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 • April 20, 2010
A big thanks to Bob Nemiroff, editor of NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website, for picking my composition of a set of Cassini photos of Dione and Titan for today's offering.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 19, 2010
Usually I like Mondays, but today I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. When I get overwhelmed, I look at pictures from Cassini.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 12, 2010
It's axiomatic that as soon as I post about pretty Cassini pictures, another set of pretty photos will appear on the raw images website.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 12, 2010
Cassini has it almost too easy. Point at anything in the Saturn system and you're guaranteed of a shot that looks, at least, pretty.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 08, 2010
The Cassini Saturn orbiter just completed its second very close flyby of Saturn's mid-sized iceball moon Dione, and the images from that encounter have been streaming onto the Cassini raw images website this morning.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 06, 2010
Here's a lovely picture whose components came down from Cassini a few days ago.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 29, 2010
This new map of Saturn's moon Mimas -- representing data captured by the CIRS thermal infrared spectrometer during Cassini's February 13, 2010 flyby -- is just baffling.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 19, 2010
It's been a little while since I posted any Cassini pictures just because they were pretty, so here's a few recent ones, produced by amateurs from the images available on the Cassini raw images website.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 16, 2010 • 2
It's the second time I've posted with this provocative title. This time, it's in response to a new paper published last week in Science.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 11, 2010
Yes, it's yet another post on Helene! I keep on finding new stuff to post. This time it is a really cool montage assembled by Ian Regan.
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