Emily Lakdawalla • October 13, 2008
Phoenix "battens down the hatches" for its first dust storm
Emily Lakdawalla • October 13, 2008
DPS meeting: Saturday: Studying extrasolar planets with planetary spacecraft
Emily Lakdawalla • October 13, 2008
Following the Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting from home
Emily Lakdawalla • October 10, 2008
MSL is still on target for a 2009 launch, no matter what anybody says
Emily Lakdawalla • October 10, 2008
Images of the 2008 TC3 fireball from space!
Emily Lakdawalla • October 09, 2008
Catching up with Phoenix to sol 133: Digging at La Mancha, grabbing Galloping Hessians from Pet Donkey
Emily Lakdawalla • October 08, 2008
Cassini flies within 25 kilometers of Enceladus tomorrow
Emily Lakdawalla • October 07, 2008
The full story of Earth-impacting asteroid 2008 TC3
Emily Lakdawalla • October 07, 2008
Chandrayaan-1 update: Spacecraft delivered to Sriharikota, launch date October 22
Emily Lakdawalla • October 07, 2008
First images from MESSENGER's second flyby of Mercury
Emily Lakdawalla • October 06, 2008
No pics of the 2008 TC3 fireball have shown up on the Web yet...
Emily Lakdawalla • October 06, 2008
Round-the-world observations refine asteroid 2008 TC3's path
Emily Lakdawalla • October 06, 2008
Movie, made with real photos, of asteroid 2008 TC3 on approach to Earth
Emily Lakdawalla • October 06, 2008
Simulation of the final moments of 2008 TC3
Emily Lakdawalla • October 06, 2008
A three-meter-diameter piece of the sky is falling
Emily Lakdawalla • October 06, 2008
MESSENGER flyby: Radio signals indicate all went well
Emily Lakdawalla • October 05, 2008
MESSENGER gets closer to Mercury
Emily Lakdawalla • October 03, 2008
MESSENGER has Mercury in sight; more on MESSENGER's solar sailing
Emily Lakdawalla • October 03, 2008
That's the subject line of an email that Lou Friedman forwarded to me last week. He'd received it from Robert Farquhar, who has a long and distinguished career as flight director for numerous space missions. The "IT" in his email was ISEE-3/ICE.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 02, 2008
It's been way, way, way too long since the view from either rover's cameras has changed very much. So I hope you'll join me in a shout of "woo hoo!" or perhaps "yippee!" as I show you the latest view from Opportunity, from sol 1,666, as automatically composed in Mike Howard's Midnight Mars Browser software.
Emily Lakdawalla • October 01, 2008
Science Timeline for Monday's MESSENGER flyby of Mercury
Emily Lakdawalla • September 30, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: Europlanet Wrap-up
Emily Lakdawalla • September 30, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: Kaguya update
Emily Lakdawalla • September 30, 2008
Yesterday, the MESSENGER spacecraft sailed past Mercury at an altitude of just 228 kilometres and a relative speed of 5.4 kilometers per second.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 29, 2008
Phoenix Update, Sol 123: Press briefing with carbonates, clays, and snow!
Emily Lakdawalla • September 25, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: Monitoring Venus with the VMC
Emily Lakdawalla • September 25, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: Small update for a small asteroid
Emily Lakdawalla • September 24, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: To reach out, let people in
Emily Lakdawalla • September 24, 2008
An update on Ulysses: Recovery from sun sensor anomaly
Emily Lakdawalla • September 24, 2008
Some basic information on the upcoming Shenzhou 7 launch
Emily Lakdawalla • September 23, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: To be bold, be small (part 2)
Emily Lakdawalla • September 23, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: To be bold, be small (part 1)
Emily Lakdawalla • September 22, 2008
What's up in the solar system for the week of September 22
Emily Lakdawalla • September 22, 2008
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: Arrival and Mars' north pole
Emily Lakdawalla • September 19, 2008
Mars Exploration Rover principal investigator Steve Squyres announced on National Public Radio's Science Friday show the next goal for Opportunity, and it's a long, long, long way away: a huge crater about 12 kilometers southeast of its current location, which the team is referring to internally as "Endeavour."
Emily Lakdawalla • September 18, 2008
Good news, everyone! The jillions of you who have asked me "are they ever going to record sounds using microphone on Phoenix?" now have at least part of an answer.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 17, 2008
MSL landing site meeting: Votes are in!
Emily Lakdawalla • September 17, 2008
Welcome to the solar system, Haumea, Hi'iaka, and Namaka
Emily Lakdawalla • September 16, 2008
MSL landing site meeting: Getting beaten up is good for science
Emily Lakdawalla • September 15, 2008
MSL landing site meeting: Where on Mars to look for ancient life
Emily Lakdawalla • September 15, 2008
MAVEN will be the second Mars Scout mission
Emily Lakdawalla • September 15, 2008
MSL landing site meeting, September 15-17, 2008
Emily Lakdawalla • September 11, 2008
An amazing animation of Halley's comet from Vega 1
Emily Lakdawalla • September 10, 2008
Ustream chat archived; comparing Itokawa and Eros
Emily Lakdawalla • September 09, 2008
Rosetta Unearths a "Jewel of the Solar System"
Emily Lakdawalla • September 08, 2008
What's up in the solar system for the week of September 8
Emily Lakdawalla • September 05, 2008
Rosetta on target, no further rocket firings needed
Emily Lakdawalla • September 04, 2008
Rosetta's just a day away from Steins and now on target
Emily Lakdawalla • September 03, 2008
Phoenix update to sol 97: A new sample for wet chemistry and lots of fun with animations
Emily Lakdawalla • August 29, 2008
It's official: Opportunity is out of Victoria. A news release from JPL stated today that Opportunity has, as of late yesterday (sol 1,634), exited Victoria crater.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 29, 2008
Catching up with Phoenix, through sol 91
Emily Lakdawalla • August 27, 2008
Pictures from the past: Viking 2 approaches Mars
Emily Lakdawalla • August 26, 2008
Asteroids and comets to scale, as a single image for printing or Powerpoint
Emily Lakdawalla • August 25, 2008
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 25
Emily Lakdawalla • August 24, 2008
Don Davis is a space artist who takes the question of color in space very seriously.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 20, 2008
Things that probably won't ever be called planets, but maybe they should
Emily Lakdawalla • August 19, 2008
Beautiful mosaic from the Enceladus encounter
Emily Lakdawalla • August 16, 2008
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 18
Emily Lakdawalla • August 15, 2008
Phoenix sol 79: TEGA oven 7 opened
Emily Lakdawalla • August 15, 2008
First image of a speck of Mars dust from the Atomic Force Microscope
Emily Lakdawalla • August 14, 2008
My thoughts on the Great Planet Debate
Emily Lakdawalla • August 13, 2008
Phoenix sol 76 update: Digging at Neverland, Cupboard, Stone Soup, Snow White, Burn Alive; samples for microscope and TEGA 5; and more
Emily Lakdawalla • August 12, 2008
Enceladus is so close I can touch it
Emily Lakdawalla • August 12, 2008
Enceladus flyby images are starting to appear
Emily Lakdawalla • August 11, 2008
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 11
Emily Lakdawalla • August 08, 2008
Here's another wonderful self-portrait silhouette by Opportunity.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 07, 2008
Phoenix sol 72: Delivery to TEGA oven 5
Emily Lakdawalla • August 06, 2008
Chandrayaan-1 launch delayed to October
Emily Lakdawalla • August 05, 2008
What's up in the solar system for the week of August 4
Emily Lakdawalla • August 03, 2008
Apparently there's something more exciting yet to be announced by Phoenix
Emily Lakdawalla • August 03, 2008
Carnival of Space # 65, and more
Emily Lakdawalla • August 01, 2008
The August 1 solar eclipse from space
Emily Lakdawalla • July 31, 2008
Highlights of the Phoenix sol 64 press conference