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The Magellan spacecraft was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989. Its mission objectives were to map the surface...

NASA has operated several cameras on spacecraft over the course of its history. Apollo TV camera Hasselblad "Electric Camera" (modified 500 EL) with 70...

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory...

In spacecraft design, the function of the thermal control system (TCS) is to keep all the spacecraft's component systems within acceptable temperature...

This is a list of named geological features on Tethys. Tethyan geological features are named after people and places in Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey...

Project Horizon was a 1959 study to determine the feasibility of constructing a scientific / military base on the Moon, at a time when the U.S. Department...

The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) is an astrometric star catalog of the United States Naval Observatory. The first preliminary edition, published...

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (BEA) is a two-volume biographical dictionary, first published in 2007, with a second edition released in...

Following are the longest, widest, and deepest rifts and valleys in various worlds of the Solar System. List of Solar System extremes List of largest craters...

The Social Patriotic Movement «Power» (Derzhava; Russian: Социал-патриотическое движение «Держава»; Sotsial-patrioticheskoye dvizheniye «Derzhava») was...

The LEK Lunar Expeditionary Complex was a lunar expedition and Moon base proposed by Valentin Glushko in 1974 as a Soviet response to the United States'...

Sherwood Observatory is an amateur astronomical observatory in Nottinghamshire, England, owned and operated by Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society...

The Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST) is a proposed solar telescope in China. CGST will be an infrared and optical solar telescope. Its spatial resolution...

Duke Island is a small lunar mountain that is located in Mare Tranquillitatis, about 64 km southwest of the crater Maskelyne, and about 188 km east of...

Boot Hill is a small lunar mountain that is located in Mare Tranquillitatis, about 45 km south of the crater Maskelyne, and about 210 km east of the Apollo...

Roger J. Thomas was a solar physicist who worked at NASA for many years. He was an internationally recognized expert on the design of extreme ultraviolet...