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NASA Solar System

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NASA Solar System

@NASASolarSystem

Join us as we explore the worlds of our solar system.

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science.nasa.gov/solar-system

Joined June 2008

NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
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Finding asteroids before they find us! 🛘 Happy International Asteroid Day. NASA’s new NEO Surveyor mission is our next-generation near-Earth object hunter. Slated for launch next year, it will be the first spacecraft built specifically to find large numbers of asteroids and
NEO Surveyor - NASA Science
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NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
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What exactly are asteroids? Why do we track and explore them? science.nasa.gov/solar-system/a…
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NASA Goddard
@NASAGoddard
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It's International Asteroid Day! Wondering how to channel your inner asteroid? Try being wobbly, nut-like, and with a complex life! That's what @NASA's Lucy spacecraft learned about the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year during its flyby.
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NASA Universe
@NASAUniverse
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Though it has mainly looked for distant cosmic explosions, our Swift observatory has also studied solar system objects! In 2010, Swift teamed up with @NASAHubble to catch the remnants of an asteroid smash-up just weeks after the collision. go.nasa.gov/4wi8KE6
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NASA
@NASA
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LIVE: More missions. More momentum. More exploration. We have a @NASAMoonBase update! Listen in as we discuss our plans to establish a long-term human presence on the Moon.
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NASA Space Alerts
@NASASpaceAlerts
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🦖The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program. NASA’s Planetary Defense Program finds and tracks potentially hazardous asteroids and tests methods to keep us safe on Earth. This International Asteroid Day, learn more about our planetary defenders: plus.nasa.gov/video/planetar…
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NASA Moon Base
@NASAMoonBase
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Three words: More. Moon. Deliveries. 🌕✨ Join us live at 2:30 p.m. ET as @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman announces the next lunar lander mission awards and shares the latest on NASA's plans to build a Moon Base. nasa.gov/news-release/n…
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NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jun 29
Tonight's full Moon has an atmosphere too — just extraordinarily thin. With about a quadrillion times fewer molecules in a given space than Earth's, it’s so sparse that space rocks strike the surface directly instead of burning up! go.nasa.gov/4f5xx8D 📸 NASA/Bill Dunford
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NASA's Johnson Space Center
@NASAJohnson
Jun 29
Fireworks? The auroras said: watch this. The 4th of July is coming up, but astronauts aboard the @Space_Station often witness their own version of a light show as auroras ripple across our planet. These brilliant displays occur when solar particles collide with Earth’s magnetic
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NASA History Office
@NASAhistory
Jun 25
Two close-up views of Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, taken 25 years apart! 30 years ago on June 27, NASA's Galileo spacecraft performed humanity's first-ever flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede—revealing that it had a magnetic field. Galileo flew within 519
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NASA Mars
@NASAMars
Jun 25
Photo finish! 🏁📸 On June 14, Perseverance completed a Martian “marathon” by surpassing 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) of travel. The day before, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this view of the rover and its tracks from space.
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NASA Earth
@NASAEarth
Jun 23
Breakups are hard 💔 Unless it’s stuff breaking up in Earth’s atmosphere. Then it’s just cool! A @Space_Station astronaut captured an object breaking up in the atmosphere on April 27. It could have been part of a rocket, satellite, other human-made space debris, or a meteor.
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NASA JPL
@NASAJPL
Jun 22
Happy solstice! ☀️ Yesterday kicked off astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year, the summer triangle rises into view in the night sky. Between these stars, amazing deep-sky objects are visible with a telescope, including the Ring and Veil Nebulas.
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NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jun 20
Smile! Tomorrow is the Northern Hemisphere’s summer solstice! 😎☀️ This “sunny smile” is made of coronal holes — darker, cooler regions on the Sun where solar material escapes to space at incredible speeds. 🕳️ More on coronal holes in this episode of NASA’s Illuminate.👇
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