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Beautiful 3D animation of Spirit's environs in Gusev Crater

Doug Ellison has done it again: he's created a spectacular overflight of Gusev crater based upon digital elevation models of the terrain produced by the United States Geological Survey from HiRISE data.

Targeted observations during the third MESSENGER flyby of Mercury

MESSENGER's Final Flyby of Mercury: Old Territory, New Science

MESSENGER is fast approaching the third and final Mercury flyby during its seven-year journey to the innermost planet.

Looking forward to MESSENGER's third flyby of Mercury

More Saturn equinox image goodies

Planetary Radio Q and A: Boom-boom!

Phobos Grunt including Phobos LIFE Delayed Until 2011

Today, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, decided to delay from 2009 to 2011 the launch of the Phobos Grunt mission to study and return samples from the Martian moon Phobos.

Venus looks more boring than you think it does

No more rumors: It's now fact that Phobos-Grunt will be delayed to 2011

Saturn equinox image goodies

A piece of an asteroid returns to the telescope that discovered it

Two weeks of Tweets

Some first results from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (or, I love LOLA)

Just for fun: the spacecraft bulletin board at JPL

Computer models of the two MastCam cameras

Mars Science Laboratory Instruments: Mastcam

A few weeks ago I gave a lunch talk at Cornell summarizing the MSL mission and particularly the instruments that it will carry and was shocked by the number of people who showed up!