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This page is about the exploration of space.
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Dawn
Mission: explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres
Dawn delves into the unknown, drives new technology innovations, and achieves what's never been attempted before. As a mission belonging to NASA’s Discovery Program, Dawn has orbited one member of the main asteroid belt, Vesta, and is now heading to explore a second new world, dwarf planet Ceres.
Dawn's goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of its earliest history by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formation. Ceres and Vesta reside in the main asteroid belt, the extensive region between Mars and Jupiter, along with many other smaller bodies. Each followed a very different evolutionary path, constrained by the diversity of processes that operated during the first few million years of solar system evolution. When Dawn visits Ceres and Vesta, the spacecraft steps us back in solar system time.
- See more at: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/#sthash.dSlCEEaN.dpuf
Images
Asteroid Vesta • Clementine Color Ratio Animation http://youtu.be/wBm14ZS7wGM
New Horizons
Mission: first reconnaissance of the planet Pluto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
Voyage to an Unexplored Planet and a New Realm. The New Horizons mission will help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of the planet Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of solar system formation.
The Journey: New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and will conduct a five-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. Pluto closest approach is scheduled for July 14, 2015. As part of an extended mission, the spacecraft is expected to head farther into the Kuiper Belt to examine one or two of the ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit.
Sending a spacecraft on this long journey will help us answer basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior makeup and atmospheres on these bodies.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html#.VIyGYXtN-zk
This mission will complete the initial reconnaissance of the Solar System and help us understand worlds at the edge of it by making the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of Solar System formation. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/12/08/new-horizons-wakes-up-for-historic-pluto-encounter/
Papercraft
papercraft model of the New Horizon spacecraft which is on a mission to explore Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt.
OSIRIS-REx
OSIRIS-REx will launch in September 2016, encountering asteroid Bennu in October 2018. The spacecraft will operate at asteroid Bennu for over 400 days. This 14-year mission will return a sample that scientists will study for decades with ever more capable instruments and new techniques.
http://www.asteroidmission.org/about-mission/
Links
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/06/image/a/
Rossetta
Mission
Rosetta launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. It is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Sun, and deploy a lander to its surface. Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI. http://rosetta.esa.int
blog http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
- Philae's landing site in 3D http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/small-bodies/philaes-landing-site-in-3d.html
=Results and Presentations
https://virtualoptions.agu.org/search/rosetta
Japan’s Akatsuki mission
Venus Express
Europe’s Venus Express mission is at its end http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/12/18/europes-venus-express-mission-at-its-end/