The Deep Space Network: A Communication Hub That Also Does Science!

The Deep Space Network is a special network of radio dishes for tracking and talking to spacecraft, and it contributes some cool scientific observations of its own too.

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Sources:

https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov
https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/files/1762-dsn-radio-et-litho.pdf
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.2619
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIkQlKVoUo
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=3823
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=3812
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/dsn_infographic_NASAJPL.pdf
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4099
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6769
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2331/cassini-radio-signals-decipher-saturn-ring-structure/
https://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/introduction.html

Images:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deep-space-op.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DSNantenna.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_11042_Aerial_view_of_the_Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MADRID_060508_MXALX_078.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldstone_34-meter_Beam_Waveguide.jpeg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mariner09.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NEARtrajectory.jpg
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goldstone_DSN_antenna.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DSN_Madrid2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROBLEDO_CHAVELA_1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chandrayaan-1-03.jpg
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/cassini-finds-global-ocean-in-saturns-moon-enceladus
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7628/cassinis-grand-finale/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=3823
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viking_Lander_Model.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Compejo_de_antenas,_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex,3.jpg