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What spacecrafts discovered Mars?
There were a number of spacecraft that were sent to Mars including the Mars Odyssey and the Mars Express Orbiter. Most of the spacecraft that were designed to travel to Mars did not make the trip intact?
What are the space crafts in space presently?
The only manned space craft is the international space station which is in earth orbit. There are countless earth-orbitting satellites, most of them are there for communication (telephones etc.). Notable artificial satellites are the Hubble Space Telescope and the Kepler Space Telescope. The Lunar Reconnassance Orbiter takes super-high resolution images of the moon, perhaps in preparation for future manned missions. Also there is the Chinese Chang'e 2 probe. As for other planets, we have the Venus Express orbiter around Venus and the MESSENGER spacecraft orbitting Mercury. On Mars there is the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global surveyor. In the asteroid belt there is the Dawn spacecraft and several others. There are no spacecraft orbitting Jupiter, the last one being Galileo which was sent to burn up in the Jovian atmosphere so the erase the possibility of contaminating the moon Europa, which may have sub-surface oceans with life. Saturn has one orbiter, the Cassini spacecraft which primarily studies Saturn's moons, particularly Titan and it dropped at landing probe called Huygens to it's surface in 2005. No spacecraft orbit Uranus or Neptune, but the New Horizons probe is heading towards Pluto and will arive in 2015. 4 probes are beyond that, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 which all observed the outer planets about 40 years ago. There are also numerous spacecraft that orbit the sun, but all of the major ones have been listed here.
What was the name of the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter?
It's Pioneer 10, launched in March 1972. Pioneer 10 first explored the asteroid belt, then moved on to Jupiter. After that, it explored other outer planets and eventually went outside of the solar system, thus becoming the first spacecraft to flay past Pluto.
What was the purpose of Apollo 1?
Apollo 1 was to test out the new three man spacecraft.
What must the spacecraft do to land softly on the moon?
Generally, soft moon landings have required the use of retro-rockets. These are small rocket engines designed to slow the descent of the spacecraft. On Mars, inflatable airbags have been used. Several teams are now competing to land rovers on the moon as part of the Google Lunar X-Prize...it will be interesting to see if any of them intend to use novel new approaches to achieve soft landings.
Which NASA spacecraft took photos of Pluto in 2015 and 2016?
The New Horizons spacecraft. It will reach Pluto July 14th 2015.
Do you have pictures of the three dwarf planets if you do show me?
Currently no clear pictures if any dwarf planet exist, as none have been visited by a spacecraft. In 2015, however, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by Pluto, and the Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around Ceres.
What spacecrafts discovered Mars?
There were a number of spacecraft that were sent to Mars including the Mars Odyssey and the Mars Express Orbiter. Most of the spacecraft that were designed to travel to Mars did not make the trip intact?
What was the first machine to go to Pluto and take pictures?
None have yet been to Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft it currently heading towards it but will not get there until 2015.
Why don't space probes visit Pluto?
The only space probe to visit Pluto was the New Horizons spacecraft. It took 9 years to get there.
What spacecraft will Pluto be visited by and when?
Pluto will be visited by the spacecraft New Horizon in 2015
What was the name of the spacecraft sent to ploto during new horizons mission?
The name of the spacecraft is, rather anticlimactically, "New Horizons".
What is the spacecraft for Jupiter?
the galileo, however it was destroyed in 2003 and a new spacecraft will be sent out in 2011
What was the spacecraft called that landed on Pluto?
No spacecraft has ever landed on Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft did a flyby (2015-2016) but did not land on the surface.
Are there any pictures of lil waynes new son?
there was on her myspace but she took them down and i havent seen any since
How took the spaceship to land in mars?
the question doesn't make sense NEW 8/14/2012 (PurpleMouse): I think the ask-er is trying to say, "how long did it take the spaceship to land on mars?" It took a year for a rover to land, so maybe less for a spaceship.
What happened new in Mars?
a lot happen new in mars, buddy
