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Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
In Depth | Ganymede – NASA Solar System Exploration Not only is it the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than the planet Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, but NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede
In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons In the outer solar system, the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have dozens of moons
The Sun By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration The Sun is the star at the heart of our solar system Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything – from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris – in its orbit
Venus Atmosphere: Major Questions and Required Observations This paper describes the major questions about the atmosphere of Venus and the observations required to understand it “How Does Venus atmosphere work?” A dedicated and renewed exploration effort is required to address this fundamental question Key questions requiring new observations include: H
The Lunar Dusty Exosphere: The Extreme Case of an Inner Planetary . . . The Moon is an extreme type of atmosphere – a surface bounded exosphere – and may represent the final ‘ground state’ of any geologically dormant body Neutral gas and dust are emitted from its surface via universal processes believed to be occurring at all near-airless bodies
In Depth | Titan – NASA Solar System Exploration Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury This mammoth moon is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere, and it’s the only world besides Earth that has standing bodies of liquid, including rivers, lakes and seas, on its surface