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NASA’s New Views of Venus’ Surface From Space

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its...
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Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids

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Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, leading and trailing the giant planet by sixty degrees. These primitive bodies are thought to be the “fossils” of planet...
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Chasing an Asteroid's Shadow

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Observing occultations from Earth is one of the tools scientists have for gathering precise information about the size and shape of Lucy’s target destinations, known as “Trojan” asteroids. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...
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NASA | Four Questions About New Horizons

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is speeding towards Pluto for the first-ever flyby on July 14, 2015. Scientists are eager to collect data on the dwarf planet’s chemical and atmospheric makeup, and the Ralph spectrometer will do just that....
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NASA | OSIRIS-REx Targets NEO

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Near-Earth Objects, or NEO's, cross our planet's orbit on a regular basis, but only a handful are large enough to pose a threat. One of these objects is asteroid 1999 RQ36, a "leftover" from the formation of our solar system...
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Driving a Spacecraft: Lucy Goes to Space

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Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. This fourth episode features Lucy Flight Navigator Coralie Adam, who discusses how the team directs Lucy on its journey to the Trojan...
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NASA releases compilation video of Pluto flyby

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Images taken by New Horizons spacecraft
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NASA reveals what it might be like to land Pluto

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What would it be like to land on Pluto? NASA has just released a video, based on photos taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during its historic encounter with the dwarf planet. The frames show actual colour simulation of what you would...
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New drone video shows devastating destruction in Aleppo

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Syrian anti-government group sends drone over war-torn city