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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 Trust me there is no doomsday because it already happen (Genesis)
Two more awesome pictures from the Enceladus flyby - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Soci
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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. ...
Prepare for your jaw to hit the floor when you see these pictures of Enceladus - The Planetary Socie
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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 ...
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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 ...
Hayabusa's still coming home: JAXA engineers come up with yet another creative solution - The Planet
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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 ...
Opportunity's poking at Marquette Island; Cassini's catching dancing moons - The Planetary Society B
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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 ...
Results of the first "Free Spirit" extrication drive, sol 2088: not much, as expected - The Planetar
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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. ...
The Planetary Society Download the first in our new series of classes on processing space images for amateurs!
How to download the first imaging class: "Images Are Data" - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planet
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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 ...
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, ...
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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. ...
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/).
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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 ...
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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 ...
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. ...
