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Close Me!

The Canaries: rugged oceanic islands

01.04.2012

The rugged landscape of the Canary Islands stood out in sharp contrast to the smooth blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the flat tan land of northwestern Africa.

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    Highs and Lows of Goethe

    04.06.2012

    Mercury's Goethe basin is home to a variety of interesting features, including ghost craters with graben, wrinkle ridges that outline the basin, and dark craters that host radar-bright materials.

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    Multiple outbursts from the sun

    12.22.2011

    The sun blasted off a number of coronal mass ejections in just over two days in this image captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) C2 coronograph.

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    Andromeda’s double nucleus

    01.11.2012

    A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31 — the Andromeda galaxy.

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New Horizons Educators Guide

A variety of animations, simulations, movies, and activities related to the New Horizons mission, Pluto, and comparing Pluto to other planets in the Solar System

MESSENGER Activities, Animations and Movies

A variety of animations, simulations, movies, and activities related to the MESSENGER mission, Mercury, and comparing Mercury to other planets in the Solar System.

Gravity Assist Simulator

Explore the simulated encounters of the New Horizons spacecraft with Jupiter and the MESSENGER spacecraft with Venus. How does the distance of closest approach affect the speed and trajectory of such encounters?

The Voyage Continues

The Voyage Continues education unit continues the exploration of the solar system using the power of models to take a closer look into solar system objects and phenomena.
                                                                                                                                                                                         
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