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This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
First solar probe. USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [13] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961
First direct image of Earth taken by a person from the surface of another astronomical object (from the Moon), (AS11-40-5923). [20] [47] November 24, 1969 Apollo 12: First images (black-and-white and 16mm color film) of a solar eclipse with the Earth, taken by a human, when the Apollo 12 spacecraft aligned its view of the Sun with the Earth ...
Cassini has run low on propellant, and will become an artificial meteor at Saturn on Friday morning as it plunges to its death.
Moons of the solar system at Natural satellite, by NASA (edited by Deuar, KFP and TotoBaggins) Polar map of Jupiter at Exploration of Jupiter , by NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute Methane lakes on Titan , by NASA / JPL - Caltech / USGS
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
Here are 10 extraordinary images captured by NASA ... as it can be seen from space as well. Which of NASA's sightings do you think is the most extraordinary? Related: Check out the best photos ...
Within it lies the Solar System. 1930 – Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. [166] It was regarded for decades as the ninth planet of the Solar System. The first photo from space was taken from a V-2 launched by US scientists on 24 October 1946. 1930 – Seth Nicholson and Edison Pettit measure the surface temperature of the Moon. [167]