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A.J.S. Rayl

For the 15th year in a row, Opportunity drove into the spotlight during an afternoon session at the 49th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference.

Makoto Yoshikawa

What do we already know about Ryugu, and why is it so hard to know what it looks like? Hayabusa2 Mission Manger Makoto Yoshikawa

Emily Lakdawalla

Happy Monday! Here's a picture of Prometheus. You may think it's a picture of Saturn. Look hard, toward the bottom, and you'll see Prometheus, doing its part to keep the F ring in line.

Doug Ellison

A personal story recounts how a NASA team used a microscopic imager to take a selfie of the Opportunity rover.

Jatan Mehta

Take a look at how electronics of spacecraft are built to survive the harshness of space environments.

Emily Lakdawalla

The Curiosity team has completed its initial survey of the top of Vera Rubin Ridge, and is ready to make another attempt at drilling after the rock at Lake Orcadie proved to be too hard.

Emily Lakdawalla

Digging into the Viking archives to produce a new old composite of Mars' smaller moon.

Adam Block

Award-winning astrophotographer Adam Block shares of his latest work.

A.J.S. Rayl

In the west rim of Endeavour Crater, Opportunity continued her exploration of Perseverance Valley in March.

Björn Jónsson

The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument can obtain images in two infrared bands. JIRAM can see the nightside of Jupiter (including the winter pole) and takes spectacular animations.

Sriparna Saha

You might be surprised to learn that studying craters on the Moon can tell us about ancient Earth.

Emily Lakdawalla

NASA’s next planetary launch is coming up, as soon as May 5, 2018. This post is your one-stop shop for information about InSight’s launch, cruise, and expected mission to Mars.

Emily Lakdawalla

On March 29, vigilant astronomer Maciel Bassani Sparrenberger discovered that a new bright spot had broken out in Saturn's high northern latitudes.

Marc Rayman

The Dawn mission has only one revolution to go before the spacecraft begins the final campaign of its long and rewarding deep-space adventure.

Adeene Denton

One of the ways we understand Mars' early climatic and geologic history is through preserved fluvial features.

Emily Lakdawalla

This week it seems fitting to feature a portrait of the Galilean moons by Galileo.

Harriet Brettle

The Jovian system is a busy place. The Groovy Galilean Satellites session at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) covered analysis of past mission data, testable hypotheses for future missions, and discussion of the use of ground-based data.

Emily Lakdawalla

The first astrobiology session at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference featured talks on a huge variety of interesting topics, and was one of my favorite sessions at the meeting.

Anatoly Zak

The plan involves NASA's proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, and a return to Earth via the Orion spacecraft.

Megan Kelley

The only geoscientist to walk on the Moon attended a conference session presenting results from the rocks he collected.