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Contents.....

• Earth-Orbit Missions

• Lunar Missions

• Solar Missions

• Deep Space Missions

• Comets and Asteroids

• NASA Home Page

• JPL Home Page

• JPL Missions

• NASA Missions Home Page

• NASA Space Science Missions

• Human Mission Histories

On this page...

• Interplanetary Missions

  • MARS

  • Saturn

  • Jupiter

  • Mercury

  • Venus

  • Pluto

Look for satellites in orbit around Earth:

• LIFTOFF Home Page

  • TRACKING home page

  • Where is the International Space Station?

  • Where is the Space Shuttle?

  • 3-D Interactive: Locations of 500+ Satellites -VERY Cool!

• CNN 360º Interactive

Earth-Orbit Missions & Observing

• Gravity Probe B - relativity gyroscope to test two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity

Orbiting Telescopes (Link to SEDS page)  including:

• Hubble Space Telescope

• Spitzer Space Telescope - Space-based infrared telescope to study stars, galaxies and planetary discs

• Chandra X-ray Observatory

  • -Why an X-ray Telescope?
     

• GRACE - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

• Galaxy Evolution Explorer - orbiting space telescope that makes observations at ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation in the universe 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang

• Infrared Space Observatory

• DIVA

• Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)

• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)

Solar Missions

• Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) - Finding out about the corona.

• Ulysses - Taking a look at the Sun's Polar Regions (No snow there!)

• Genesis - Catching the Solar Wind!

• Yohkoh - "soft" X-Rays investigated.

• SOHO - Watching the sun all the time, and in many wavelengths.
   

• The Sun-Earth Connection
  Education Forum

• (Bijou SUN  Webpage)

Deep Space Missions

• Deep Space 1

Mark Wade's
ENCYCLOPEDIA ASTRONAUTICA
References to space exploration.

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UPDATED: 05/28/08

Lunar Missions

• Lunar Prospector Homepage

• Clementine

Lunar Eclipse of 10/27/04
© Jack Carlson

Comets and Asteroids

• Dawn - to Vesta & Ceres and the Asteroid Belt

• Rosetta - to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and study it.

• NEAR  Shoemaker

• Deep Impact - To study the pristine interior of a comet, the impactor excavated a crater in comet Tempel 1 in a quest to find what comets are really like!

• Stardust - returned particle samples from Comet Wild 2 and from interstellar dust.

Interplanetary Missions

The BIG Guys -

• Voyager Interstellar Mission

Saturn -

• Cassini-Huygens: Voyage to Saturn
  Doing some AMAZING Science!

• CICLOPS (Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations) - See the latest pictures from

• The Planetary Society Cassini-Huygens page

Jupiter -

• Galileo Home Page (JPL)

Closer in, or much farther out...

Mercury

• Mariner 10 - The First Mission to Mercury

• Messenger - The Current Mission to Mercury

Venus

•  Magellan Mission to Venus

Pluto

New Horizons is going to Pluto!  It'll "fly-by" in 2015!
 

...MARS... Are there, or were there ever, Martians???

JPL Mars Home Page

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

• Phoenix

• Mars Exploration Rover Mission (Spirit & Opportunity!)

• MarsQuest - An easier way to
  find the latest images and info.

• SEDS Mars page (a good resource
  with a lot of links)

• Mars Express

Other Successful Mars missions...

• Mars 2001 Odyssey

  • Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS)

  • Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS)

  • Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE)

• Mars Pathfinder (The first rover)

• Mars Global Surveyor