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Jan. 26, 2011 | 10:18 PST | 18:18 UTC
IKAROS: self-portrait with Venus; primary mission complete
JAXA posted a report today stating that IKAROS "has completed its regular operations." As a part of that report, they included this tiny photo, taken from the cameras that were used to monitor the deployment of the sails. See that little crescent... More»
Jan. 25, 2011 | 09:18 PST | 17:18 UTC
Animation of Phobos rotating from recent Mars Express flyby images
On Friday I posted some terrific images of Phobos captured by Mars Express' High Resolution Stereo Camera. The views included a set of five images captured by the five panchromatic channels on the camera, each of which points in a different... More»
Jan. 24, 2011 | 12:01 PST | 20:01 UTC
Ted Stryk: Report from the 2011 New Horizons Science Team Meeting
You've seen Ted Stryk's image processing work frequently on this blog. As with last year, he was invited to attend the annual New Horizons science team meeting, and sent in this report. --ESL
Click to enlarge > On his way to the team meeting Ted... More»
Jan. 22, 2011 | 14:13 PST | 22:13 UTC
Stardust update: Tempel 1 not yet spotted by spacecraft, hopefully next week
A new update has been posted to the Stardust website:January 19, 2011
The spacecraft continues to operate as expected and all subsystems are healthy on approach to comet Tempel 1. This week the spacecraft started to tip back and forth to the imaging... More»
Jan. 21, 2011 | 16:09 PST | Jan. 22 00:09 UTC
Mars Express' January 2011 Phobos images show how camera works
The Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) team has just released several images from the most recent series of Phobos flybys to the Mars Express blog. As I've mentioned before, Mars Express, which is now on its umpteenth mission... More»
Jan. 21, 2011 | 11:26 PST | 19:26 UTC
Nanosail-D released into space
by Louis D. Friedman
NASA's Nanosail-D spacecraft surprised everyone, including its controllers, by suddenly deploying from its parent FASTSAT spacecraft and beginning its mission in space. NASA is providing a live look at the mission's status at... More»
Jan. 20, 2011 | 17:00 PST | Jan. 21 01:00 UTC
It's Alive! It's Alive!
by Charlene Anderson
It was once thought lost in space, but it looks like NanoSail-D has ejected from its FastSat carrier and is preparing for deployment.
We just pulled this off the Nanosail-D Twitter:
"Hello all! Checking in! I will open... More»
Jan. 20, 2011 | 10:23 PST | 18:23 UTC
Two fine color Cassini animations: Prometheus rotating, Tethys and Dione dancing
Cassini flew rather close to Prometheus on January 27, 2010, passing within 40,000 kilometers. At the time I made my own rather poor color version of one set of the images. But now that the high-quality, archived versions of the images have become... More»
Jan. 19, 2011 | 13:53 PST | 21:53 UTC
Stardust prepares for first second look at a comet: Tempel 1 on February 14
A press briefing was held at NASA Headquarters this morning to preview the planned February 14 encounter by Stardust with Tempel 1. There aren't often lots of questions from media after these "preview" briefings, but today there were zero. That's... More»
Jan. 18, 2011 | 16:58 PST | Jan. 19 00:58 UTC
Rosetta burns for its comet
Rosetta -- Europe's comet-chasing spacecraft -- is in the middle of a three-day series of rocket firings that are setting the geometry for its rendezvous with comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko (which I have heard called "Cherry Gerry," for short). ... More»
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