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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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An artist's rendering of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER's second Mercury flyby.
PIA18147:
MESSENGER Near Hokusai Crater (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-02 Mercury MESSENGER
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Artist's impression of NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft in orbit at Mercury.
PIA18145:
MESSENGER at Mercury (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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Artist's impression of NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft as it leaves Earth, following its Aug. 3, 2004 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. aboard a Delta II rocket.
PIA18148:
MESSENGER Departing Earth (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-17 Mercury MESSENGER
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A depiction of NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is shown viewing the Rachmaninoff basin.
PIA18149:
MESSENGER Views Rachmaninoff Basin (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER prepares to perform the Mercury orbit insertion burn in this animated artist's concept.
PIA18146:
Mercury Orbit Insertion (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-19 Solar System 1806x2035x3
This diagram shows the approximate distances of the terrestrial planets from the Sun; they include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
PIA17303:
Inner Planets Diagram
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-23 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
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Using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the size of a world outside our solar system, as illustrated in this artist's conception.
PIA18463:
Gauging an Alien World's Size (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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Five previously unnamed craters on Mercury now have names. Shown here are Carolan, Enheduanna, Karsh, Kulthum, and Rivera as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19439:
Five New Crater Names for Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-23 Kepler
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This size and scale of the Kepler-452 system compared alongside the Kepler-186 system and the solar system. Kepler-186 is a miniature solar system that would fit entirely inside the orbit of Mercury.
PIA19826:
Planetary System Comparisons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-20 Kepler
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This image shows the K2-33 system, and its planet K2-33b, compared to our own solar system, as discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
PIA20691:
Comparing K2-33 to our Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-07-18 Kepler
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A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, includes four in Earth's size-range orbiting a single dwarf star.
PIA20698:
K2 Finds Earth-Sized Planets (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-13 MAVEN
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To receive the same amount of starlight as Mars receives from our Sun, a planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf would have to be positioned much closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun.
PIA22075:
How Habitable Might an Exo-Mars Be?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-08 Venus Mariner
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As it sped away from Venus, NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this seemingly peaceful view of a planet the size of Earth, wrapped in a dense, global cloud layer.
PIA23791:
Venus from Mariner 10
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-22 4800x2700x3
This graph presents measured properties of the seven TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets.
PIA24371:
Comparison of TRAPPIST-1 to the Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-04 Asteroid Psyche
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This illustration, updated in April 2022, depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft. Set to launch in August 2022, the Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name.
PIA24834:
Psyche Spacecraft at the Asteroid Psyche (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A pair of plastic prototypes of the CADRE rovers demonstrate driving in formation during a test at JPL in 2022.
PIA25666:
CADRE Rover Prototypes Drive in Formation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-01 Earth Terra
ASTER
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The John F. Kennedy Space Center, America's spaceport, is located along Florida's eastern shore on Cape Canaveral. Established as NASA's Launch Operations Center on July 1, 1962, This image was acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA01918:
John F. Kennedy Space Center
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-09 Sol (our sun) SDO
Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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On May 9, 2016, Mercury passed directly between the Sun and Earth, making a transit of the Sun. Mercury transits happen about 13 times each century. NASA's SDO studies the Sun 24/7 and captured the eight-hour event.
PIA14729:
Mercury Transit Across the Sun Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Mercury MESSENGER
FIPS
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Mapping Ions around Mercury
PIA14851:
Mapping Ions around Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-30 Mercury MESSENGER
FIPS
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The Distribution of Planetary Ions near Mercury
PIA14855:
The Distribution of Planetary Ions near Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
FIPS
EPPS
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This frame from an animation shows a conceptual sketch of Mercury's magnetosphere at the time of NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's flyby.
PIA10379:
MESSENGER Flies through Mercury's Magnetosphere Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-28 Mercury Dawn
MESSENGER
Framing Camera
MDIS - Wide Angle
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Worlds Apart
PIA15347:
Worlds Apart
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma Ray Spectrometer
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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 2009-11-03 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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Mercury's Surface Has More Iron + Titanium Than Previously Thought
PIA12362:
Mercury's Surface Has More Iron + Titanium Than Previously Thought
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS)
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K/Th in the Inner Solar System
PIA14348:
K/Th in the Inner Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS)
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How Was Mercury Made?
PIA14850:
How Was Mercury Made?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS)
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Mercury's High-Potassium Diet
PIA14852:
Mercury's High-Potassium Diet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-30 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS)
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Gamma Rays for You and Me
PIA14854:
Gamma Rays for You and Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma-ray Spectrometer (GRS)
X-ray Spectrometer (XRS)
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Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
PIA14347:
Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-13 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma-ray Spectrometer (GRS)
X-ray Spectrometer (XRS)
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Maps of magnesium/silicon (left) and thermal neutron absorption (right) across Mercury's surface (red indicates high values, blue low) are shown here by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19242:
Surface Chemistry Maps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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First HiRISE Image of Mars
PIA08060:
First HiRISE Image of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia
PIA12351:
Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-23 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, is captured here alongside the planet Jupiter in a color picture taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 3, 2000.
PIA02862:
Ganymede and Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-11 Masursky Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The face of asteroid Masursky as seen by NASA's Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS), January, 2000.
PIA02449:
Masursky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-06 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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These two images, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, show Jupiter in a near-infrared wavelength, and catch Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons, at different phases.
PIA02826:
Jupiter and Europa in Near Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-06 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Jupiter casts a baleful eye toward the moon Ganymede in this enhanced-contrast image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA02837:
Eyeing Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Titan's featureless atmosphere as seen in visible light glares back at the viewer, challenging NASA's Cassini and its piggybacked Huygens probe to expose the moon's many secrets.
PIA05404:
Titan's Murky Skies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-09 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Rhea is an alien ice world, but in this frame-filling view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft it is vaguely familiar. Here, Rhea's cratered surface looks in some ways similar to our own Moon, or the planet Mercury.
PIA07583:
Frame-Filling Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of Titan on April 13, 2007, following a flyby of the Mercury-sized moon. Titan's equatorial dark regions are visible, along with faint, dark lineaments in the otherwise bland-looking terrain of the north.
PIA08943:
Titan "T28" View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Titan's globally distributed detached haze layer and the moon's north polar hood, both notable details of its thick atmosphere, are clearly seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan is 5,150 kilometers across, slightly larger than Mercury.
PIA10546:
Titan's North Polar Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-04-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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It's difficult to get a sense of scale when viewing Saturn's rings, but the Cassini Division (seen here between the bright B ring and dimmer A ring) is almost as wide as the planet Mercury as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18365:
The Great Divide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-25 Neptune Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Neptune and that planet's largest moon Triton. The Cassini mission is publishing this image to celebrate the anniversary of that event.
PIA21629:
Neptune from Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The detached haze layer that surrounds Titan is clearly visible against Saturn and its rings in the background, the haze growing more complex in its structure near the poles in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA19642:
A World All Its Own
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-20 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Tethys disappearing behind Titan as observed by Cassini on Nov. 26, 2009. Tethys is about 660 miles (1,070 kilometers) across.
PIA22648:
Tête-à-tête
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-29 Mercury MESSENGER
ISS - Narrow Angle
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Imaging Plans for MESSENGER's Second Mercury Flyby
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Imaging Plans for MESSENGER's Second Mercury Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14922:
Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Peering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus.
PIA14935:
Cassini Spies Bright Venus from Saturn Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Dawn on Saturn is greeted across the vastness of interplanetary space by the morning star, Venus, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Venus appears just off the edge of the planet directly above the white streak of Saturn's G ring.
PIA14936:
Morning Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-22 S Rings MESSENGER
Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
MDIS - Wide Angle
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These images show views of Earth and the moon from NASA's Cassini (left) and MESSENGER spacecraft (right) from July 19, 2013.
PIA17038:
Two Views of Home
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-09 HD 189733b Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
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This image shows the first-ever map of the surface of an exoplanet, or a planet beyond our solar system. Showing temperature variations across the cloudy tops of a gas giant called HD 189733b, the infrared data is taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA09376:
First Map of Alien World (animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-01-09 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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This sequence of four images from NASA's Juno spacecraft reveals the first views of the north polar region of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
PIA23443:
Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-22 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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This look at the complex surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede came from NASA's Juno mission during a close pass by the giant moon in June 2021.
PIA25012:
A Striking Crater on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
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Ganymede's Shadow
PIA09237:
Ganymede's Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
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Moons around Jupiter
PIA09238:
Moons around Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
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Io and Ganymede
PIA09239:
Io and Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
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A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Map (Animation)
PIA09242:
A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Map (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-18 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
MESSENGER
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NAC)
MDIS - Wide Angle
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The Moon as seen by MESSENGER
PIA14114:
The Moon as seen by MESSENGER
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer
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Magnetometer Results from MESSENGER's Second Mercury Encounter
PIA11404:
Magnetometer Results from MESSENGER's Second Mercury Encounter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer
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MESSENGER Explores Interactions between Mercury's Magnetosphere and the Solar Wind
PIA11408:
MESSENGER Explores Interactions between Mercury's Magnetosphere and the Solar Wind
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-31 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer
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A Movie of Magnetometer Measurements from the Second Mercury Flyby
PIA11413:
A Movie of Magnetometer Measurements from the Second Mercury Flyby Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer (MAG)
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First Magnetometer Measurements from Mercury Orbit
PIA14079:
First Magnetometer Measurements from Mercury Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer (MAG)
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Mercury's Magnetic Field Lines
PIA14342:
Mercury's Magnetic Field Lines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Magnetometer (MAG)
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Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
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Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-22 Earth Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk. This image is from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA04531:
Earth and Moon as viewed from Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-22 Jupiter Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Jupiter and three of the four Galilean satellites: Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa obtained from the spacecraft's orbit on May 8, 2003.
PIA04532:
Jupiter and its Galilean Satellites as viewed from Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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Taken on May 22, 2003, this image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk when Jupiter, Earth, and the Moon aligned.
PIA04529:
Earth, Moon, and Jupiter, as seen from Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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During its flyby of Mercury, on January 14, 2008 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft acquired the first high-resolution spectra of the planet's surface in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.
PIA10188:
First MESSENGER Spectrum of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-10 Mercury Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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This frame from an animation shows five versions of observations that NASA's Curiosity made about one hour apart while Mercury was passing in front of the sun on June 3, 2014. Two sunspots, each about the diameter of Earth, also appear.
PIA18389:
Mercury Transit of the Sun, Seen From Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Mercury Mars 2020 Rover
Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in front of the Sun on Oct. 28, 2023.
PIA26250:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Calcium was detected in the near-Mercury exosphere by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft and has also been observed telescopically from Earth.
PIA10199:
Mercury's Hydrogen Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Seeking Information on Mercury's Mineralogy
PIA10382:
Seeking Information on Mercury's Mineralogy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Mercury's Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-26 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury, the UVVS field of view was scanned across the planet's exospheric tail, which is produced by the solar wind pushing Mercury's exosphere (the planet's extremely thin atmosphere) outward.
PIA11076:
Exploring Mercury's "Tail"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-29 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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First Simultaneous Measurements of Sodium and Calcium in Mercury's Exosphere
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First Simultaneous Measurements of Sodium and Calcium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MASCS
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Comparing Mercury's Exosphere between Two Flybys
PIA11407:
Comparing Mercury's Exosphere between Two Flybys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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First Detection of Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
PIA11409:
First Detection of Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Movie of MESSENGER's Observations of Mercury's Exosphere
PIA11415:
A Movie of MESSENGER's Observations of Mercury's Exosphere Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury Flyby 3 Reveals a Highly Diminished Sodium Tail
PIA12364:
Mercury Flyby 3 Reveals a Highly Diminished Sodium Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Calcium and Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
PIA12366:
Calcium and Magnesium in Mercury's Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Modeling the
PIA12367:
Modeling the "Seasons" of Mercury's Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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The First Simultaneous Observations of Neutral and Ionized Calcium
PIA12369:
The First Simultaneous Observations of Neutral and Ionized Calcium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mapping Spectral Variations on Mercury with MASCS
PIA14866:
Mapping Spectral Variations on Mercury with MASCS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-12 Mercury MESSENGER
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One Year of Spectral Mapping
PIA15585:
One Year of Spectral Mapping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Other Colors
PIA15612:
Mercury's Other Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-26 Mercury MESSENGER
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Spectral Web
PIA15618:
Spectral Web
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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Spectral Fireworks
PIA16668:
Spectral Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-21 Mercury MESSENGER
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Shine a Light on Me
PIA18180:
Shine a Light on Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Peak-a-boo Eminescu. Images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18580:
Peak-a-boo Eminescu
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Waters, Waters Everywhere. Image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18582:
Waters, Waters Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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You Can Crater on Me. This is a composite image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18583:
You Can Crater on Me
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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 2015-04-16 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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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 2014-06-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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Bright and Dark
PIA18527:
Bright and Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Web of Fire
PIA18529:
Web of Fire
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Out of the Basin. These images from NASA MESSENGER's MASCS (top) and MDIS (bottom) are of Rembrandt, Mercury's second largest impact basin.
PIA18639:
Out of the Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
PIA18556:
One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Mercury MESSENGER
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What a Scan!
PIA18559:
What a Scan!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Crossing Paths
PIA18689:
Crossing Paths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System
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Identifying Lava Flow Fronts on Mercury
PIA14846:
Identifying Lava Flow Fronts on Mercury
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