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News flash: Lakes at Titan's south pole, too, on top of the land of lakes in the north
Lakes have been spotted near the south pole of Titan before, in this image by the ISS team, which was considered compelling but not conclusive at the time.
New Horizons now aimed directly at Pluto
This afternoon Alan Stern posted to unmannedspaceflight.com that New Horizons has successfully completed the trajectory correction maneuver that lines the spacecraft up for its July 14, 2015 encounter with Pluto.
Bedtime for New Horizons
According to the mission website, the New Horizons spacecraft has drifted off to sleep, entering its
Mimas, Dione, Rhea
There's been quite a lot of Mars on this page for the last week; it's time to remind ourselves that there are other places besides Mars in the solar system.
New territory on Titan
The other day I posted a global view of Titan featuring new territory near the north pole. Now the imaging team has released a much higher resolution version of this view.
Many Cassini views of Tethys
Here we bring you fifteen different Cassini views of the same world, a cratered ball of ice called Tethys.
Twilit (probable) lakes near Titan's north pole
This is a cool picture that was released a couple of weeks ago by Cassini's camera team.
Tvashtar erupting -- the movie
I practically fell out of my chair when I saw this movie.
Cassini observes a new face of Iapetus
Cassini has just begun its 44th orbit of Saturn (called Rev 43), and is starting it off with lots of views of famously two-faced Iapetus.
Dione's south pole
Cassini got a nice
Io and Europa glimpsed by a retreating New Horizons
This image is beautiful for many reasons. It was captured by the MVIC imaging spectrometer, part of the Ralph instrument, on New Horizons, as it left the Jupiter system on March 2, 2007.
Io erupts, in color
The last one of New Horizons imaging instruments has finally checked in with a lovely image from the Jupiter flyby
Enceladus is a drag on Saturn's radio emissions
What should arrive in my inbox today but a press release from the Cassini RPWS and magnetometer teams saying, in part,
LPSC: Tuesday: Volcanism and tectonism on Saturn's satellites
I received this report on the Tuesday afternoon special session on volcanism and tectonism on Saturn's satellites from Anne Verbiscer, an astronomer from the University of Virginia who I first met at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in 2005.
Another amazing Io image from New Horizons
The Tvashtar eruption continues to amaze. All this time between Galileo and New Horizons, Io's volcanoes have probably continually produced spectacular eruptions like these.
LPSC: Wow, Titan can be a Really Flat Place, and other Titan Talks
Jason Perry, a member of the Cassini Imaging Team and an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona, reports from the Titan sessions.
Cassini's global views of Saturn and its rings
Since late January Cassini has been acquiring several sets of images that show all of Saturn's globe and ring system at once from perspectives well above and below the ring plane.
Saturn from above (2007)
OK, I had planned to confine my posts this week to Rosetta and New Horizons, but I could not let these images sit on my computer until next week.
New Horizons' Jupiter flyby was successful!
According to a press release issued minutes ago, New Horizons has successfully completed its close flyby of Jupiter.