Discovery and exploration of the Solar System Earth to be orbited by an artificial satellite ("Luna 10"), followed by Mars in 1971 ("Mariner 9"), Venus in 1975 ("Venera 9"), Jupiter in 1995 ("Galileo"), the asteroid 433 Eros in 2000 ("NEAR Shoemaker"), Saturn in 2004 ("Cassini–Huygens"), and Mercury and Vesta in 2011 ("MESSENGER" and "Dawn" respectively). "Dawn" is orbiting the asteroid–dwarf planet Ceres as of 2015. The first probe to land on another Solar System body was the Soviet "Luna 2" probe, which impacted the Moon in 1959. Since then, increasingly distant planets have been reached, with probes landing on or impacting the surfaces of Venus in 1966
Terra: The Nature of Our World previous podcasts. LifeOnTERRA's ("TERRA: The Nature of Our World's") website http://www.lifeonterra.com/ was launched in October 2006. This site features a new biweekly episode ready for viewing and downloading, along with its 8 seasons of documentary offerings. All videos are offered as QuickTime (.m4v). The current website was launched in September 2013 and includes many features from the previous website, with a fresh new look. The website was designed and built by Jeff Reed. Hosting for the Videos is provided by Vimeo. As - TERRA: The Nature of Our World-www.lifeonterra.com is the winner of two 2013 WEBBY awards, the People's Voice