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SAMPEX studies the energy, composition and charge states of particles from supernova explosions in the distant reaches of the galaxy, from the heart of solar flares and from the depths of nearby interstellar space.
Past NASA Missions
NASA Current Missions
AIM's two-year mission is to study Polar Mesospheric Clouds, the Earth’s highest clouds, which form an icy membrane 50 miles above the surface at the edge of space. Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission will be collecting about the Earth's water cycle. CALIPSO will provide the next generation of climate observations, drastically improving our ability to predict climate change and to study the air we breathe. NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory probes the mysteries of space with unprecedented x-ray images that help to unravel the structure and evolution of the universe.The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, will provide moderate-resolution measurements of Earth's terrestrial and polar regions. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, scheduled for launch in late 2013, will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, will study two extreme and dynamic regions of space known as the Van Allen Radiation Belts that surround Earth.
Future Missions
NASA's Consolidated Launch Schedule NASA's Launch Schedule features the planned dates and details for missions by NASA and the partner nations in the International Space Station Program, including Russia, European Space Agency and Japan. To learn more about how the schedule is arranged and what it includes, check out Launch Schedule 101.
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Missions
Scheduled to land on Mars in early August 2012, the rover will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support ...
This concept animation shows astronauts in the Space Exploration Vehicle docking with a near-Earth asteroid, performing a spacewalk, and returning to Earth in the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. This future journey will answer compelling science questions about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s water and organics. It will increase our understanding of the threat of an asteroid impact and ability to mitigate such an event, and enable exploration of the moon, Mars and beyond.
Near-Earth Asteroid - Mission Animation
Satellites & Missions - team curated
IBEX
Messenger
New Horizons
AMS
Voyager
Pioneer Venus One & Orbiter
The Chandra X-ray Observatory Center :: Gateway to the Universe of X-ray Astronomy!
Who We Are NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes. Because X-rays are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, Chandra must orbit above it, up to an altitude of 139,000 km (86,500 mi) in space. The Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, hosts the Chandra X-ray Center which operates the satellite, processes the data, and distributes it to scientists around the world for analysis.
Hunting down alien planets isn't just for professional astronomers anymore. Thousands of citizen scientists have been poring over data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which has so far detected 1,235 potential alien worlds. To date, the amateurs have flagged 50 candidate planets that the mission's sophisticated software may have missed, Time magazine reports . It's all part of a project called Planethunters.org, which enlists the discerning eyes of the masses to pick up patterns in mountains of data. The $600 million Kepler space telescope , which launched in March 2009, finds alien planets by searching for tiny, telltale dips in a star's brightness caused when a planet transits — or crosses in front of — it from Earth's perspective. Artist's concept of Kepler-10b, which was detected by NASA's Kepler mission.
Kepler Space Observatory | Alien Planets & Extraterrestrial Life
Supersonic shock waves detected at the edge of the Solar System - a new study by European scientists clarifies conditions at our Earth's outermost shield against interstellar charged particles. The local interstellar cloud Our Solar System entered an interstellar cloud 10,000 years ago. Today it is speeding through this nebulosity at Mach 2 behind a supersonic shock wave - in much the same way that a Concorde crosses the Atlantic at supersonic speed. Since its formation 4.6 billion years ago our Solar System has encountered numerous interstellar clouds, knots, filaments, shells and bubbles of different sizes and contents on its path through the Milky Way. For more than 80 years astronomers have been attracted by these past and future encounters, have tried to understand the physics behind them in order to decipher the dynamic interplay between the interstellar material and the Solar System.
The Heliosphere is Tilted - implications for the 'Galactic weather forecast'? | Press Releases | ESA/Hubble
The satellite was successfully launched on October 2002, the 17 th . CNES was prime contractor for the SPI spectrometer, one of the two main instruments, in partnership with numerous French and foreign research laboratories. Since November 2002, the Integral Spectrometer and IBIS delivered their first images and first spectra. The scientific data confirm the excellent operation of SPI and IBIS instruments and of the satellite. The first results were promising with observations of numerous gamma bursts, discovery of numerous sources in the Galaxy center region, cartography of the electron/positron annihilation line in this same region...
INTEGRAL
17 April 2012 : Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula. 16 March 2012 : The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to see with the naked eye, yet Hubble can see over 250 000 individual stars shining in it. 21 February 2012 : Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It’s smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth. 15 February 2012 : Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a mid-sized black hole called HLX-1.
ESA/Hubble
. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter .
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Satellites
HERSCHEL
HERSCHEL is the fourth cornerstone of the European Spance Agency (ESA) mandatory scientific program. All the french participations developed by the french laboratories are followed up and financed by CNES. HERSCHEL will perform imaging photometry and spectrometry in the far infrared and submillimetre part of the spectrum, covering approximately the 60-670 µm range.PLANCK is an astronomy mission being flown as part of the ESA scientific program. Planck has two instruments in its focal plane, one of which is the High Frequency Instrument (HFI). The HFI was developed by a partnership between the CNES and several international laboratories, which the Institute of Space Astrophysics (IAS) in Orsay, France, acting as prime contractor. Planck was designed to study the origin and evolution of the Universe in the submillimeter range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It will map the anisotropies, or small variations from place to place on the sky, of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is an "afterglow" of the Big Bang which fills all of space and has a temperature of 2.73 K. Planck will make measurements with an angular resolution of about 5 arcminutes (which can be compared to the 13 arcminutes of its predecessor, WMAP) and a temperature sensitivity of about two parts per million.
PLANCK
By its high photometric performances and its observing runs covering five months without interruption, the CoRoT experiment aims to be a pioneer mission in the discovery of telluric extrasolar planets, bodies with properties comparable to those of the rocky planets of the solar system. Its launch was successful on december 27th, 2006.
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