Also around our satellite, the two probes of the Artemis mission, also of NASA, they are silent

Fine crackling of 2013 for the exploration of the solar system. To become the protagonist in recent weeks, the comet ISON during its perihelion passage very close to our star. This has brought to the fore the probes of solar observation, in particular SoHO and STEREO, which normally do not attract much attention from the media. curiosity nasa Even the Messenger spacecraft, in orbit around Mercury, was involved in the campaign of observation.
It then continued the series of launches of new missions, after the success of the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission. Games are, in fact, MAVEN, direct to Mars, and Chang'e 3, toward the Moon. Just in lunar orbit has also begun the scientific mission of LADEE that will last a hundred days, while on Mars there have been some small problems, and then solved for Curiosity.
In December, curiosity nasa the protagonist will own the newly launched Chinese mission. Towards the middle of the month the Chang'e 3 lander with the rover will land on the lunar surface Yutu, ending an absence that lasted for 37 years. It will be interesting to see images from the surface of our satellite shot from instruments far more modern curiosity nasa cameras used by the Soviet Luna missions or by the Apollo missions.
There are no new launches probes to explore the solar system in the coming months. The next mission will probably Hayabusa 2, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), which should curiosity nasa start at the end of 2014 at a time of an asteroid to bring back to Earth a sample. In 2015 are currently planned launches: Sunjammer, large solar sail at NASA; Bepi-Colombo mission joint European / Japanese direct to Mercury, which will include curiosity nasa three components - MTM (Mercury Transfer Module, ESA), MPO (Mercury Planetary Orbiter ESA) and MMO (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter JAXA), and, probably, Chang'e 4 twin mission of the Chang'e 3.
The WIND spacecraft, NASA, is currently curiosity nasa in orbit around the Earth-Sun Lagrangian point L1, and its observation mission of our star has been going on since 1994. Keeping curiosity nasa her company is L1 in the orbiter American ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer).
Also in the L1 joint ESA / NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO) in late November noted the approach of the comet to the sun ISON, producing extraordinary images of the flyby. The fate of the comet is still uncertain even though the hopes that a part of the core has survived the flyby are almost nil.
The mission of NASA's STEREO curiosity nasa (Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory) consists, however, of the two probes, Stereo A and Stereo B that share the Earth's orbit around the Sun, respectively, preceding and following our planet, allowing stereoscopic observations. The probes slowly move away from the Earth and to each other for each orbit in 2009 and overran the Lagrangian points L4 and L5. Along with SoHO, the two probes were co-stars of the campaign of observation of the comet at perihelion ISON. The images produced curiosity nasa include the observation of a 4 comets (ISON, Lovejoy, Enke and Nevsky), the video of the approach of two comets curiosity nasa (ISON and Enke) with Mercury and the Earth in the background, as well as images dedicated mainly to the comet ISON , among many others.
The Messenger spacecraft, NASA has completed the first extension of its mission in orbit around Mercury on March 17. NASA is currently continuing to use the tools of the probe, pending a formal decision on a possible curiosity nasa second extension of the mission. In any case, the probe will probably deorbitata the end of March 2015. Given the proximity, Messenger also has been involved in the campaign of observation of Comet ISON, even photographically capturing the comet Encke.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), NASA continues its mission of high resolution mapping curiosity nasa of the Moon. The probe is in its extended mission, and one of the current goals is to document the landing sites of the means of exploration, thanks to the high resolution curiosity nasa of the images that it is able to resume.
The American probe LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere curiosity nasa and Dust Environment Explorer) has completed its insertion into lunar orbit in October, at the end of November has completed curiosity nasa testing on-board instrumentation, officially beginning the main mission of the probe that will last about 100 days. During the commissioning phase, LADEE has also made a test of long-distance communication via laser that has set a new speed record of transmission.
Also around our satellite, the two probes of the Artemis mission, also of NASA, they are silent