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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Mercury Mars 2020 Rover
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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 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 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 2022-02-22 Jupiter Juno
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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 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 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 2020-01-09 Jupiter Juno
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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 2018-08-20 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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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 2018-05-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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 2018-02-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercury, the innermost planet of our solar system. In fact, they would have room to spare.
PIA22096:
TRAPPIST-1 Compared to Jovian Moons and Inner Solar System - Updated Feb. 2018
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This chart shows artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii, masses, densities and surface gravity as compared to those of Earth. These numbers are current as of February 2018.
PIA22094:
TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Updated Feb. 2018
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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 2017-08-25 Neptune Cassini-Huygens
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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 2017-06-05 Asteroid NEOWISE
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This frame from an animation shows NASA's NEOWISE's third year of survey data with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously unknown celestial objects in the last year.
PIA21653:
Three Years of NEOWISE Data Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional, incredibly powerful telescope. The sizes and relative positions are correctly to scale.
PIA21429:
Transit Illustration of TRAPPIST-1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
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All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercury, the innermost planet of our solar system.
PIA21428:
TRAPPIST-1 Comparison to Solar System and Jovian Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This chart shows, on the top row, artist conceptions of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii and masses as compared to those of Earth. The bottom row shows data about Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
PIA21425:
TRAPPIST-1 Statistics Table
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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 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 2016-05-09 Sol (our sun) SDO
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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 2016-04-11 Pluto New Horizons
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An unusual geological feature resembling a giant spider sprawls across Pluto's icy landscape in this enhanced color image was obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.
PIA20641:
The Icy 'Spider' on Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-04-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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 2016-04-05 Asteroid NEOWISE
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This frame from a movie shows the progression of NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) investigation for the mission's first two years following its restart in December 2013. Green circles represent near-Earth objects.
PIA20546:
Two Years of NEOWISE Observations Mapped Animation Icon
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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 2015-06-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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Best Determination of MESSENGER's Impact Location
PIA19497:
Best Determination of MESSENGER's Impact Location
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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In this perspective view, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft looked northwest over the Caloris Basin, a depression about 1500 km in diameter formed several billion years ago by the impact of a large projectile into the surface of Mercury.
PIA19450:
In Tribute
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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On March 18, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER made history by becoming the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury. Eleven days later, the spacecraft captured the first image ever obtained from Mercury orbit, shown here on the left.
PIA19449:
From the First to the Last
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is the last one acquired and transmitted back to Earth by the mission. The image is located within the floor of the 93-kilometer-diameter crater Jokai.
PIA19448:
MESSENGER's Final Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image, acquired yesterday, is one of NASA's MESSENGER's last. Today, April 30, 2015, the spacecraft will complete its highly successful orbital mission and impact the surface of Mercury.
PIA19445:
One of the Last
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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The large, 400-kilometer-diameter (250-mile-diameter), impact basin Shakespeare occupies the bottom left quarter of this image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19444:
Overview of the Impact Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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These graphics show the current best prediction of the location and time of NASA's MESSENGER's impact on Mercury's surface. These current best estimates are: Date: 30 April 2015 Time: 3:26:02 pm EDT (19:26:02 UTC Latitude: 54.4° N Longitude: 210.1° E.
PIA19443:
Details of MESSENGER's Impact Location
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from MESSENGER spacecraft covers a small area located about 115 km south of the center of Mansart crater.
PIA19442:
Tomorrow
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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 2015-04-28 Mercury MESSENGER
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Though NASA's MESSENGER's days are numbered, the spacecraft will continue to acquire new data sets and transmit them back to Earth during its final days. Shown here is a high-resolution view snapped near Heemskerck Rupes.
PIA19438:
The Final Days
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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 2015-04-24 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 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 2015-04-20 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 2015-04-16 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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Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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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 2015-04-10 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 2015-04-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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Disappearing Act
PIA19272:
Disappearing Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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This is one of the earliest images of Mercury returned by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. It was taken in January 2008.
PIA19269:
These are the voyages...
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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 2015-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows that Mercury's surface is scarred by abundant tectonic deformation, the vast majority of which is due to the planet's history of cooling and contraction through time.
PIA19263:
Crumpled Crater
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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 2015-03-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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Inside and Up Close
PIA19260:
Inside and Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-20 Mercury MESSENGER
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Small graben, narrow linear troughs, have been found associated with small scarps (bottom left, white arrows) on Mercury and the Moon are seen here by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19254:
Small and Young
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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 image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the wall of a volcanic vent located between the Rachmaninoff basin and Copland crater.
PIA19248:
Flute Music
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This view captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows Mercury's north polar region, colored by the maximum biannual surface temperature, which ranges from >400 K (red) to 50 K (purple).
PIA19247:
Hot and Cold
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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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Images obtained from NASA's MESSENGER have revealed a population of small fault scarps (white arrows) that can be more than an order of magnitude smaller in size than their larger counterparts, like Enterprise Rupes.
PIA19245:
Small Scarp Close-up
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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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Enterprise Rupes
PIA19243:
Enterprise Rupes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-13 Mercury MESSENGER
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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 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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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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Crossed Craters
PIA19224:
Crossed Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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The volcanic vent northeast of Rachmaninoff basin is framed perfectly in this image captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19223:
This Space for Vent
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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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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft features a color view of the peak-ringed crater Aksakov. The inner ring of Aksakov is superimposed by another crater.
PIA19212:
Hollow? Is It Me You're Looking For?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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Punctuated Equilibrium
PIA19206:
Punctuated Equilibrium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft features a color view of the southern pole of Mercury. About midway down the image, the edge of the large Chao Meng-Fu crater,
PIA19204:
The Color Out of Space
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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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The exterior of this unnamed crater on Mercury is in shadow, while the inner wall and terraces bask in the sunshine. Terraces form just after the crater has been excavated, when oversteepened slopes slump back down as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19196:
Sunlit Terraces
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Young Terraces
PIA19195:
Young Terraces
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In this image from NASA's MESSENGER, Mercury's horizon cuts a striking edge against the stark blackness of space. On the right, sunlight harshly brings the landscape into relief while on the left, the surface is shrouded in the darkness of night.
PIA19192:
On the Edge
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Mercury's surface shown here by NASA's MESSENGER is located within a 73-km-diameter crater; the mounds are part of a larger central peak structure of the hosting crater.
PIA19187:
Peaks and Hollows
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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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The cliff-like feature crossing this image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft from top to bottom is one of Mercury's famed lobate scarps, and is called Pourquoi-Pas Rupes.
PIA19025:
Pourquoi Pas?
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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 2015-01-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Hollow Dali
PIA19023:
Hollow Dali
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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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