Space & Planetary Science

NASA Deep Impact Asteroid Probe Launched“The Deep Impact spacecraft lifted off on-time aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 1:47:08.574 […]

Happy Holidays from Mars, Marsunearthed.com3 January 2005: One Year on Mars“One Year on Mars,” a special two-hour live event to commemorate the mission, will be presented at JPL on Monday, […]

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Visits its Heat Shield Impact Site (Photo gallery)“NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gained this view of its own heat shield during the rover’s 325th martian day […]

Possibility of an Earth Impact in 2029 Ruled Out for Asteroid 2004 MN4“Over the past week, several independent efforts were made to search for pre-discovery observations of 2004 MN4. These […]

NASA Cassini Mission Status Report 24 December 2004“The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe successfully detached from NASA’s Cassini orbiter today to begin a three-week journey to Saturns moon Titan. NASA’s […]

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Approaches Location of Crashed Heatshield“Having emerged from Endurance crater, Opportunity is now approaching the location where its heatshield crashed almost a year ago.”Opportunity Looks Back at […]

Not only did Cassini make a second close pass over Titan on Monday, it also managed to get some great images of Dione – against the backdrop of Saturn – […]

Editor’s note: Can anyone tell me why Spirit is taking hi res pictures of its photovoltaic arrays with its micro imager? [More images]. The detail that some of these self-portraits […]

Editor’s note: While I am on the topic of Mars rover images, why is it that these pages on the Exploratorium’s website for Spirit and Opportunity have image updates multiple […]

3 December 2004: NASA Cassini Image: Thieving Moon – Prometheus and F Ring Interactions“As it completed its first orbit of Saturn, Cassini zoomed in on the rings to catch this […]