Dec 30, 2024 · This is exactly what we’ll be seeing from Venus and Saturn as they head for a super close approach in mid-January. After the beginning of the month, they quickly get closer and closer each evening, appearing at their most cozy …

Dec 9, 2024 · Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were far more complex than scientists had imagined.

Mar 29, 2024 · Ceres. Ceres is the smallest dwarf planet with an equatorial diameter of about 599 miles (about 964 kilometers). Ceres is about 1/13 the width of Earth.

Nov 5, 2024 · Saturn: Exploration. Four robotic spacecraft have visited Saturn. NASA’s Pioneer 11 provided the first close look in September 1979. NASA’s twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft followed up with flybys nine months apart in 1980 and 1981.. Each flyby revealed intriguing details about the ringed giant world, but it wasn’t until the international Cassini …

Jan 23, 2025 · Four robotic spacecraft have visited Saturn. NASA’s Pioneer 11 provided the first close look in September 1979. NASA’s twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft followed up with flybys nine months apart in 1980 and 1981. Each flyby revealed intriguing details about the ringed giant world, but it wasn’t until Cassini arrived in orbit in 2004 that our understanding of Saturn …

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Jan 17, 2025 · Saturn has 146 moons in its orbit, more than any other planet. The moons range in size from larger than the planet Mercury – the giant moon Titan – to as small as a sports arena. The small moon Enceladus has a global ocean under a thick, icy shell. Scientists have identified both moons as high-priority science destinations for future deep space missions.

Aug 10, 2018 · About the image: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft’s dramatic plunge into the planet’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. On the Back. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in our solar system.

Nov 3, 2024 · Discovery. Audouin Dollfus observed a moon on Dec. 15, 1966, for which he proposed the name “Janus.” On Dec. 18 of the same year, Richard Walker made a similar observation, now credited as the discovery of Epimetheus.

Nov 5, 2024 · After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ended its remarkable journey of exploration. Having expended almost every bit of the rocket propellant it carried to Saturn, operators deliberately plunged Cassini into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons remain pristine for future exploration—in particular, the ice-covered, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus, …