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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this image of regolith – broken rock and dust – on Dec. 2, 2022. This regolith will be considered for deposit on the Martian surface as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign.
PIA25588:
Perseverance's CacheCam Views a Regolith Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars 2020 Rover
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The drill bits used by NASA's Perseverance rover are seen before being installed prior to launch. From left, the regolith bit, six bits used for drilling rock cores, and two abrasion bits.
PIA25590:
Perseverance's Drill Bits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars 2020 Rover
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Optimism, a full-scale replica of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, tests a model of Perseverance's regolith bit in a pile of simulated regolith – broken rock and dust – at JPL.
PIA25651:
Testing Perseverance's Regolith Bit Here on Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-12 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed. The small satellite will take about three months to reach its science orbit to seek out surface water ice in the Moon's South Pole.
PIA25626:
Lunar Flashlight With Solar Arrays Deployed (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated image points out the various cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover; the list on the right indicates how many images each camera has taken as of December 6, 2022.
PIA25653:
Perseverance's Cameras, Tallies of Their Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows the planned route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take across the top of Jezero Crater's delta in 2023. The rover's planned route is in black while the ground it already covered is in white.
PIA25673:
Map of Perseverance's Delta Top Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Shown here is a representation of the 21 sample tubes that have been sealed to date by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Red dots indicate the locations where each sample was collected.
PIA25674:
A Map of Perseverance's Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will be dropping 10 samples that a future mission could pick up. The orange circles represent areas where a Sample Recovery Helicopter could safely operate to acquire the sample tubes.
PIA25678:
A Map of Perseverance's Depot Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25652:
Perseverance Deposits Its First Sample on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA's Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first sample tube on the Martian surface.
PIA25676:
Testing a Sample Drop in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the Martian surface.
PIA25677:
OPTIMISM Sticks the Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-23 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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These images show two observations of NASA's Lunar Flashlight and the private ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 as the two spacecraft, seen as a pair of dots, journey to the Moon.
PIA25257:
NASA's Lunar Flashlight Spotted From Earth on Its Way to the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-12 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight carrying out a trajectory correction maneuver with the Earth and Moon in the background. Powered by the small satellite's four thrusters, the maneuver is needed to reach lunar orbit.
PIA25258:
Lunar Flashlight's Trajectory Correction Maneuver (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-30 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover dropped each of its 10 samples so that a future mission could pick them up. The sample depot was completed Jan. 28, 2023.
PIA25682:
Perseverance's Three Forks Sample Depot Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-02 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in the distance, near the base of Jezero Crater's river delta, in this image taken Dec. 18, 2022.
PIA25683:
Mars Helicopter at Three Forks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-23 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This animation shows the progress of Perseverance Mars Rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as they make their way up the Jezero river delta. The Mars Helicopter's route is depicted in green. The rover's progress is depicted in orange.
PIA25687:
Ingenuity and Perseverance Make Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-04 Uranus Voyager
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New modeling shows that there likely is an ocean layer in four of Uranus' major moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. Miranda is too small to retain enough heat for an ocean layer.
PIA25500:
Major Moons of Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-08 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows various quadrant themes in the vicinity of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which is currently in the Rocky Mountain quadrant. The rover team chose quadrant themes related to various national parks across Earth.
PIA25913:
Perseverance's Quadrant Themes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance captured this image of a sample it cored on June 12. The core shows distinctly colored areas that are individual minerals transported by a river that once flowed into Jezero Crater.
PIA25962:
Perseverance's 'Otis Peak' Sample Reveals Colors of Conglomerate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineer Kristopher Sherrill observes a development model rover during a test for NASA's CADRE technology demonstration in JPL's Mars Yard in June, 2023.
PIA25665:
CADRE Rover Testing in JPL's Mars Yard
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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 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A model rover drives over a rock during a test for NASA's CADRE project in JPL's Mars Yard in June, 2023.
PIA25667:
CADRE Mini Rover Drives Over a Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A CADRE test rover appears to catch the attention of the much larger engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover, called OPTIMISM, at JPL's Mars Yard.
PIA25668:
Test Rovers Big and Small at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians use a crane to lift a 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna as they prepare to install it on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter is being assembled in preparation for its launch in October 2024.
PIA25956:
Europa Clipper Gets Its High-Gain On
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians install Europa Clipper's high-gain antenna in the main clean room at JPL.
PIA25957:
Europa Clipper's High-Gain Antenna Installed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft boasts its new 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna, after its Aug. 14, 2023 installation, in High Bay 1 of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25958:
Powerful Antenna Installed On Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-16 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is shown here during thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) testing at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, in June 2023.
PIA25836:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Gets a Taste of Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Made with data recorded by NASA's Perseverance during a July 15, 2023 autonomous drive, this animation shows how the rover used AutoNav to maneuver around the 14-inch (35-centimeter) rock at center-left.
PIA26073:
Perseverance AutoNav Avoids a Boulder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA's Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL on Oct. 7, 2023. The vault will protect the electronics of the spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter.
PIA25959:
Closing of the Europa Clipper Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-24 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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An engineer prepares a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration – for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in October 2023.
PIA25669:
CADRE Rover Getting Prepped for Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-24 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers prepare a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration – for testing in the thermal vacuum chamber behind them at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in October 2023.
PIA25670:
CADRE Team Preps Flight Model for Thermal Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animated artist's concept depicts water breaking through the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance rover is now exploring. Water entered the crater billions of years ago, forming a lake before the Red Planet dried up.
PIA26207:
Water Enters Jezero Crater Billions of Years Ago (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-13 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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This artist's concept depicts a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration headed for the Moon – on the lunar surface.
PIA26161:
CADRE Rover on the Moon (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-21 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers tested the system that will lower three small rovers onto the lunar surface when NASA's CADRE technology demonstration arrives at the Moon aboard a lunar lander.
PIA26163:
Testing the Deployer System for NASA's CADRE Project
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-30 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26061:
Europa Clipper With Instruments Aboard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-04 Europa Juno
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This illustration shows charged particles from Jupiter impacting Europa's surface, splitting frozen water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Scientists believe these newly created oxygen gases could migrate toward the moon's subsurface ocean.
PIA26239:
Oxygen Production at Europa (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration, three small rovers show off their ability to drive as a team autonomously during a test in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in December 2023.
PIA26164:
NASA's CADRE Rovers Take First Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Members of the CADRE assembly, test, launch, and operations team pose with completed hardware in a clean room at JPL in late January, 2024.
PIA26165:
CADRE ATLO Team Presents Completed Rovers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A CADRE rover is prepared for electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing in a special chamber at JPL in November 2023.
PIA26166:
CADRE Rover Undergoes Electromagnetic Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Clamped to a shaker table, one of NASA's CADRE rovers gets shaken vigorously during a test in November 2023.
PIA26167:
CADRE Rover Gets a Big Shake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Two full-scale development model rovers are tested in JPL's Mars Yard in August 2023 as part of NASA's CADRE tech demo. These tests confirmed the project's hardware and software can work together to accomplish key goals.
PIA26168:
CADRE Test Rovers in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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With its solar panels open, a small rover that is bound for the Moon sits in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 26, 2024.
PIA26169:
Completed CADRE Rover in the Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Members of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration team pose with two full-scale development model rovers in the Mars Yard at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in January 2024.
PIA26170:
CADRE Team in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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A commemorative plate mounted on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft features U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's handwritten In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa. It will be affixed with a silicon microchip stenciled with names submitted by the public.
PIA26062:
Europa Clipper's 'Golden Record'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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The art on this side of the plate features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by the word water in 103 languages. At center is a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for water.
PIA26063:
Europa Clipper's 'Water Words'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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Europa Clipper is seen in the 85-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024, before the start of thermal vacuum testing. A battery of tests ensures that the NASA spacecraft can withstand the extreme hot, cold, and airless environment of space.
PIA26064:
Europa Clipper Prepares for Test in Space Simulator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen being lifted into the Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024. Thermal vacuum testing, which lasted 16 days, ensures that the spacecraft will withstand the harsh conditions of space.
PIA26065:
Europa Clipper Rolls Into Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's CacheCam captured this image of the rover's latest cored sample – taken from an intriguing rock called Bunsen Peak – on March 12, 2024.
PIA26313:
Perseverance's 'Bunsen Peak' Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Europa Clipper Science Communications Lead Cynthia Phillips explains the science of the mission to members of the media in von Kármán Auditorium at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 11.
PIA25319:
Explaining the Science of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Members of the media visited a clean room at JPL April 11 to get a close-up look at NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The spacecraft is expected to launch in October 2024 to the Jupiter system, where it will study the ice-encased moon Europa.
PIA26291:
JPL Shows Off Europa Clipper in the Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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The viewing gallery above High Bay 1 in JPL's historic Spacecraft Assembly Facility provided members of the media with a vantage point to observe the clean room where Europa Clipper was put together.
PIA26292:
A View of Europa Clipper From Above
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-01 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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One of three small rovers bound for the Moon took an autonomous test drive in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in December 2023.
PIA26297:
NASA's CADRE Rover Takes an Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-13 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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This animated artist's concept depicts three small rovers – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration headed for the Moon – driving together on the lunar surface.
PIA26296:
CADRE Rovers Explore the Moon Together (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-03 Moon Lunar Orbiter
 610 Millimeter Lunar Orbiter Camera
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Copernicus is 93 km wide and is located within the Mare Imbrium Basin, northern nearside of the Moon (10 degrees N., 20 degrees W.). This image from NASA's Lunar Orbiter shows crater floor, floor mounds, rim, and rayed ejecta.
PIA00094:
Limb of Copernicus Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-21 Pluto Hubble Space Telescope
 Advanced Camera for Surveys
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A pair of small moons photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered orbiting Pluto in 2005 now have official names: Nix and Hydra.
PIA12453:
Pluto and its Moons: Charon, Nix, and Hydra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-01 Hubble Space Telescope
 Advanced Camera for Surveys
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A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.
PIA10926:
Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-27 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Antikythera, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. With a population of 44, its main settlement is the port of Patamos.
PIA19032:
Antikythera Island, Greece
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-21 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Los Volcanes Natural Park on Lanzarote in the Spanish Canary Islands. It is serving as a training ground to prepare for the next mission to the Moon and Mars.
PIA23526:
Lanzarote, Spanish Canary Islands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Terra
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Radar Mapper
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Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the sizes and patterns of dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary as a function of altitude and latitude (left). Images of Earth dunes Oman and Kalahari are shown at right as seen by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA15225:
Dune Patterns
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Alice Views Jupiter and Io
PIA09252:
Alice Views Jupiter and Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-22 Asteroid Arecibo Observatory
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These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon were generated by astronomers at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory on Dec. 17, 2017.
PIA22185:
Arecibo Observatory Radar Imagery of Phaethon Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-13 Sol (our sun) SDO
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On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun. Just as the moon came into SDO's field of view on a path to cross the sun, Earth entered the picture, blocking SDO's view completely.
PIA19949:
SDO Transit, September 2015 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-08-25 Sol (our sun) SDO
 Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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Several times a day for a few days this week the Earth completely blocked the Sun for about an hour due to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory orbital path (Aug. 25, 2016).
PIA21027:
Eclipse Season for SDO Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-01 Sol (our sun) SDO
 Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) saw both the Moon (upper right) and the Earth (upper left) partially block the sun (Sept. 1, 2016 at 7:33 UT). Just before this image was taken, the Earth totally blocked the sun for a while.
PIA21028:
Double Eclipse Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-21 Sol (our sun) SDO
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Several times a day for a few days the Earth completely blocked the Sun for about an hour due to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory's orbital path (Feb. 15, 2017).
PIA21461:
Earth Eclipses the Sun Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-23 Sol (our sun) SDO
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed a partial eclipse that at its peak covered only about 14 per cent of the sun on Aug. 21, 2017.
PIA21929:
SDO Saw Only a Partial Eclipse Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-17 Sol (our sun) SDO
 Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that in just about seven hours, the SDO spacecraft saw the moon transit the Sun two times (Sept. 9-10, 2018).
PIA22723:
Double Lunar Transit Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-11-14 Sol (our sun) SDO
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a lunar transit, when the Moon partially blocked SDO's view of the Sun on Nov. 7, 2018.
PIA18142:
SDO Observes a Partial Lunar Eclipse Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-11 Sol (our sun) SDO
 Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a long lunar transit on Mar. 6, 2019.
PIA21905:
Criss-Crossing Lunar Transit Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-24 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
IRAC
WISE Telescope
XMM-Newton X-ray
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This image combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86.
PIA14872:
All Eyes on Oldest Recorded Supernova
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-28 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 CheMin
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Decades of work preparing a miniaturized laboratory for identifying minerals on Mars have also yielded spinoff versions with diverse applications on Earth and, possibly, the moon.
PIA13230:
Laboratory-in-a-Box has Uses on Mars, Earth, Elsewhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-01 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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The Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) project – led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California – is planned to perform a robot-controlled lunar surface experiment with imagery in the coming years.
PIA24567:
NASA Integrates Gear Motors for Robotic Arm on Future Lunar Missions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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A JPL engineer examines the 3D-printed titanium scoop of NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system. The arm is designed to function in frigid temperatures that would stymie current spacecraft.
PIA25316:
Testing NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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NASA's COLDArm combines several new technologies that allow it to operate in temperatures as cold as minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 degrees Celsius) without the use of energy-consuming heaters required by robotic arms on current spacecraft.
PIA25317:
NASA's COLDArm at Lunar Regolith Simulant Test Bed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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The 3D-printed titanium scoop of the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system is poised above a test bed filled with material to simulate lunar regolith (broken rocks and dust) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25318:
Close-Up on COLDArm's Titanium 3D-Printed Scoop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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Engineers and technicians prepare NASA's COLDArm robotic arm system for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in November 2023.
PIA26162:
NASA's COLDArm in Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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CRISM Views Phobos and Deimos
PIA10117:
CRISM Views Phobos and Deimos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 CRISM
HiRISE
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The route of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is shown in this annotated image composed of overhead views from the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA24922:
Perseverance's Route to the Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 CRISM
HiRISE
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This annotated image highlights potential routes that NASA's Perseverance team is considering in September 2022 for the rover to drive.
PIA25244:
Potential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows thermal radiation from the day and night sides of Saturn's moon Phoebe.
PIA06402:
Phoebe's Radiation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
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A montage of maps of Saturn's moon Phoebe shows surface temperatures at various times of day as determined by the composite infrared spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the June 11, 2004, Phoebe flyby.
PIA06403:
Phoebe Temperature Maps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This map shows a dramatically improved view of heat radiation from a warm fissure near the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its Nov. 21, 2009, flyby of that moon.
PIA12448:
Zooming in on heat at Baghdad Sulcus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This image of the infrared heat radiation from Saturn's moon Iapetus was obtained by NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer instrument 16 hours before Cassini's closest approach to this mysterious moon.
PIA07004:
Iapetus Thermal Radiation Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This temperature map of Saturn's moon Iapetus is constructed from observations of Iapetus's infrared heat radiation taken with NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer instrument during the Dec. 31, 2004 flyby.
PIA07005:
Iapetus Temperature Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This plot shows how daytime temperatures at low latitudes on the dark material on Saturn's moon Iapetus vary with time of day.
PIA07006:
Iapetus Temperature Variation Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This image shows the surprise that startled NASA Cassini scientists on the composite infrared spectrometer team when they got their first look at the infrared (heat) radiation from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA06432:
Enceladus Temperature Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This graphic shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft's path, or ground track, as it crossed over the surface of Enceladus near the time of closest approach during the flyby on July 14, 2005.
PIA07723:
Enceladus: The Plot Thickens
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-22 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer captured its first view of the infrared heat radiation emanating from the 'tiger stripe' fractures at the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus since the discovery of the hot spot 16 months earlier.
PIA09037:
Enceladus Keeps the Home Fires Burning
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This image compares midday temperatures on Saturn's moon Iapetus, recorded by the composite infrared spectrometer instrument during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close Sept. 10, 2007 flyby.
PIA10012:
Warm and Dry on Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-10 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This map of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows the correlation between jet sources identified in NASA's Cassini imaging data and hot spots on the surface located by the composite infrared spectrometer instrument.
PIA08385:
Enceladus Jet Sources
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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Heat radiating from the entire length of 150 kilometer long fractures is seen in this best-yet heat map of the active south polar region of Saturn's ice moon Enceladus. Measurements obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Composite Infrared Spectrometer.
PIA10361:
Jet Spots in Tiger Stripes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have enabled scientists to make the highest-resolution heat intensity maps yet for the hottest part of a 'tiger stripe' fissure on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA13620:
Hot and Narrow Tiger Stripe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This image shows a high-resolution heat intensity map of part of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA13621:
Tiger Stripe Split Ends
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-07 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This graphic, using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows how the south polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus emits much more power than scientists had originally predicted.
PIA13891:
Enceladus the Powerhouse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon 'Pac-Man' on moons of Saturn. One was observed on the moon Mimas in 2010 and the latest was observed on the moon Tethys.
PIA16198:
A Pair of 'Pac-Men'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-02-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This sequence of maps shows varying surface temperatures on Saturn's moon Titan at two-year intervals, from 2004 to 2016. The measurements were made by the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20020:
Titan Temperature Lag Maps & Animation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
Imaging Science Subsystem
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a computer animation shows the observations to be taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its second close approach to Titan on Monday, Dec. 13, 2004.
PIA06147:
Titan 'TB' Flyby Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
Imaging Science Subsystem
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a computer animation shows the observations to be taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft spanning roughly a nine-hour period surrounding its upcoming flyby of Dione on Dec. 14, 2004.
PIA06149:
Dione Flyby Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This image, combining data from the imaging science subsystem and composite infrared spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows pockets of heat appearing along one of the mysterious fractures in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11696:
Enceladus' Warm Baghdad Sulcus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This image shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging science subsystem visible-light mosaic of Mimas from previous flybys on the left. The right-hand image shows new infrared temperature data mapped on top of the visible-light image.
PIA12867:
Bizarre Temperatures on Mimas
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