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Giotto photographed jets of gas spouting from the black surface of the comet's nucleus.
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Giotto was the first solar system exploration mission carried out by the European Space Agency.
In 1986, the Giotto space probe was one of five probes sent to study Halley's comet. It flew through the...
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Meteors, or shooting stars, are pieces of space rock burning up in the atmosphere as gravity pulls them towards the earth. Most meteors are created from icy comets which undergo sublimation due to the sun, turning from ice to gas.
The ice evaporates and forms a stream of debris, s...
On mercury Daytime Temperatures can reach 430 degrees Celsius and drop to -180 degrees Celsius at night.
One day-night cycle on Mercury takes 175.97 Earth days and a year of Mercury is just 88 Earth days.
Standing on Mercury's surface at its closest approach to the Sun, our star woul...
Nine spacecrafts have studied jupiter up close. NASA'S Juno spacecraft is currently studying the gas giant planet from orbit
The spacecraft, which arrived at Jupiter in July 2016, is the first to study the planet's mysterious, cloud-shrouded interior. Scientists also use the Earth-orbiting...
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