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DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 205: (b) Exploring the Planets:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GAL205_221014_001.JPG: Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets
2. GAL205_221014_007.JPG: Planets Across the Galaxy
3. GAL205_221014_008.JPG: Searching for Goldilocks, 2009 Angela Palmer Artist Angela Palmer used sheets of engraved glass to portray the first "Goldilocks" worlds identified by the Kepler Space Telescope. Each of these planets orbits its star at just the right distance -- not tp [sic] too hot, not to [sic] cold (remember the Goldilocks fairy tale?) -- so liquid water might form on its surface. The opaque bright white circles represent stars with Goldilocks planets. Each glass plate represents a distance 250 light-years farther from Earth.
4. GAL205_221014_009.JPG: Searching for Goldilocks, 2009 Angela Palmer Artist Angela Palmer used sheets of engraved glass to portray the first "Goldilocks" worlds identified by the Kepler Space Telescope. Each of these planets orbits its star at just the right distance -- not too hot, not too cold (remember the Goldilocks fairy tale?) -- so liquid water might form on its surface. The opaque bright white circles represent stars with Goldilocks planets. Each glass plate represents a distance 250 light-years farther from Earth.
5. GAL205_221014_027.JPG: Fascinated by Planets
6. GAL205_221014_028.JPG: Ancient Astronomers
7. GAL205_221014_040.JPG: Who Decides What a Planet Is?
8. GAL205_221014_044.JPG: Planet: The Official Definition
9. GAL205_221014_047.JPG: Now There Are Dwarf Planets!
10. GAL205_221014_051.JPG: Icy Worlds
11. GAL205_221014_052.JPG: Comets Are Visitors from the Outer Limits
12. GAL205_221014_058.JPG: Stardust Captures Dusty Traces of a Comet
13. GAL205_221014_060.JPG: Hostile Worlds
14. GAL205_221014_072.JPG: Volcanism
15. GAL205_221014_074.JPG: Tectonics
16. GAL205_221014_076.JPG: The Hammer and the Feather, 1986 Alan Bean Apollo 12 astronaut and artist Alan Bean portrayed David Scott on Apollo 15 performing an experiment whose legacy goes back over four centuries to Galileo. Scott dropped a hammer and feather simultaneously to confirm that they accelerate downward at the same rate in the absence of air. (Reproduction)
17. GAL205_221014_082.JPG: The Exploration of Mars, 1956 Chesley Bonestell Interest in planetary visitation and exploration was spurred in the 1950s by the writings of Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley and others, and the fabulous illustrations of Chesley Bonestell.
18. GAL205_221014_085.JPG: Props from the Original TV Series Star Trek Spock Ears Ear tips helped actor Leonard Nimoy portray the half-alien Mr. Spock on television in Star Trek (NBC, 1966-69). Nimoy kept this set as a personal memento in his home, displayed in this handmade black box.
19. GAL205_221014_092.JPG: Tribbles This television prop is a "tribble," a fictional alien creature featured in the Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles." A tribble was a living furry creature that did nothing but eat and multiply. Over-multiplying tribbles created havoc aboard the Starship Enterprise.
20. GAL205_221014_103.JPG: Lunar Overshoes Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 These overshoes were the last human-worn objects to touch the surface of the Moon. Eugene Cernan wore them on his three spacewalks in December 1972. They made the last footprints on the Moon when he stepped off the surface, and they retain traces of lunar dust.
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Description of Subject Matter: Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery
October 14, 2022 – Permanent
The Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery probes the science and history of our exploration of planets and moons. This exhibition tells the stories of the diversity of worlds circling our Sun and how exploring those worlds helps enhance our own understanding of Earth. Exploring the Planets draws on research from scientists in the Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, who are actively involved in current planetary missions.
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