Blogs

Some beautiful new (old) views of Neptune and Triton

Emily Lakdawalla • September 20, 2016 •

Beautiful new amateur work with 27-year-old Voyager data.

A deep dive into the highest-resolution Voyager Jupiter data

Björn Jónsson • September 14, 2016

A few weeks before the first Juno high resolution imaging, I decided to take a look at Voyager color images at various resolutions, with particular attention to high-resolution mosaics.

Cassini's camera views of Titan's polar lakes in summer, processed into pseudocolor

Emily Lakdawalla • September 12, 2016 •

Titan's north polar lakes are well-lit by summer sun in these recent Cassini images. Image processing enthusiast Ian Regan shares his recipe for processing the longer-wavelength Titan images into visually pleasing "pseudocolor."

Artist’s concept of an astronaut to scale with Murray buttes, Curiosity sol 1419

How big is that butte?

Emily Lakdawalla • August 23, 2016 •

Whenever I share images from Curiosity, among the most common questions I’m asked is “what is the scale of this image?” With help from imaging enthusiast Seán Doran, I can answer that question for some of the Murray buttes.

JunoCam approach image of Jupiter with Io shadow

JunoCam "Marble Movie" data available

Emily Lakdawalla • August 22, 2016 •

Since a few days after entering orbit, JunoCam has been taking photos of Jupiter every fifteen minutes, accumulating a trove of data that can be assembled into a movie of the planet.

JunoCam raw data from the Juno approach movie

Emily Lakdawalla • August 09, 2016 •

As it approached Jupiter from June 12 to 29, JunoCam captured an animation of the major moons orbiting the planet. The mission released a processed version of the animation on the day of orbit insertion, but took a few weeks to release the raw image data. I've prepared a page hosting all the raw data, and share a few processed versions.