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[mithridates]

Here's the second image ever taken of the Earth from deep within the Solar System:



That's the Earth in between Saturn's rings taken by Cassini.


Free Comet Flyby

Deep Impact, the probe that launched an exploding impactor to measure the inside of an asteroid was directed to come back to Earth and make a flyby December 2007. It has enough propellant left to do some other things and at the end of October it was decided that it would fly by the comet Boethin a year later.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/31/healthscience/NA_SCI_US_Comet_Buster.php

ESA Efficient But Still Struggles With Gheyness

ESA (European Space Agency) managed to build and send off a probe to go off to Venus in record time (Venus Express) but only updates its page every two months or so with a few trite images and scant information. NASA on the other hand lets their images be used free of copyright and always lets people know what they're up to.

Mars Rovers Still Dope

Both rovers are doing just fine and Opportunity is now at the edge of a crater that looks like this:


Larger image here:
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2006/Sol952oppy_color1bright3.jpg

Big Picture

The biggest astronomical picture ever was made for the Palomar Observatory and now decorates the inside. It's almost 50 m long and 6 m wide. Has 2.5 billion pixels and is a total of 200 Gigabytes of data. Here's a small part of it (the whole thing only makes up a part of the sky a few times bigger than the Moon, so this is a small fraction of another small fraction):



http://bigpicture.caltech.edu/gallery/panorama.htm

Janus

Janus is one of Saturn's moons, 181 km in diameter. Here's what it looks like in front of Saturn's rings:

[canuckistan]

Kewl!....but the Earth and the universe is only 10,000 years old dontcha know ...and it must be true because my pastor told me it is

[Gopher]

Nice pics, Mithridates.

By the way...

[mithridates]

Thanks. This thread is the best one on the forum so I'm bumping it. Here's another mission people might not know about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Mission



It's great because it's going to explore two large bodies, one of which has been designated a minor planet after being thought of as an asteroid, and before that, a planet (way back when it was first discovered). Those are two of the really large bodies in the Solar System that haven't been explored at all and they're also really close to us too.

Here it is compared to the Moon: