May 21, 2019 · La Tierra es un planeta dinámico y tormentoso que tiene de todo, desde tormentas breves y estruendosas hasta enormes y furiosos huracanes, los cuales son algunas de las más poderosas y destructivas tormentas de nuestro mundo.

May 1, 2019 · El módulo Viking 1 de la NASA mostró por primera vez a los seres humanos cómo se veía una puesta de Sol en Marte, en 1976. Desde entonces, varios otros robots en el Planeta Rojo han enviado a la Tierra una variedad de vistas de amaneceres y atardeceres en Marte.

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Introduction. The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet with seasons, polar ice caps, canyons, extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was even more active in the past.

Jan 9, 2025 · Overview: Until the Cassini mission, little was known about Saturn’s largest moon Titan, save that it was a Mercury-sized world whose surface was veiled beneath a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere.But Cassini mapped Titan’s surface, studied its atmospheric reactions, discovered liquid seas there and even sent a probe to the moon’s surface, completely rewriting our understanding of this ...

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Jun 8, 2017 · In August of 1999, Cassini flew within 720 miles (1,160 kilometers) of Earth. The spacecraft had launched in 1997 bound for Saturn, and spent nearly two years traveling more than a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) — roughly equal to the distance from Earth to Saturn — and yet the spacecraft was now so close to Earth that it was visible at night from some islands in the South Pacific.

Apr 8, 2024 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.