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Emily Lakdawalla

The period of Mars solar conjunction has just begun, which means that a host of scientists and engineers whose day jobs entail interaction with the five active Mars spacecraft are getting a five-week break from the daily grind of operations.

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Ryan Anderson

I've known about this for a little while but it was finally made public: The list of MSL landing sites had now been trimmed to four.

Emily Lakdawalla

A correction on the number of Chandrayaan-1 probe pictures

Emily Lakdawalla

Name the rover!

Emily Lakdawalla

Kaguya now in its extended mission

Emily Lakdawalla

Chandrayaan-1 Terrain Mapping Camera images and movie from science orbit

Emily Lakdawalla

Pictures from the Chandrayaan-1 Moon Impact Probe

Emily Lakdawalla

Press conference on the Roadmap to Space

Emily Lakdawalla

Chandrayaan-1 probe impact successful

Emily Lakdawalla

I am greatly relieved to report that Spirit did talk to Earth as ordered today, indicating that the rover's power situation did not get so bad that a

A.J.S. Rayl

After taking a

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A Roadmap to Space

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Piecing together MSL

Emily Lakdawalla

Actual images of planets around other stars

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The end of Phoenix

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Chandrayaan-1's first picture of the Moon

Emily Lakdawalla

There was a worrying update posted on the JPL website for Spirit today: an early-season dust storm has darkened its skies enough that its solar panels produced only 89 watt-hours of power yesterday, sol 1,725. Neither rover has ever, ever seen power production levels that low, not even during last year's massive dust storm.

Emily Lakdawalla

What's up in the solar system for the week of November 10

Emily Lakdawalla

Phoenix falls silent