Mission Is Planned to Observe Jupiter and Four of Its Moons (Part Two)
This is part two in our examination of the Jupiter mission that is being planned by the European Space Agency and NASA, with collaboration from Japan’s JAXA. The mission, which…
Mission Is Planned to Observe Jupiter and Four of Its Moons
A huge, multi-national mission to investigate Jupiter and four of its moons is now in its planning stages, and is tentatively planned for a launch in 2020. The project, which…
Exploration of Mercury Will Continue With the Bepicolombo Probe
This is our second article about the exploration of Mercury. In the first, we looked at NASA’s MESSENGER probe, which will go into orbit around Mercury in 2011, and is…
Rosetta Probe Has Encounters With Two Asteroids, Then Moves on to a Comet Rendezvous
This is the third in our three-part series about the recent successes of the European Space Agency in the exploration of the solar system. In the last two articles, we…
ESA's Venus Express Is Answering Questions About the Sun's Second Planet
This is the second of our articles about the recent achievements of the European Space Agency. Since 2003, the ESA has launched three similar missions: the Mars Express probe in…
Solar System Exploration to Continue
Exploration of our solar system has been ongoing since the first Sputnik Earth orbiter in 1957 and in the 50 years since this a number of missions have been launched…
Search for Two Mars Landers to Continue
As our closest neighbor in the solar system, Mars is the planet which has been most closely studied. Over the years a number of spacecraft and landing craft have been…
Comets Are Revealing Their Secrets: Revelations From the Stardust Probe
Over the last few years, there have been huge strides in our understanding of comets. Comets are no longer just strange lights that streak across our sky. Now we are…
NASA's New Horizons Probe Is Approaching the Outer Solar System
NASA’s New Horizons probe is en route for the outer solar system. After scoring a spectacular flyby of Jupiter and its moons in 2007, the craft is now heading for…
Dawn Probe Approaches the Asteroid Belt
NASA’s Dawn mission is en route to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, the most massive of the protoplanets. It will go into orbit around Vesta first, gathering data on that…
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