Planetary Exploration

General Resources Blast from the Past - exploring the possibilities that an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Earth Science and Solar System Exploration Division - NASA/Johnson Space Center Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration - IMAGE will study the response of Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind, producing images of the magnetosphere from neutral atom and radio observations. NSSDC Master Catalog - an on-line information system providing information about past, present, and future NASA and non-NASA spaceflight missions and about the investigations flown or scheduled to fly on them. Planetary Missions, Data, and Information - a comprehensive directory by the National Space Science Data Center. Upcoming Planetary Events and Missions - from the National Space Science Data Center.	Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope Information Hubble Space Telescope Links - includes a bookstore. Arizona State University Hubble Space Telescope Interface Astrometry Science Team - uses the Fine Guidance Sensors aboard Hubble Space Telescope to measure star positions and study binary stars unresolvable using ground-based techniques. Eye on the Universe - features a profile of mission STS-82, with a complete day-by-day mission calendar. Hosted by crew member Steve Smith. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Hubble - online mission control for all things Hubble. Hubble Observes a Star on the Brink of Destruction - Eta Carinae. Hubble Space Telescope Near Infra-Red Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) - second-generation instrument installed on the Hubble Space Telescope, which provides infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of astronomical targets between 0.8-2.5 microns. Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility - supports the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the earth-orbiting NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Star Journey - journey through the stars with National Geographic. Includes a Star Chart with overlays of images from the Hubble Telescope. UK Support Facility Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) - corrects for the spherical aberration problem in the HST primary mirror. Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures - direct from Hubble's home, the Space Telescope Science Institute. Press Releases Space Telescope Science Institute - home of the Hubble Space Telescope. sci.astro.hubble - processing Hubble Space Telescope data (Moderated). sci.astro.hubble Archive
Cassini Cassini Huygens Probe Cassini Information Cassini Project at IRF-U - providing a spherical Langmuir probe for the measurement of the plasma density and temperature. Will also use other antennas on the spacecraft for the same purpose. Cassini Radar - the specific task of the Radar instrument will be to study Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini: Voyage to Saturn - provides information concerning the assembly and launch of the spacecraft around Saturn; study of the Saturnian system. CNN: Journey to Saturn European Space Agency Huygens Probe to Titan - key facts, mission details, probe description, instruments, and more. Huygens Information - from the National Space Science Data Center. Huygens.com - collection of messages and signatures on CD-ROM flying to Titan onboard ESA's Huygens space probe. Risks vs. Returns: Is the Cassini Mission Safe? - a PBS Online NewsHour Forum providing questions and answers. Support the Cassini Space Mission to Saturn - "choose knowledge, not fear."	Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics (AXAF) Mission Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics (AXAF) Science Center Public Information Server - current information on the "hot" field of X-ray astronomy and the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics (AXAF) mission, NASA's next great observatory. AXAF Project Science AXAF Science Center User Support - technical support for AXAF users.
Discovery Missions Discovery Missions Under Consideration - the Suess-Urey solar wind mission and the Venus Multi-Probe mission. Discovery Program - NASA's Solar System Exploration Division and the Discovery Program Office present Discovery missions whose goal is to send smaller, less expensive spacecraft to explore the Solar System at a much higher rate than in the past. Stardust Mission - will fly close to a comet and, for the first time ever, bring cometary material back to Earth for analysis by scientists worldwide.	RXTE RXTE Guest Observer Facility - NASA's X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) is observing X-rays from white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. RXTE Learning Center - educational site that contains information on the satellite RXTE, x-ray astrophysics, and lesson plans which utilize real data.
Galileo Europa Landscapes from Galileo Images - shows the applications of shape-from-shading to the extraction of planetary surfaces. Galileo Countdown - provides the latest information about the upcoming orbit, as well as background information on the moon which Galileo will encounter on that orbit. Galileo Experiments and Data Galileo Flybys of the Earth and Moon Galileo Project Information - NASA mission to Jupiter. NASA Ames Research Center: Galileo Probe NSSDC Photo Gallery: Ganymede - taken by the Galileo spacecraft during its first and second flybys of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede. Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth - studying Jupiter and its moons, and returning a steady stream of images and scientific data. Index - Galileo Space Probe Information	International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) CEPPAD, CAMMICE, & RAPID Experiments (CCR) - energetic particle data from instruments on the ISTP POLAR spacecraft and the ESA Cluster spacecraft. GGS Mission Operations - the Global Geospace Science program includes two spacecraft, Wind and Polar. International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) - a set of missions to investigate the Sun-Earth space environment, to be carried out during the 1990s and into the next century. ISTP/GGS Polar Visible Imaging Investigations (VII) and Its Visible Imaging System (VIS) - images and movies from space. Wind - the main purpose of the spacecraft is to measure the incoming solar wind, magnetic fields, and particles.
Landsat Landsat 7 - mission objective is to provide timely, high quality visible and infrared images of all landmass and near coastal areas on the Earth. Landsat Program - the longest running enterprise for acqusition of imagery of the Earth from space. The images are used in the areas of global change, agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, and national security .	Pioneer Pioneer 10: Silver Anniversary Pioneer Project - information on Pioneer 10 & 11.
Voyager Java Voyager Space Scenes - animated scenes from the mission. Voyager - en Espanol. Voyager Project	Ulysses Ulysses / ESA - has now embarked on a second orbit of the Sun, which it will complete in December, 2001. Ulysses Mission Operations Team - based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Provides information about past, present, and future operations of the spacecraft.
Other Planetary Probes ASTER - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer - an imaging instrument that will fly on EOS AM-1, a satellite planned for launch in 1998 as part of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). ASTER will be used to obtain detailed maps of surface temperature as well as digital elevation maps of surface features. BeppoSAX Mission - the main scientific characteristic of the mission of this X-ray astronomy satellite is the wide spectral coverage, ranging from 0.1 to over 200 keV (in English and Italian). CRRES Mission - Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite is part of the SPACERAD project of the USAF. It is a triple mission to perform active experiments. Deep Space 4/Champollion - designed to perform the first landing of scientific instruments on the surface of a cometary nucleus. Giotto - mission was designed to study Comet P/Halley, and it also studied Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup during its extended mission. Microwave Anisotropy Probe - satellite mission that will measure fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation. Munin Nanosatellite - joint project between IRF, RYP, Luth and SwRI. It is a pilot project to demonstrate the possibility to use satellites of nano-size for scientific measurement. Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) - a private venture that will send a small craft to rendezvous with a near earth asteroid. OPAL - Stanford University's second Satellite Quick Research Testbed (SQUIRT) satellite. Primary mission is to test the feasibility of launching several picosatellites from a mothership satellite. Pluto-Kuiper Express - a robotic reconnaissance mission to Pluto-Charon and one or more icy, asteroid-sized objects in the Kuiper Disk. Spartan 201 - NASA's mission to explore the Sun's corona. Student Nitric Oxide Explorer - SNOE is a small scientific satellite that will investigate the effects of energy from the sun and from the magnetosphere on the density of nitric oxide in the Earth's upper atmosphere. TechSAT Project Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite - providing data that will yield a better understanding of the upper atmosphere and the effects of natural events and human activities on that region. Yohkoh Public Outreach Project - the Yohkoh satellite is an observatory for studying X-rays and gamma-rays from the Sun. Site features data including movies and a wealth of information about the Sun.	NEAR Educator's Guide to NEAR - background information and lesson plans related to NASA/The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission. Mathilde Encounter - an account of the June 27, 1997 encounter with Asteroid 253 Mathilde. Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - comprehensive information from mission control. NEAR: Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - the ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. Telescopes Constellation-X - an X-ray observatory that will study supermassive black holes and the life cycles of matter throughout the Universe. GLAST: Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope - a proposed orbiting instrument for observing high-energy gamma rays. Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) - The ISO satellite provides unprecedented sensitivity for exploration of the universe ranging from solar system objects right out to the most distant extragalactic sources. ISO launch: November 1995. Kepler Mission, The - will set a photometric telescope in space to search for Earth-like extrasolar planets. PASS: The Prometheus All Sky Survey - goal is to prepare the first map of the entire sky at the wavelengths of nuclear astronomy, using the Prometheus II gamma ray telescope. SIRTF: The Space InfraRed Telescope Facility - planned to be a cryogenically cooled observatory to conduct infrared astronomy from space.