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Solar System NASA Rover Opportunity's Selfie Shows Clean Machine A new self-portrait by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows gleaming solar arrays, thanks to recent help from dust-cleaning winds. › Read more Dawn in the Apollo Valley Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone, known as the "Beam Waveguide Cluster." › Read more Solar System Missions Cassini-Huygens to SaturnStudying Saturn and its rings and moons.› DawnDawn, the first spacecraft ever planned to orbit two different bodies after leaving Earth, will orbit Vesta and Ceres, two of the largest asteroids in the solar system.› EpoxiThe Epoxi mission recycles the already "in flight" Deep Impact spacecraft to investigate two distinct celestial targets of opportunity.› JunoThe Juno spacecraft, currently making its way to Jupiter, will for the first time peer below Jupiter's dense cover of clouds to answer questions about the gas giant and the origins of our solar system.› VoyagerVoyager 1 and 2 flew past Jupiter and Saturn.

Stars and Galaxies Astrophysics Missions Galaxy Evolution Explorer Uses ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang. › Mission home page Exoplanet Updates, documents, and in-depth information about NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. › Exoplanet web site Keck Interferometer Links two 10-meter (33-foot) telescopes, which form the world's most powerful optical telescope system. › Telescope home page Kepler Mission The Kepler Mission will search for Earth-like planets with the "transit" method. › Kepler home page Palomar Observatory A joint effort between JPL and the California Institute of Technology, the Palomar Observatory houses a collection of famous telescopes. › Palomar home page PlanetQuest web site The latest news, images, and information about NASA's search for exoplanets and another Earth. › PlanetQuest web site Voyager to the Outer Planets Voyager 1 and 2 flew past Jupiter and Saturn.

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Eyes on the Solar System: NASA web app lets you explore space in 3D | Geek-Cetera Unless you’re an astronaut, or a billionaire with enough money to pay for a ride into space, you’ll probably never see what Earth looks like from above its atmosphere or see the rings of Saturn in real life (sorry to be the one to break it to you). Thankfully, NASA has created a real-time 3D browser-based experience that lets you explore the planets and their moons, asteroids, and other objects in our solar system, as well as the spacecrafts that are exploring these objects. The browser-based app, called “Eyes on the Solar System,” uses video game technology and NASA data to let you control your point of view by clicking and dragging your mouse. NASA said this is the first time the public will actually be able to see the whole solar system as well as NASA’s missions as they move together in real-time. The app actually lets you follow NASA spacecrafts thanks to NASA’s actual space mission data. NASA via PhysOrg