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Loading contentHow spacecraft do science — the classes of instrument and the payloads that map worlds, read composition in light, and sense the invisible environment of space. Built on real NASA and ESA mission data; nothing is fabricated.
An imaging instrument that records visible (and often near-infrared or ultraviolet) light — the eyes of a spacecraft, from wide-angle context cameras to high-resolution narrow-angle telescopes.
An instrument that splits light into its component wavelengths to reveal composition, temperature, and motion — the workhorse of remote sensing, spanning ultraviolet, visible, infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray bands.
InSight's ultra-sensitive seismometer, which detected hundreds of marsquakes and, for the first time, revealed the internal structure of Mars.
New Horizons's high-resolution narrow-angle telescope camera, which returned the first detailed images of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.