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Stardust | JPL | NASA
Stardust | JPL | NASA
Space Center Houston Annular Eclipse Celebration
Visit Space Center Houston to view this year’s annular solar eclipse! We’ll have unobstructed viewing areas to watch the eclipse, as well as interactive activities and programming that dives into the science behind these awe-inspiring celestial phenomena–and how to view them safely with complimentary eclipse glasses provided at our viewing area! Members of the Houston Astronomical ...
Stardust - NASA's Comet Sample Return Mission
Stardust: A Mission With Many Scientific Surprises The primary goal of the Stardust mission was to collect samples of a comet and return them to Earth for laboratory analysis. Comets are ancient bodies of frozen ice and dust that formed beyond the orbit of the most distant planet. They were expected to contain materials that the solar system formed from, preserved in ice for billions of years ...
Impact Crater Chain on Callisto - NASA Solar System Exploration
This image taken by the Voyager spacecraft of an unnamed crater chain is one of the longest of 12 or so such chains on Callisto, one of Jupiter's 4 planet-sized satellites. It is 360 kilometers long and the largest individual crater is approximately 24 kilometers across. Jay Melosh and Paul Schenk, reporting in the October 21, 1993, issue of Nature, propose that these and similar mysterious ...
Stardust | JPL | NASA
The STARDUST mural that is hanging in the main hall of NASA Headquarters is being moved to the Baltimore Science Center as part of its display tour around the country. The STARDUST Outreach team made presentations on comets and asteroids at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and on STARDUST at the JPL/NASA Educator Resource Center in Pomona, California. Outreach also participated in the ...
stardustflyby - NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA COMET HUNTER CLOSING ON QUARRY Having trekked 3.2 billion kilometers (2 billion miles) across cold, radiation-charged and interstellar-dust-swept space in just under five years, NASA's Stardust spacecraft is closing in on the main target of its mission -- a comet flyby.
In Depth | 1P/Halley – NASA Solar System Exploration
Halley is often called the most famous comet because it marked the first time astronomers understood comets could be repeat visitors to our night skies. Astronomers have now linked the comet's appearances to observations dating back more than 2,000 years. Halley was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986 and was met in space by an international fleet of spacecraft. It will return in 2061 on its ...
Genesis : Search for Origins | JPL | NASA
The lunar focus for the 39th LPSC is especially timely in light of its coincidence with the LPI’s 40th anniversary. The Institute was established in 1968 during the Apollo missions to create a new lunar and planetary science community, and over the past four decades has served as an international leader and focal point for what is now a diverse and thriving community. We are pleased to ...
Solar System Exploration Stories - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have…
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