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Emily Lakdawalla • May 05, 2006
Next up at the Outer Planets Assessment Group meeting was an overview of the plans for future Europa missions.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 05, 2006
The Outer Planets Assessment Group opened with the status of two of the three actual outer planets missions, Cassini and Juno.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 05, 2006
The two-day meeting of the Outer Planets Assessment Group is over and I have 30-odd pages of notes to wrestle with.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 04, 2006
It's already 9:00 and I've hardly begun assimilating my 16 pages of notes, so I am going to have to just post a short summary with some highlights from today's meeting of the Outer Planets Assessment Group, or OPAG.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 04, 2006
Before I get to my notes from OPAG I want to minimally acknowledge today's news, which I'll have to get to in more detail later.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 01, 2006
I just wanted to point out a couple of new items on the website.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 28, 2006
Since January 1, 2004—the beginning of the Saturn phase of the mission—Cassini has radioed almost 139 Gigabytes of science data to Earth.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 19, 2006
Get used to this view of Home Plate and Husband Hill, because Spirit will be seeing a lot of it over the next 8 months, whenever power levels permit the rover to eke a little bit of science activity out of the day.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 06, 2006
Today is the day that New Horizons passes Mars' orbit (not that Mars is anywhere close to New Horizons right now).
Emily Lakdawalla • March 30, 2006
Cassini planner Dave Seal gave me a newly updated list of times and dates for Cassini's ongoing tour of the Saturn system, so I went through and compared my table to his and made updates to flyby distances.
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