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Cassini RADAR continues to gaze at Titan

The Cassini spacecraft made its 59th flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on Friday, July 24, and in the last few hours we have received images from the RADAR instrument in SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) mode.

Same place, different lighting conditions

The Power of Lighting Conditions

For over four decades, the lunar science community has absorbed the information from the Apollo missions. Although many important questions were answered, many important new questions are waiting to be tackled -- which is the very essence of science and exploration.

The Future of NASA

Earlier this week I mentioned that there is an ongoing evaluation of the future of human spaceflight at NASA.

Titan in 3D

Join Bill Nye for an LA Times Dust-Up

Science enables exploration, exploration enables science

One primary goal of the LRO mission is to acquire the amazing bounty of scientific data necessary to enable future human lunar exploration and utilization. But why should we even bother going back?

Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mishap Report Released

To the Moon, Alice?

Portrait of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong

This is a special day...

It is a day where when all humans should take time to celebrate the momentous achievement that put two brave explorers on the face of another world. As Sir Arthur Clarke once famously said, the Apollo voyages will likely be the only events for which the 20th century will be remembered in the future, when humans live throughout the Solar System and beyond.

Apollo 11 landing site from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

LROC images sites of the Apollo landings

High-resolution orbital photography of the Apollo landing sites from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera.

The rest of Enceladus

LAX's Planet Parade -- Part 2

Climb Aboard Apollo 11 Time Machine

Grab your bell bottoms and Tang, and travel back to 1969 when Apollo 11's journey to the Moon captivated the world, and Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's boot prints in the lunar dust transformed us into a multi-world species.