What's New Index:

29 Jan 2010: browser popup blocker detection for Voyager [pop-up:] menu
27 Jan 2010: Mercury update; Uranus and Nepune systems; Pluto; Jupiter's Amalthea; Saturn's Janus; Wikipedia links
21 Dec 2009: Saturn's Phoebe
17 Dec 2009: Moon: addition of Chandrayaan-1/Moon Impact Probe (MIP), Chang'e 1, Kaguya, and LCROSS de-orbit impact sites; Enceladus: update to latest Cassini/Voyager composite
5 Feb 2009: upgrade of computational node in jules system
26 May 2008: Mars: Phoenix landing site
2 Jan 2008: Saturn: updated Huygens landing site coordinates on Titan
19 Sep 2007: link to obtain recent earthquake list from the USGS fixed (again)
21 Sept 2006: Moon: addition of ESA SMART-1 de-orbit impact site
6 Apr 2006: update to Jupiter Cassini image dataset
2 Feb 2006: link to obtain recent earthquake list from the USGS fixed
23 Dec 2005: new VSS link to Views of the Solar System
2 July 2005: Saturn and its major moons
older items (Mar 1998 - Mar 2005): see What's Old

For more information about our Voyager map tool, contact: Lou Estey
(louunavco.org)

29 Jan 2010     Javascript code for detection of browser popup blocking has been added. Blocking popups from jules.unavco.org prevents use of the Voyager [pop-up:] menu options. (Note: the [pop-up:] menu was previously called [URL:].)

27 Jan 2010     update of Mercury to include the latest from Messenger flybys (14 Jan 2008, 6 Oct 2008, 29 Sep 2009); addition of Uranus (with moons Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, and Miranda) and Neptune (with moon Triton and minor moon Proteus); addition of trans-neptunian object (formerly a planet) Pluto; and addition of minor moons Amalthea and Janus. Also, all worlds now have a Wikipedia link in their [pop-up:] menu — click on the [Wikipedia] menu option.

21 Dec 2009     Phoebe, a small moon of Saturn, has been added.

17 Dec 2009     Moon now has the de-orbit impact sites of India's Chandrayaan-1/Moon Impact Probe (MIP), China's Chang'e 1, Japan's Kaguya, and USA's LCROSS (Centaur upper-stage and SSC); Enceladus now has the latest Cassini/Voyager composite from CICLOPS.

5 Feb 2009     The computational nodes for the jules system have been upgraded to a single Sun Fire X4250 with dual 64-bit 3.16 GHz Intel Xeon processors — each with 4 cores, which will allow for faster image creation and as many as 8 simultaneous multiple users.

26 May 2008     Mars now has the landing site of Phoenix lander — the first successful powered descent soft-landing mission to Mars since the 1976 Viking landers.

2 Jan 2008     Titan now the updated landing site of ESA Cassini-Huygens probe as an option.

19 Sept 2007     The parser to obtain (nominally) the last week's worth of magnitude 2.5 or larger seismic events on Earth and EarthScope using the [Recent earthquakes] option from the USGS's latest earthquake activity (for past 7 days) had to be updated to match HTML changes on that page. (Apparently, this will be an ongoing problem over time...) The Voyager dataset is still updated every 10 minutes, starting 2 minutes after the hour.

21 Sept 2006     The location of the ESA SMART-1 de-orbit impact site was added to the Moon.

6 Apr 2006     The Cassini image dataset for Jupiter was updated to the newly released composite from the Cassini Imaging Team (Ciclops) available at NASA Planetary Photojournal Catalog Page for PIA07782. This improves the resolution from the previous 0.2° to 0.1°

2 Feb 2006     The external link to obtain (nominally) the last week's worth of magnitude 2.5 or larger seismic events on Earth and EarthScope using the [Recent earthquakes] option was changed to a new earthquake activity PHP URL at the USGS. The Voyager dataset is still updated every 10 minutes, starting 2 minutes after the hour.

23 Dec 2005     The [pop-up:] menu option [VSS] — Views of the Solar System — now goes to the appropriate English page at LASCO in Germany.

2 July 2005     Voyager versions of Saturn and its major moons: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus, made possible by composite images supplied by Steve Albers (NOAA).

Comments, questions, problems about Jules Verne Voyager? Send mail to Lou Estey
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