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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image is located just inside the southern rim of Chong Chol crater and was obtained on April 25, 2015, the day following NASA's MESSENGER's final orbital correction maneuver. The spacecraft's fuel tanks are now completely empty.
PIA19436:
The Days Dwindle Down to a Precious Few
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Not all of Saturn's rings are created equal: here the C and D rings appear side-by-side, but the C ring, which occupies the bottom half of this image, clearly outshines its neighbor. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18313:
Faint D Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-24 Mercury MESSENGER
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At approximately 1.1 meters/pixel, this image is among the highest-resolution views MESSENGER has ever taken of the surface of Mercury.
PIA19434:
Delaying the Inevitable
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-22 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows a small portion of the interior of Scarlatti basin. The image is located just to the side of a large pit that lies along part of Scarlatti's peak ring. This pit may have formed by explosive volcanism.
PIA19430:
If It Ain't Baroque, Don't Fix It
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In this image from NASA's Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can see quite a spectacular layering pattern inside an impact crater called Spallanzani.
PIA19367:
Layering in Spallanzani Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-22 Mercury MESSENGER
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The surface in this scene captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has been pummeled by secondary craters, possibly from the impact that formed the nearby Mickiewicz crater.
PIA19426:
Scrutinizing Secondaries
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-21 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER enters its final days, we are getting our last looks at some of our favorite features. Hollows, discovered in MDIS images during the orbital phase of the mission, are always photogenic.
PIA19425:
Goodbye, Hollows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-21 Earth SMAP
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With its antenna now spinning at full speed, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully re-tested its science instruments and generated its first global maps, a key step to beginning routine science operations in 2015.
PIA18057:
NASA Soil Moisture Mission Produces First Global Radiometer Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-20 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER is again sending images back to Earth after the spacecraft emerged from superior solar conjunction, when communication is largely blocked by the Sun. These will be some of our last views of Mercury from MESSENGER.
PIA19424:
The End Is Near
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Surface features on Rhea, mostly impact craters in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, are thrown into sharp relief thanks to long shadows.
PIA18310:
Rhea in Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This mosaic of oblique images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft highlights the spectacular interior of Abedin crater. The crater floor is covered with once-molten rock melted by the impact event that formed Abedin.
PIA19423:
Awesome Abedin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a perspective view of the center portion of Carnegie Rupes, a large tectonic landform, which cuts through Duccio crater.
PIA19422:
A Striking Perspective
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Measurements from NASA's MESSENGER's MLA instrument during the spacecraft's greater than four-year orbital mission have mapped the topography of Mercury's northern hemisphere in great detail.
PIA19421:
Orange Is the New Blue
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Measurements from NASA's MESSENGER's MLA instrument during the spacecraft's greater than four-year orbital mission have mapped the topography of Mercury's northern hemisphere in great detail.
PIA19420:
The Ups and Downs of Mercury's Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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The MASCS instrument onboard NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft was designed to study both the exosphere and surface of Mercury in order to learn more about the minerals and surface processes on Mercury.
PIA19419:
Unmasking the Secrets of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is stitched together from thousands of observations made over the past 4 years by the MASCS/UVVS instrument, which measures sunlight scattered off of Mercury's tenuous atmosphere.
PIA19418:
Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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During NASA's MESSENGER's four-year orbital mission, the spacecraft's X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) instrument mapped out the chemical composition of Mercury and discovered striking regions of chemical diversity.
PIA19417:
Showing Some Chemistry
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is an orthographic projection of Mercury's south polar region, colored by an illumination map; the center of the image is within the interior of the crater Chao Meng-Fu.
PIA19416:
Shadows in the South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's northern region is dominated by expansive smooth plains, created by huge amounts of volcanic material flooding across Mercury's surface in the past, as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19415:
Expansive Northern Volcanic Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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During the first year of NASA's MESSENGER's orbital mission, the spacecraft's GRS instrument measured the elemental composition of Mercury's surface materials.
PIA19414:
Mapping Potassium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows an unnamed ridge in the northern volcanic plains of Mercury. Wrinkle ridges like this are interpreted to be tectonic in origin and are usually only found in volcanic plains.
PIA19413:
Wrinkles on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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In this enhanced color view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft of the peak-ring basin Derain, the different colors accentuate the different rocks associated with the basin.
PIA19412:
Dramatic Darks of Derain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This orthographic projection view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a look at Mercury's north polar region. The yellow regions in many of the craters mark locations that show evidence for water ice, as detected by Earth-based radar observations.
PIA19411:
Water Ice on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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One of the most captivating views acquired during NASA's MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby was of the crater Apollodorus surrounded by the radiating troughs of Pantheon Fossae.
PIA19410:
The Architect and His Temple
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a detailed view of the features and structures associated with the peak-ring basin Raditladi.
PIA19409:
A Detailed Look at Raditladi Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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Hokusai crater's rays extend across much of the planet, but its interior is spectacular in its own right. This series of oblique images from NASAs MESSENGER shows the central peaks, beautiful terraces, and frozen sea of impact melt on the crater floor.
PIA19406:
Hokusai Spectacular!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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Gravity Anomalies
PIA19285:
Gravity Anomalies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
PIA19284:
Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the large Rustaveli basin on the right portion of the view. Named in 2012 after Shota Rustaveli, a Georgian poet of the 12th century, this basin has a smooth floor and hints of a peak-ring structure.
PIA19283:
Regard Rustaveli
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Mercury MESSENGER
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This series of oblique images captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft highlight the wall and exterior of the beautiful volcanic vent located to the northeast of Rachmaninoff basin and west of Copland crater.
PIA19282:
Hyper Vent-ilating
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Ceres Dawn
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This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft during its initial approach to the dwarf planet, prior to being captured into orbit in March 2015.
PIA19063:
Dawn's First Color Map of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-10 Mercury MESSENGER
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Carnegie Rupes makes a dramatic sight in this large image mosaic taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The giant lobate scarp cuts through Duccio crater.
PIA19279:
Carnegie Cuts a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mercury MESSENGER
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Lessing crater can be seen in the lower left of this image captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. Instead of the typical central peak found in a complex crater on Mercury, Lessing sports a central pit.
PIA19276:
Pits and Scarps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's hollows are among its most distinctive and unusual surface features. In this stunning view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, we see a field of hollows in the western portion of the floor of Zeami impact basin.
PIA19267:
A Field of Hollows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Anatomy of a Fresh Crater
PIA19261:
Anatomy of a Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from a sequence of images shows a blast zone where the sky crane from NASA's Curiosity rover mission hit the ground after setting the rover down in August 2012. The images are from HiRISE on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19159:
Changes in Scars From 2012 Mars Landing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image is of a portion of the Southern plains region within Hellas, the largest impact basin on Mars, with a diameter of about 2300 kilometers (1400 miles), as observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19350:
Pitted Landforms in Southern Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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Inside and Up Close
PIA19260:
Inside and Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image, acquired at 24 m/pixel by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, is the highest resolution that has been obtained for any of Mercury's shadowed polar craters.
PIA19253:
A Shot in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This high-resolution view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows hollows on the southwestern peak ring of the Scarlatti basin. The hollows are the irregularly shaped, flat-floored depressions.
PIA19246:
The Young Ones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER's low-altitude campaign has enabled imaging of Fuller crater (named after American architect Buckminster Fuller) in greater detail than previously possible.
PIA19244:
Fuller Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Gullies are commonly found in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars. In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter they start near top of a long ridge, and descend into an impact crater that lies at the bottom of the ridge.
PIA19308:
Gullies and Layers in a Crater Near Mariner Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mercury MESSENGER
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The large degraded impact crater near the center is Coleridge. It has been pummeled by later impacts, as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19238:
Wherefore Stopp'st Thou Me?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-09 Mercury MESSENGER
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This view captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows two craters in an area of smooth plains.
PIA19232:
Riddle Me This
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER reveals that Impact crater floors are commonly flat and relatively smooth, the result of the cooling and solidification of impact melt generated by the impact event itself.
PIA19231:
Melting Point
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Portions of this volcanic vent complex to the northeast of Rachmaninoff basin are blanketed in a layer of very fine-grained material thought to be composed of pyroclastic particles as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19230:
Volcanic Snow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of craters near Nilokeras Scopulus shows two pits partially filled with lumpy material, probably trapped dust that blew in from the atmosphere.
PIA19304:
Craters Near Nilokeras Scopulus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Mercury MESSENGER
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Crossed Craters
PIA19224:
Crossed Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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Some might see a pancake, and others a sand dollar, in this new image from NASA's Dawn mission. Astronomers are puzzling over a mysterious large circular feature located south of the equator and slightly to the right of center in this view.
PIA18925:
'Pancake' Feature on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER of Caloris basin is an enhanced-color composite overlain on a monochrome mosaic. It is made up of images obtained when both the spacecraft and the Sun were overhead, conditions best for discerning variat in albedo.
PIA19216:
All About That Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft of the mighty Caloris basin, Mercury's youngest large impact basin. Caloris has been filled by volcanic plains that are distinctive in color from the surrounding terrain.
PIA19213:
The Mighty Caloris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-13 Mercury MESSENGER
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The region with fewer impact craters in the bottom-right corner of this image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is a small portion of the peak ring of an ancient basin over 200 km in diameter.
PIA19203:
Smooth Slopes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-11 Mercury MESSENGER
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On Mercury, craters larger than approximately 10-12 km display a complex morphology, with slump terraces and central peaks, as compared to smaller bowl-shaped craters as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19202:
Big Boulders
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Bigbee is a 21 kilometer-diameter impact crater located on the northern rim of Holden crater in southern Margaritifer Terra, a region on Mars that is well known for its long record of water-rich activity as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19296:
Fan-Shaped Deposits in Bigbee Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The gullies observed in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are within the valley wall of an ancient channel, Nirgal Vallis, a testament to flowing water in Mars' ancient past.
PIA19294:
Gullies and Bedrock in Nirgal Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows two small craters (called 'tangential craters'), just touching on their rims, in the much larger Ptolmaeus Crater, which is located in the Martian Southern hemisphere.
PIA19290:
Tangential Craters within Ptolemaeus Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The pits visible in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter aren't impact craters. The material they are embedded into is ejecta (stuff thrown out of an impact crater when it forms) from a large crater called Hale not seen in this image.
PIA19289:
Pits in Hale Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Whale of a Crater
PIA19035:
A Whale of a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the fine texture on the inner wall of an unnamed impact basin 100 km (62 mi.) in diameter, situated immediately west of the larger Dali basin.
PIA19026:
The Rolling Hills of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a triple impact crater in Elysium Planitia near Tartarus Montes, which probably formed when a binary-or even triple-asteroid struck the surface.
PIA19138:
Triple-Crater in Elysium Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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Situated high in Mercury's southern hemisphere, NASA's MESSENGER sees Han Kan, a 50-km-diameter impact crater with a well preserved central peak and a smooth floor that is likely solidified impact melt.
PIA19024:
The Horses of Han Kan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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There are many knob formations is the southeastern Acidalia region of Mars. All show a hilltop crest except one which has a summit crater that resembles a cone volcano in this image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19131:
Cratered Summit of a Knob
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In this observation from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey, the morphology of these possible sedimentary fans match those found in Mojave Crater.
PIA19129:
Sedimentary Fans North of Mojave Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Alver is the Centerfold
PIA19017:
Alver is the Centerfold
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a new impact crater in Elysium Planitia.
PIA19127:
A Recent Impact in Elysium Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is approximately 6 by 6 kilometers and is located east of Noctis Labyrinthus, in a portion the large canyon system Valles Marineris.
PIA19126:
Strange Flow: Landslide, Impact Melt or Lava?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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2014 in MESSENGER Images
PIA19001:
2014 in MESSENGER Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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In addition to being evidence of past impacts, craters can serve another valuable scientific purpose. Counting the number of craters in an area, can estimate the age of the terrain. NASA's Cassini orbiter looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Mimas.
PIA18292:
Polar Scars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-24 Mercury MESSENGER
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He (or She) Who Shall Be Named
PIA19000:
He (or She) Who Shall Be Named
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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The Gazelle
PIA18995:
The Gazelle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of an approximately 5 kilometer (approx. 3.1 mile) diameter crater that is one of the rare examples of a fresh 'lunar-like' crater on Mars.
PIA19124:
A Fresh, Lunar-Like Crater on Mars
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Elorza Crater is a complex crater located north of Coprates Chasma. This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter centers on the southwestern portion of the central uplift, characterized by numerous bedrock exposures and coherent impact melt flows.
PIA19123:
Possible Opaline Silica in the Central Uplift of Elorza Crater
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Couperin le Grand
PIA18994:
Couperin le Grand
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Sinan Wave
PIA18984:
Sinan Wave
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A Crackin' Good Time
PIA18982:
A Crackin' Good Time
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The frosted gullies in this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are located along an irregularly shaped pit which lies within an impact crater in Sisyphi Planum ocated northwards of the Southern polar layered deposits.
PIA19117:
Frosted Gullies in a Central Pit
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Morava Valles, a small outflow channel in the Margaritifer Sinus region of Mars.
PIA19116:
Seeing Beneath the Surface in Morava Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This simulation depicts a lake partially filling Mars' Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater's rim, showing evidence that NASA's Curiosity rover has found ancient streams, deltas and lakes.
PIA19080:
Simulated View of Gale Crater Lake on Mars
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Looking Out the Window
PIA18976:
Looking Out the Window
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Edge of Darkness
PIA18974:
Edge of Darkness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-17 Vesta Dawn
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This graphic shows the geologic time scale of asteroid Vesta derived from geologic mapping.
PIA18789:
Geological Time Scale of Vesta
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This high-resolution geological map of Vesta is derived from NASA's Dawn spacecraft data.
PIA18788:
Geological Map of Vesta
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Van Eyck and the Formation
PIA18950:
Van Eyck and the Formation
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Sculpted Rim and Floor
PIA18945:
Sculpted Rim and Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mercury MESSENGER
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Textured Terrain
PIA18944:
Textured Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A comparison of two radargrams from the SHARAD instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows effects on the Martian ionosphere from the close passage of a comet.
PIA18861:
Radar Indication of Effect of Comet Flyby on Martian Ionosphere
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It's Not My Fault
PIA18943:
It's Not My Fault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-04 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This set of global, color mosaics of Saturn's moon Mimas was produced from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its first ten years exploring the Saturn system.
PIA18437:
Color Maps of Mimas - 2014
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A Face in the Dark...?
PIA18938:
A Face in the Dark...?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small channel cutting into young volcanic lavas in a region where massive catastrophic flooding took place in the relatively recent past in the Athabasca Valles region.
PIA18889:
Sand Sources Near Athabasca Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater that was cut by lava in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. It looks relatively flat, with a shallow floor, rough surface texture, and possible cooling cracks.
PIA18887:
Which Way is Up?
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Radiating from Rembrandt
PIA18761:
Radiating from Rembrandt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The linear depression in the center of this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is a graben - a fault bounded block of material. The graben crosses the crater and ejecta in the middle of the image.
PIA18754:
Sirenum Fossae
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Waters in 3-D!
PIA18752:
Waters in 3-D!
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The Monster of All Worlds
PIA18738:
The Monster of All Worlds
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A Colossal Wreck, Boundless and Bare
PIA18734:
A Colossal Wreck, Boundless and Bare
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-01 Moon GRAIL
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Topography of Earth's moon generated from data NASA's LRO, with the gravity anomalies bordering the Procellarum region superimposed in blue. The border structures are shown using gravity gradients calculated with data from NASA's GRAIL mission.
PIA18822:
Gravity Gradients Frame Oceanus Procellarum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-01 Moon GRAIL
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Lunar Orbit Laser Altimeter
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A view of Earth's moon looking south across Oceanus Procellarum, representing how the western border structures may have looked while active. This image combines gravity gradient from NASA's GRAIL and LRO.
PIA18821:
On the West Coast of the Ocean of Storms (Artist's Concept)
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Sweet Soul Sister
PIA18730:
Sweet Soul Sister
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The Butterfly Vent
PIA18721:
The Butterfly Vent
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