by Emily Lakdawalla
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Follow the thrilling adventures of planetary missions, past and present, and see the stunningly beautiful photos that they return from space!
Emily Lakdawalla • December 08, 2010
Time to open the eighth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this nearly flat plain?
Emily Lakdawalla • November 24, 2010
I'm surprised no one's emailed me demanding the last batch of Voyager mission status bulletins! Well, here they are.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 09, 2010
Ready to see something beautiful? Here's a team effort by Björn Jónsson and Ian Regan to create a really mesmerizing view of the motions of Jupiter's clouds.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 24, 2010
Last week I posted a stack of Voyager Mission Status Bulletins, which were once the main resource for space enthusiasts to follow the dramatic events and photos of an in-flight space mission.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 14, 2010
We take for granted now the ability to get detailed mission updates in a timely fashion via the Web. But How did people get their mission status before the Web?
Emily Lakdawalla • August 26, 2010
Amateur image mage Björn Jónsson has recently turned his attention back to Voyager 1's close-up images of Jupiter.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 24, 2010
Following up on the story I first posted on August 22, the Jupiter impact fireball first noticed by Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa has been independently confirmed by two other Japanese astronomers.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 27, 2010
Here are two newly processed portraits of Saturn, showing the planet just after its equinox.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 20, 2010
Three months ago, grandiosely, I announced that I was going to survey volcanism across the solar system, and I began the journey on Earth. Then I failed to follow up.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 21, 2010 • 1
A happy ending to this story: JPL reported yesterday evening that the flipped bit in Voyager 2's flight data system software has been successfully toggled back to its correct value.
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