Planetary Images From Then and Now
Friday, September 01, 2017
Pioneer-11 at Saturn - 38 Years Later
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Today in 1979, Pioneer 11 made its historic flyby of Saturn, humanity's first. While it got the first closeup images of the Saturnian s...
Friday, February 03, 2017
Pre-Discovery Images of the Plumes of Enceladus
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LPSC 2017 Abstract 1603 Pre-Discovery Detection of the Plumes of Enceladus From the moment I first found out about the discovery of geyser...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
Reflections on a flyby: My personal journey to Pluto
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As a ten year old, I would take daily breaks from a long summer of yard baseball and building trails through the woods to go to the pub...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Kanehekili Patera from Galileo
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Due to the nature of its orbit, although Galileo made several close approaches to Io, some parts of its surface were never seen except from ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Nereid from Voyager
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When planning began for Voyager 2's 1989 encounter with Neptune, the planet had two known moons - Triton and little Nereid, a small, dis...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Looking Down On Jupiter's North Pole.
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In December 1974, Pioneer 11 became the second emissary of humanity to visit Jupiter. Being a spin stabilized spacecraft with essentially ...
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