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Solar System News

The short videos take audiences behind the scenes to learn more about how space missions come together.

New Video Series Captures Team Working on NASA's Europa Clipper

New Video Series Captures Team Working on NASA's Europa Clipper

The next full Moon will be on Friday afternoon, May 5, 2023. The Moon will appear full from early Thursday morning through early Sunday morning.

The Next Full Moon is the Flower, Corn, or Corn Planting Moon

The Next Full Moon is the Flower, Corn, or Corn Planting Moon

A new study using two NASA solar observatories reveals that asteroid 3200 Phaethon’s tail is not dusty at all but is actually made of sodium gas.

Asteroid's Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust, Solar Observatories Reveal

Asteroid's Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust, Solar Observatories Reveal

One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s surface.

Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Orbiter Retired

Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Orbiter Retired

A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists the best data yet on its size and composition.

InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core

InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core

On April 20, a first-of-its-kind NASA-funded experiment will fly a scientific instrument on a large kite to study a total solar eclipse. Lifting off from Australia, the experiment aims to rise above any clouds that might block the instrument's view of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.

Clouds for Your Eclipse? NASA Experiment Will Fly Kite to Rise Above

Clouds for Your Eclipse? NASA Experiment Will Fly Kite to Rise Above

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Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade

Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade

NASA’s Juno mission completed its 50th close pass by Jupiter on April 8, 2023. To mark the 50th close pass, NASA teamed up with Google Arts & Culture to feature a selection of JunoCam images.

Juno Marks 50 Orbits Around Jupiter

Juno Marks 50 Orbits Around Jupiter

This wider view of the Uranian system features Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons.

The Uranian System

The Uranian System

Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus.

NASA's Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus

NASA's Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus

NASA’s Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of the mission’s newest science campaign on Thursday, March 30.

Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign

Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign

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.

Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus

Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus