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The latest space science news and beautiful pictures from planetary exploration missions.
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Four moons and a ring

Nov 10, 2009
Thanks to Mike Malaska for the tip on this one. The image is part of an animation that ends with Rhea transiting Saturn. In the middle of the sequence, Cassini's narrow-angle camera captures four of Saturn's moons in the same shot -- a rare...

Rosetta is homing in on Earth

Nov 10, 2009
Heads up! ESA's Rosetta spacecraft is approaching for its last flyby of Earth, on Friday, November 13. It is now close enough that its OSIRIS high-resolution camera can resolve the Moon (and presumably Earth as well). Here's that photo of the Moon,...

Planetary Radio Q and A: Are meteorites on Mars actually interesting?

Nov 9, 2009
This week's Planetary Radio features Ann Druyan on the legacy of Carl Sagan on the occasion of what would have been his 75th birthday, and on The Planetary Society's announcement today of the LightSail project. On "Questions and Answers" I answered...

A million dollars says The Planetary Society can make a solar sail fly

Nov 9, 2009
The Planetary Society announced today that an anonymous donor has put upone million dollars to help us get a solar sail in flight. That money will kick-start our ambitious new LightSail program, a series of three increasingly large solar sails that...

She moves! "First drive sequence in 145 sols" for Spirit

Nov 8, 2009
It's been an awful long time since we've seen one of these from Spirit:"Drive" animation from Spirit sol 2078Spirit returns thumbnail images from the navigation camera to Earth to document drives. This animation documents Spirit's first drive sequence...


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