Final Flyby

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  NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Detects Callisto’s Aurora, Completing Jupiter’s Galilean Moons Set

  NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured Callisto’s elusive auroral footprint, completing the “family portrait” of Jupiter’s Galilean moons. Each moon carves its own aurora into the gas giant’s poles, revealing how they interact with Jupiter’s powerful magnetosphere. Callisto’s faint arc appeared during a 2019 flyby, finally confirming i...

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  NASA’s Juno Probe Captures Stunning Views of Jupiter’s Storms and Moon Amalthea

  NASA’s Juno probe captured vibrant, high-contrast images of Jupiter’s stormy atmosphere and an up-close view of its moon, Amalthea, during the spacecraft’s 66th flyby on October 23. The images were processed by citizen scientists, enhancing the colours to showcase Jupiter’s unique cloud formations and highlighting details of Amalthea agains...

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  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes Final Venus Flyby Before Historic Sun Encounter

  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will make its final Venus flyby on Nov. 6. This manoeuvre will bring the spacecraft into a new orbit, allowing it to approach within 3.8 million miles of the sun, closer than any human-made object has been. While the probe’s primary mission is to study the sun, its instruments have captured rare data...

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe To Have Final Venus Flyby Today Ahead Of Historic Sun Encounter

  The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 on the mission to "touch" the Sun. It is just about the size of a small car.

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  Parker Solar Probe Prepares for Closest Approach to Sun After Last Venus Flyby

  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist on 6 November, altering its path to make an unprecedented 3.86-million-mile approach to the sun on 24 December. The manoeuvre will allow Parker to pass closer than any human-made object to the sun, where it will study solar activity. Earlier flybys also revealed surprising det...

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  NASA's Cassini Completes Last Flyby Of Saturn's Moon Titan

  NASA's Cassini has completed a final, distant flyby of Saturns's giant moon Titan - a "goodbye kiss" that has nudged the spacecraft towards its final plunge into the ring planet, bringing an end to its epic 20 year-long journey.

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  NASA's Cassini Completes Final Flyby Of Saturn's Moon Titan

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed its last close flyby of Saturn's hazy moon Titan and is beginning its final set of 22 orbits before the probe plunges into the ringed planet to bring an end to its 20- year-long journey.

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  NASA's Cassini Probe Set for Final Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Titan on Friday

  The probe's closest approach to Titan is planned for 11:08pm PDT on Friday (11:38am IST on Saturday).

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  NASA's Cassini Probe Set to End 20-Year Journey

  Cassini will transition to its grand finale orbits, with a last close flyby of Saturn's giant moon Titan, on April 22.

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  NASA's Cassini Probe Set for Last Flyby of Saturn Moon

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on August 17 -- the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's 11-year mission.

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  Heart-Shaped Feature Viewed on Pluto's Surface

  A heart-shaped feature was viewed on Pluto's surface in the most detailed photo yet returned by NASA's New Horizons probe, which has now begun its final run of its historic flyby of the planet.