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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 Mercury cross the face of the Sun in 1769. Spacecraft now...

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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 liquid ethane and methane. Cold winds sculpt vast...

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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 Mars and takes a nostalgic look back at the great...

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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. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren’t...

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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 much cooler and redder than our Sun. If plant life does...

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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 that’s buried beneath thick layers of gas and ice...