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CASSINI MISSION TO SATURN

Cassini Scientist for a Day

Cassini Scientist for a Day -- Spring 2009

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be part of a large science team with a spacecraft as your remote laboratory? Now is your chance to join the team.

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SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION

Views of Saturn through the ages

Featured Planet: Surprising Saturn

This month's International Year of Astronomy feature explores how Saturn has been a consistent source of surprises for 400 years.

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MARS EXPLORATION

Mars Exploration site

Get the latest updates on the Mars rovers and the orbiters circling the red planet.

Mars Exploration site

Cassini-Huygens to Saturn
Studying Saturn and its rings and moons.
Mission home page

Dawn
Dawn, the first spacecraft ever planned to orbit two different bodies after leaving Earth, will orbit Vesta and Ceres, two of the largest asteroids in the solar system.
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Epoxi
The Epoxi mission recycles the already "in flight" Deep Impact spacecraft to investigate two distinct celestial targets of opportunity.
Mission overview

Mars Exploration Rovers
Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars since January 2004. Clues found in some rocks indicate liquid water once covered the ground.
Mission home page

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
This orbiter has the most powerful telescopic camera ever to another planet, plus five other scientific instruments.
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Mars Odyssey
This orbiter studies Mars' surface composition and radiation environment and has instruments to detect water and shallow buried ice.
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Microwave Instrument
on Rosetta Orbiter

This JPL instrument will study gases given off by a comet as the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft orbits the comet. Rendezvous with the comet is scheduled for 2014.
Rosetta home page

Stardust-NExT
The Stardust-NExT mission recycles the already "in flight" Stardust spacecraft to flyby and investigate comet Tempel 1 in Feb. 2011.
Mission overview

Voyager
Voyager 1 and 2 flew past Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is now approaching interstellar space.
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Ulysses
Orbits sun around the north and south poles.
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view of Mars Science Lab model on Photosynth NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars Rover

NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover.

Read more (May 7)

image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Productive Mars Camera Team Accelerates Releases

Camera-team members are now posting tens of thousands of new image products each month from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Read more (May 6)

Venus Happy 20th Birthday To NASA's Magellan Mission!

Launched May 4, 1989, NASA's Magellan spacecraft went on to map 99 percent of the surface of planet Venus.

More about Magellan (May 4)

sun What's Up for May?

The brightest object around gets our attention this month as we take in the sun. Learn about solar observers past and present.

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What's Up for March? What's Up for March?

Saturn takes center stage this month. Learn how the ringed world has been observed through history.

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Lucy Abramyan Rover Undergrad

Internships at JPL helped one woman build her career as a software engineer working on robotics.

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