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Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a NASA-built spacecraft deployed in 1977. It’s notable for being the first to explore Uranus and Neptune pr...

Active Nasa Interstellar Outer Planets

10.0 Brilliant

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Voyager 1

Voyager 1 is an active NASA spacecraft launched in 1977. It undertook a flyby mission to Jupiter and Saturn. The probe a...

Active Nasa Interstellar Outer Planets

9.9 Brilliant

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New Horizons

The New Horizons mission is an active NASA space probe studying the outer solar system. Launched in 2006, it achieved a...

Active Nasa Kuiper Belt Pluto

9.4 Excellent

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Curiosity Mars Rover

The Curiosity rover is an active NASA mission exploring Mars from Gale Crater. Launched in 2011, it investigates the pla...

Geology Active Nasa Mars

9.3 Excellent

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Perseverance Mars Rover

The Perseverance rover is an active NASA mission exploring Mars. It operates within Jezero Crater, analyzing the geology...

Active Nasa Mars Rover

9.2 Excellent

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon. Launched in 2009, it provides d...

Mapping Active Nasa Moon

9.0 Excellent

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Landsat 8

Landsat 8 is an active Earth observation satellite operated by NASA and the USGS. This mission continues a decades-long...

Imaging Active Nasa Earth

8.8 Great

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars since 2006. It provides high-resolution imaging of th...

Imaging Active Nasa Mars

8.8 Great

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Solar Orbiter

Solar Orbiter is an ESA-NASA solar probe launched in 2020, notable for close solar passes and the first detailed views o...

Solar Active Nasa Orbiter

8.6 Great

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ICESat-2

ICESat-2 is NASA's 2018 follow-on laser altimetry mission, notable for using ATLAS to measure ice elevation and sea ice...

Laser Active Nasa Ice

8.4 Great

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ACE

ACE is NASA's 1997 Advanced Composition Explorer at Sun-Earth L1, notable for long-running solar wind and energetic part...

Active Nasa Solar Wind Heliophysics

8.3 Great

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Van Allen Probes

The Van Allen Probes were NASA twin spacecraft launched in 2012 to study Earth's radiation belts, operating for seven ye...

Nasa Past Plasma Earth

8.2 Great

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Landsat 9

Landsat 9 is the 2021 NASA-USGS land imaging satellite, notable for continuing the 50-year Landsat record with OLI-2 and...

Imaging Active Nasa Earth

8.2 Great

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GRACE-FO

GRACE-FO is the 2018 NASA-GFZ follow-on twin mission, notable for continuing gravity mapping and testing laser inter-sat...

Active Nasa Gravity Earth

8.2 Great

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MAVEN

MAVEN is a NASA Mars orbiter launched in 2013 to study the upper atmosphere and how solar wind stripped gases from the p...

Active Nasa Mars Atmosphere

8.2 Great

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Cluster II

Cluster II was ESA's four-spacecraft magnetosphere mission launched in 2000, notable for 3D measurements of solar wind i...

Past Plasma Magnetosphere Formation

8.1 Great

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2001 Mars Odyssey

2001 Mars Odyssey is a NASA orbiter launched in 2001 that mapped Martian hydrogen, found evidence for water ice, and rel...

Mapping Active Nasa Mars

8.1 Great

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SMAP

SMAP is a NASA Earth-observing satellite launched in 2015 to map soil moisture and freeze-thaw state for weather, drough...

Soil Moisture Active Radar Nasa

7.9 Good

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THEMIS

THEMIS is NASA's 2007 five-satellite mission to study magnetospheric substorms, notable for linking reconnection events...

Active Nasa Aurora Plasma

7.8 Good

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TRACERS

TRACERS is NASA's twin-satellite Explorer mission launched in 2025 to study magnetic reconnection in Earth's northern po...

Active Nasa Aurora Magnetosphere

6.6 Fair