🟡 Meet DAVINCI 🚀(Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging).
The DAVINCI Mission will descend through the dense and layered Venusian atmosphere to the surface of the planet in mid-2031. DAVINCI is the first mission to study Venus using both spacecraft flybys and a descent probe. Principal Investigator Jim Garvin gives an overview of the mission and the probe’s landing site – Alpha Regio.
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Look closely. It's something we don't often get to see. Earth and Moon in one image!
Our #LucyMission observed the May 15-16 lunar eclipse from 64 million miles (100 million kilometers) from Earth! In this timelapse video, the Earth is seen on the left (its rotation clearly visible) while the Moon (on the right, brightened sixfold to increase its visibility) disappears from view as it passes into Earth’s shadow. The video covers a period of almost three hours, from 9:40 p.m. EDT on May 15 to 12:30 a.m. EDT on May 16. The observations ended before the Moon emerged from the shadow. The video repeats 8 times.
The Lucy spacecraft launched in October 2021. It is currently traveling back towards Earth for a gravity assist on October 16, 2022, to help propel it on its journey to the Trojan asteroids. Learn more about Lucy at nasa.gov/lucy.
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What’s a tiny plant doing on the NASASolarSystem feed? Well, this Arabidopsis thaliana plant was grown in *lunar soil,* called regolith!
This scientific breakthrough made by researchers at @uflorida has a big impact for long-term human space exploration and helps us better understand the Moon’s natural resources.
This research opens the door to someday growing plants in habitats on the Moon, and prompts additional questions. Are materials from different areas of the Moon more conducive to growing plants than others? Could studying lunar regolith help us understand more about the Mars regolith and potentially growing plants in that material as well? These are questions that the team hopes to study next, in support of future astronauts traveling to the Moon.
There's something about #StarWarsDay day that makes us want to stare at the sunset on a desert planet.
The first image was taken in 2005 by our Spirit rover in Gusev Crater on Mars.
The second came from the Curiosity rover in Gale Crater in 2015.
Learn all about our current and past Mars missions at mars.nasa.gov, and #maythe4thbewithyou#NASA#space#science#Mars
Let's compare the ice worlds Hoth and Europa, a moon of Jupiter:
Lots of Ice
✅ Hoth ✅ Europa
Visits from Robotic Probes
✅ Hoth ✅ Europa
Wampas
✅ Hoth ❌ Europa
Real Place
❌ Hoth ✅ Europa
Set your course for the Jupiter system at europa.nasa.gov, and #MayThe4thBeWithYou#NASA#space#science#Jupiter#Europa#StarWarsDay#EuropaClipper
A solar eclipse was visible in some parts of the world today. Did you know eclipses happen on Mars, too? On April 2, NASA's Perseverance Rover captured Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, passing in front of the Sun.
Learn more at mars.nasa.gov
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Moon shadow: our Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission’s 40th close pass by the giant planet on Feb. 25, 2022. The large, dark shadow on the left side of the image was cast by Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
If you were at Jupiter’s cloud tops within the oval shadow, you would experience a total eclipse as Ganymede temporarily blocked out the Sun.
Learn more about Jupiter and Juno at the link in our bio: solarsystem.nasa.gov
📸 JunoCam image processed by Thomas Thomopoulos
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No place like home: among all the worlds we've encountered, so far Earth is the only one that we know supports life. As Earth Month comes to a close, see how exploring space helps us better understand our own planet: nasa.gov/earth
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
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What's Up - April 2022
Two planetary pairings will make April mornings special – Mars & Saturn, and Venus & Jupiter. See more at solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching
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During a recent Jupiter flyby, NASA's Juno spacecraft glimpsed two other worlds as well: the giant planet’s intriguing moons Io & Europa. (Look closely at the right side of the image.)
Io is the solar system’s most volcanic body, while Europa’s icy surface hides a global ocean of liquid water beneath. Juno will have an opportunity to capture much more detailed observations of Europa – using several scientific instruments – in September 2022, when the spacecraft makes the closest fly-by of the enigmatic moon in decades. The mission will also make close approaches to Io in late 2023 and early 2024.
Learn more about Jupiter, Io, Europa, and the Juno mission at the link in our bio: solarsystem.nasa.gov
📸: This view is a crop of a JunoCam image processed by citizen scientist AndreaLuck.
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Ten years ago this month, our Cassini spacecraft captured the brightly reflective moon Enceladus before Saturn's rings, while the larger moon Titan loomed in the distance. Learn more about the Cassini mission and Saturn at solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini
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