NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It’s tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojourner Truth, spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain.
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Carr passed away on Aug. 26, 2020. “NASA and the nation have lost a pioneer of long duration spaceflight,» said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Read the statement.
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As the International Space Station orbited more than 200 miles above our home planet, the crew caught this glimpse of the sunrise casting long shadows over a cloudy Philippine Sea.
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This Hubble Space Telescope image depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, the result of the «death» of a star 20 times more massive than our Sun 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. Light from this supernova takes around 2,400 years to reach Earth.
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In this large celestial mosaic taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and published in 2019, there’s a lot to see, including multiple clusters of stars born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust.
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