Planetary Society Blog for Tuesday 27 January 2015

Planetary Society Blog

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At last! A slew of OSIRIS images shows fascinating landscapes on Rosetta's
comet

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 09:50 AM PST
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...e-results.html

The first results of the Rosetta mission are out in Science magazine. The
publication of these papers means that the OSIRIS camera team has finally
released a large quantity of closeup images of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko,
taken in August and September of last year. I explain most of them, with
help from my notes from December's American Geophysical Union meeting.

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It's Official: LightSail Test Flight Scheduled for May 2015

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 02:33 AM PST
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason...st-flight.html

This May, the first of The Planetary Society's two member-funded LightSail
spacecraft is slated to hitch a ride to space for a test flight aboard an
Atlas V rocket.