Ceres Polar Lander (CPL) is a European mission concept for a lander to Ceres that would search for biosignatures. Published in 2008, the concept calls...

V; Gabriel, Gabriel (September 2008). "Preliminary assessment of a Ceres Polar Lander mission". European Planetary Science Congress: 403. Bibcode:2008epsc...

planet and asteroid Ceres. It protrudes above the cratered terrain, is not an impact feature, and is the only mountain of its kind on Ceres. Bright streaks...

Mars Polar Lander ceased communication on 3 December 1999 prior to reaching the surface and is presumed to have crashed. The European Beagle 2 lander deployed...

of Esrange makes it very suitable for communication with satellites in polar orbits. Esrange Satellite Station is part of a global network with stations...

with a mass of between 300 and 1500 kg to an altitude of 700 km, for low polar orbit. Its maiden launch from Kourou was on 13 February 2012. Vega began...

Mission Ceres Polar Lander Columbus Man-Tended Free Flyer CSTS Darwin Mission Don Quijote e.Deorbit EChO Eddington EXPERT Hermes Hopper LOFT Lunar Lander Marco...

Mission Ceres Polar Lander Columbus Man-Tended Free Flyer CSTS Darwin Mission Don Quijote e.Deorbit EChO Eddington EXPERT Hermes Hopper LOFT Lunar Lander Marco...

imaging from orbit or flyby. Ice (H 2O) – Mercury (polar); Earth-Moon system; Mars (polar); Ceres and some asteroids such as 24 Themis; Jupiter moons...

The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites. JPSS will provide...

regions: solar wind, bow shock, magnetopause, polar cusps, magnetotail, plasmapause boundary layer and over the polar caps and the auroral zones. The bow shock...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The IAU has adopted two themes for naming surface features...

Mission Ceres Polar Lander Columbus Man-Tended Free Flyer CSTS Darwin Mission Don Quijote e.Deorbit EChO Eddington EXPERT Hermes Hopper LOFT Lunar Lander Marco...

※ Deep Space 2 Rosalind Franklin ⁂ InSight Mars 2 Mars 3 Mars 6 Mars Polar Lander ↓ Opportunity Perseverance ※ Phoenix Schiaparelli EDM Sojourner Spirit...

Orbiter (1999) Mars Polar Lander with Deep Space 2 (1999) Nozomi (2003) Beagle 2 (2003) Fobos-Grunt with Yinghuo-1 (2011) Schiaparelli lander (2016) Following...

It is to launch atop a Vega-C rocket from the French Guiana in 2023, and land on a runway on Santa Maria Island, in the Azores. As a technology development...

S2CID 4396841. NASA (July 28, 2022). "Ceres-overview". NASA. Retrieved February 7, 2023. O'Neill, Ian (5 March 2009). "Life on Ceres: Could the Dwarf Planet be the...

The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), previously known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory...

energy accumulation in the tropical oceans, sea ice extents in the polar regions, land glacial ice retraction in Greenland, and sheet ice and shelf ice...

an occulter to look for exoplanets. Lunette, a lunar lander. Twin Lunar Lander, a double lander mission to better understand the Moon's evolution and...

completed Discovery 12 – InSight, launched May 2018, completed Mars Polar Lander, launched January 1999, failed Deep Space 2, launched January 1999, failed...

contract for farside lunar lander mission". July 22, 2022. Foust, Jeff (September 29, 2023). "Ispace revises design of lunar lander for NASA CLPS mission"...

been disseminated. The "local lander time" for the two Viking mission landers were offsets from LMST at the respective lander sites. In both cases, the initial...

second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres. Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that of...

Z-01 Accessed on 17 June 2019. Z-01 Lander. Gunter Dirk Krebs, Gunter's Space Page. Accessed on 17 June 2019. Ceres Robotics - Rovers Archived 6 December...

crewed lunar lander, which will make its first crewed flight as part of the Artemis 5 mission. Blue Moon is smaller than the SpaceX HLS lander, having only...

European Central Bank assumes its full powers. January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA. January 25 – The 6.2 Mw  Colombia earthquake hits...

for Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032 Centaur Orbiter and Lander Ceres Sample Return Enceladus Multiple Flyby Titan Orbiter New Horizons, a...

satellites: Europa Geophysical Explorer Europa Pathfinder Lander Europa Astrobiological Lander Titan Explorer Uranus Orbiter Neptune Orbiter Visions and...

among astronomers that the Solar System has at least eight dwarf planets: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna. There are a...