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 01, 2011
On the November 6, 2011 flyby of Enceladus -- the third such flyby in just a few weeks -- the Cassini mission elected to take a SAR swath instead of using the optical instruments for once. So here it is: the first-ever SAR swath on Enceladus. In fact, the only other places we've ever done SAR imaging are Earth, the Moon, Venus, Iapetus, and Titan.
Emily Lakdawalla • December 01, 2011
A fun video of Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa playing baseball aboard the ISS.
Emily Lakdawalla • December 01, 2011
A presentation providing a correctly scaled, reasonably correctly colored view of the largest bodies in the solar system is made available for use by teachers, professors, and informal educators.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 30, 2011
As I do every year, I've collected a bunch of new (or relatively new) books and other products on space themes for children.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 29, 2011
What's going on with our planetary explorers in December?
Emily Lakdawalla • November 29, 2011
A few fortunate (and forward-thinking) skywatchers looked upward in the hours after Curiosity's launch and were able to see the spacecraft leaving Earth.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 28, 2011
I was inspired by my recent trip to Goldstone to put together this poster showing all three of the great 70-meter dishes of the Deep Space Network. There's one at each of the three complexes, at Goldstone, at Robledo (near Madrid, Spain), and at Tidbinbilla (near Canberra, Australia).
Emily Lakdawalla • November 28, 2011
Maybe it's because I was a kid during the Cold War; I always assume that information about anything nuclear only comes out on that "need-to-know basis."
Emily Lakdawalla • November 26, 2011
It was a textbook launch for the Atlas V 541 today at 15:02 UTC, and within an hour after liftoff, the Centaur second stage had sent Curiosity on its way for an 8.5-month journey to Mars.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 23, 2011 • 1
Jason Davis put together this neat summary of the checkered history of Mars exploration.
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