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The osiris rex mission which will map and return samples from asteroid bennu is expected to reach the asteroid in august 2018.

Earth moon space nasa. The international space station iss circles the earth at 240 miles above the planet on the edge of space in low earth orbit. Earth has just one moon a rocky cratered place roughly a quarter the size of earth and an average of 238855 miles away. 2 2017 when the spacecraft was approximately 3 million miles from earth. The image was taken from a distance of about 62 million km 39 million miles.

Learn about the different names we have for a full moon. This composite image of the earth and moon is made from data captured by osiris rexs mapcam instrument on oct. Learn more about these big waves and how nasa monitors them. The european space agency japan china and india all have sent missions to explore the moon.

China has landed two rovers on the surface including the first ever landing on moons far side in 2019. Earths only natural satellite is simply called the moon because people didnt know other moons existed until galileo galilei discovered four moons orbiting jupiter in 1610. The moon can be seen with the naked eye most nights as it traces its 27 day orbit around our planet. Nasas website for all news images and videos related to earth science.

Supermoon blood moon blue moon and harvest moon. False colors via use of the 1 micron filter as red 727 nm filter as green and violet filter as blue. A tsunami is a large wave caused by movements in earths outer layer or crust. In march 2019 nasa administrator jim bridenstine announced plans t o send us.

The brightly colored earth contrasts strongly with the moon. The galileo project is managed for nasas office of space science by the jet propulsion laboratory. The lunar dark areas are lava rock filled impact basins. The station is crewed by nasa astronauts as well as russian.

The earth moon. The moon is in the foreground moving from left to right. The picture was made with images taken through the violet red and 10 micron infrared filters. This picture contains same scale and relative coloralbedo images of the earth and moon.

Nasa currently has three robotic spacecraft exploring the moon lunar reconnaissance orbiter and the twin artemis spacecraft not to be confused with nasas new artemis program to send astronauts back to the moon. Astronauts back to the surface of the moon by 2024. What is an earthquake. 23 to discuss the future of human space exploration and the agencys plans to return to the moon as a forerunner to future human missions to mars.