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Header of the Discovery Program website (January 2016) [1] Depictions of the Lucy and Psyche missions Asteroid Eros regolith, as viewed by Discovery's NEAR Shoemaker mission The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Program Office.
A sol is the apparent interval between two successive returns of the Sun to the same meridian (sundial time) as seen by an observer on Mars. It is one of several units for timekeeping on Mars. A sol is slightly longer than an Earth day. It is approximately 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds long.
The Mars time of noon is 12:00 which is in Earth time 12 hours and 20 minutes after midnight. For the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Phoenix, and Mars Science Laboratory missions, the operations teams have worked on "Mars time", with a work schedule synchronized to the local time at the landing site on Mars, rather than the ...
A launch window indicates the time frame on a given day within the launch period that the rocket can launch to reach its intended orbit. [8] [9] This can be as short as a second (referred to as an instantaneous window) or as long as the entire day. The launch window can straddle two calendar days (for example, starting at 11:46 p.m. and ending ...
In its ancient past, Mars likely contained many of the necessarily ingredients for microbial life to flourish on its surface. Now, a new discovery by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a trifecta ...
Findings can help better understand water and atmosphere loss on Mars, scientists say
Mars Exploration Program (MEP) is a long-term effort to explore the planet Mars, funded and led by NASA. Formed in 1993, MEP has made use of orbital spacecraft , landers , and Mars rovers to explore the possibilities of life on Mars , as well as the planet's climate and natural resources . [ 1 ]
Large strategic science missions, the NASA flagship missions; Discovery Program, medium-cost NASA missions; New Frontiers program, medium-large NASA missions to outer planets; When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions – 2008 documentary covering NASA's mission history. Space exploration; Timeline of Solar System exploration