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In general, the surface temperature of the planets decreases with increasing distance from the Sun. Venus is an exception because its dense atmosphere acts as a greenhouse and heats the surface to above the melting point of lead (3280C). Mercury rotates slowly and has a thin atmosphere, and consequently, the nightside temperature can be more than 5000C lower than the dayside temperature shown on the diagram. Temperatures for the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) are shown at a...
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Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Sun, What -- Venus, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=169
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This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The spacecraft responsible for these images are as follows: the Mercury image was taken by Mariner 10, the Venus image by Magellan, the Earth image by Galileo, the Mars image by Viking, and the Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune images by Voyager. Pluto is not...
Topics: Space Probes, Planetary Astronomy, What -- Mercury, What -- Venus, What -- Earth, What -- Moon,...
Source: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000454.html
Photo by Voyager 2 (JPL) During August 16 and 17, 1989, the Voyager 2 narrow-angle camera was used to photograph Neptune almost continuously, recording approximately two and one-half rotations of the planet. These images represent the most complete set of full disk Neptune images that the spacecraft will acquire. This picture from the sequence shows two of the four cloud features which have been tracked by the Voyager cameras during the past two months. The large dark oval near the western limb...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has constructed the first portrait of our solar system by combining 34 images taken by the spacecraft's Wide Angle Camera on Nov. 3 and 16, 2010. The mosaic, pieced together over a period of a few weeks, comprises all of the planets except for Uranus and Neptune, which were too faint to detect. On March 17, 2011, MESSENGER may become the first probe ever to orbit Mercury. Scientists hope orbital observations will provide new answers to how Earth-like planets, like...
Topics: What -- MESSENGER, What -- Uranus, What -- Neptune, What -- Mercury, What -- Earth, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/517613main_solar_system_full.jpg
Photographer : JPL P-34615 These three color images of Triton were taken at three different orbital longitudes to show different faces of the neptune moon. the overall pinkish cast of the images may be due to the presence of reddish material on Triton produced by irradiation of methane gas and ice on Triton. In these pictures the south pole is at roughly 6 o'clock, about 1/6th of the way from the bottom. Near the top of the left on Triton's equator are several large dark spots that are probably...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Moon, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Where -- Triton
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In this Voyager wide-angle image taken on Aug. 23 1989, the two main rings of Neptune can be clearly seen. In the lower part of the frame the originally announced ring arc, consisting of three distinct features, is visible. This feature covers about 35 degrees of longitude and has yet to be radially resolved in Voyager images. From higher resolution images it is known that this region contains much more material than the diffuse belts seen elsewhere in its orbit, which seem to encircle the...
Topics: What -- Voyager, What -- Neptune, What -- Moon, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00053
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the NASA Kennedy Space Center?s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, one part of the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket fairing to be placed around the New Horizons spacecraft is moved into place for encapsulation. The fairing encloses the spacecraft to protect it during launch and flight through the atmosphere. Once out of the atmosphere, the fairing is jettisoned. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What -- Plasma...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27286
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This image was returned by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 3, 1989, when it was 76 million kilometers (47 million miles) from Neptune. The planet and its largest satellite, Triton, are captured in the field of view of Voyager's narrow-angle camera through violet, clear and orange filters. Triton appears in the lower right corner at about 5 o'clock relative to Neptune. Recent measurements from Voyager images show Triton to be between 1,400 and 1,800 kilometers (about 870 to 1,100 miles) in...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager, Where -- Triton, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01491
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This image captured by the Voyager 2 spacecraft was used to confirm the discovery of three new satellites orbiting Neptune. The 46 second exposure was taken by Voyager 2's narrow angle camera through a clear filter on July 30, 1989, when the spacecraft was about 37.3 million kilometers (23.6 million miles) from Neptune. The large globe of the planet itself is severely overexposed and appears pure white. The image has been computer processed to accentuate the new moons, which otherwise would...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Discovery, What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01991
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center?s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians from the Applied Physics Laboratory work on the New Horizons spacecraft. They have been installing side panels on the spacecraft. A series of interconnecting panels will enclose the spacecraft beneath the antenna to maintain safe operating temperatures in space. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last...
Topics: What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Moon, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27291
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center, one of the Atlas V fairing halves for the New Horizons spacecraft is offloaded from the Russian cargo plane. The fairing halves will be transported to Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville. The fairing later will be placed around the New Horizons spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Service Facility. A fairing protects a spacecraft during launch and flight through the atmosphere. Once in space, it is...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27237
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the NASA Kennedy Space Center?s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument is tested after being mounted on the corner of the New Horizons spacecraft. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. The mission will then visit one or more objects in the Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune. SWAP is a solar...
Topics: What -- Pluto, What -- New Horizons, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What -- Plasma Spectrometer,...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27289
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center?s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians from the Applied Physics Laboratory install another panel on the New Horizons spacecraft. A series of interconnecting panels will enclose the spacecraft beneath the antenna to maintain safe operating temperatures in space. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by...
Topics: What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Moon, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27272
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Lockheed Martin Atlas V Centaur stage leaves the Astrotech Space Operations Center in Titusville, Fla., for the short journey to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Centaur is the second stage of the launch vehicle for the New Horizons spacecraft. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. As it approaches...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- Centaur, What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Moon, What -- Charon,...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27273
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a worker stands by as the first stage of an Atlas V rocket is raised to vertical. The rocket will then be moved into the Vertical Integration Facility to begin preparations for launch. The Lockheed Martin Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the New Horizons spacecraft, which is designed to make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27229
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the five solid rocket boosters are now mated with the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft that will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. As it approaches Pluto, the...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- Pluto, What -- New Horizons, What -- Moon, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune,...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27514
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In Neptune's outermost ring, 39,000 miles out, material mysteriously clumps into three arcs. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989. JPL manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01493
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This image of Neptune was taken through the clear filter of the narrow-angle camera on July 16 when the Voyager 2 spacecraft was at a range of 57,000,000 kilometers (35 million miles). The image was processed by computer to show the newly resolved dark oval feature embedded in the middle of the dusky southern collar. The large dark spot nearer the equator is also prominent on the left edge of the disk. The new small dark spot rotates faster than the large dark spot indicating that the winds on...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Jupiter, What -- Saturn, What -- Uranus
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01998
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This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera, through the green and clear filters. The image shows three of the features that Voyager 2 has been photographing during recent weeks. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance. To the south of the Great Dark Spot is the bright feature that Voyager scientists have nicknamed 'Scooter'. Still farther south is the...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager 2, What -- SPOT 2, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00049
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This is one of the most detailed views of the surface of Triton taken by Voyager 2 on its flyby of the large satellite of Neptune early in the morning of Aug. 25, 1989. The picture was stored on the tape recorder and relayed to Earth later. Taken from a distance of only 40,000 km (25,000 miles), the frame is about 220 kilometers (140 miles) across and shows details as small as 750 meters (0.5 miles). Most of the area is covered by a peculiar landscape of roughly circular depressions separated...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, What -- Earth, What -- Voyager, Where -- Triton, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00061
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This photograph shows the last face on view of the Great Dark Spot that Voyager will make with the narrow angle camera. The image was shuttered 45 hours before closest approach at a distance of 2.8 million kilometers (1.7 million miles). The smallest structures that can be seen are of an order of 50 kilometers (31 miles). The image shows feathery white clouds that overlie the boundary of the dark and light blue regions. The pinwheel (spiral) structure of both the dark boundary and the white...
Topics: What -- Voyager, What -- Neptune, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00052
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These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1, which was more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system which shows six of the planets. Mercury is too close to the sun to be seen. Mars was not detectable by the Voyager cameras due to scattered sunlight in the optics, and Pluto was not included in the mosaic because of...
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Earth, What -- Mercury, What -- Sun, What -- Mars, What -- Voyager, What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00453
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*Description*: These NASA Hubble Space Telescope views of the blue-green planet Neptune provide three snapshots of changing weather conditions. The images were taken in 1994 on October 10 (upper left), October 18 (upper right), and November 2 (lower center), when Neptune was 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from Earth. Hubble is allowing astronomers to study Neptune's dynamic atmosphere with a level of detail not possible since the 1989 flyby of the Voyager 2 space probe. Building on...
Topics: Neptune, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Neptune, What -- Earth, What -- Voyager 2,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/21/image/a/
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Uranus; Neptune Object Description: Planets Distance: The semi-major axis of Uranus's orbit about the sun is 19.18 Astronomical Units (A.U.) or roughly 2.9 billion km. The semi-major axis of Neptune's orbit about the Sun is 30.06 Astronomical Units (A.U.) or roughly 4.5 billion km. Dimensions: Uranus (without rings) has a diameter of roughly 32,000 miles (51,000 km) at the equator.Neptune has a diameter of roughly 30,800...
Topics: What -- Uranus, What -- Neptune, What -- Sun, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- Texas,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/05/image/d/
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*Description*: These two bright debris disks of ice and dust appear to be the equivalent of our own solar system's Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy rocks outside the orbit of Neptune and the source of short-period comets. The disks encircle the types of stars around which there could be habitable zones and planets for life to develop. The disks seem to have a central area cleared of debris, perhaps by planets. The new disks, each about 60 light-years from Earth, bring to nine the number of dusty...
Topics: HD 53143, What -- Neptune, What -- COMETS, What -- Earth, What -- Sun, What -- Saturn, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/05/image/a/
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Voyager 2 sent back this stunning image of storms at work in Neptune's windy atmosphere in August 1989. This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera, through the green and clear filters. The image shows three of the features that Voyager 2 photographed during its Neptune flyby. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance. To the south of the Great Dark Spot is the...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune,...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=138
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This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. The images were taken at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. The picture shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible. These clouds were seen to persist for as long as Voyager's...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager 2,...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2115
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This set of images were created during the Cassini spacecraft's Phoebe flyby on June 11, 2004. The images show the location and distribution of water-ice, ferric iron, carbon dioxide and an unidentified material on the tiny moon of Saturn. The first image was taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera and is shown for comparison purposes only. The other images were taken by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini. The infrared image of Phoebe obtained at a distance of about...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Cassini, What -- Moon, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2563
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Artist's impression of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object. The Sun, more than 4.1 billion miles (6.7 billion kilometers) away, shines as a bright star embedded in the glow of the zodiacal dust cloud. Jupiter and Neptune are visible as orange and blue "stars" to the right of the Sun. Although you would not actually see the myriad other objects that make up the Kuiper Belt, they are shown here to give the impression of an extensive disk of icy worlds beyond...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- New Horizons, What -- Sun,...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=544
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These pictures of Neptune were obtained by Voyager 2 on April 26,1989, at a distance of 176 million kilometers (109 million miles). At the center of the Neptune disc, each pixel covers a square 4 degrees by 4 degrees in latitude. (Each Voyager image contains 800 pixels, picture elements, per line and 800 lines.) Resolution here was 3256 kilometers (2020 miles) per line pair. The violet, clear and orange filters of Voyager's narrow-angle camera were used to produce the color pictures. Image...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Voyager, What -- Earth
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA02209&orgid=10
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This bulls-eye view of Neptune's small dark spot (D2) was obtained by Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera. Banding surrounding the feature indicates unseen strong winds, while structures within the bright spot suggest both active upwelling of clouds and rotation about the center. A rotation rate has not yet been measured, but the V-shaped structure near the right edge of the bright area indicates that the spot rotates clockwise. Unlike the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, which rotates counterclockwise,...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Jupiter, What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA02223&orgid=10
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This wide-angle Voyager 2 image, taken through the camera's clear filter, is the first to show Neptune's rings in detail. The two main rings, about 53,000 km (33,000 miles) and 63,000 km (39,000 miles) from Neptune, are 5 to 10 times brighter than in earlier images. The difference is due to lighting and viewing geometry. In approach images, the rings were seen in light scattered backward toward the spacecraft at a 15-degree phase angle. However, this image was taken at a 135-degree phase angle...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager, What -- Uranus, What -- Saturn, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA02207&orgid=10
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This computer generated montage shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton, Neptune's largest moon at 2706 km (1683 mi) in diameter. The wind and sublimation-eroded south polar cap of Triton is shown at the bottom of the Triton image, a cryovolcanic terrain at the upper right, and the enigmatic "cantaloupe terrain" at the upper left. Triton's surface is mostly covered by nitrogen frost mixed with traces of condensed methane, carbon dioxide, and carbon...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Moon, What -- Polar, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Sun, Where -- Triton
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00340&orgid=10
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This false color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken through three filters: blue, green, and a filter that passes light at a wavelength that is absorbed by methane gas. Thus, regions that appear white or bright red are those that reflect sunlight before it passes through a large quantity of methane. The image reveals the presence of a ubiquitous haze that covers Neptune in a semitransparent layer. Near the center of the disk, sunlight passes through the haze and deeper...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00057
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. ? A truck carrying an Atlas V rocket heads away from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip. The rocket is being transferred to the Atlas Space Operations Center. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the New Horizons spacecraft. New Horizons is designed to help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27120
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center?s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, human power is employed to moved the shipping container inside. The container holds the New Horizons spacecraft. New Horizons is designed to help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. The mission will then visit one or more objects...
Topics: What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What -- Jupiter, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27211
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In front of the mobile service tower on Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Lockheed Martin Atlas V Centaur stage is raised off the transporter. Once vertical, the Centaur, the second stage of the launch vehicle for the New Horizons spacecraft, will be lifted up the tower and mated with the waiting first stage, seen at left. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet"...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- Centaur, What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Moon, What -- Charon,...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27275
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center?s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, a technician from the Applied Physics Laboratory works on the New Horizons spacecraft before installing one of the panels. A series of interconnecting panels will enclose the spacecraft beneath the antenna to maintain safe operating temperatures in space. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar...
Topics: What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Moon, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27269
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the Payload Hazardous Service Facility airlock, one of the fairing halves for the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket is lifted off the transporter. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the New Horizons spacecraft. The fairing will encapsulate the spacecraft to protect it during launch and flight through the atmosphere. Once out of the atmosphere, the fairing is jettisoned. New Horizons is designed to make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- New Horizons, What -- Pluto, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27249
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vertical Integration Facility on Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers maneuver the fifth and final solid rocket booster into place for mating to the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket. Two of the other four rockets are seen at left. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft that will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- Pluto, What -- New Horizons, What -- Moon, What -- Charon, What -- Neptune,...
Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27513
Photographer : JPL P-34764 Voyager 2 obtained this high resolution color image of Neptune's large satellite Triton during its close flyby. Approximately a dozen individual images were combined to produce this comprehensive view of the Neptune-facing hemisphere of Triton. Fine detail is provided by high resolution, clear-filter images, with color information added from lower resolution frames. The large south polar cap at the bottom of the image is highly refective and slightly pink in color ,...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, What -- Polar, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Where...
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This image was returned by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 3, 1989, when it was 76 million kilometers (47 million miles) from Neptune. The planet and its largest satellite, Triton, are captured in the field of view of Voyager's narrow-angle camera through violet, clear and orange filters. Triton appears in the lower right corner at about 5 o'clock relative to Neptune. Measurements from Voyager images show Triton to be between 1,400 and 1,800 kilometers (about 870 to 1,100 miles) in radius with...
Topics: Voyager-Galileo, Neptunes Moons, Planet-Neptune, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, What --...
Source: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000442.html
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Flying by in early 1986, Voyager 2 captured this picture of Miranda, which enabled scientists to study this moon of Uranus in much greater detail than ever before. Discovered in 1948 by Gerard Peter Kuiper, Miranda is named for the daughter of the wily Prospero in Shakespeare's "The Tempest." It is the eleventh known satellite of Uranus and the innermost large moon of Uranus It was necessary that Voyager 2 passed by Miranda, not for scientific reasons, but simply for the gravity...
Topics: Voyager-Galileo, Uranus Moons, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Miranda, What -- Moon, What -- Uranus,...
Source: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2003-000005.html
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Three new plantetary views from the Hubble Space Telescope. Color Negative S98-20014 shows composite images of planetary nebula NGC 6210 taken on August 6, 1997 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). There are two images: first, the entire nebula and second, an inset image detailing the center structure surrounding the dying star. Color Negative S98-20015 provides a view of Uranus surrounded by its four major rings and ten of its seventeen known satellites. It is a false-colored...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, What -- Uranus, What -- Near Infrared...
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Global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system. Color was synthesized by combining high-resolution images taken through orange, violet, and ultraviolet filters; these images were displayed as red, green, and blue images and combined to create this color version. With a radius of 1,350 (839 mi), about 22% smaller than Earth's moon, Triton is by far the largest satellite of Neptune. It is one of only three objects in the Solar System known to have...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Neptune, What -- Moon, What -- Earth, What -- Titan, What -- Polar,...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00317&orgid=10
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These two 591-second exposures of the rings of Neptune were taken with the clear filter by the Voyager 2 wide-angle camera on Aug. 26, 1989 from a distance of 280,000 kilometers (175,000 miles). The two main rings are clearly visible and appear complete over the region imaged. The time between exposures was one hour and 27 minutes. [During this period the bright ring arcs in the outer bright ring were not visible in either picture (they were unfortunately on the opposite side of the planet for...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Sun, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA01997&orgid=10
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The Voyager spacecraft was 8.6 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) from Neptune when it took this 61 second exposure through the clear filter with the narrow angle camera on August 19, 1989. The Voyager cameras were programmed to make a systematic search for faint ring arcs and new satellites. The bright upper corner of the image is due to a residual image from a previous long exposure of the planet. The portion of the arc visible here is approximately 35 degrees in longitudinal extent,...
Topics: What -- Voyager, What -- Neptune, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA02256&orgid=10
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*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object: the planet Pluto. The observations were made with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera. The ninth and last real planet known, and the only planet that has not been visited by a fly-by spacecraft, Pluto was discovered just 60 years ago by the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who was searching for the source of irregularities seen in the...
Topics: Pluto, Charon, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Pluto, What -- Faint Object Camera,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1990/14/image/a/
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] and A. Feild (Space Telescope Science Institute [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ])
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*Description*: This illustration compares the orbit of the binary Kuiper Belt object, called 1998 WW31, with the orbits of Pluto and Neptune, the outermost solar system planets. The inset picture, consisting of six snapshots taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows one member of the Kuiper Belt pair [the faint white blobs] during its elliptical orbit. The bright white object at the bottom of the oval is the other member of the pair. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object...
Topics: 1998 WW31, What -- Pluto, What -- Neptune, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun, What...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2002/04/image/j/
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Neptune Object Description: Planet Distance: The semi-major axis of Neptune's orbit about the Sun is 30.06 Astronomical Units (A.U.) or roughly 4.5 billion km. Dimensions: The planet has a diameter of roughly 30,800 miles (49,600 km) at the equator. About the Data Data Description: These data are from HST proposals 6650, 7324 and 9393. The science team includes L. A. Sromovsky, P. M. Fry, and S. S. Limaye (University of...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Sun, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- Wisconsin, Where --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2003/17/image/b/
