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Cassini Completes Final — and Fateful — Titan Flyby

By Preston Dyches | Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Apr 24, 2017   Science/Education  

Cassini Completes Final — and Fateful — Titan Flyby

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has had its last close brush with Saturn’s hazy moon Titan and is now beginning its final set of 22 orbits around the ringed planet. The spacecraft made its 127th and final close approach to Titan on April 21 at 11:08 p.m. PDT (2:08 a.m. EDT on April 22), passing at an […]

Asteroid 2016 RB1 Passes by 25,000 Miles above Earth with Little Notice

By Alaska Native News on Sep 16, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

Asteroid 2016 RB1 Passes by 25,000 Miles above Earth with Little Notice

  While people on earth were going about their business as usual, an event occurred a mere 25,000 miles above us. On Wednesday, September 7th, an asteroid passed close to the earth. 2016 RB1, discovered by astronomers using a 60-inch reflector telescope on the summit of Mount Lemmon, north of Tucson, passed over the south […]

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View

By DC Agle / Preston Dyches | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo | NASA on Jul 13, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View

The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft’s July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno’s visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system. The first high-resolution images of the […]

Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit

By Mike O'Sullivan | VOA on Jul 5, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA—There were hugs, “high fives” and handshakes at Juno mission control at Jet Propulsion Laboratory Monday, as the unmanned spacecraft completed its engine burn to enter Jupiter orbit and start its 20-month mission mapping the giant planet. Scientists and engineers in Pasadena, California, felt “a huge sigh of relief, and excitement,” said principal investigator […]

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