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The full moon occurs on the 9th in the constellation of Aquarius — the Perseid meteor showers peak from August 11-13. Venus ...
Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 ...
NASA doesn’t usually fix cameras with a bake-and-pray routine, but Jupiter doesn’t usually give second chances. As Juno lined ...
Io, one of Jupiter’s Jovian moons, is the most volcanic place in our entire Solar System. Over the last few years NASA’s Juno ...
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Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...
The technique has implications for future space missions, showing the potential for remote diagnostics and repair in deep ...
Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...
From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...
August 2025 brings the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 9, a Venus-Jupiter conjunction on August 12 and the peak of the Perseid ...
Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, ...
There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...