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Solar system montage with eight planets

What are the rovers up to? March 2009

As usual, troubled Spirit's progress sometimes amounts to only centimeters, while golden child Opportunity has already clocked four kilometers on its trek toward Endeavour.

Mars Odyssey

Rebooting Odyssey

I just received one of those chillingly-titled missives from JPL:

Curiosity vs. MER

The Reasons Behind the MSL Delay

There are a pair of excellent articles in this week's Space Review by Adrian Brown, looking at the Technical and Budgetary reasons that the Mars Science Lab launch was delayed until 2011.

Map of Mars' south pole by Herschel

Mapping Mars, now and in history

Planetary cartographer Phil Stooke has been working on a cool project to compose and compare maps of Mars that show how we saw the planet throughout the Space Age.

Cassini-Huygens at Saturn

Cassini's Proposed Extended-Extended Mission Tour

It seems like no time since we selected Cassini's extended mission tour of the Saturn system, in early 2007. Now we're flying that tour, which extends Cassini's original four years in Saturn orbit for another 27 months, until September 2010. So now we're looking into the future- far into the future.

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