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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: 51 PEGASI

The exoplanet is about half the mass of Jupiter, with a seemingly impossible, star-hugging orbit of only 4.2 Earth Days. Not only was it the first planet confirmed to orbit a sun-like star; it also...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: CERES

Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the Sun., It is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, with an equatorial diameter of about 965 kilometers. A creative team of...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: EARTH

There’s no place like home. Warm, wet and with an atmosphere that’s just right, Earth is the only place we know of with life – and lots of it. A creative team of visual strategists...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: ENCELADUS

The discovery of Enceladus’ icy jets and their role in creating Saturn’s E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission to Saturn. Further Cassini mission discoveries revealed...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: GRAND TOUR

NASA’s Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed stunning details about Jupiter,...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: HD 40307

Twice as big in volume as the Earth, HD 40307 g straddles the line between “Super-Earth’ and “mini-Neptune” and scientists aren’t sure if it has a rocky surface or one...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: KEPLER 16B

Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: KEPLER 186F

Kepler-186F is the first Earth-size planet discovered in the potentially “habitable zone” around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet’s surface. Its star is...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: MARS

NASA’s Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was, is or can be a habitable world. This poster imagines a future day when we have achieved our vision of human exploration of...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: TITAN

Frigid and alien, yet similar to our own planet billions of years ago, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has a thick atmosphere, organic-rich chemistry and a surface shaped by rivers and lakes of...

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NASA Visions of the Future Wood Magnet: VENUS

The rare science opportunity of planetary transits has long inspired bold voyages to exotic vantage points – journeys such as James Cook’s trek to the South Pacific to watch Venus and...