mission space

By oliverrose

  • Venera series

    The Venera series space probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus. 10 probes were successfully launched and landed on Venus, sending data from it's surface. An additional 13 probes sent data from Venus' atmosphere. They were the first human-made devices to enter another planets atmosphere and gave direct observations of the surface of Venus.

  • Mariner series

    The Mariner program was a 10-mission program conducted by the American space agency NASA in conjunction with Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 7 of the 10 missions were successful. Their goals were to flyby and orbit Venus and Mars. They took many images of the two planets and gathered temperature and data for both.

  • Pioneer Series

    The Pioneer Series was a series of 5 crafts, Pioneer 6-10, being launched into outer space to explore the regions of space that we have yet to get to. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter.

  • Exploration of Earth's Moon

    Besides Earth, the moon is the most explored body in our solar system and the only other body that humans have step foot on. No evidence of life have been found. Goals while on missions were to take images and samples of the moon, get measurements and other forms of data as well. Apollo 11 was the first successful man-on-moon mission.

  • Exploration of Mercury

    The Mariner 10 was sent to observe the atmosphere, surface and physical characteristics of Mercury and Venus.
    Mariner 10 results showed a Hadley-type circulation existed in Venus' atmosphere and showed that Venus had at best a weak magnetic field, and the ionosphere interacted with the solar wind to form a bow shock. At Mercury, it was confirmed that Mercury had no atmosphere and a cratered, dormant Moon-like surface was shown in the images.

  • Viking 1 & 2

    Viking 1 was sent to investigate the red planet and search for sign of life. While it found no traces of life, Viking 1 did help better characterize Mars as a cold planet with volcanic soil, a thin, dry carbon dioxide atmosphere and striking evidence for ancient river beds and vast flooding. Viking 2 was also sent to investigate the red planet, they both did find all the elements essential to life on Earth: carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen and phosphorus.

  • Voyager series

    they were sent to study the outer space and they found 22 new satellites: 3 at jupiter, 3 at saturn, 10 at Uranus, and 6 at neptune.

  • Pioneer Venus

    The Pioneer Venus Multiprobe consisted of a bus which carried one large and three small atmospheric probes. The large probe was released on November 16, 1978 and the three small probes on November 20. All four probes entered the Venus atmosphere on December 9, followed by the bus.

  • Magellan

    The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA of the United States, on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.

  • Galileo

    Was sent to study the planet Jupiter and it's moons. As a result, a discovery of an intense new radiation belt approximately 50,000 km (31,000 miles) above Jupiter's cloud tops was found.

  • Mars Global Surveyor

    Robotic spacecraft designed to map entire planets. The craft shutdown on November 2, 2006.

  • Sojourner

    To explore Mars in the Ares Vallis for 7 days but ended up working for 3 months. Was the first rover sent to Mars. It collected 550 images in its lifespan.

  • Cassini

    The cassini was sent to orbited saturn and study it and its moons in details. Images were transmitted showing Saturn’s rings and the distance between Saturn and it’s moons.

  • Odyssey

    Its mission included making the first global map of the amount and distribution of many chemical elements and minerals that make up Mars surface.

  • Express

    The first planetary mission by the European Space Agency. Its goal was to find sub-surface water from orbit. The result: buried impact craters, layered deposits, and hints of deep underground water ice.

  • Spirit and Opportunity

    Sent to find more about the history of the ice and water trails found on Mars. Many photos were taken of the planet, revealing past signs of water.