Artist’s concept of a bimodal nuclear rocket making the journey to the Moon, Mars,
 and other destinations in the Solar System.
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Information on About the Deep Space Network: Space Communications and Navigation

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with their interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe”,
 that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the cosmos from the present to the moments after the Big Bang.
 While JHU is responsible for creating the site, additional contributions were made by NASA, the European Space Agency,
 the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.

Information on Our Solar System A 3D adventure through our cosmic neighborhood with NASA

From the red planet Mars to the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, we get an up-close and personal look 
at these incredible celestial bodies like never before. Join us as we marvel at the wonders 
of the universe and the incredible advancements made by NASA in exploring the final frontier.

Is life on Europa?
Did Mars have life? Does Mars currently have life on it?

NASA Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Green joins John Michael Godier to discuss NASA's plans for Mars 2020,
 the possibility of past and current life on Mars. As well as the fact that the solar system 
 may be full of life as much of the moon's and Kuiper belt objects have large amounts of water on them.
 Does Europa have complex life? It has an ocean of water underneath it's surface more than the combined
 amount of water on Earth. The Europa Clipper mission will do its best to answer that.
 Also, how is NASA now searching for potential technosignatures?

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Geronimo Villanueva, a NASA planetary scientist, created these sunset simulations while building a computer modeling 
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of his tool, Villanueva simulated known sky colors of various planets and moons, some of which are shown in this video.
The simulations show these worlds turning away from the light of the Sun, which is what’s happening when we see a sunset.
 As these worlds rotate, photons get scattered in different directions depending on the energy of the photons
 and the types of molecules in the atmospheres. The result is a lovely palette of colors that
 would be visible to those standing on these worlds.

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Chill out on Titan?

To do this, you'll need to get there, and for that, you'll need to understand Delta V. 

This video explains delta V and the rocket equation and how hard it is to get from here to there.

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This animation shows the path of A/2017 U1, which is an asteroid — or perhaps a comet — 
as it passed through our inner solar system in September and October 2017. From analysis of its motion, 
scientists calculate that it probably originated from outside our Solar System. 
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Thus a nightly search for near-Earth objects may have uncovered an object whose origins lie much further away.
 A/2017 U1 is about 400 meters in diameter and on a highly unusual trajectory,
 one that fits neither an asteroid or comet from our own Solar System. Davide Farnocchia (JPL)
 is a scientist at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS):

You probably that planets go around the sun in elliptical orbits. But do you know why? 

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Animated diagram showing the spacing of the Solar Systems planet’s, the unusually closely spaced orbits 
of six of the most distant KBOs, and the possible “Planet 9”.
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LSST: Constructing a New Era in Astronomy

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Fly over the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile with us and see how quickly LSST is becoming a reality!
 This video documents the progress of construction so far, dramatically capturing the scale and complexity of the ongoing project.
A multimedia team was contracted to document the project via drone film footage, time-lapse sequences, 
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Navigating the Solar System

NASA IS PLANNING TO TEST PULSARS AS COSMIC NAVIGATION BEACONS

SEXTANT will demonstrate a GPS-like absolute position determination capability by observing millisecond pulsars. 
Credit: NASA

This image shows the configuration of NICER’s 56 X-ray mirrors that will gather scientific
 observations and play an instrumental role in demonstration X-ray navigation.
Credits: NASA

The NICER payload, shown here on the outside of the International Space Station. 
Credit: NASA

Unlocking Secrets of Neutron Stars with NICER

Published on May 26, 2017
Though we know neutron stars are small and extremely dense, there are still many aspects of these remnants 
of explosive deaths of other stars that we have yet tounderstand. NICER, a facility to be mounted on the outside
 of the International Space Station, seeks to find the answers to some of the questions still being asked about neutron stars. 
 By capturing the arrival time and energy of the x-ray photons produced by pulsars emitted by neutron stars,
 NICER seeks answer decades-old questions about extreme forms of matter and energy. Data from NICER will also be used in Sextant,
 an on-board demonstration of pulsar-based navigation.



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The IAU has revamped their solar system coordinate system.
Now, if you are not planning on a driving vacation on Mercury, this might be a dry bit of information

Engineers are considering X-ray navigation - similar to GPS in space -
 for future CubeSat missions to the Moon and human exploration spacecraft. 
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The Terrestrial Planets

MY Mission to MERCURY Page

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The Terrestrial Planets from Wikipedia.org

Facts on Mercury from Space-facts.com

Facts on Venus from Space-facts.com

Facts on Earth from Space-facts.com

Facts on Earth's Moon from Space-facts.com

The earth Venus orbital symmetery

as seen in the solar system (by no ridiculous coincidence), Earth orbits the Sun 8 times in the same period that Venus orbits the Sun 13 times! 

Drawing a line between Earth & Venus every week results in a spectacular FIVE side symmetry!! 

Lets bring up those Fibonacci numbers again: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34.. So if we imagine planets with Fibonacci orbits, do they

 create Fibonacci symmetries?! You bet!! 

Size comparison between Earth and Mars. Credit: NASA

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MARS’ GROWTH STUNTED BY AN EARLY GIANT PLANET INSTABILITY(PDF)

This video of the Nice Model shows how the orbits of the outer gaseous planets of our solar system 
might have evolved. It also explains why and how the late heavy  bombardement might have taken place. 
Note that in the first model shown in the film, Neptune's orbit is smaller than Uranus's orbit to begin with.
 The film is slowed down in places to make the changes more obvious for the viewer.  
Credit: Hal Levison, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Customized for Sky and Telescope by Shweta Krishnan

 Here is a video of a successful simulation from Clement et al. (2018)(PDF)
The x axis shows the semi-major axis of the planets (distance from the sun). The y axis shows 
the orbital eccentricity (the degree to which the orbit is elliptical or non-circular).
 The size of each dot is proportional to the mass of the object in the simulation,
 and the color is related to the amount of water and volatiles the object contains. 
 The 5 black dots represent the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune 
 and an additional primordial Ice Giant which is ejected. The terrestrial planets 
 form from a disk of 1100 initial objects. The objects exterior to the giant planets 
 are the primordial Kuiper Belt bodies. When the instability ensues, the extra ice giant is ejected, 
 and the outer section of the terrestrial disk is greatly depleted. This limits the mass of the Asteroid Belt,
 and prevents a planet from forming in the belt. Furthermore, Mars stops accreting other large embryos 
 after the instability, however Earth and Venus continue to grow. This is consistent with the geological ages 
 of Earth and Mars inferred from isotopic dating (Mars is thought to have finished forming within 
 1-10 million years, which Earth is believed to have taken around 100 million years to fully form).
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A new study led by researchers from OU indicates that the outer planets 
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Some worlds In our Solar system WITH PRESUMED UNDERGROUND OCEANS

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A montage of some of the "ocean worlds" in our Solar System. From top to bottom,
 left to right, these include Europa, Enceladus, TItan and Ceres.
 Credit: NASA/JPL

Is extraterrestrial life suppressed on subsurface ocean worlds due to the paucity of bioessential elements? (PDF)

Artist’s depiction of a watery exoplanet orbiting a distant red dwarf star.
 Credit: CfA

Artist rendering showing an interior cross-section of the crust of Enceladus,
 which shows how hydrothermal activity may be causing the plumes of water at the moon’s surface. 
 Credits: NASA-GSFC/SVS, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute

Artist’s rendering of possible hydrothermal activity that may be taking place 
on and under the seafloor of Enceladus.
 Credit: NASA/JPL

Artist’s concept of a Europa Clipper mission. 
Credit: NASA/JPL

Liquid water was originally thought to be relatively rare in the solar system. 
 But one of the most important discoveries of the last several decades of planetary science 
 is that liquid water is extremely common, even outside of the orbit of a star that would
 allow for it on the surface of a planet or moon.  It just happens to be covered by a sheet of ice.
 Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have now theorized about
 what the abundance of liquid water means for life throughout the galaxy, 
 and whether it might be more common than originally thought.  

IWOWs are even prevalent in our own backyard. This cutaway image of Pluto shows a section
 through the area of Sputnik Planitia, with dark blue representing a subsurface ocean 
 and light blue for the frozen crust.
Artwork by Pam Engebretson, courtesy of UC Santa Cruz.

We’re now learning that icy worlds seem to be the best places in Solar System where
 life could be hiding. Worlds like Europa and Enceladus, which have vast oceans
 of liquid water beneath a shell of water ice. 
And just in the last year, astrobiologists announced that hardy forms of Earth life 
should be able to thrive in these oceans, feeding off hydrogen gas emanating from deep sea vents.
Clearly we need to explore these worlds, to go deep down beneath the ice to explore the ocean depths.
 But how do you drill through kilometers of ice to reach it?
 
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The Solar System's Dwarf Planets

My Mission To Pluto subpage our most complex Dwarf planet system

<21>Chariklo, the largest known centaur object, orbiting in a region between Saturn and Uranus

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The Lords of the Rings among centaurs

Chariklo, the largest known centaur object, orbiting in a region between Saturn and Uranus,

is a very intriguing celestial body that surprised astronomers last year. 

This remote minor planet has unveiled the existence of its rings during a stellar occultation, 

when it passed in front of a star UCAC4 248-108672.

The discovery was surprising because it had been thought that rings could only be stable around much more massive bodies.

Having in mind Chariklo's relative small mass, the rings should disperse over a period of at most a few million years, 

so the scientists conclude that either they are very young, or they are actively contained by shepherd moons with a

mass comparable to that of the rings.
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Artist’s impression of rings around the Centaur Chariklo, the first asteroid where rings were discovered.

  Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger

Artist’s impression of Chiron, showing a possible ring system.  Credit:

Due to their dual nature, the name Centaur has stuck when referring to objects that act as both comets and asteroids.

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The Kuiper Belt

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Planet 9 in the Kupier Belt??

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NASA's Page on Things to know about the Kuiper Belt

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WHAT CAUSED THE KUIPER BELT TO GET WARPED?

A planetary mass object the size of Mars would be sufficient to produce the 
observed perturbations in the distant Kuiper Belt.
Credit: (Image: Heather Roper/LPL)

Artist’s impression of the yet-to-be-discovered “planetary mass object”,
 who’s existence has been theorized based on the orbital plane of distant Kuiper Belt objects.
 Credit: Heather Roper/LPL

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The OOrt Cloud

Speculation

Outward Bound: Colonizing the Oort Cloud

Could the cold outer reaches of the solar system ever be called home?
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contain trillions of comets and other icy bodies. Frozen and barren though they would be, we will consider
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Planet 9 in the OORT CLOUD??

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The supposed Planet 9 in he OORT cloud

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The VONA Space Settlement Proposal

Published on Jun 5, 2014
VONA is a space settlement design that tied for Grand Prize in the 2014 NASA-NSS Space Settlement Design Contest.
 VONA was created by was created by a team of 6 students (grade 10):
 Aditya P. S., Amareen S., Hatinderpal Singh G., Hetarth C., Karan C., and Prajjwal M.;
 under the instruction of Mr. Emmanuel R. (Apeejay School), from Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
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The O'neil Space Settlement Proposal

Forget the flying cars and robot maids, we’re just a few precious generations away from ditching this hunk 

of space rock called Earth and living among the stars. The dream of off-world living is thanks, in large part,

 to a single Princeton physics professor who not only envisioned a new path for humanity but nearly convinced Congress to

 go along with it. Piers Biznoy explains just how close we came to building orbital habitats in the 1980s in his new book New Space Frontiers.

O'Neil cylinder proposals

A look at O'Neill Cylinders, immense space habitats.
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SPACE HABITAT

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ESA PLANNING TO BUILD AN INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE… ON THE MOON! 2 Mar , 2016 by Matt Williams

The ESA recently elaborated its plan to create a Moon base by the 2030s. 

Credit: Foster + Partners is part of a consortium set up by the European Space Agency to explore

 the possibilities of 3D printing to construct lunar habitations.

 Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners

NASA picks 6 companies to develop prototype space habitats August 12, 2016 William Harwood

Artist’s concept of a Lockheed Martin-built habitation system with the Orion capsule.

Credit: Lockheed Martin
NASA has selected six companies to work on designs for deep space habitat modules that could be used by

astronauts living and working near the moon as technology is developed for eventual flights to Mars, the agency announced Tuesday.(august 9, 2016)

NASA already is developing the Space Launch System heavy-lift booster and the Orion capsule that will carry crews to low-Earth orbit and beyond.

But Orion is far too small to support crews for long stays in so-called cislunar space or multi-year round-trip flights to and from Mars.

Exterior view of a Stanford torus. Bottom center is the non-rotating primary solar mirror,

 which reflects sunlight onto the angled ring of secondary mirrors around the hub.

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KALPANA ONE TOUR

THE FUTURE OF SPACE COLONIZATION – TERRAFORMING OR SPACE HABITATS?

Artist's concept of a terraformed Mars (left) and an O'Neill Cylinder.
 Credit: Ittiz/Wikimedia Commons (left)/Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center (right)

Artist’s impression of the terraforming of Mars, from its current state to a livable world. 
Credit: Daein Ballard

Artist’s concept of a possible Mars terraforming plant. Credit: National Geographic Channel

Artist’s concept of a possible Space Colony in Solar orbit

Evolution of Space Colony proposals

I WONDER IF IT HAS ROOM SERVICE? HERE’S THE SPACE HOTEL THAT WON
A RECENT (July, 2017)NASA COMPETITION

The Managed, Reconfigurable, In-space Nodal Assembly (MARINA), developed by MIT graduate students,
 is designed as a habitable commercially owned module for use in low Earth orbit.
 Credit: MIT/MARINA team

In the future, LEO (Low Earth Orbit) will become home to commercial modules 
(like the Bigelow Aerospace B330 expandable module, shown here),will become a reality. 
 Credit: Bigelow Aerospace

Members of the MIT team (from left to right): Caitlin Mueller (faculty advisor),
 Matthew Moraguez, George Lordos, and Valentina Sumini.
 Credit: MIT/MARINA team

The Asgardia Website

Asgardia: Prposed Space Naion in space

'Space Nation' Endures Tough Start:

A Russian industrialist's proposed 'space nation' 
is dealing with early growing pains that may keep the concept from getting off the ground.
 When Igor Ashurbeyli announced the formation of 'Asgardia' last year, the idea was met with skepticism
 from legal experts and scholars, but also generated tremendous enthusiasm from the general public.
 A whopping 300,000 people from around the world signed up to take part in the effort, 
 however their idyllic feelings appear to be faltering as the 'space nation' begins to take shape. 

THE AURORA STATION WILL BE THE FIRST LUXURY HOTEL IN SPACE

The Aurora Station space hotel will launch in 2021 and host its first guests in 2022. 
It has room for 4 guests and 2 crew.
  Image: credit Orionspan

Aurora Station will have 5600 square feet of living space which can be configured as 2 or 4 suites. 
  Image: credit Orionspan

Aurora Station will also host micro-gravity research and in-situ manufacturing. 
  Image: credit Orionspan

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LOCKHEED MARTIN

Lockheed Martin artist rendering of the NextSTEP habitat docked with Orion in cislunar orbit 
as part of a concept for the Deep Space Gateway. Orion will serve as the habitat?s command deck
 in early missions, providing critical communications, life support and navigation to guide long-duration missions.
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Artist’s impression of the Deep Space Gateway, currently under development by Lockheed Martin.
 Credit: NASA

Artist’s concept of space habitat operating beyond Earth and the Moon
 Credit: NASA

 Credit: NASA

 NASA is working on developing a space station in a cis-lunar orbit that will serve as the jumping off point
 to exploring the Solar System; it’s known as the Deep Space Gateway.
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I don’t have to tell you that the vision of human space exploration in the Solar System has kind of stalled. 
Half a century ago, humans set foot on the Moon, and we haven’t been back since. Instead, we’ve thoroughly explored
 every cubic meter of low Earth orbit, going around and around the Earth. In fact, back in 2016, the International Space Station
 celebrated 100,000 orbits around the Earth. 

NASA REIGNITES PROGRAM FOR NUCLEAR THERMAL ROCKETS

Artist's concept of a bimodal nuclear rocket making the journey to the Moon, Mars,
 and other destinations in the Solar System.
 Credit: NASA

Nuclear reactors (like the one pictured here) are being considered by
 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for possible future missions.
 Credit: NASA

Artist’s concept of a Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rocket in Low Earth Orbit.
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Artist’s concept of a bimodal nuclear rocket slowing down to establish orbit around Mars.
 Credit: NASA

Artist’s concept of a Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rocket in Low Earth Orbit.
 Credit: NASA

The Solar System is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world to world 
with traditional chemical rockets. But one technique, developed back in the 1960s might 
provide a way to dramatically shorten our travel times: nuclear rockets.

Of course, launching a rocket powered by radioactive material has its own risks as well. Should we attempt it?

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Artist’s illustration of the launch of the Space Launch System, which will eventually
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The first ground experimental nuclear rocket engine (XE) assembly, in a “cold flow” configuration,
 is shown being installed in Engine Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station in Jackass Flats, Nevada.

NASA design for a Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA).
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Artist’s impression of the first interstellar asteroid/comet, "Oumuamua".
 This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
 Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesse

Astronomers have found that ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, 
is moving away from the Sun faster than expected. Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope,
 and from NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of researchers concluded that
 ‘Oumuamua is most likely outgassing — suggesting that this enigmatic interstellar nomad is a peculiar comet 
 rather than an asteroid.
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Caption author (Italian)
Nicola Gaspari
Caption author (French)
Ayoola Boyejo
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Mihail-Gabriel Barbuta
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Oumuamua as it appeared using the William Herschel Telescope on the night of October 29.
 Queen’s University Belfast/William Herschel Telescope

Artist’s impression of the interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, experiencing outgassing as it leaves our Solar System. 
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser