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Here's When You Can Plan to See Six or Seven Planets in a Planet Parade
It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...
Why Mercury Remains a Mystery: Three Key Exploration Challenges
Mercury is the least explored of the four rocky planets in the inner Solar System. It wasn’t until 2011 that NASA’s MESSENGER ...
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BepiColombo Reveals Mercury’s Hidden Surface in Stunning Infrared Detail
The BepiColombo mission, a joint endeavor by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...
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Scientists still don't fully understand why some planets have hundreds of moons while others have none
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...
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Do Other Planets Have Pole Stars?
Imagine an astronaut lost on another world when their communication systems fail. In most cases, they won’t be able to use a ...
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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
"The moment when we first looked at the MERTIS flyby data and could immediately distinguish impact craters was breathtaking!" ...
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BepiColombo’s fifth flyby of Mercury reveals planet’s surface...
The first observations from MERTIS revealed that certain areas of Mercury’s surface shine brighter in the mid-infrared than others. More specifically, the Caloris Basin and parts of a large volcanic ...
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Origins: Where Are the Aliens?
planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These planets are ...