A simulated flyover of the giant asteroid Vesta, as recorded by Dawn.
Credit: NASA / JPL
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NASA\’s RBSP mission started on August 30, 2012, with a liftoff from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral AFS. Both spacecraft successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage.
Credit: NASA/ULA
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Images taken in ultraviolet show huge spirals. What we see are particles spinning along arcs of magnetic field lines.
Credit: NASA SDO
The movie shows the MSL\’s heat shield hitting the martian surface and raising a cloud of dust.
Credit: JPL
The video starts with a computer simulation from NASA\’s Eyes on the Solar System program and uses images from MSL\’s Mars Descent Imager.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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BepiColombo\’s structural and thermal model undergoing testing at ESTEC, ESA\’s space research and technology centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. From top to bottom are the sunshield, which conceals the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, with the Mercury Planetary Orbiter below. Underneath is the Mercury Transfer Module, which will deliver the stack of two scientific satellites into orbit around the planet. The stack is roughly six metres high. During the 2.5 minute vibration test, the spacecraft was subjected to frequencies from 3 Hz to 100 Hz, mimicking conditions it will experience when it lifts off on an Ariane 5 launch vehicle in 2015.
Credit: ESA
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