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The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled. The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun, the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its ...
Because of the proximity of the Mars moons to Mars, any mission to them may also be considered a mission to Mars from some perspectives. Past missions Three missions to land on Phobos have been launched; the Soviet Phobos program in the late 1980s saw the launch of Phobos 1 and Phobos 2 , while the Russian Fobos-Grunt sample return mission was ...
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
Mars 4 August 2007 25 May 2008 landed: 296 days (9 months, 22 days) Collected soil samples near Mars' north pole to elucidate the history of water on Mars. Mission concluded 10 November 2008. [68] Dawn: Asteroid 4 Vesta: 27 September 2007 16 July 2011 entered orbit: 1388 days (3 years, 9 months, 19 days) Departed Vesta for 1 Ceres 5 September ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back images looking over the shoulder of Saturn's rings. See more on Saturn's rings: No telescope on this planet would ever have been able to see this.
The published discovery was retracted a few hours later and republished the next day under the correct name of S/2007 S 5. It was discovered by the Cassini Imaging Team [1] in images taken on 30 May 2007. [2] Once the discovery was made, a search of older Cassini images revealed it in observations from as far back as June 2004. It was first ...
New images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may show where life first began on Mars. The site on southern Mars shows massive deposits in a basin that scientists say were formed a long ...
A look at the planet Mars, the planet most similar to Earth in the Solar System; an examination of Olympus Mons the largest volcano in the Solar System; how NASA probes search for evidence of past life on the red planet, and what that life might have looked like.