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An image of Tethys, a moon of Saturn, taken by the Cassini spacecraft
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The Dark Chasm of Tethys

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 26, 2017
The NASA/ESA Mission to Saturn, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, snapped this shot of the moon Tethys, a 1000 km wide moon of Saturn. Featured in the lower right is Ithaca Chasm. This canyon is about 100 km wide and 2000 km long; it stretches nearly 75% around the moon itself.
Comet Lovejoy with a bright green nucleus and long white, whispy cometary tail.
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Comet Lovejoy's Massive Ion Tail

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 26, 2017
This image taken by Fritz Helmut Hemmerich captures Comet Lovejoy in all its brilliance. Discovered only in March by Terry Lovejoy, and just finished making its closest approach to the Sun two days ago. Now it's on its long journey back to the outer solar system.
Comet ISON as imaged by NASA
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Comets That Will Flyby Earth in 2017 and 2018

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
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Apr 24, 2017
In 2017 and 2018 there will be three comets passing relatively close to Earth. One has the chance of being naked-eye brightness. With the help of amateur astronomers, NASA plans to study these in detail. Check out the latest Science at NASA.
An image of Saturn taken above the north pole, including the rings.
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A Look Back Towards Home...

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Apr 21, 2017
On the 12th of April 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn took a minute to look back towards its home planet and snap a picture. At the time, the Earth, Moon, and all 7.125 billion humans were about 1.8 billion kilometers away. The fortuitous image catches Earth sitting between the A and F rings of Saturn, with the Keeler and Encke gaps visible as well. Cassini hasn't taken many pics of home, but this is probably my favourite so far. On 22 April 2017, Cassini will take a gravity assist
An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft in the foreground and Saturn in the background.
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The Beginning of the End for Cassini

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
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Apr 21, 2017
A short description of the upcoming Grand Finale of the Cassini Spacecraft. Over the next 5 months, Cassini will make 22 plunges between Saturn's rings and the planet itself. No craft has ever been that close. During this final phase, Cassini will make close up measurements of the rings for the first time, image the planet's cloud-tops in unprecedented detail, and even answer long-standing questions like: how fast does Saturn actually rotate? It's going to be a very interesting 5 months.
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How Could the Moon Generate a Magnetic Field?

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Apr 21, 2017
The Earth's magnetic field is powered by an internal dynamo at the core of the planet. At the very centre of the Earth is a very hot, solid, iron core that is surrounded by an outer liquid iron region. The heat from the inner core drives convection in the outer core (hot parts of the liquid rise, cool parts fall). All the while, the core is rotating. Since the liquid outer core is a conductor, the motions of rotation and convection generates a magnetic field. The Moon has no such magnetic field
Image of Phobos
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MMX - Martian Moons eXploration

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Apr 21, 2017
In early April 2017, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), a division of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), announced a new robotic explorer to be launched towards Mars in 2024: the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX). The goal is not to observe the red planet, but its two moons: Phobos and Deimos. These two moons (about 25 km wide) are just a fraction the size of Earth's Moon (about 3400 km wide), and their origins are still disputed. Maybe Phobos and Deimos were
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How to Get to Mars

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Apr 21, 2017
NASA recently released a more in-depth look at its missions beyond low-Earth orbit. The whole vision is being dubbed the 'Journey to Mars:' a 2 phase program designed to step further and further way from Earth. The first phase will place a space station in lunar orbit. The second phase will see humans launching off to the red planet.
A digital reconstruction of a dormant ice-volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres
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Disappearing Ice Volcanoes on the Dwarf Planet Ceres

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Apr 21, 2017
The only mountain on Ceres may slowly disappear over a few hundred million years, spreading out like honey on a plate.
A graphic of the 7 new planets found around TRAPPIST-1
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Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e May Be Just Right for Life

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Apr 21, 2017
Tucked between a boiled-away desert and a giant snowball, an alien world called TRAPPIST-1e may be the only habitable planet in a newly discovered batch of seven, according to a new climate model.
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