- Solar System Ambassadors - NASA Science
For more than 25 years, the NASA Solar System Ambassadors program has been a public engagement effort that works with motivated volunteers across the nation to communicate the science and excitement of NASA's space exploration missions and discoveries with the people in their communities Originally called the Galileo Ambassador Program, the initiative was the idea of a New Hampshire teacher
- 2024 NASA Power to Explore Contest Winners - NASA Science
NASA announced the winners of the third annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students about the power of
- Saturn Facts - NASA Science
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and the second-largest planet in our solar system
- Saturn - NASA Science
Hubble’s new look at Saturn on September 12 shows rapid and extreme color changes of the bands in the planet’s northern hemisphere, where it is now early autumn The bands have varied throughout Hubble observations in both 2019 and 2020 Notably, Saturn’s iconic hexagonal storm,
- NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled with water Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane On Earth, liquid water is thought to have been
- About the Planets - Science@NASA
About the Planets Our solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune There are five officially recognized dwarf
- Pastel Planet - NASA Science
With pastel blues, pinks, greens and golds, Saturn displays a dazzling diversity of colors and hues Here, Cassini looks upward at, and through, the sunlit side of the rings from about 19 degrees below the ring plane The small moon Janus (181 kilometers, or 113 miles across) can be spotted off the planet's western limb (edge) near the image bottom Images taken using red, green and blue
- NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Sets Sights on Titan’s Mysteries
When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain Dunes wrap around
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