Overview | Planets Solar System Exploration: NASA Science

All These Worlds

Nov. 29, 2018: The latest mission to explore Marsthe only planet we know of populated entirely by robotsis safe on the ground and gearing up for two years of groundbreaking science.

NASA's Nov. 26 InSight landing on the Red Planet was supported by the twin MarCO spacecraft, the first interplanetary CubeSats.

More science robots are actively exploring these worlds: Venus, Earth, Earth's Moon, Mars, asteroid Bennu and Jupiter. Several spacecraft are watching the Sun.

NASA's New Horizons is closing in on a Jan. 1, 2019 rendezvous with a small body in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto. Meanwhile, ESA's BepiColombo is working its way toward Mercury in the inner solar system.

Explore in 3DEyes on the Solar System

Eyes on the Solar System lets you explore the planets, their moons, asteroids, comets and the spacecraft exploring them from 1950 to 2050. Ride with the Curiosity Rover as it lands on Mars or fly by Pluto with the New Horizons spacecraft all from the comfort of your home computer.

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Overview | Planets Solar System Exploration: NASA Science

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