now for Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1

I am delighted to report that within a day of the first view of Luna 21 and Lunokhod 2 since the end of that mission in 1973, the sister mission, Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1, has also been found.

The final resting place of Lunokhod 2

Lunokhod found on the Moon -- and on Earth, too

Yesterday I posted a bit of a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera image showing the tracks of the Russian Lunokhod 2 rover. Today, I can post for you an image showing the rover's final resting place

NASA meatball logo

Charlie Bolden Addresses Misconceptions of NASA's New Plan

There's been wide-spread confusion in the media about what NASA's FY 2011 would actually mean for the space agency. Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, addressed the misconceptions in a speech on March 16 to the Washington Space Business Roundtable's Satellite 2010 Conference.

Titan's internal structure

Titan: Callisto with weather

It's the second time I've posted with this provocative title. This time, it's in response to a new paper published last week in Science.

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