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Door 24 in the 2010 advent calendar
Each day until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these squirrely spots?
Door 23 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the twenty-third door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this oozing wound?
Door 22 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the twenty-second door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these degraded craters?
Mimas wanders in to view
Cassini's busy downlinking photos from yesterday's close pass by Enceladus, including some neat shots of Dione and this one where Mimas skipped briefly in to the field of view.
Door 21 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the twenty-first door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this rumpled blanket?
Door 20 in the 2010 advent calendar (special news update)
Time to open the twentieth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this diffuse blob and stripy sea?
Door 19 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the nineteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these folded rocks?
Door 18 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the eighteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this brush-stroked surface?
Door 17 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the seventeenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these strange promontories?
Door 16 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the sixteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this widespread fan?
Door 15 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the fifteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this cratered world?
Phobos Photobomb
Don't blink when you play the video below -- it's only 15 seconds long, but it's so cool.
Opportunity drives within 20 meters of Santa Maria, spots alligator's tail
Today Opportunity has driven to within 20 meters of Santa Maria crater, and the blocks around it are really, really cool-looking. This one is a dead ringer for the severed tail of an alligator.
Door 14 in the 2010 advent calendar
Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door each day onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these red freckles?
Opportunity: "So close we can taste it" to Santa Maria
Opportunity is on a kilometers-long eastward road trip across Meridiani Planum toward the rim of a large ancient crater named Endeavour; it'll be many months yet before she gets there.
Door 13 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the thirteenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system are these parallel gouges?
Door 12 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the twelfth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this trapezoidal mountain?
Door 11 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the eleventh door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these sinuous ridges?
Door 10 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the tenth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this jumble of bouldery fissures?
Door 9 in the 2010 advent calendar
Time to open the ninth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this jumble of boulders and fissures?