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Juno, the Probe to Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter, getting closer and closer as the years go by. Having left in August of 2011, five years later, Juno is due to arrive in July of this year. It is going to be the first solar-powered spacecraft to reach as far as Jupiter. Its mission is to study the…
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NASA’s Solar Probe Plus
By 2018, NASA will launch the Solar Probe Plus. This probe will get within 9 solar radii of the surface of the Sun. That distance is 7 times closer than any probe has ever been. A portion of the probe will have to remain cool and the rest of it will have to be as […]
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Messenger’s Last Legs
The MESSENGER mission, short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging sent up the probe in August 2004. In March 2011 it became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. The probe has done a lot in its years around the Solar System’s first planet including: constructing the best-ever maps of Mercury and discovering carbon-containing […]
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Now You See Me
The sun is what gives us life, sustains humanity, and provides our planet with everything it needs to survive day to day. Without Such an important star we would cease to exist. Although the sun is the most important thing to our survival we don’t know a whole lot about it. We know some details […]
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Gravitational Slingshots
I always wondered why doesn’t the sun slow space probes down when they are leaving the Earth for outer planets. Isn’t there a risk that the probe might change its trajectory and fall into the sun? There is. You see, the more distant the space probe gets from the Sun, the more potential energy it […]
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