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  1. In Depth | Tethys – NASA Solar System Exploration

    These smaller moons are held in Lagrangian points (L4 and L5, respectively), where objects are stable with the larger controlling body. These three moons complete their orbits around Saturn …

  2. Genesis - NASA Science

    Nov 3, 2024 · After insertion into a low parking orbit around Earth, the third stage fired exactly an hour after launch, at 17:13 UT Aug. 8, 2001, to send the spacecraft toward its destination at …

  3. lagrange.dvi - NASA Solar System Exploration ... lagrange.dvim

  4. In Depth | Asteroids – NASA Solar System Exploration

    Trojans: These asteroids share an orbit with a larger planet, but do not collide with it because they gather around two special places in the orbit (called the L4 and L5 Lagrangian points).

  5. In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration

    The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets …

  6. Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration

    Oct 21, 2025 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.

  7. Directory - NASA Solar System Exploration

    Solar System Ambassadors Peggy Motes McBride Crown Point, Indiana Member since 1998 Contact Peggy

  8. Directory - NASA Solar System Exploration

    At a young age Teresa Simpson was exposed to libraries, museums and the UC Berkeley campus. People were willing to point her in the right direction if she had any science …

  9. This insight was instrumental in development of the Genesis trajectory that enabled sample return from the sun-Earth collinear libration points. This insight has also Figure 2.4-1.

  10. In Depth | 2P/Encke – 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.