What's Up at JPL?

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 -- 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(a)jpl.nasa.gov Cassini SOC http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm What's Up? http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/amateurastronomy/index.html