Where Next Will NASA Boldly Go? 30/01/2021
An image of Jupiter’s swirling south polar region captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, December 2017. Image: NASA.
In February, NASA will land a nuclear-powered car on Mars. In 2022, the agency will be well into the construction of a Jupiter orbiter the length of a basketball court. Both missions called “flagships” because of their multibillion-dollar budgets and what NASA describes as “civilisation-scale science” for their potential impact are part of the agency’s search for life elsewhere in the solar system. But neither mission is likely to find life on its own, unless an animal scurries up to Perseverance rover’s camera or a geyser on Jupiter’s ocean moon blasts a fish into space right in front of Europa Clipper spacecraft.
After two years of futile struggles to penetrate surprisingly sticky soil, the heat probe’s demise leaves large gaps in our understanding of the Red Planet’s interior
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To explore the Pluto-Charon system, NASA designed the small New Horizons probe and put it on one of the largest rockets, the Atlas V. When it left Earth, New Horizons was the fastest spacecraft ever, zooming to the end of the solar system at a speed of more than 58,000 km (36,000 miles) per hour. With the exploration of Pluto, NASA probes would have visited every planet, but before New Horizons even got past Jupiter…
August 24, 2006: Pluto Demoted to Dwarf Planet
The dwarf planet Ceres in a photograph taken by NASA s Dawn spacecraft on February 19, 2015, from a distance of nearly 46,000 km (29,000 miles). It shows that the brightest spot on Ceres has a dimmer companion, which apparently lies in the same basin.