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  2. Grand Tour program - Wikipedia

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    Trajectories of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The Grand Tour is a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System.It called for four spacecraft, two of which would visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, while the other two would visit Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.

  3. Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia

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    At the bottom of the plaque is a schematic diagram of the Solar System. A small picture of the spacecraft is shown, and the trajectory shows its way past Jupiter and out of the Solar System. Both Pioneers 10 and 11 have identical plaques; however, after launch, Pioneer 11 was redirected toward Saturn and from there it exited the Solar System.

  4. Mariner Mark II - Wikipedia

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    Two projects were conceived by NASA's Solar System Exploration Committee in 1983, the Planetary Observer program, and Mariner Mark II. The Observer program, starting with the Mars Observer , was envisioned as a series of low-cost missions to the inner Solar System , based on commercial Earth satellites, while the Mariner Mark II was to be a ...

  5. List of proposed Solar System probes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of proposed space probes that are planned to focus on the exploration of the Solar System, ordered by date of spacecraft launch. Launched probes are in the List of Solar System probes and the List of active Solar System probes .

  6. Discovery and exploration of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The Solar System is one of many planetary systems in the galaxy. [1] [2] The planetary system that contains Earth is named the "Solar" System. The word "solar" is derived from the Latin word for Sun, Sol (genitive Solis). Anything related to the Sun is called "solar": for example, stellar wind from the Sun is called solar wind.

  7. Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Solar System task force

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    Reyk (talk · contribs) Asteroids, small moons, history of the solar system, and anything that's not well understood; RSStockdale (talk · contribs) all; Ruslik0 (talk · contribs) Outer planets and satellites. Serendipodous (talk · contribs) Now focusing on the solar system featured topic, though Definition of planet has become an issue yet ...