Why with Nye: Bill Nye and Juno the Solar-Powered Spacecraft
Bill Nye unravels the mysteries of solar-powered space travel. See how NASA’s Juno spacecraft will use the power of the sun to keep the juice running during its long journey […]
Language: English
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Why with Nye: Bill Nye and Juno the Solar-Powered Spacecraft
Why with Nye: Throwback to Juno’s 2013 Earth Flyby, with Bill Nye
On October 9, 2013, NASA’s Juno spacecraft used the Earth’s gravity to slingshot it all the way to Jupiter. Bill Nye gives the inside scoop on Juno’s historic Earth flyby.
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Why with Nye: Throwback to Juno’s 2013 Earth Flyby, with Bill Nye
Space in a Snap: Where does the solar system end? The Oort Cloud.
The solar system we call home has our sun, eight planets, all their moons, the asteroid belt, and lots of comets. Outside Neptune’s orbit is the Kuiper Belt. An almost […]
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Space in a Snap: Where does the solar system end? The Oort Cloud.
What’s the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Find out more about our Earth at NASA Climate Kids!
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What’s the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Space Place in a Snap: What Is a Solar Eclipse?
Whoa! It’s the middle of the day—so why is the sky getting dark? It’s a solar eclipse! A solar eclipse happens when, at just the right moment, the moon passes […]
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Space Place in a Snap: What Is a Solar Eclipse?
The Science of Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a NASA mission to explore the chemistry and habitability of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The fourth mission in the New Frontiers line, Dragonfly will send an autonomously-operated rotorcraft […]
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The Science of Dragonfly
The Astronauts: Flight of Freedom 7
The story of Alan Shepard’s May 1961 suborbital flight is presented.
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The Astronauts: Flight of Freedom 7
The Year of Pluto
New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the […]
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The Year of Pluto
Tech on Deck: Raven
What has three “eyes,” swivels, and images spacecraft from its perch on the International Space Station? The Raven module, of course! This technology demonstration uses visible, infrared, and Lidar sensors, […]
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Tech on Deck: Raven
Tech on Deck: NExIS on the ISS
Making sustainable human exploration of space a reality will require a myriad of never-before-seen technologies. Before new tech is used in a mission to the Moon, Mars, or beyond, it […]
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