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NASA Solar System

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NASA Solar System

@NASASolarSystem

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Joined June 2008

NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jul 28
Prefer thick crust? Thin crust? 🍕 With the Moon, you get both! The lunar crust is 25 miles thick on the Earth side, but 37 miles on the far side. Scientists are still working out why. Ponder that as you enjoy the full Moon! go.nasa.gov/4cHVD5Q 📸 NASA/Bill Dunford
NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jul 27
On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will cross Greenland, Iceland, and Spain — and NASA science will be there! ☀️🌑🔭 We're flying high-altitude jets and launching scientific balloons to study the Sun and the eclipse's effects on us: go.nasa.gov/4x5qvqP 📸: NASA/Ernie Wright
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NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jul 24
Say cheese, Earth and Moon! 📸 One of our two Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft captured Earth and the Moon from 363,250 miles (584,600 kilometers) away. In visible light, both worlds appear as slim crescents. But switch to thermal infrared and it’s a different picture 👇 🧵1/2
NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jul 23
Although NASA's MAVEN mission recently ended, scientists are still making discoveries from 11+ years of spacecraft data. Just today, researchers reported signs that some kinds of auroras on Mars form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. go.nasa.gov/4vOm6HJ
NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jul 22
Hot inside and out! 🌋 NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the subsurface of the solar system's most volcanically active world. 1/2
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