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Nasa
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Space
• Sent probes into space (robots)
• Discovered the terrain on mare
• Started in 1962 first was launched July 22nd 1962
• 10 of them were launched
• 11 and 12 were canceled -
Galileo Jupiter Space program
• 10,000,000$ for probe
• Enabled us to see things that we would not be able to
• Salt water under the ice on the moons
• First space craft to do discover Jupiter’s moons and Jupiter -
Venera Probes
• From Russia
• Sent the first probe
• Launched October 4th
• 16 probes
• 2 lost contact
• 1 lost contact automatically
• Got information about Venus
• Venera 7 survived 23 minutes -
Venera Probes 4-12 landing
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Magellan Spacecraft
• Cost 551 million
• Arrived august 10th 1990
• 7612 pounds
• Solar panels
• Solid rocket orbit
• Discovered a planets astronauts could not get to
• Discovered Venuses plate tectonics -
The Cassini
• NASA jet population lab.
• Italian space industry
• 3.3 billion
• 260 scientists gained better understandings of Saturn
• October 15 1997
• Venus (April 1998- June 1999)
• Earth (august 1999)
• Wanted to know more of Saturn
• 12,467 lbs. -
Skylap
• First space station of the U.S -
Mars Rovers
• Goal to see if life is possible on mars
• Characterize the climate
• Spirit was launched on July 7, 2003 and landed January 3
• Last connection on March 22, 2010
• Opprotunity is 9 years old
• Mission originally 90 days but lasted 9 years