A ‘2001 Space Odyssey’ To Map Mars
NASA’s ‘Energizer’ Mars Orbiter The 2001 Mars Odyssey mission, launched on April 7, 2001, is NASA's longest-serving spacecraft in operation at Mars. The mission’s primary science objective was to compile…
Psyche Probe – Journey To Orbit A Metal World
Visit An Iron-Nickel Asteroid! The NASA Psyche mission, which is run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with Arizona State University, is a voyage to study a one…
Search For Martians! The NASA Mars 2020 Rover
Seeking Habitable Conditions And Life! The NASA Mars 2020 mission continues the American space agency’s long history of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 rover will search…
Learn About ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE)
Destination Jupiter! The European Space Agency’s (ESA) JUICE mission is an interplanetary spacecraft designed to visit and study the Jovian moon system. After reaching Jupiter the probe will flyby and…
Listening For Whispers Via The Deep Space Network 📡
NASA’s Giant Ears! At the beginning of the Space Age when interplanetary spacecraft missions began to leave Earth, NASA set up the Deep Space Network (DSN) which is a network…
Checkout The OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Sample Return Mission
Asteroid Touch-And-Go The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is a unique sample return mission to the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu which is also a potentially hazardous asteroid that may hit Earth late next century.…
Rosetta Mission – First To Orbit & Land On A Comet!
Comet Chaser The Rosetta spacecraft is a European Space Agency (ESA) probe which travelled for 10 years to chase down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; said to be shaped like a giant rubber…
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | Mapping The Moon
Revealing The Lunar Surface NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an unmanned spacecraft in polar lunar orbit, which was designed to image the lunar surface to help identify if water-ice…
Deep Impact – Colliding With A Comet!
Comets Interior The Deep Impact mission, which deployed an impactor probe towards the comet Tempel 1 (and excavate material from its interior), was the first of its kind! The impact…
Stardust – The First Comet Coma Sample Return Mission!
Cosmic Dust, Comets Coma The Stardust mission to collect dust from the coma of comet Wild 2 during its close encounter (along with cosmic dust), and return it to Earth…