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The Cassini imaging team have posted their own processed and captioned version of the Saturn's aurora movie that I posted a preview of about six weeks ago, and it was worth the wait. It turns out that the video covers an amazing 81 hours of auroral action on Saturn's night side. ...
Mantiri Samuel

Mantiri Samuel Trust me there is no doomsday because it already happen (Genesis)

Mon at 11:39pm · Report
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I'm getting to be a broken record here, but I can't stop looking at these photos from the Enceladus flyby. This first one I put together from two of the south polar plume images – you can see all four of the tiger stripes, and the plumes issuing from them, in this wide shot. ...
Michael J Fekete
Michael J Fekete
Now that is wicked impressive!
Yesterday at 3:56pm
Jeffrey L Lee
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Wow, just wow. I didn't know what to expect from the second flyby of Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus in November, which happened yesterday. I knew the cameras were given control of spacecraft pointing during ...
Philip  Jackson
Philip Jackson
Hey Steven thx for the tip - can you give any tips for getting locked in - closeness to screen type of eye/ head movement - I'm not quite getting it.
Mon at 10:19pm
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Spirit successfully completed the first step of its planned two-step motion on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19). After spinning the wheels for the equivalent of 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in the forward direction, the center ...
Garry Hunt
Garry Hunt
This is an incredible accomplishment by the JPL engineers. Brings back many memories of working with them. Well done to all concerned.
November 21 at 3:49am
Jack Waldbewohner
Jack Waldbewohner
This is one of those rare times when the tax payers really got their money's worth.
November 21 at 7:00am
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Ideally, you'd like to have a space mission that faces no problems. But in the real world, spacecraft run into trouble. Trouble has come time and again to JAXA's little Hayabusa asteroid sample return ...
Lew Levy
Lew Levy
I wonder if Spirit is getting hope from Hayabusa!
November 20 at 8:31am
Jeffrey L Lee
Jeffrey L Lee
Creative system engineering. Fortunately, the ion thrusters are co-located with each other making the use of the thruster B's neutralizer possible to support thruster A.
November 21 at 12:30am
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Since tomorrow's class is going to be on playing with raw images from the rovers and Cassini, I've been playing with recent raw images from the rovers and Cassini! I just thought I'd share a couple of ...
Katie Oros
Katie Oros
Gosh, I'd love to have a job editing photos for NASA! Would be loads more interesting than setting forms and making business cards >_<
November 18 at 4:15pm
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Even though all of us rover fans know that Spirit is really, really stuck, I think I'm not the only one who was secretly hoping that today's images downlinked from Spirit would show that the rover had magically popped out of the ground overnight. ...
Randy Friend
Randy Friend
Too bad the "claw" can't be used to push down on the sand and help lift the rover out!
November 18 at 7:24am
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The Planetary Society Download the first in our new series of classes on processing space images for amateurs!

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Having suffered a brief setback at the hands (teeth?) of the neighborhood squirrels who chewed through my cable line last week, I finally prevailed in hosting the first in my series of classes on processing ...
Lyford Rome
Lyford Rome
Emily - thanks so much for this!
November 17 at 11:05pm
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The Planetary Society Leonid meteor shower...

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by Bruce BettsThe Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, November 17. The Leonids are a highly variable shower, and as such are a bit of a gamble on what you'll see. Could be great, could be so-so. But, ...
Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Hoping for the best here in Boston for a change. Looks to be a good night so far.
November 16 at 8:03pm
Corinne
Corinne
Larry, I'm all for moving to the sunny & clear SW and leave this rain behind! Yeah, we just checked outside and nearly got blown away... them shooting stars will have to be flying low & ride the wind/rain storm for us to see them! Hope we'll get to see a few cool pics online at least.....
November 16 at 8:30pm
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Rosetta appears to have operated flawlessly as it streaked past Earth for its flyby early this morning. Here are a few more gems from the flyby.First is an actual sighting of the Rosetta spacecraft from Earth. ...
Melissa
Melissa
very cool.
November 16 at 10:56am
Craig Levin

Craig Levin Planetary Society members now can get 25% off on planetarium shows at the Owens Science Center in Lanham, MD (http://www1.pgcps.org/howardbowens/).

November 14 at 1:40pm · Report
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Members of the LCROSS science team were evidently delighted to be able to report at last that when the spacecraft's spent Centaur upper stage smashed into the Moon on October 9, it excavated a crater into ...
Craig Levin
Craig Levin
Mr. Lee: Let's add in that carrying water & other raw materials up from Earth is expensive. As GK O'Neill pointed out a long time ago, the real home for advanced industry is in cis-lunar space, not down here.
November 15 at 6:38am
Jeffrey L Lee
Jeffrey L Lee
Ok, that sounds reasonable...
November 15 at 12:49pm
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Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he will watch the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis set for Monday, November 16. Kremer is a research scientist ...
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The Planetary Society The LightSail project and Lou Friedman on NPR's Science Friday Nov. 13!

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by Susan LendrothMirror-bright and shaped like a kite, LightSail will orbit Earth on the pressure of sunlight alone. Our Executive Director Lou Friedman joins host Ira Flatow on NPR's Science Friday -- November 13 -- for a live chat about The Planetary Society's exciting new solar sail project. ...
Jeffrey L Lee
Jeffrey L Lee
Who's going to build it?
November 13 at 6:21pm