Go, Voyager 1!

Voyager 1 has left the solar system.

Eye test

This one?

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and IPHAS

or this one?

Bowie-ancy on the International Space Station

(click on picture for video)

Magellan's Trip to Venus

Image Credit: NASA

 
On May 4, 1989, NASA launched Space Shuttle mission STS-30, which included the Magellan spacecraft, also known as the Venus Radar Mapper.

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Here are some pictures from the mission.

Here are a few more Venus-related items you might find interesting:
    "Farewell, Fantastic Venus!"
   "Should We Terraform Venus First?"
    Venus Transit 2012
    Some quotes that mention Venus

Have you read any science fiction works about Venus?

NASA's MAVEN

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Mars needs poems.

The hunt is on for some haiku.

Any poets out there?

Saturn's North Pole

Sometimes just a picture is awe-some enough.

 Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

But here's some related music to go with it, "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" from The Planets by Gustav Holst.

And here are a couple of previous blog posts having to do with Saturn.

Astronomer birthday

Galileo Galilei was born on this day in 1564.

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard

... was born on this day in 1882.

Martian!

 

How's your Curiosity these days?

In pursuit of Perseids

But this makes it difficult to see the meteor shower ...

Curiosity's descent

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

In case you haven't already seen it:  wow!

Curiosity on Mars — Confirmation!

 Wheels down!

Hooray!

Update: more images here!

Continuing Curiosity about Curiosity

Anticipation ... Are you watching ?

Am listening to this in the background.

Bubbly

Image Credit: NASA

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Curiosity about Mars

Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

Monday, August 6, at about 5:24 a.m. Universal time (10:31 p.m PDT) . . . Wil(l) you be watching?

Sturm und Sturm und Sturm

Credit: Voyager 2, NASA

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA