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Saturn is encircled by seven major rings. In this photograph, a section of the rings is hidden by the planet’s shadow. The Cassini spacecraft, launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its rings and satellites, captured this natural color image as it approached the planet in 2004. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Saturn is the [...]
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Venus
The surface of Venus was scanned with radar waves beamed from orbiting space probes to produce this image. The colors are based on photos taken by probes that landed on Venus. Image credit: NASA
Venus is known as the Earth’s “twin” because the two planets are so similar in size. The diameter of Venus is [...]
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Mercury
The planet Mercury was first photographed in detail on March 29, 1974, by the U.S. probe Mariner 10. The probe was about 130,000 miles (210,000 kilometers) from Mercury. Image credit: NASA
Mercury is the planet nearest the sun. It has a diameter of 3,032 miles (4,879 kilometers), about two-fifths of Earth’s diameter. Mercury orbits the sun [...]
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