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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image, acquired on May 31, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a small crater, just seven meters across, was created on Mars sometime between April 2018 and January 2019.
PIA23476:
A New Crater on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of both Tractus Fossae and Tractus Catena, some of many north/south trending tectonic graben located south of Alba Mons.
PIA23457:
Tractus Fossae and Tractus Catena
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the margin between Terra Cimmeria and Elysium Planitia. This boundary region is typified by tectonic fractures forming long, linear depressions.
PIA23448:
Hexagon Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on June 10, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows sedimentary rock and sand within Danielson Crater, located in the southwest Arabia Terra region of Mars.
PIA23454:
Layers in Danielson Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on May 20, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the Nili Fossae region, to the west of the great Isidis basin, with layered bedrock and many impact craters.
PIA23452:
The Bedrock Riddles of Nili Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows two linear depressions which are part of the Nili Fossae fracture system.
PIA23390:
Nili Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-07-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the central portion of Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is a complex channel system in Utopia Planitia near Elysium Mons.
PIA23335:
Hephaestus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-07-11 Earth ARIA
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NASA's ARIA team used InSAR analysis of data from the ALOS-2 satellite to map how much and in what direction the ground moved following two strong Southern California earthquakes on July 4 and July 5, 2019.
PIA23351:
NASA Map Shows Ground Movement from California Quakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-07-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of an unnamed crater in Utopia Planitia. The ejecta surrounding the crater rim shows both layering and radial grooves.
PIA23328:
Radial Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-07-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a complex block of material located on the floor of an unnamed crater in Arabia Terra.
PIA23325:
What Could It Be?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows evidence in the core region of the F ring, visible here, that a population of small objects impacted the rings at the same time and caused streaks of material to emerge.
PIA23169:
Mini-jets in the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on May 16, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a cratered area to the southeast of the ExoMars 2020 Rosalind Franklin rover landing site at Oxia Palus.
PIA23289:
Landing in Oxia Palus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 24, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a huge tongue-like form, which looks a like a mudflow with boulders on its surface.
PIA23286:
Tooting Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 24, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, revisits an impact site in this area first imaged in December 2017.
PIA23233:
The Changing Surface of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-25 Messier 87 Spitzer Space Telescope
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The galaxy M87, imaged here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is home to a supermassive black hole that spews two jets of material out into space at nearly the speed of light.
PIA23122:
Spitzer Captures Messier 87
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 19, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows what appears to be a new impact cluster and, extending downhill from the craters, new dark slope streaks.
PIA23181:
Impact-Induced Dust Avalanches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Aram Chaos. Aram Chaos was initially formed by a large impact.
PIA23107:
Syrtis Major Planum - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 26, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is part of a campaign to image potential impact craters in the south polar layered deposits (ice cap).
PIA23106:
A Crater on the South Polar Layered Deposits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-28 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Lake Karakul in northeast Tajikistan, a hypersaline lake with no external drainage, receiving less than 3 cm precipitation per year.
PIA23102:
Lake Karakul, Tajikistan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows three craters. Investigating the relative ages of each crater indicates the largest crater formed first followed at some point by the smaller craters.
PIA23074:
Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 23, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the western portion of a well-preserved (recent) impact crater in Ladon Basin.
PIA23079:
Colorful Impact Ejecta in Ladon Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 26, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the hills that resulted from uplifted rocks due to an impact that formed the 230-kilometer diameter Galle Crater.
PIA23078:
Gullies in Galle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the floor of an unnamed crater in Arabia Terra.
PIA23054:
Crater Dunes - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Athabasca Valles with lava flows originating from Elysium Mons to the northwest.
PIA23062:
Almost Like Water
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a recent impact in Noachis Terra in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars.
PIA23061:
A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 30, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a complex crater, where we see bedrock in several locations from different depths in the crust.
PIA23057:
Exposing the Rock in Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 15, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a cross-section of a complex crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA23022:
Cross-Section of a Complex Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 5, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a new impact crater that formed between July and September 2018.
PIA23019:
Impact Near the South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-23 Ceres Dawn
Framing Camera
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this view of Ceres' limb on May 19, 2018.
PIA23017:
View of Ceres' Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a group of craters in Terra Sirenum. The apparent youngest one is the center crater with the scalloped rim.
PIA23011:
Out of Round
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Hale Crater and the elongate axis of the central peak mountains.
PIA22994:
Hale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Noachis Terra to the northeast of Argyre Planitia.
PIA22992:
There's Something Odd Here
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-11 Ceres Dawn
Framing Camera
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This close-up view of the central peak of the 99-mile-wide (160-kilometer-wide) Urvara impact crater on Ceres was captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 21, 2018 from an altitude of about 83 miles (134 kilometers).
PIA22771:
Urvara Crater's Central Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater located in Aonia Terra. Numerous gullies dissect the inner crater rim.
PIA22882:
Crater Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-11-12 Sol (our sun) SDO
Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a good-sized coronal hole at a slanted angle nearly centered on the face of the sun (Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2018).
PIA18141:
Central Coronal Hole Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-30 InSight
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This artist's illustration depicts NASA's InSight lander on Mars.
PIA22745:
InSight - Artist's Illustration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image acquired on June 2, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows an impact crater in the south Syrtis Major region.
PIA22727:
Colorful Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 9, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a large, 50-kilometer diameter crater with a mountain-like central peak formed from uplifted material below.
PIA22784:
Tell-Tale Bedrock in Tyrrhena Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image acquired on July 22, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows that the sensitivity of HiRISE enabled imaging of surface features through a moderate level of haze.
PIA22726:
Seeing through the Dusty Air
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small region in Terra Sirenum. The bright material forming 'tails' behind the craters were created by surface winds funneled over and around the crater.
PIA22668:
Windstreaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows shows part of Aram Chaos. Aram Chaos was initially formed by a large impact. Over time the crater interior was modified by several different processes, including liquid water.
PIA22624:
Aram Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the eastern end of Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is a channel system in Utopia Planitia near Elysium Mons.
PIA22621:
Hephaestus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-28 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft obtained near-infrared data of the ongoing Kilauea volcano eruption and its impact on the Leilani Estates area on May 15, 2018 (left) and June 23, 2018 (right). New dark areas show where the ground has been covered with lava flows.
PIA22593:
Dramatic Changes from Kilauea Leilani Estates Lava Flows Seen by NASA Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater, home to fan-shaped deposits that extend from the rim and sit on the interior crater floor. Thick beds with varying tone are exposed along the edge of the fan.
PIA22592:
Fans and Valleys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra. The crater is relatively young, with several different structures on the floor and rim still visible.
PIA22608:
Not Quite Round
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a double impact - two meteors hitting simultaneously. The two meteors would have started as a single object, at some point prior to impact the object separated into parts.
PIA22606:
Doublet Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater on Hephaestus Fossae. The crater is fairly young, as there is only minimal modification of the crater floor.
PIA22605:
Hephaestus Fossae Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Aram Chaos, an ancient impact crater that lies within in the Southern Highlands of Mars. Uplifted blocks are composed largely of the iron-oxide hematite and water-altered silicates.
PIA22585:
Uplifted Blocks of Light-Toned Layered Deposits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed this image of an impact crater. The blue appearance is due to the intense blast of the impact moving around dust on the surface. That dust is usually light-toned and reddish in color compared to what is beneath.
PIA22534:
New Crater Blues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an impact crater that triggered a slope streak. When the meteoroid hit the surface and exploded to make the crater, it also destabilized the slope and initiated this avalanche.
PIA22513:
Bang and Whoosh!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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On Aug. 17, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Odysseus crater with its ring of steep cliffs and the mountains that rise at its center, the most visually striking feature on Saturn's icy moon, Tethys.
PIA21613:
Mighty Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Hale Crater, a large impact crater (more than 100 kilometers) with a suite of interesting features such as active gullies, active recurring slope lineae, and extensive icy ejecta flows.
PIA22465:
Bedrock Exposed in the Rim of Hale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continually finds new impact sites on Mars. This one occurred within the dense secondary crater field of Corinto Crater. The new crater and its ejecta have distinctive color patterns.
PIA22462:
A New Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows barchan sand dunes, common on Mars often forming vast dune fields within very large (tens to hundreds of km) impact basins. The regions upwind of barchans are usually devoid of sandy bedforms.
PIA22456:
Barchan Pac-Man
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows two small impact craters located in Meridiani Planum on Mars. Small boulders on the floor and walls of the left-side crater.
PIA22454:
Twin Craters in Meridiani Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows two new craters on Mars with the same distinctive pattern of relatively blue ejecta surrounded by a dark blast zone and arcing patterns. This pattern indicates an oblique impact angle with a bolide.
PIA22453:
A Pair of New Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the part of the crater rim and ejecta surrounding Lonar Crater in the northern plains of Vastitas Borealis.
PIA22386:
Lonar Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-02 Earth Terra
MISR
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On April 30, 2018, NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) captured imagery of the plume top over the active Tinder Fire as it passed overhead on NASA's Terra satellite. The fires ignited in eastern Arizona near the Blue Ridge Reservoir.
PIA00698:
Tinder Fire in Arizona Viewed by NASA's MISR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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At the bottom of this image of Daedalia Planum is the uppermost rim of an impact crater. This image was captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA22382:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The northern margins of Arabia Terra and Terra Sabaea contain many unnamed channels. This channel is located in Terra Sabaea. The channel flow is toward the top of this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA22376:
Terra Sabaea Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows remarkably young lava flows in Elysium Planitia. There are almost no impact craters over this flow, indicating that it is probably only a few million years old.
PIA22432:
Young Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-02 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a close-up of a trough, along with channels draining into the depression. On the floor of the trough is some grooved material typically seen in middle latitude regions where there has been glacial flow
PIA22348:
Formations in Context (or, what is it?)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Off the image to the right is Yuty Crater, located between Simud and Tiu Valles. The crater ejcta forms the large lobes along the right side of this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA22303:
Yuty Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-22 Ceres Dawn
Framing Camera
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft showing the northern part of Hanami Planum on Ceres honors the Japanese cherry blossom festival, or 'Hanami,' a long-standing Japanese tradition of welcoming spring.
PIA21921:
Hanami Planum on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the eastern end of Ius Chasma. The southern canyon wall is at the bottom of the image, with dark sand and sand dunes.
PIA22285:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the eastern end of Ius Chasma. Geryon Montes are located in the bottom half of the image. Between the montes and the southern wall face is a region of sand and sand dunes.
PIA22284:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of eastern Ius Chasma. The lower elevations of Geryon Montes are located at the top of the image.
PIA22282:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a section of Ius Chasma that is not dominated by landslide deposits. Geryon Montes has several visible faults, including a pair of faults that divide the uppermost ridge into two sections.
PIA22281:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-22 Earth ARIA
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This map shows the location of the latest Mexico earthquake. The Pinotepa quake in Oaxaca was the largest in the area since a magnitude 8.2 earthquake in the Gulf of Tehuantepec in September 2017.
PIA22258:
NASA's ARIA Project Generates New Satellite-Derived Map of Ground Deformation from Latest Mexico Quake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the central part of Ius Chasma, where the canyon profile changes. What started as a large graben south of the main chasma wall has widened to create a central high ridge separating the chasm.
PIA22280:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-22 Ceres Dawn
Framing Camera
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows large craters Urvara (top) and Yalode (bottom) on dwarf planet Ceres. The two giant craters were formed at different times. Urvara is about 120-140 million years old and Yalode is almost 1 billion years older.
PIA21917:
Urvara and Yalode: Giant Craters on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-21 Earth 3778x2234x3
This image shows a simulated snapshot of ocean turbulence in the North Atlantic Ocean in March 2012. The colors represent the magnitude of surface relative vorticity, a measure of the spin of fluid parcels.
PIA22256:
NASA Simulation Shows Ocean Turbulence in the North Atlantic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the eastern section of the large landslide deposit seen in Ius Chasma. A landslide is a failure of slope due to gravity.
PIA22279:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Phoenix
HiRISE
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This image shows the location of NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander and related hardware around the mission's May 25, 2008, landing site on far-northern Mars as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA22223:
NASA's Phoenix Lander on Mars, Nearly a Decade Later
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This section of the canyon floor of Ius Chasma has been completely filled by blocky deposits from large volume landslides. A landslide is a failure of slope due to gravity. This image was captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA22278:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the western end of Ius Chasma. Both the north and south canyon walls are visible in this image. At the top of the frame paired faults have created a graben.
PIA22277:
Investigating Mars: Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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In this image of Tithonium Chasma from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft both sides of the chasma are visible. This narrow and deep part of the chasma exist both large, chaotic block landslide deposits with smaller lobate shaped landslide deposits.
PIA22276:
Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft a complex region of multiple overlapping landslide deposits fills most the the frame. In the center of the image the top layer has the lobate edges and radial surface grooves of a low volume slide.
PIA22275:
Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image of Tithonium Chasma from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the canyon wall at the top of the frame and the cliff face of the opposite side of the canyon at the bottom of the image.
PIA22274:
Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-13 Mars 2020 Rover
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A slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars placed inside an oxygen plasma cleaner. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
PIA22247:
Cleaning a Martian Meteorite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-13 Mars 2020 Rover
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This is a close-up of a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
PIA22246:
Close-up of a Mars Meteorite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-13 Mars 2020 Rover
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Rohit Bhartia of NASA's Mars 2020 mission holds a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
PIA22245:
A Martian Meteorite for Mars 2020
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image of Tithonium Chasma captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the canyon wall at the top of the frame, a series of landslide deposits in the middle, and an eroded mound of materials at the bottom.
PIA22273:
Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft a complex region of multiple overlapping landslide deposits fills most the the frame. The very top layer has the lobate edges and radial surface grooves of a low volume slide.
PIA22272:
Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Tithonium Chasma has numerous large landslide deposits, as shown in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The resistant material of the plateau surface forms the linear ridges of the canyon wall.
PIA22271:
Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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Tithonium Chasma has numerous large landslide deposits. At the bottom of this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is the high plateau between Tithonium Chasma and Ius Chasma.
PIA22270:
Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows an impact crater looking amusingly like a tadpole because of the valley that was carved by water that used to fill it.
PIA22241:
Crater Tadpoles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Intricate gullies have formed on the northern wall of this impact crater located in the Terra Cimmeria region in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA22239:
Gullies and Voids
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-25 InSight
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An artist's rendition of Mars, highlighting one of InSight's goals, to figure out just how tectonically active Mars is today and how often meteorites impact it.
PIA22230:
Measuring the Pulse of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-25 InSight
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An artist's rendition of NASA's InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars.
PIA22228:
InSight on the Surface of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-25 InSight
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This image is an artist's impression of NASA's InSight lander on Mars. InSight will look for tectonic activity and meteorite impacts.
PIA22226:
InSight Probes the 'Inner Space' of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Ladon Basin was a large impact structure that was filled in by the deposits from Ladon Valles, a major ancient river on Mars as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA22183:
Clays of Ladon Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-17 Ceres Dawn
Framing Camera
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This collage shows some of the most interesting geological sites that NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed at dwarf planet Ceres.
PIA22090:
Collage of Features on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of western Candor Chasma. Near the bottom of the image is an impact crater. Impact craters are relatively rare within all the canyons of Valles Marineris.
PIA22166:
Investigating Mars: Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-14 Ceres Dawn
Framing Camera
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This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.
PIA21915:
Kokopelli Crater on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) targets a portion of a group of honeycomb-textured landforms in northwestern Hellas Planitia, part of one of the largest and most ancient impact basins on Mars.
PIA22118:
Honeycomb-Textured Landforms in Northwestern Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image is of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's final observation of Saturn's icy moon Rhea on May 2, 2017. The spacecraft was at the time high above the plane of Saturn's rings, looking down at Rhea's northern hemisphere.
PIA21354:
Above Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-02 Ceres Dawn
Framing Camera
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This image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Emesh, a crater on Ceres. Emesh, named after the Sumerian god of vegetation and agriculture, located at the edge of the Vendimia Planitia.
PIA21911:
Emesh Crater on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-23 Earth Terra
ASTER
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As firefighters continue to work toward full containment of the rash of wildfires burning in Northern California, this image from NASA's Terra satellite acquired on Oct. 21, 2017, shows the growing fire scar on the landscape.
PIA22049:
Impact of Northern California Fires Seen in New NASA Satellite Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter covers a small central portion of the Hellas Planitia basin, the largest visible impact basin in the Solar System, and shows a dune field with lots of dust devil trails.
PIA22052:
Squiggles in Hellas Planitia
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