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NASA Spacecraft Whipping Around Mars to Slingshot Itself Toward Jupiter's Mysterious Moon
NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's smallest moon later this ...
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Man from the Quad Cities helps NASA mission to find life in our solar system take flight
People have asked for centuries if live exists outside of earth, but a NASA mission could solve that question once and for ...
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Here's How NASA's Life-Hunting Spacecraft Will Use Mars to Slingshot to Jupiter
The first major event of Europa Clipper's journey to Jupiter takes place this weekend as a gravity assist maneuver around the ...
Old NASA mission reveals an unlikely world harbors an ocean
Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...
Callisto, the outermost of the 95 Jovian moons, first caught NASA’s attention back in the 1990s.
Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up. If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side ...
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Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ever seen
NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped in for a close look at a massive thunderstorm on Jupiter, revealing that it may have ...
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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st images of its next target: Donaldjohanson
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...
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Quad-Cities native, engineer contributes to NASA mission to Europa
Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo ...
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7 planets are aligning in the night sky for a "planetary parade." Here's what to know.
Five planets are visible to the naked eye, according to NASA: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Mars will appear reddish and high in the sky, near the Gemini constellation, Star Walk said.
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Snaps First Look at Upcoming Asteroid Target
The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in ...
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'Planet parade' photo captures 7 planets in a line over Earth — possibly for the 1st time ever
A stunning photo of a "parade of planets", shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury in alignment from ...