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| STARDUST SUCCESFULLY RETURNED TO EARTH on January 15, 2006 bringing back particles of Comet Wild 2. OFFICIAL NASA website will keep you posted on the latest developments! |
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| The New Horizons spaceprobe currently underway should reach the Charon-Pluto region in the year 2015 if all goes well. This is a GREAT website with ALL the facts. |
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| A seperate team of scientists plans the activities and targets for each of the spacecraft's 12 instruments and analyzes the data. Each team is headed by a team leader or a principal investigator. Altogether, there are nearly 300 scientists from the United States and Europe participating in the mission. |
| These rovers have now PROVED beyond any reason of a doubt that there IS FROZEN WATER as we know it on the Red Planet! CURRENT STATUS |
| In the end, the Galileo spacecraft got it's last taste of Jupiter taking a final plunge into the planet's crushing atmosphere, ending the mission on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003 |
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| After 30 years, except for Voyager 1, Pioneer 10 is farther from Earth than any other human artifact. It will take another 2 million years for Pioneer 10 to reach the first star on its trajectory. |
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| Viking Mission to Mars
NASA's Viking Mission to Mars was composed of two spacecraft, Viking 1 and Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander. The primary mission objectives were to obtain high resolution images of the Martian surface, characterize the structure and composition of the atmosphere and surface, and search for evidence of life. Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975 and arrived at Mars on June 19, 1976 |
| Launched over 27 years ago, as of 2003 was 90AU from the sun and still sending information! |
| This listing of Space Probes and Planetary Rovers is by no means complete, but it does list some of the major accomplishments in space exploration. The missions below are from the past that have already been completed as well as the missions that are currently in progress, having been started years ago or have just been recently been launched and are waiting for data retrieval. Each one of them represents a different era in mankind's continuous quest for knowledge, as we hurtle further and further into the cosmos in search of the unknown, perhaps in hopes of discovering another form of intelligence. |
| NASA's Magellan spacecraft made a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission at Venus when it was commanded to plunge into the planet's dense atmosphere Tuesday, October 11, 1994. During its four years in orbit around Earth's sister planet, the spacecraft has radar-mapped 98 percent of the surface and collected high-resolution gravity data of Venus. The purpose of the crash landing was to gain data on the planet's atmosphere and on the performance of the spacecraft as it descends. |
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| After more than 13 years in flight, Ulysses has returned a wealth of data that has led to a much broader understanding of the Global Structure of the Sun's environment-the heliosphere. |
| At a meeting in 2007, a committee unanimously approved a proposal to continue operating the highly successful Ulysses spacecraft until 2009. |
| Rovers SPIRIT & OPPORTUNITY |
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| MESSENGER |
| Mission to Mercury |
| 08.03.04 - NASA's MESSENGER -- set to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury launched on August 03, 2004 from Cape Canaveral. Set for flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008 promising unprecedented images and information from this car-sized probe. |
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| Exploring the Arctic Plain of Mars |
| 5/29/08 - NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Arm and Other Tools to Work
Now preparing its instruments for science operations. |