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Gallery: Posters to inspire the next generation of space explorers
Venus: See you at the Cloud 9 Observatory. The rare science opportunity of planetary transits has long inspired bold voyages to exotic vantage points -- journeys such as James Cook's trek to the South Pacific to watch Venus and Mercury cross the face of the Sun in 1769. Spacecraft now allow us the luxury to study these cosmic crossings at times of our choosing from locales across our solar system.
Jet Propulsion Laboratories, which operates some of the highest profile NASA probe programs, is looking to inspire the next generation of space explorers.
Invoking the aesthetics of atomic-age tourism posters of the 1950s, JPL on Wednesday released a series of poster images celebrating celestial destinations — some of the newly discovered exoplanets, our neighbors across the solar system and some of their moons — through the eyes of an interplanetary travel agency.
Each poster is grounded in the science of the locale, such as the ice geysers of Enceladus, the newly discovered water of Ceres, or the heavy gravity of HD 40307g, and each adds a twist of what if.
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The Grand Tour: A once in a lifetime getaway. NASA's Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-years alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, using each planet's gravity to send them on to the next destination. Voyager set the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable science from the far reaches of our solar system.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA
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Venus: See you at the Cloud 9 Observatory. The rare science opportunity of planetary transits has long inspired bold voyages to exotic vantage points -- journeys such as James Cook's trek to the South Pacific to watch Venus and Mercury cross the face of the Sun in 1769. Spacecraft now allow us the luxury to study these cosmic crossings at times of our choosing from locales across our solar system.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA
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Mars: Visit the historic sites! NASA's Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. Missions like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, among others, have provided information in understanding of the habitability of Mars. This poster imagines a future day when we have achieved human exploration of Mars and takes a nostalgic look back at the imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as "historic sites."
Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA
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