Paint Your Universe: Exploring NASA’s Solar System

All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions that help us better understand our planet, our solar system, and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these exploration scenes?

Post your color universe to social media with #ColorWithNASA and tag @NASASolarSystem to have a chance to showcase your artwork on Solar System Exploration social media accounts and on this page.

Week 6

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Here are some of NASA’s highlights on this coloring page:

• There is a house in the sky built for astronauts. For twenty years, the International Space Station (ISS) has orbited 250 miles from Earth, as a science laboratory in the sky. The ISS is a collaboration in which 19 countries have sent people to learn about life and work in space. Did you know that the ISS can be seen in the night sky? Check out the Spot the International Space Station website to find out when you can see it from where you live.
• For more than 30 years, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided stunning views of cosmic wonders, helping to answer many of astronomy’s major questions, including ideas about how stars, planets, and galaxies form. .
• On the Florida coast is NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). KSC is the main launch center for NASA’s human spaceflight missions. He has launched many iconic missions such as Apollo, the space shuttle, the commercial crew, the large observatories and more. Check out our nasa.gov for updated KSC releases.

What else can be discovered in the image? Here are some tips to help you.

1. Famous for “out of this world” images
2. A laboratory and a home for orbiting astronauts
3. A planet orbiting other stars
4. The reason why there is no air in space

Week 5

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Here are some of NASA’s highlights on this coloring page:

• Although the Moon isn’t actually made up of cheese (nor are cows jumping over it into space!), Earth’s Moon is the only world beyond Earth where humans have put the feet. NASA’s Artemis program will send the first woman and the next man to visit the Moon. The Artemis program will provide scientists with data that will help us send astronauts to Mars one day.
• There is a “time machine” that will take pictures of babies from the Universe. Launched in October 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will give scientists a much closer look at the primitive universe, from the formation of the first galaxies not previously observed to the interior. of the dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today.
• A frozen moon on Jupiter, called Europe, contains a vast ocean that scientists believe could harbor suitable conditions for life. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will be launched in the 2020s, with the goal of telling us if so, as it studies the composition, interior and geology of the moon. The mission has the potential to provide a new understanding of icy moons as places in our universe where life could find a foothold.

What else can be discovered in the image? Here are some tips to help you!

1. A dusty place where stars are born
2. A place where you are more likely to find rocks than cheese
3. Two ice-covered ocean worlds
4. How to calm a newborn star

Week 4

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Here are some of NASA’s highlights on this coloring page:

• Currently en route to the red planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover is expected to land on Mars on February 18, 2021. The rover will look for signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and soil for a possible return to Earth. Earth by a future mission. Next to Perseverance is the ingenuity of the Mars helicopter, a technological demonstration to test for the first time the motor flight in another world.
• Currently, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 are exploring interstellar space, where no spacecraft on Earth had flown before. The scientific goals of the Voyagers were to conduct detailed studies of Jupiter and Saturn, the rings of Saturn and the larger moons of the two planets. Then Voyager 2 passed over the planets Uranus and Neptune. The twin spacecraft traveled beyond the outer planets neighborhood until, in 2012 (Voyager 1) and 2018 (Voyager 2), they entered interstellar space, that is, they came out of the protective bubble. of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun called the heliosphere. Attached to each ship is a unique type of time capsule, called the Golden Memory, with special symbols and messages designed to communicate a story of our world.
• Asteroids are remnants of the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. They are mostly made of rock, metal or a combination of both. Scientists believe that the asteroid 16 Psyche, a giant asteroid rich in metals, orbiting the Sun about three times farther than Earth, could reveal new information about how the planets form. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, launched in August 2022, will be the first mission to investigate a world probably made up primarily of metal, rather than rock or ice.

Use our eyes on the online interactive solar system to explore NASA spacecraft and the planets in our solar system using real mission data.

What else can be discovered in the image? Here are some tips to help you!

1. Where you can find the most successful songs of our universe
2. A bot with questions about life
3. Like an asteroid he lifts his pants
4. A spaceship was heading for a metallic world

Week 3

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Here are some of NASA’s highlights on this coloring page:

• The outer planets of our solar system include the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, along with the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
• The outer solar system is of great interest to scientists. For example, Saturn: From 2004 to 2017 NASA’s Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its family of icy moons. Cassini revealed the beauty of Saturn, its rings and moons, inspiring our wonder.
• Still in flight today, NASA’s New Horizons mission was the first spacecraft to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons up close. With a deeper velocity in the Kuiper belt, New Horizons was also the first spacecraft to closely explore a second object in the Kuiper belt (called Arrokoth).
• The classification of Pluto as a planet has changed over the years. Since 2006, the complex world of ice mountains and icy plains has been classified as a dwarf planet. The characteristic feature of Pluto is a heart-shaped glacier that is the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined.

What else can be discovered in the image? Here are some tips to help you!

1. A small planet with a big heart
2. A shortcut through space
3. A pair of ice giants
4. The universe put big, shiny rings on it

Week 2

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Here are some of NASA’s highlights on this coloring page:

• Fifth line of the Sun, Jupiter is by far the largest planet in the solar system, more than twice as massive as all other planets combined. Jupiter is a type of planet known as the gas giant. Its features include clouds of ammonia and water that form streaks and eddies, and the Great Red Spot, a giant storm about twice the size of Earth that gives the planet an iconic appearance.
• Scientists have discovered 79 (and counting) moons orbiting Jupiter, most of the moons on any planet in our solar system. Of these many moons, the four largest, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, receive the most intense scientific interest. They are known as satellites of Galilee by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who first observed them in 1610.
• NASA’s Juno spacecraft is the first mission to give scientists a detailed and detailed look at Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft has made dozens of nearby fliers, giving scientists an idea of ​​how Jupiter formed and evolved, and provided details of its magnetic and gravitational fields and its atmosphere.
• Supermassive black holes are huge, dense objects buried in the heart of galaxies. The gravity of a black hole is so powerful that it can drag nearby material: dust and gas, and even stars. In fact, its gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. Have you ever thought about what it’s like to visit a black hole? While we wouldn’t recommend it, here’s the NASA Guide to Black Hole Safety.

What else can be discovered in the image? Here are some tips to help you.

1. The only moon with its own magnetic field?
2. Some “stellar” twins made of stars
3. The largest place in the solar system
4. A moon where you would see eruptions of many volcanoes

Week 1

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Here are some NASA highlights in this image:

• Sometimes space can feel far away from us, so we use science to bring the universe a little closer. For example, using telescopes, we can observe space from Earth. And to bring scientific information and images to Earth from space, spacecraft use the Deep Space Network or DSN. The DSN is a collection of large radio antennas in different parts of the world.
• NASA has 10 main locations, in addition to its headquarters in Washington DC, that work together to help the space look closer to home.
• A Michael Freilich Sentinel-6 spacecraft, launched in November 2020, between the United States and Europe, is scheduled to track sea level and provide atmospheric data to support weather forecasting and climate models. Join NASA Virtual Space to launch it here

What else can be discovered in the image? Here are some tips to help you!

1. As we talk to distant spacecraft
2. Where did the first robotic space in the United States, “Explorer”
3. A way to look at the stars up close to Earth
4. This “sentinel” will control the height of our oceans