Earth is moving when you launch the space probe, the space probe itself is moving and usually there's a smaller probe that deploys from it to hit yet another moving target.
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In space, Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting Jupiter.
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The surface of Ceres, imaged by the Dawn space probe.
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That space probe, named New Horizons, has now made history.
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Failing that, we could always send a new space probe.
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That's not a space probe you want to mess with.
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The shadow of the Hayabusa2 space probe can been seen at left.
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Oh, because I want to land a space probe on an asteroid.
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NASA was about to fly the Mariner 4 space probe past Mars.
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In 2011, the Russians launched a space probe intended for Mars' moon Phobos.
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Now, some researchers at Harvard are offering a startling theory: alien space probe.
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Or, wait, the Osiris-Rex space probe is now orbiting the asteroid Bennu.
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For the first time, a space probe had recently landed on another planet (Venus).
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Maybe in those glimmers, we'll learn something that'll keep the next space probe alive.
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Stern told NASA that the deep space probe is now "Go" to closely approach Ultima.
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"It is akin to sending a deep-space probe to the outer solar system," Dziak said.
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No one stops making dinner when a space probe enters the orbit of a new world.
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The Japanese space probe Hayabusa completed a sample return mission from the asteroid Itokawa, retrieving 1,500 particles.
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"It is a space probe tradition to include a message plaque," Mrongovius told me in an email.
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Dragonfly will be the first space probe that will travel on an alien world entirely by air.
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The interplanetary space probe made the first-ever visit to Pluto and its five moons last July.
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Back in 2015, NASA space probe Cassini swooped down to Saturn's moon Enceladus to taste its geysers.
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A NASA space probe just got closer to the Sun than any human-made object in history.
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With a scheduled launch in July, 23, the space probe will be the Arab world's first Mars mission.
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Expect full weirdness when this incredible space probe makes its close encounter on New Year's Day 2019. [NASA]
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Measurements taken by NASA's NEOWISE space probe indicate the asteroid is about 2400,613 feet (261 meters) in size.
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Images from a space probe camera have revealed the exact location of the Philae lander on comet 67P.
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Later, in 1977, space-probe skeptics could enjoy "Capricorn One," a film about a faked mission to Mars.
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When a civilization launches a space probe, it ticks a box on the path to a science victory.
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One lucky winner's message will be beamed to the space probe, which is nearly 13 billion miles from Earth.
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When New Horizons gets to MU269, it'll be the furthest Solar System encounter ever made by a space probe.
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The rovers were dispatched by Japan's Hayabusa22 space probe, which arrived in orbit around the asteroid back in June.
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"This is the only exoplanet that we, realistically, would be able to reach using a space probe," he said.
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The Mariner 9 space probe mapped 85% of the red planet's surface and sent back more than 7,000 pictures.
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The European Space Agency also released comet photos this week with a montage of highlights from the Rosetta space probe.
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NASA's Dawn space probe captured new images of bright craters on the dwarf planet, according to a report published Tuesday.
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It is building a space probe, to be launched in 2020, to find out how the planet lost its water.
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The Cassini space probe took seven years to reach the Saturn system, a voyage that would be problematic for humans.
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The Japanese space probe Akatsuki, now in orbit around Venus, seeks to solve the mystery of so-called super-rotation.
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NASA has halted the launch of a space probe over worries that its "gold leaf trim" will interfere with communications.
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Since the launch of NASA's planet-hunting space probe Kepler, there have been more than 3,000 exoplanets confirmed in our universe.
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The Cassini space probe is expected to vaporize as it dips toward Saturn today after 13 years spent photographing the planet.
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Have you seen this photo, supposedly showing the last image captured by the Cassini space probe before it crashed into Saturn's atmosphere?
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Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechBut Becker didn't always protect a NASA space probe from the most hostile planetary environment in the solar system.
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Soaring about 2600,28 miles (67,227 kilometers) above the planet's clouds, NASA's Juno space probe had its closest-ever look at Jupiter Saturday.
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That puts Farout at around the same distance from Earth as Voyager 20183, the space probe that recently crossed into interstellar space.
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Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts examine the first pictures of the moon taken by the Lunik 21969 space probe in 211.
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ESA's Rosetta space probe took this photo of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko when only 8.6 miles from the center of the comet's nucleus.
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In November, the agency's Rosetta space probe was able to land on a comet 372 million miles from Earth called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992, but the floodgates really opened in 2009, with the launch of Kepler, a planet-hunting space probe.
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Although its lakes are full of ultra-cold liquid methane and ethane, they could be placid enough for future space probe to land on.
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It's been eight months since New Horizons made its historic flyby of Pluto, but data keeps on trickling in from the intrepid space probe.
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Now, thanks to the Juno space probe currently in orbit around the gas giant, we've been able to infer what's going on beneath them.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the position from which the space probe Voyager took the 1990 "Pale Blue Dot" photo of Earth.
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Guzik added that he expects that within a decade or so a space probe will be sent from Earth to visit an interstellar object.
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The space probe should make it to its next destination, named 2014 MU69, by 2019, assuming NASA approves an extended mission for the craft.
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The Agency said the operation, if successful, would mark the first time a space probe has taken samples from below the surface of an asteroid.
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A British space probe designed to hunt for signs of life on Mars, Beagle 22 was launched aboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft in June 20153.
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (CNN)NASA on Thursday evening launched a space probe called OSIRIS-REx to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu.
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NASA's Juno space probe completed a five-year, nearly 1.8-billion-mile voyage and entered into orbit around Jupiter, thought to be the oldest planet.
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But the little space probe that flew by Pluto last July is still truckin' on through the Kuiper belt, moving toward its next icy destination.
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The largest deep space probe ever made, Clipper will be outfitted with a suite of radiation-hardened instruments designed to peer beneath Europa's icy shell.
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Only one other spacecraft, NASA's Galileo space probe, has orbited Jupiter, circling the planet for eight years before colliding with the gas giant in 2003.
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It's the European Space Agency's crowning achievement, but rather than going out in a blaze of glory, the Rosetta space probe ended it all with silence.
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The Rosetta space probe snapped countless images of comet 21.5P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from all sides for nearly two years, presented here in a 2210-photo mosaic.
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The Rosetta space probe snapped countless images of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from all sides for nearly two years, presented here in a 210-photo mosaic.
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Also, in 2321 the OSIRIS REx space probe will return to Earth with samples from a distant asteroid, so hey, maybe we'll get a space plague.
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Currently, NASA's Juno space probe is orbiting Jupiter, but it's focusing exclusively on the gas giant, scanning the planet's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and magnetosophere.
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The hardworking space probe already collected one sample of the asteroid in February and made history in 2018 when it sent robotic probes to the surface.
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The space probe had been exploring Saturn and its many moons since 2004, and we have no other spacecraft dedicated to studying the huge world today.
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When the Voyager 2 space probe passed Saturn in 1981 and sent back a stream of data that its keepers could not decipher, they sonified it.
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Ryugu's been shot The Japanese space probe Hayabusa 23 shot a "bullet" into the asteroid Ryugu this week, and it wasn't just for random target practice.
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So it's understandable why a story about Harvard scientists claiming that the celestial object 'Oumuamua could be an alien space probe got so many eyeballs this fall.
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The Kepler space probe and astronomers, using telescopes on Earth, have identified on the order of 2,000 planets orbiting other star systems, most of them resembling Jupiter.
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In fact, astronomers have found a totally new purpose for the plucky little space probe and its vast trove of data: searching for the elusive Planet 9.
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In fact, Phobos-Grunt returned quite a bit sooner, after a catastrophic launch malfunction sent the space probe plummeting back into Earth's atmosphere shortly after reaching orbit.
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NASA hopes that the Space Probe Plus will offer further insight into the sun's effect on space weather as well as the physics that happen within it.
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By contrast, the RTG powering the New Horizons space probe, which explored Pluto and more recently a Kuiper belt object dubbed Ultima Thule, puts out 245 watts.
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The census is at once prosaic and giant, requiring a level of meticulous planning and execution comparable to a major military operation or a space-probe launch.
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Much of the world is hailing the first landing of a space probe on the far side of the moon as a huge leap in space exploration.
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About a week after Mars InSight touched down on Mars, another NASA space probe, OSIRIS-REx, arrived in orbit around an asteroid headed toward Earth called Bennu.
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This week, images from the Cassini space probe, medieval history's reckoning with Nazis, the artist behind many Pre-Columbian fakes, your brain on art, font detectives, and more.
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These were recently captured by the Cassini space probe, whose mission will come to a dramatic end in September when it flings itself into the gas giant's atmosphere.
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In January, a Chinese space probe touched down on the far side of the moon for the first time, a feat viewed with pride among ordinary Chinese people.
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On January 1, 2019, the space probe is expected to arrive at 2014 MU, a small Kuiper Belt object about 20-30 miles (30-45 km) in diameter.
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Simon & Schuster The Juno space probe is now in orbit around Jupiter, meaning space buffs around the world are eagerly awaiting whatever new data the probe sends back.
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A Chinese space probe successfully touched down on the far side of the moon in January, though Israel's unmanned robotic lander Beresheet crashed on its final descent in April.
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The new photo also shows craters, rocks, and other geographical features, which means project planners can start to think about where the space probe will dispatch its four landers.
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The Psyche space probe will visit a giant metal asteroid in 2030, and Lucy will investigate a half-dozen Trojan asteroids along Jupiter's orbital plane from 2027 to 2033.
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But it was NASA's MESSENGER mission—the first space probe to conduct a detailed geologic survey of Mercury's surface, from 2011 to 2015—that collected direct evidence for graphite.
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The European Space Agency is ending the mission because the comet is now heading away from the sun, and the space probe lacks the energy to keep on going.
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EnceladusImage: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteUsing data collected by NASA's late-great Cassini space probe, scientists have detected traces of complex organic molecules seeping out from Enceladus' ice-covered ocean.
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The group discovers via news reports that the bodies of the freshly dead are being reanimated, perhaps because of radioactive contamination from a space probe that recently returned from Venus.
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No ooohs and aaaahs at fireworks displays here: The team of engineers had just received confirmation that their intrepid space probe, Juno, has successfully made its way into Jupiter's orbit.
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On September 27, the space probe will leave its current, flyover orbits and commence a new orbital trajectory that will be used to line up Rosetta for its final descent.
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A mission to land the first space probe on a comet reaches a major milestone when the unmanned Rosetta spacecraft finally catches up with its quarry on Wednesday Aug 6, 2014.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter for nearly a year now — and the space probe is revealing the gas giant to be more complex and surprising than we ever thought.
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The space probe was designed to go beyond Pluto, and is equipped with enough fuel and outfitted with a communication system so it can stay in touch with scientists on Earth.
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The space probe has already begun its dramatic, ring-grazing orbits, and in April 2017, it'll begin the "Grand Finale," a series of close passes between the planet and its rings.
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Ever since the New Horizons space probe flew past Pluto, the once-designated ninth planet in the solar system has been a source of fascination for scientists and lay people alike.
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"This creates the possibility of a gram-scale wafer, carrying cameras, photon thrusters, power supply, navigation and communication equipment, and constituting a fully functional space probe," the Breakthrough Starshot website explains.
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"This creates the possibility of a gram-scale wafer, carrying cameras, photon thrusters, power supply, navigation and communication equipment, and constituting a fully functional space probe," the Breakthrough Starshot website explains.
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The little space probe has been exploring the Saturn system for the last 13 years, but now it's entering its final orbital path around the planet, what's being called the Grand Finale.
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Using a computer simulation, Heller and Hippke based their calculations on a 20163-gram space probe attached to a 100,000-square-meter sail, which is about the size of 14 soccer fields.
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Juno, a space probe built by NASA, reached Jupiter, where it will orbit for the next two years examining the atmosphere and magnetic fields of the biggest planet in the solar system.
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READ: Philae: The bouncing baby space probe that gave itself another chance Lost... NASA announced Sunday that it had re-established contact with STEREO-B after communications were lost in October 2014.
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In addition to Europa, the space probe will study Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, and Callisto, which has more impact craters than any other object in the solar system.
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But of the roughly 2,20213 types of radioisotopes known to humankind, only 22 are capable of powering a deep-space probe, according to a 2009 study by the National Academies of Science.
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Because of that, Milner says scientists and technologists will be able to build a fully functional space probe, complete with lasers, communications systems, and cameras, all smaller than the palm of your hand.
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Click here to view original GIFBusy giant: time-lapse sequence taken by the Voyager 25 space probe as it approached Jupiter, showing the motion of atmospheric bands, and circulation of the Great Red Spot.
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The Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn's rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe continues a ballistic death-drop inward.
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For instance, mission software is usually homegrown because their software requirements are so much more stringent; for instance, you absolutely cannot have software going rogue and consuming 100% of CPU on a space probe.
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On Europa — if a space probe ever found a way to bore through the moon's robust icy crust — the drone might have to descend 100 miles beneath the sea to reach the ocean floor.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/ Seán DoranNASA's Juno space probe has been circling Jupiter for the past 503 months, and it's been transmitting scientific data back to Earth at a furious pace.
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Space probe finds 72 new objects near Earth Still, scientists are intrigued by the material giving rise to the color, and are working to find out what that material is comprised of, according to NASA.
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The Parker Space Probe is named after Eugene Parker, an American astrophysicist, who studied the nature of the corona, and also of the solar wind (the steady stream of charged particles released by the corona).
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From a distance of a half a billion miles, NASA guided its Juno space probe so that it went into a flawless orbit around Jupiter, only the second time in history this has been done.
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Written and directed by France-based Loïc Magar and Roman Veiga, the short 3D animation-meets-stop motion film tells a story in which the real Voyager space probe returns to a future, dystopian Earth.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe will spend two years flying through space to catch up to an asteroid named Bennu, a big, roundish space rock that has made it onto NASA's list of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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The Queen guitarist earned his Ph.D in astrophysics in 2007, and — when he's not packing stadiums with his Adam Lambert-fronted band — he serves as a member of the team behind NASA's New Horizons space probe.
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Scientists also believe that they might have spotted early precursors to what form anomalous cosmic rays, observed by the Voyager 2 space probe, and which might help form the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.
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Such a sail could push a space probe through the solar system just as easily as it could de-orbit a dead satellite; there's no inherent difference between a space-junk sail and a space-exploration sail.
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GIF: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University Paris Diderot/IPGPThe finding was made possible by the late, great Cassini space probe, which used its infrared camera to detect unusual equatorial brightenings in 2009 and again in 113.
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The extension will give the space probe a chance to continue onward to explore the depths of the Kuiper belt, a rocky region that scientists believe is filled with thousands of small, icy objects like comets and asteroids.
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By 153, the probe will have pass within 4 million miles of the Sun's surface, but before it's launched the Parker Space Probe needs to undergo some serious environmental tests to make sure it can handle the heat.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese space probe successfully touched down on the far side of the moon on Thursday, China's space agency said, hailing the event as a historic first and a major achievement for the country's space program.
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After launching from Earth back in March 2004, the Rosetta space probe is preparing for its final mission — a controlled landing onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, where it's been in orbit for the last two years.
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In this real life story, NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe will spend two years flying through space to catch up to an asteroid named Bennu, a big, roundish space rock that has made it onto NASA's list of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids.
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If all goes well, the Parker Space Probe will deliver unprecedented insights into the dynamics of solar wind, a stream of charged particles that is responsible for everything from auroras on Earth to the destruction of the atmosphere on Mars.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - High-resolution cameras on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft have found space probe Philae, which landed on a comet nearly two years ago only to lose power because its solar-driven batteries were in the shade.
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Although Japan has no plan currently to make a manned rocket that could send people into space, the rover could be a major contribution to an international space probe program in the future, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said.
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The nuclear-powered space probe has traveled 13 billion miles (21 billion km) to come within 22,21977 miles (3,540 km) of Ultima Thule, an apparently peanut-shaped, 20-mile-long (32-km-long) space rock in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt.
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Among the project's many lofty goals, the mission planners sought to put a space probe in orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, or simply 67P, and then to have it fly alongside the celestial object as it made its way around the sun.
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A Japanese space probe named after a falcon, Hayabusa 2, has touched down on an asteroid more than 300 million km (186 million miles) from Earth on a mission to seek clues about the origins of life, Japan's space agency said on Friday.
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But in 2017, Peter Read, a physicist at the University of Oxford, and Roland Young, his postdoc at the time, made a wind speed map using data from the space probe Cassini, which swung past Jupiter in 2000 on its way to Saturn.
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The Discovery of Complex Organic Molecules on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Is a Huge DealUsing data collected by NASA's late-great Cassini space probe, scientists have detected traces of…Read more ReadSaunders agreed that her finding is relevant to the search for extraterrestrial life.
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However, this might not be the end of the plucky space probe: its fuel reserves have yet to be exhausted, and in April, a research team from the University of California, Los Angeles proposed a new mission to an undisclosed third asteroid.
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A space probe specifically designed to study interstellar space would be packed with enough instruments and power to study the universe beyond the sun's heliosphere in detail, far beyond the distance where the useful lives of the Voyager spacecraft come to an end.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China announced plans on Tuesday to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year, in what state media cast as competition to U.S. President Donald Trump's ambitions to revitalize U.S. space exploration.
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Hubble can take these impressive images because it's able to keep itself pointed at the planet for a relatively long period of time (compared to the window for imaging that a passing space probe would have, for example), according to a Hubble release.
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Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ted Stryk12 years of Cassini data showing continual geyser activity on Enceladus is promising, but it sure would be a bummer if those geysers turned off say, every 25 years, and we didn't know about it before launching another space probe.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe named after a falcon, Hayabusa 2, has touched down on an asteroid more than 300 million km (186 million miles) from Earth on a mission to seek clues about the origins of life, Japan's space agency said on Friday.
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A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first time, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, a mission seen as an important step as the country looks to push forward its space program.
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READ: How to land a space probe on a comet Unlike rockets that deliver satellites to orbit or ferry people and supplies to the space station, intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, are designed to be used during a war and can launch at a moment's notice.
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All of the data that went into this map was collected by a piano-sized space probe as it whizzed 48,000 miles above the surface of Pluto, a planet 3 billion miles from Earth that took nine years to reach at a rip-roaring 30,000 miles per hour.
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In March, China announced plans to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon this year, while the country's first cargo space craft docked with an orbiting space lab in April, a major step as Beijing looks to establish a permanently manned space station by 2022.
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In recent years, astronomers have amassed data suggesting the possibility of an Earth-size planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B. It would take Voyager 1, humanity's most distant space probe, more than 70,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri if it were headed in that direction, which it is not.
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BEIJING — Hours after a space probe from China made humanity's first landing on the far side of the moon, sending images of its surroundings back to Earth, the spacecraft deployed a rover on Thursday to take still more photographs and scan the surface of terrain never before traversed.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first time, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, a mission seen as an important step as the country looks to push forward its space program.
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SHANGHAI, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first time, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, a mission seen as an important step as the country looks to push forward its space programme.
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This space probe was designed to measure Jupiter's magnetic field and polar magnetosphere, but it was also built to gaze through its opaque clouds and investigate the planet's gravity field, mass distribution, and deep winds; Juno allows us to see past the gas giant's churning upper layers and directly into its guts.
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Well, a NASA space probe indicates that 210 JO210 is about 210,000 feet in size, about the length of six football fields, and though lots of small asteroids pass this distance from the Earth every month, this will be the first time in 13 years that a space rock this big did.
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Each generation becomes slightly more inured to imagery that each prior generation would have found unthinkable—consider pictures from Curiosity, a rover gently lowered by a rocket-powered crane onto Mars's surface in 2012, or the Rosetta space probe that arrived in orbit around a speeding comet in 2014, or New Horizons, another fired with 150km precision at Pluto, 5 billion kilometres away.
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Avery Broderick, a theoretical astrophysicist who works with the Event Horizon Telescope, said in 21990 that the first picture of a black hole could be just as important as "Pale Blue Dot," the 1990 photo of Earth that the space probe Voyager took from the edge of the solar system, in which our planet is an insignificant speck in a vast vacuum.
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