Multimedia Gallery
- Media Type: Illustration
Trajectory of Mariner 10. After launch and flyby of Venus, it orbited the Sun to fly by Mercury three times.
Mice, Funafuti Atoll (Mus exulans, Mus vitiensis)
Deep Space Network (DSN) sends signals to a spacecraft, which returns these signals to the stations on Earth.
Aircraft equipment receives microwave signals to create an image of ground features from signal time delays.
This illustration depicts NEAR-Shoemaker after landing on the asteroid Eros.
Illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in 2015.
This illustration shows the important components of the NTS-2 satellite.
Opportunity Rover on Mars
Parrots, Fiji (Aprosmicturs splendens, Aprosmictus personatus)
Trajectory of Pioneer 4 from the Earth and past the Moon into orbit around the Sun.