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Montage of planets and some moons that the two Voyager spacecraft have visited and studied. It is the only program that visited all four outer planets. A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter, with four spacecraft also visiting Saturn.
The Star Trek Star Charts have the Romulans and Klingons entirely within the Beta Quadrant, as well as the Gorn Hegemony, the Son'a Solidarity, and the Metron Consortium. The Star Trek Star Charts further locate in the Alpha Quadrant the First Federation, Breen, Ferengi, Tzenkethi, Cardassians, Bajorans, Talarians, and Tholians.
First "close up" picture of Ceres taken in December 2014; probe entered orbit in March 2015; first dwarf planet visited by a spacecraft, largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft. 134340 Pluto: 2376.6 1930 New Horizons: 2015: 12,500: 10.5 Flyby; first trans-Neptunian object visited, most distant object visited by a spacecraft (at the time of the ...
This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts. The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay. Colour key:
On 7 December 1995, the Galileo spacecraft reached Jupiter after gravitational assist flybys of Venus and Earth, becoming the first spacecraft to successfully orbit an outer planet. [7] After eight years in Jupiter's orbit, Galileo was intentionally destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere on 21 September 2003, to avoid contaminating potentially ...
DSCOVR is unofficially known as GORESAT, because it carries a camera always oriented to Earth and capturing full-frame photos of the planet similar to the Blue Marble. This concept was proposed by then-Vice President of the United States Al Gore in 1998 [4] and was a centerpiece in his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth. [5]
List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes; List of Star Trek: Voyager episodes; List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes; List of Star Trek: Discovery episodes; List of Star Trek: Short Treks episodes; List of Star Trek: Picard episodes; List of Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes; List of Star Trek: Prodigy episodes; List of Star Trek: Strange New ...
Star Trek, also known as Star Trek: The Original Series, often abbreviated as TOS, [c] debuted in the United States on NBC on September 8, 1966. [22] The series tells the tale of the crew of the starship Enterprise and its five-year mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before."