What's Up at JPL?

[Jane H Jones]

Lots of Solar System happenings here at JPL this week, and it's only Wednesday!

I hope you've had a chance to look at the incredible images from 
Cassini over the past 2 days! If not, I highly recommend a look!  The 
Iapetus images are simply amazing! Find the series of Iapetus links, 
along with a Cassini Status report on the Cassini website now! 
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

Dawn - the mission to the asteroid belt - is nearing launch. The 
rover Opportunity has dipped all 6 of its wheels into Victoria Crater 
on Mars after hunkering down during a massive dust storm on our red 
planet neighbor.  And Cassini is returning simply amazing images, now 
in its 4th year of the mission. You can see all three of these 
features on the JPL website today: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

What else is up? As Voyager celebrates its 30th year anniversary, all 
four of the outer planets - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are 
all visible this month and all four are featured in "What's Up for 
September".

Link to the video, plus all the downloads of charts and short 
animations from the JPL Education Page: 
http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/amateurastronomy/index.html

You can subscribe to JPL Podcasts here - What's Up, and many other 
podcasts are available in a High Definition video feed. 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/tools/podcast.cfm

See all these podcasts on You Tube, too: 
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=JPLnews&p=r&page=1

Link to Voyager website:  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html

Link to the Dawn website:  http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Link to the Mars Exploration website http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Jane
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Jane Houston Jones
Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program
JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205
Pasadena, CA  91109  818-393-6435
jane.h.jones at jpl.nasa.gov
Cassini SOC http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
What's Up? http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/amateurastronomy/index.html