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During the launch broadcast, you can mark off the words that you hear!
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Snap it! An Eclipse Photo Adventure
Help the Traveler snap photos of an eclipse!
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Pluto is now categorized as a dwarf planet.
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An orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one.
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Antarctica is a continent. Antarctica covers Earth's South Pole.
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Play Bingo While Watching the Psyche Spacecraft Launch!
During the launch broadcast, you can mark off the words that you hear!
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Make a Colorful Crayon Europa with Textures!
Create your own colorful crayon Europa with textures!
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During the launch broadcast, you can mark off the words that you hear!
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Learn all about comets!
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Color Your Universe: Find the Hidden Objects
Can you find all the NASA and space-themed hidden objects?
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Color Your Universe: Find the Hidden Objects
Can you find all the NASA and space-themed hidden objects?
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Why Do We Care About Water on Mars?
Where there are signs of water, there might also be signs of life!
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Learn about the Moon's phases!
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Learn about impact craters!
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How Long is a Year on Other Planets?
You probably know that a year is 365 days here on Earth. But did you know that on Mercury you’d have a birthday every 88 days? Read this article to find out how long it takes all the planets in our solar system to make a trip around the Sun.
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Approximately every four years we add a day to the calendar. Learn more about why it’s important!
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Explore Mars: A Mars Rover Game
Drive around the Red Planet and gather information in this fun coding game!
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The biggest planet in our solar system
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What Is the Weather Like on Other Planets?
Each of the planets in our solar system experiences its own unique weather.
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A tsunami is a large wave caused by movements in Earth''s outer layer, or crust. Learn more about these big waves and how NASA monitors them.
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Is There Ice on Other Planets?
Yes, there is ice beyond Earth! In fact, ice can be found on several planets and moons in our solar system.
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Supermoon, Blood Moon, Blue Moon and Harvest Moon
Learn about the different names we have for a full moon!
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Learn more about tremors on Earth—and other planets too!
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We can use a planet’s gravitational pull like a scale!
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Learn more about what happens when the moon passes between Earth and the sun!
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Learn more about what happens when the moon passes between Earth and the sun!
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How Is the Sun Completely Blocked in an Eclipse?
It all has to do with the distance between Earth and the sun and Earth and the moon.
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How Is the Sun Completely Blocked in an Eclipse?
It all has to do with the distance between Earth and the sun and Earth and the moon.
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Asteroid or Meteor: What's the Difference?
Learn more about asteroids, meteors, meteoroids, meteorites, and comets!
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And what can we learn from these space rocks in our solar system?
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Make a mask and pretend to be your favorite planet in our solar system!
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Learn more about this weather pattern!
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Learn more about Earth's water in this video!
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This future mission will try to find out if life ever existed on the Red Planet!
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Mars had water long ago. But did it also have other conditions needed for life?
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The Mars Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity
What did these twin rovers teach us about the history of water on Mars?
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Learn more about the first rover to land on Mars!
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How do rovers help us learn more about the Red Planet?
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The icy bits past Neptune’s orbit
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Where Does the Solar System End?
The Oort Cloud!
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And how round are they?
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The coldest planet in our solar system
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The planet that spins on its side
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The planet with beautiful rings
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The biggest planet in our solar system
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The red planet
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The hottest planet in our solar system
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Learn more about the planets in our solar system
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The smallest planet in our solar system
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A comet close to home
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How Long Is One Day on Other Planets?
Learn to make a graph with the answer!
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How Many Moons Does Each Planet Have?
We have one, but some planets have dozens.
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Learn more about this icy moon of Jupiter!
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Where Does Interstellar Space Begin?
Interstellar space begins where the sun’s magnetic field stops affecting its surroundings.
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Jumping the Tallest Cliff in the Solar System
How far would we have to travel to get there?
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What's It Like Inside Jupiter?
Jupiter's core is very hot and is under tons of pressure!
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Astronomers may have found a planet without a sun!
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The answer isn't so simple...
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How Did the Solar System Form?
The story starts about 4.6 billion years ago, with a cloud of stellar dust.
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These are yummy and need no baking!
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What causes them?
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What causes them?
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Gallery of NASA Solar System Images
Glorious planets and moons to view or print.
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Voyager 1 and 2: The Interstellar Mission
These spacecraft traveled to the outer planets!
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What do you get when you cross an earthquake with a tidal wave?
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Play Solar System Switch-a-Roo!
Put clues together to find the planets and moons.
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And how does it help us find new planets?
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Make yummy potatoes look like asteroids.
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And what are they made of?
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Turn an old CD into Saturn's rings.
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DSN Uplink-Downlink: A DSN Game
Help the big antennas gather data from the spacecraft.
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Help Juno reveal Jupiter's true nature.
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Make your own colorful aurora!
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A jacket for the planet
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The layer we call home
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The layer made of layers
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The middle layer
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The heat that won’t keep you warm
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Make a Fan with Earth's Layers
Cool yourself with Earth’s hot interior
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The active, changing layer
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The outermost layer
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The planet with living things
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What causes this beautiful light show?
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The planet with living things
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It’s farther away than you might realize.
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Space Place in a Snap explains how your phone knows where to look for pizza.
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Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses
What’s the difference?
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The Space Place Experiment Center
It's science time!
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See our planet in a whole new light.
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We all use it, but how does it work, anyway?
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Why Does the Moon Have Craters?
It's not because the Moon gets hit by meteors more often...
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Why Does the Moon Have Craters?
It's not because the Moon gets hit by meteors more often...
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Become a NASA engineer!
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And what causes them to form?
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Explore the many volcanoes in our solar system using the Space Volcano Explorer.
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Explore the many volcanoes in our solar system using the Space Volcano Explorer.
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Write your own zany adventure story!
Write your own zany adventure story!
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Write your own zany adventure story!
Write your own zany adventure story!
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How can NASA help us learn about bird migration?
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Share these with your friends and family!
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Share these with your friends and family!
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Paint pumpkins with space and Earth science designs
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Paint pumpkins with space and Earth science designs
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Bad (space) weather cancels pigeon races!
Why do pigeons care about what the Sun is doing?
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The answer may surprise you.
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Could they have brought the water to our planet?
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Could they have brought the water to our planet?
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Go With the Flow: An Ocean Currents Game
In this ocean currents game, use heat and salt to float your sub to the treasure!
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For the New Moon, you must eat all the creme filling!
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For the New Moon, you must eat all the creme filling!
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View large images or print them.
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Learn the answer and impress your friends!
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Telling a pine from a maple ... from space!
What if every kind of tree were a different color?
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Map a 3-D map of the invisible.
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Build your own mountain, then map it.
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Building a 3-D Map of Earth from Space!
And in only 10 days!
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How do these monster storms happen?
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Learn all about it then make a yummy dessert that maps the ocean's heat.
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Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases!
Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!
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How can one gas in the air be both good and bad?
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These pretty clouds move, but do not go away.
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Guide to Climate Change for Kids
We answer some of your biggest questions about Earth's climate! This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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10 Interesting Things About Earth
Learn new things about our planet! This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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NASA’s Climate Kids website brings climate science to life with fun games, interactive features and exciting articles. This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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Build a model spacecraft to explore the solar system!
Paper models of your favorite solar system explorers. This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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A picture book about Earth's atmosphere and its importance to life on Earth. This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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Hello, Pluto!
In July of 2015, a spacecraft named New Horizons arrived at Pluto after a long journey. It took amazing pictures of this dwarf planet and will continue to study other objects in the Kuiper Belt from 2018 to 2022.
Find out more about Pluto.
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