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Pushing Back the Frontier: How The Planetary Society Helped Send a
Spacecraft to Pluto

Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:44 PM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason...-frontier.html

It took 16 years and five spacecraft designs to get a mission to Pluto. The
Planetary Society was there through it all, always striving to help NASA
push back our solar system's frontier.

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New Horizons is a Triumph for Space Advocates

Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:40 PM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey...advocates.html

New Horizons—what will be NASA’s greatest success of 2015—was cancelled
multiple times in its early life, and many times before that in its
previous incarnations. A mission to Pluto was not inevitable, despite the
overwhelming scientific and public excitement.

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More than 2000 Rosetta NavCam images for your enjoyment

Posted: 07 Jul 2015 12:10 PM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...ta-navcam.html

Last week, the European Space Agency released the first set of images from
Rosetta's navigational camera, or NavCam, from the phase of the mission
that followed the Philae landing. That makes more than 3500 NavCam images
that have been released from the comet phase of the mission.

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Opening the New Horizons Time Capsule

Posted: 07 Jul 2015 08:03 AM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce...zons-time.html

The New Horizons digital time capsule is opened, with the New Horizons
Pluto flyby only one week away, showing images from Earth 2006 – the year
New Horizons launched. Fifty images and captions from people in 17
countries were selected to be in the time capsule to reflect things
expected to change by 2015.

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Saturn in Widescreen: The Voyager 2 Approach Movie

Posted: 07 Jul 2015 07:18 AM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest...ach-movie.html

Ian Regan shares his mesmerizing animated sequence of Voyager 2's approach
to Saturn—and explains the process behind its creation.

 




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