(JUICE's anticipated arrival at Jupiter is July 2031, roughly a year after Clipper.) Europa Clipper's flyby of Mars on March 1 will bring it within just 550 miles above the Martian surface ...
Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...
Today (March 1), NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly past Mars, gliding just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the Red Planet's surface ... trek to the Jupiter system. The probe's destination ...
above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a critical leg of its long voyage to the Jupiter system.
From west to east: Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars. But on Friday ... people are still imprinted in the regolith of its surface. Those markings of human exploration will be ...
Mars and Jupiter dominate the late evenings ... which scatters blue light and allows red light to continue on to the lunar surface. This initially subtle coloration is particularly noticeable ...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today (March 1), NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly past Mars, gliding just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the Red Planet's surface. This maneuver is designed to ...