Galileo, OrbView‑2, Terra, Aqua, Lunar Orbiter, Magellan, Mariner 10, Yohkoh, SOHO, TRACE, Mars Pathfinder Lander, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Viking Orbiter, Viking Lander, NEAR, Cassini, Voyager 1 and 2.
Articles with Spacecraft
Jupiter, as imaged by the Juno spacecraft • NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Artist's conception of the Cassini spacecraft arriving at Saturn • NASA/JPL (Public Domain)
Cassini at Saturn
Each of us is born at the center of the world.
The Pioneer Plaque attached to the spacecraft before launch • NASA (Public Domain)
Spacecraft carry Earth’s goodwill
Remember 1972?
Illustration of Cassini exploring Saturn • Image by Kevin Gill (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Cassini’s slingshot tour
On the evening of February 23, Venus overtook Jupiter in the evening sky. The two planets gleamed together in a pairing of rare closeness. Both fit neatly into the field of a small telescope, with all four of Jupiter’s Galilean moons.
Artist's depiction of Galileo exploring Jupiter • NASA/JPL (Public Domain)
Just in case anybody is hanging out in Jovian neighborhood
Spacecraft Galileo is on its way to Jupiter.
Artists view of a Voyager spacecraft in outer space • NASA/JPL (Public Domain)
Starflight
Plucky, lucky Voyager 2 is the little spacecraft that could.
Miranda as imaged by Voyager 2 • NASA/JPL
The little spacecraft that could
In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda grows to the age of sixteen on an ocean isle with no human companions other than her father Prospero and the monster Caliban. When storm and shipwreck bring others to the island she is suddenly awakened to the variety and beauty of mankind. “O brave new world,” she exclaims, dazzled,“that has such people in’t!”