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Galileo changed the way we look at our solar system. When the spacecraft plunged into Jupiter’s crushing atmosphere on Sept.…
The Ulysses mission was an outgrowth of the abandoned International Solar Polar Mission (ISPM) that originally involved two spacecraft —…
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TRMM was a research satellite designed to improve our understanding of the distribution and variability of precipitation within Earth’s tropical…
Terra, the flagship of NASA’s Earth Observing System satellites, studies the interactions among Earth’s atmosphere, lands, oceans, and radiant energy,…
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A satellite to study long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions, Suomi NPP continues the work of NASA’s Earth Observing…
NASA’s Stardust was the first spacecraft to bring samples from a comet to Earth, and the first NASA mission to…
NASA’s NEAR was the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid and also was the first to land on one.
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter searches for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of…
NASA’s twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in…
