EXPLORATION
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Earth, our home. Since the dawn of mankind, we – as one species – have prevailed and survived through catastrophes of mythical scale. A few minds change the way we see and describe the Cosmos around us. A few explorers unrevealed the true fabric of nature. Earth, People, Science, Philosophy and Art, makes our lives an unprecedented experience. 🙂
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Missions to the Moon
Moon holds the record on missions; with of over a hundred exploration (first mission was at 1958). Between 1969-1972, twelve (12) men have walked on the Moon. In our near future it is most likely to see a moon village!
Useful links on the missions: link#1, link#2, link#3, link#4, link#5.
this trip to space-time, an unprecedented experience.
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Missions to Mercury
We can refer two (2), so far, exploration missions to Mercury: ‘Mariner 10’ (1973) and the ‘MESSENGER’ (2004). Not the hottest but surely the closest planet to our sun!
Useful links on the missions: link#1, link#2, link#3, link#4.
Useful links on Mercury: link#1, link#2.
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Missions to Venus
Since 1961, a large number (40+) of missions to Venus were launched (link). Many of them ware failures (link#1, link#2)! Many missions (link#1, link#2) manage to send.
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Missions to Mars
His past excites our fantasy. Moreover, Olympus Mons is the tallest volcano in our solar system. The past and present of Mars’ exploration holds the record on tries of human exploration: orbiters, landers, probes. Mars’ future: terraforming & colonization? Who knows!
Useful links on the missions: link#1, link#2, link#3, link#4, link#5.
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Missions to Jupiter
Jupiter is our solar system’s biggest planet. His moon Europa holds many …icy secrets: ice tectonics,? eruption of water plumes? subsurface water ocean? Too many to be discovered!
Useful links on the missions: link#1, link#2, on Jupiter link#1, link#2 and Europa link#1, link#2.
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Missions to Saturn
Saturn, with the magnificent rings and two very … interesting moons – Titan & Enceladus, is the least dense planet. With a mean density of ~0.7 g/cm3 is less dens than water (1 g/cm3).
Useful links on the missions: link#1, , list#2, link#2, on Saturn link#1, link#2, on Titan & Enceladus link#1, link#2 .
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Mission to Uranus
Uranus is the coldest planet of our solar system. The only spacecraft ever visit Uranus is the Voyager 2 probe. The Voyager 2 was launched on 1977 and reached Uranus on 1986.
Useful links on the missions link and on Uranus link#1, link#2. link#3, link#4.
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Mission to Neptune
The only spacecraft ever visit Neptune is the Voyager 2 probe. Note that 1 neptunian years = 165 earth years!
Find here a useful link on the mission and on Neptune link#1, link#2.
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Mission to Pluto
The New Horizons missions, is the only mission, to our very distant dwarf planet and beyond. Too many to be discovered!
Useful links on the mission link#1, link#2 and on Pluto link#1, link#2.
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The Rosetta mission
“ESA’s historic Rosetta mission concluded as planned, on 30 September 2016, with a controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years. The mission was launched on 2 March 2004, on a 10-year journey towards comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. En route, it passed by two asteroids, 2867 Steins (in 2008) and 21 Lutetia (in 2010), before entering deep-space hibernation mode in June 2011. On 20 January 2014, it ‘woke up’ and prepared for arrival at the comet in August that year. On 12 November, the mission deployed its Philae probe to the comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat was achieved. During the next phase of the mission, Rosetta accompanied the comet through perihelion (13 August 2015) until the end of the mission.” from http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/
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