PIX4606522: Mars Pathfinder Probe - View of the Mars Pathfinder probe and its small Sojourner rover at the Kennedy space center in October 1996. The probe was launched on 4 December 1996 and landed on March 4 July 1997 in Ares Vallis. Teleguide from Earth, the Sojourner rover was the first robot to survey Martian soil. He explored about 250 m2 of the surface of Mars and returned 550 photographs. Contact was definitively lost with the Mars Pathfinder probe on 27 September 1997 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606614: Mars Express - Artist's View - Mars Express artist's view - The European Mars Express probe was launched on June 2, 2003 and began its observations in March early 2004. Mars Express left Earth for Mars on 2 June 2003 when the positions of the two planets made for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty - six months. The european spaceprobe began its March observations in 2004 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4568298: Open clusters M6 and M7 in Scorpio - Open clusters M6 and M7 in Scorpius - The star clusters M6 (NGC 6405), at the top right, and M7 (NGC 6475), at the bottom of the image, are two open clusters located in the constellation Scorpio. M6, the Butterfly Cluster, at upper right, is a wonderful open cluster, it can be seen about 4 degrees northwest of M7, with both clusters being located in Scorpius. M7, at bottom, consists of 80 stars brighter than magnitude 10 in a field of about 1.3 degrees apparent diameter. It was known to Ptolemy who mentioned it in 130 AD. Both clusters are visible with the unaided eye in a rich area of Milky Way located between Sagittarius and Scorpius / Bridgeman Images
PIX4568402: Open cluster M26 in the ECU of Sobieski - Open cluster M26 in Scutum - M26 (NGC 6694) is located about 5000 years - light from Earth and is about 90 million years old. M26 is an open cluster in the constellation Scutum. A fairly tight cluster, in this deep image it has to compete with a very populous background of Milky Way stars. It is about 5000 light - years away and around 90 million years old / Bridgeman Images
PIX4568451: Open cluster M11 in the Sobieski ECU - M11 open cluster in Scutum - M11 (NGC 6705) is a particularly compact and star-rich open cluster (about 3000), located in the constellation Sobieski ECU. M11 (NGC 6705) is one of the richest and most compact of the known open clusters containing about 3,000 stars. It is located in the Scutum constellation / Bridgeman Images