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Departing Venus
Published:
December 18, 2015
MESSENGER Venus departure sequence.
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Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. Skull Valley, Utah.
Three Planets Over Earth
Venus and Jupiter part ways following their March 1 rendezvous, while Ceres reaches opposition, and is worth hunting for using binoculars.
What's Up: March 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Look for the charioteer constellation, Auriga, along with two easy-to-locate star clusters, M41 and M47. And watch as Jupiter and Venus get close.
What's Up: February 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
This visual reveals how the magnetic field associated with the Psyche spacecraft distorts the ambient magnetic field to be measured.
Magnetic Field of the Psyche Spacecraft Immersed in the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF)
The Psyche spacecraft includes many unavoidable magnetic field sources, which must be accounted for to measure the magnetic field signature of the Psyche metal-rich asteroid.
Magnetic Field of the Psyche Spacecraft
A whimsical collection of cosmic candies. Ready to download and share.
Cosmic Candies (Artist's Concept)
Some close approaches by Mars, Jupiter, the Moon, Venus, and Saturn, plus the brilliant winter stars, and a comet you can find with binoculars.
What's Up: January 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
The 2023 phases of the Moon at hourly intervals.
Moon Phases 2023
NASA’s SunRISE will send a fleet of six SmallSats into orbit around Earth to work as one radio telescope to investigate radio waves from the Sun.
NASA Facts: SunRISE | Six Small Satellites to Study the Sun
The Heliophysics Big Year is a NASA-led public engagement campaign designed to promote heliophysics broadly, make heliophysics science and information accessible to all, and showcase ongoing effort...
Heliophysics Big Year Assets
This fact sheet, available to download in color and grayscale, provides information about eclipses and how to watch this one safely.
October 14, 2023 Annular Eclipse Fact Sheet
The Moon occults Mars, and slips past Jupiter twice, while winged stallion Pegasus looks on.
What's Up: December 2022 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A total lunar eclipse, Leonid meteors, and the Moon visits Mars, Saturn, and Spica.
What's Up: November 2022 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Happy Halloween, space explorers. Perhaps you could carve a few moments out of your busy schedule to join me for a haunted hayride to some of the more disturbing destinations of your sinister littl...
Haunted Hayride through the Sinister Solar System
OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth in 2023 with its precious sample of asteroid Bennu.
OSIRIS-REx Return Cruise from Asteroid Bennu to Earth
NASA’s Lucy mission is heading to the Jupiter Trojans – but first, it's returning home for an Earth gravity assist.
Lucy Spacecraft Will Slingshot Around Earth
Shadow of an annular eclipse seen from the International Space Station on May 20, 2012.
The Space Station Captures an Annular Eclipse Shadow
An annular solar eclipse photographed on May 20, 2012.
May 20, 2012 Annular Eclipse
An annular solar eclipse creates a "ring of fire" around the Moon, similar to that seen in this image taken by JAXA/NASA Hinode spacecraft.
Hinode Captures an Annular Eclipse
An annular solar eclipse over New Mexico.
New Mexico Annular Eclipse
An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon eclipses the Sun while it is at its farthest point from Earth, making it appear too small to block out the entire solar disk.
Annular Eclipse of October 3, 2005
Employees and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory stopped to watch the Aug. 21, 2017, solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Hinode Captures a Solar Eclipse
Employees and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory stopped to watch the Aug. 21, 2017, solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Viewing the Solar Eclipse from NASA JPL
The Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse as seen by the people attending the viewing event at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, Salem, Oregon.
Total Solar Eclipse Seen from Salem, Oregon
This full-disk geocolor image from the GOES-16 satellite shows the shadow of the Moon covering a large portion of the northwestern United States on Aug. 21, 2017.
GOES-16 Captures the Moon's Shadow
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In a first, scientists have seen direct evidence of active volcanism on Earth’s twin, setting the stage for the agency’s VERITAS mission to investigate.
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Venus may be losing heat from geologic activity in regions called coronae, possibly like early tectonic activity on Earth.
Venus' ‘Squishy' Outer Shell May Be Resurfacing the Planet
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