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The Day the Earth Smiled. Earth can be seen as a blue dot underneath the rings of Saturn. The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled. The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet ...
It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most- massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets.
Venus in real colors, processed from clear and blue filtered Mariner 10 images. Observations of the planet Venus include those in antiquity, telescopic observations, and from visiting spacecraft. Spacecraft have performed various flybys, orbits, and landings on Venus, including balloon probes that floated in the atmosphere of Venus.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 August 2024. Alleged Earth satellite of extraterrestrial origin For the British rocket program, see Black Knight (rocket). 1998 NASA photo of space debris, an object believed by some conspiracy theorists to be an extraterrestrial satellite, the Black Knight GIF of the six images taken of the space ...
Map based on mapping from Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Magellan. The Venera (Russian: Вене́ра, pronounced [vʲɪˈnʲɛrə] 'Venus') program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus. Thirteen probes successfully entered the Venusian atmosphere, including ...
Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'. [2] [3] [4] It is the oldest "film" listed on IMDb and ...
The Mars 6 bus flew by Mars at a minimum distance of 1600 km. Also carried a lander. Mars 7's lander was released prematurely and missed Mars. Mariner 10 flew by Venus at a minimum distance of 5768 km. It was the first use of a gravity assist by an interplanetary spacecraft. Voyager 2 flew by Jupiter.