After much debate, a group of Cassini scientists selected nine winning essays for the Cassini Scientist for a Day Fall 2008 contest.
More information | Cassini site
When it comes to making a long-distance call, it's hard to top NASA's Deep Space Network.
Read more | Solar System Exploration site
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months.
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Socializing on Mars
Mars Exploration Rovers have new life on the likes of "Second Life," "YouTube," "Unmannedspaceflight.com," and "Facebook."
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Watch, Listen and Celebrate Five Years on Mars
Catch up with the rovers via several videos and podcasts.
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Stardust Spacecraft Passes Close to Earth
The NASA/JPL Stardust spacecraft flew within 9,000 kilometers (5,600 miles) of Earth today. The Stardust-NExT mission is scheduled for an encounter with comet Tempel 1 in Feb. 2011.
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5 Years on Still Roving on Mars - Opportunity
Opportunity landed near a geological treasure trove on Mars - and that was just the beginning of the rover's discoveries. |
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Harsh climate, dust storms, winds, a broken leg - nothing has stopped the Mars Exploration Rovers from celebrating their fifth anniversary this month.
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Five years after landing on Mars, the twin exploration rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are still alive and studying opposite sides of the Red Planet.
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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.
› Mission home page
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.
› Mission home page
Mars Odyssey
This orbiter studies Mars' surface composition and radiation environment and has instruments to detect water and shallow buried ice.
› Mission home page
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
Phoenix Mars Lander
This mission is using its robotic arm and other instruments to dig and analyze samples of soil and ice.
› JPL Phoenix site
› University of Arizona Phoenix site
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.
› Mission home page
Ulysses
Orbits sun around the north and south poles.
› Mission home page
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