In Depth | Earth – NASA Solar System Exploration
While Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. Just slightly larger than nearby Venus, Earth is the …
In Depth | Earth's Moon – NASA Solar System Exploration
The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also …
In Depth | Our Solar System - NASA Solar System Exploration
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 …
Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration
2025年1月9日 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
Earth 3D Model - NASA Solar System Exploration
You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience.
Galileo Venus Flyby - NASA Solar System Exploration
The Venus flyby geometry was designed to swing the spacecraft back to Earth on December 8, 1990, for a 600-mile flyby angled to put Galileo in a two-year elliptical orbit around the Sun, …
Mercury By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration
2024年5月16日 · Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the smallest planet in our solar system - only slightly larger than Earth's Moon.
Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth - the Closest Flyby on Record
2020年8月18日 · Asteroid 2020 QG enters the record books as the closest known nonimpacting asteroid; many very small asteroids impact our planet every year, but only a few have actually …
35th Anniversary of the Voyager 1 Saturn Flyby
2015年11月9日 · The Cassini probe was designed to explore Saturn’s atmosphere, rings, magnetosphere, and moons. It has successfully found geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, …
Raw Images – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.