Mars, the moon and asteroids will get a deeper look from these spacecraft.
, a near-Earth asteroid that was once deemed a slight threat to Earth in 2068. The mission will also acquire a new name: OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer .safely comes within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029, NASA stated."It plans to study changes in the asteroid caused by its close flyby of Earth, and use the spacecraft’s gas thrusters to attempt to dislodge and study the dust and small rocks on and below Apophis’ surface.
mission launched in November 2013 to look at changes in the atmosphere of the Red Planet. It is suspected that gradual erosion of the atmosphere over the eons led to less running water at the surface of Mars, when pressure dropped. MAVEN will also acquire a new principal investigator: Shannon Curry, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. NASA's InSight lander snapped this image of the area in front of it on July 20, 2021.landed on Mars in 2018 and has been useful in getting information on"marsquakes" to learn more about the planet's interior and how that evolved over the eons.
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