swap_horiz Perseverance rover Alternatives

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Explorer 1

Explorer 1 became the first United States satellite successfully placed in Earth orbit in 1958. Built by the Jet Propuls...

Cold War Satellite Nasa Earth Orbit

9.20 Excellent

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Mercury Friendship 7

Friendship 7 was the single-seat Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn on February 20, 1962. During the Mercury-Atlas...

Cold War Nasa First Us Orbit Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Apollo Lunar Module

Built by Grumman for NASA's Apollo program, the Lunar Module was a specialized spacecraft for landing astronauts on the...

Cold War Nasa Moon Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Opportunity rover

Opportunity was a NASA Mars Exploration Rover launched in 2003 and landed on Mars in 2004. Its solar-powered design carr...

Endurance Nasa Mars Rover

9.20 Excellent

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Curiosity rover

Launched in November 2011 and landed in Gale Crater in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover investigates whether ancient...

Nasa Mars Rover Current

9.20 Excellent

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Cassini

The Cassini spacecraft was a joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. It provided unprecedented...

Science Flagship Nasa Saturn

9.20 Excellent

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Ingenuity helicopter

The Ingenuity helicopter is a rotorcraft developed by NASA for exploration on Mars. It represents a groundbreaking achie...

Helicopter Nasa Mars First Flight

9.15 Excellent

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Spirit rover

The Spirit rover was a robotic Mars exploration vehicle that successfully landed in Gusev Crater in January 2004 as part...

2000S Nasa Mars Rover

8.75 Great

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Yutu-2 rover

Yutu-2 is a robotic lunar rover that operates on the far side of the Moon as part of the Chinese Chang'e 4 mission. Laun...

Rover Moon Current Far Side

8.70 Great

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Sojourner rover

The Sojourner rover was a 11.5-kilogram, six-wheeled robotic vehicle delivered to Mars as part of NASA's Mars Pathfinder...

1990S Nasa Mars Rover

8.70 Great

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SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA spacecraft launched in 2010 to investigate the Sun's dynamic atmosphere....

Solar Nasa Observatory Current

8.65 Great

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Mars Odyssey

2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting Mars, launched by NASA in April 2001. It holds the record for the lon...

Nasa Mars Current Orbiter

8.55 Great

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Phoenix lander

Phoenix was a NASA Mars lander, part of the agency's Scout program, that touched down on May 25, 2008, in the Martian ar...

Polar Nasa Mars Lander

8.25 Great

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Swift (Neil Gehrels Observatory)

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a NASA multiwavelength space telescope launched on November 20, 2004, designed pri...

Nasa Observatory Current Multi Wavelength

8.25 Great

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MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission)

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is a four-spacecraft constellation launched on March 12, 2015, to study m...

Nasa Current Magnetosphere Probe

8.25 Great

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Zhurong rover

Zhurong is a robotic Mars rover developed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) as part of its Tianwen-1 int...

Science Chinese Mars Rover

8.00 Great

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Hope (Emirates Mars Mission)

Hope, formally the Emirates Mars Mission, is a United Arab Emirates spacecraft launched in July 2020 to study the Martia...

Mars Uae Current Orbiter

7.85 Good

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IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph)

IRIS is a NASA small explorer spacecraft launched on June 27, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL r...

Nasa Observatory Current Sun

7.70 Good

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Psyche spacecraft

The Psyche spacecraft is a NASA orbiter launched in October 2023 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, intended to study...

Science Nasa Current Orbiter

7.30 Good

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Mars Observer

Mars Observer was a NASA orbiter launched in 1992 to study Mars. The spacecraft lost contact on 21 August 1993, three da...

1990S Nasa Mars Orbiter

3.40 Poor