http://solarsystem.nasa.gov The Solar System Exploration Home Page is part of NASA's Office of Space Science and describes NASA's program to explore the solar system. en-us 10 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33176 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33176 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 24 Nov 2009 - Enceladus in Fall
Cassini captures detailed images and data during another close flyby of intriguing Enceladus.
]]> Cassini http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33175 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33175 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 23 Nov 2009 - Spirit Wheel Stall
Spirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21).
]]> Spirit http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33155 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33155 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 19 Nov 2009 - Hayabusa on Track
Mission team has a recovery plan to get the crippled Japanese asteroid mission back to Earth.
]]> Hayabusa http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33135 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33135 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 17 Nov 2009 - WISE Mission
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll.
]]> WISE http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33115 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33115 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 13 Nov 2009 - Outward Bound
Europe's comet-chasing Rosette heads for the the outer solar system after its final Earth swingby.
]]> Rosetta http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33117 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33117 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 12 Nov 2009 - Freeing Spirit
Mission controllers are sending commands to the long-lived Mars rover in an attempt to free it from a sand trap.
]]> Spirit http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33116 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33116 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 12 Nov 2009 - New Horizons Roused
Call it a burst of activity between naps: the New Horizons team woke its Pluto-bound spacecraft from hibernation this week for some onboard housekeeping.
]]> New Horizons http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33119 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33119 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 9 Nov 2009 - Close One
Small asteroid passes within 14,000 km of Earth -- the third closest non-impact ever cataloged.
]]> http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33118 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33118 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 9 Nov 2009 - Hayabusa Troubles
Team attempts to restart ion engine. The asteroid sample return mission is down to one thruster.
]]> Hayabusa http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33096 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33096 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 3 Nov 2009 - More Hidden Mercury
A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world.
]]> MESSENGER http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33095 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33095 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST 3 Nov 2009 - Dawn Journal
Dr. Marc Rayman offers the latest insight into the Dawn mission to Ceres and Vesta.
]]> Dawn http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33076 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33076 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 27 Oct 2009 - Mars Exploration Rovers Update
Spirit recovers use of her high-gain antenna; Opportunity eyes another Mars meteorite.
]]> Opportunity Spirit http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33075 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33075 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 27 Oct 2009 - MESSENGER: Up Close with Solar Flare Neutrons
NASA's MESSENGER orbiter gets a first-ever, up-close look at neutron production from a solar flare.
]]> MESSENGER http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33055 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33055 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 23 Oct 2009 - Portable NASA
The New Media Team at NASA Ames Research Center has developed the first NASA iPhone application to deliver up-to-the-minute NASA content directly from Agency sources in one easy-to-use mobile platform.
]]> http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33035 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33035 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 23 Oct 2009 - JAXA Message Campaign
Send a message to Venus aboard Japan's Akatsuki orbiter. Messages accepted through 25 Dec. 2009.
]]> Akatsuki http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33036 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33036 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 22 Oct 2009 - PLANET-C Named Akatsuki
Japan names its Venus climate orbiter Akatsuki, which is Japanese for dawn.
]]> Akatsuki http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33016 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33016 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 16 Oct 2009 - Launch Updates
WISE launch set for Dec. 7 in California; SDO is set for Feb. 3 in Florida.
]]> Solar Dynamics Observatory WISE http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32995 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32995 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 16 Oct 2009 - The New Shape of Our Solar System
Images from the Cassini spacecraft have revolutionized what we thought we knew for the past 50 years; the sun travels through the galaxy not like a comet but more like a big, round bubble.
]]> Cassini IBEX http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33015 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33015 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 14 Oct 2009 - Mars Exploration Rovers Update
Read the latest from Spirit and Opportunity on Mars.
]]> Opportunity Spirit http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32975 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32975 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 9 Oct 2009 - Impact Success
NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's instruments to assess whether water ice is present.
]]> LCROSS http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32955 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32955 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 7 Oct 2009 - Reduced Risk
Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
]]> http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32935 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32935 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST 6 Oct 2009 - NASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
]]> 0 0 0 Spitzer Space Telescope http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32915 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32915 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 30 Sep 2009 - MESSENGER's 3rd Mercury Flyby
Despite an unexpected signal loss hampered plans to tease out new details spotted in previous flybys, MESSENGER is a step closer to orbting Mercury in 2011.
]]> MESSENGER http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32895 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32895 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 24 Sep 2009 - Ice on Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.
]]> Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32875 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32875 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 24 Sep 2009 - Water Molecules Found on the Moon
NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small.
]]> Cassini Chandrayaan-1 Deep Impact-EPOXI http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32858 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32858 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 23 Sep 2009 - News from Mars
Go to NASA's homepage at noon PDT Thursday to listen to the latest findings from Mars.
]]> Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32857 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32857 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 23 Sep 2009 - MESSENGER Readies for Mercury
The spacecraft will pass less than 142 miles above the planet's rocky surface for a final gravity assist that will enable it to enter Mercury's orbit in 2011.
]]> MESSENGER http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32856 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32856 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 23 Sep 2009 - Mapping Mars Climate History
New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the past few million years.
]]> Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32855 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32855 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 23 Sep 2009 - A Rare Glimpse of Planetary Formation
Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around.
]]> Spitzer Space Telescope http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32835 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=32835 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PST 22 Sep 2009 - News from the Moon
NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new science data from the Moon collected during national and international space missions. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage.
]]> Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter