Viking 40 Year Anniversary 30 Doradus

Viking 40 Year Anniversary 30 DoradusBoth the Viking 1 and Viking 2 Orbiters collected years of high resolution imagery and scientific data about Mars and its moons. On July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 Lander touched down to take its first picture of the dusty, rocky surface of Mars. It relayed the historic image back to Earth and began years of data collection. The Viking 2 Lander followed on September 3, 1976. Both blazed the trail to Mars and we have returned many times to the Red

Release date: Apr 25

Bedin (INAF

Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to our Sun and the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

Herrero (IAC

Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

But these same destructive forces cause the formation of new

Earth science missions monitor our home planet and how it is changing so it can continue to provide a safe haven as we reach deeper into the cosmos

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Release Date: Sep 22

Voyager paved the way for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn

The Pinwheel Galaxy

young stars that are shaping the nebula to pillars of dense gas that can be home to budding stars