Space News - Telescopes, Satellites & Probes
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MESSENGER
The MESSENGER team has launched a free app that brings you inside NASA's history-making study of Mercury - the first images of the entire planet, along with the detailed data on Mercury's surface, geologic history, thin atmosphere, and active magnetosphere that MESSENGER sends back every day. [ more ]
The Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, will see in infrared, the light emitted by the farthest objects we can detect. Learn about Webb, its technology, and the science it will reveal.
Hubble Site
STEREO
STEREO consists of two space-based observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind.The sun sent out two different kinds of solar activity on November 3, 2011 in different directions: an X.19 solar flare and a particularly bright CME.
NASA - STEREO
The Mars Public Mapping Program, or (MP) 2 , invites you to help scientists analyze Mars images from THEMIS. You can identify features like craters, ridges and gullies, and rate image quality!
Mars Odyssey - THEMIS
Comet Lovejoy came into LASCO's view on Dec. 14 as a bright, white streak, skimmed across the Sun's edge about 140,000 km above the surface late Dec. 15 and early Dec. 16, 2011, furiously brightening and vaporizing as it approached the Sun...