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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-07-12 NuSTAR
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This artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc precesses. 'Precession' means that the orbit of material surrounding the black hole changes orientation around the central object.
PIA20697:
Black Hole with 'Wobbling' Disk (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-20 ARM
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This graphic depicts the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle conducting a flyby of its target asteroid. The robotic segment of the Asteroid Redirect Mission will demonstrate advanced, high-power, high-throughput solar electric propulsion.
PIA21062:
ARM Spacecraft (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
TRAPPIST
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This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star.
PIA21422:
TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
TRAPPIST
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Imagine standing on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. This artist's concept is one interpretation of what it could look like.
PIA21423:
Surface of TRAPPIST-1f
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
TRAPPIST
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Three of the TRAPPIST-1 planets dwell in their star's so-called 'habitable zone,' shown in green. This is the band around the star where temperatures are just right, not too hot, not too cold, for liquid water to pool on the surface of an Earth-like world
PIA21424:
The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
TRAPPIST
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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 frame from a video depicts artist's concepts of each of the seven planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf star. Over 21 days.
PIA21468:
TRAPPIST-1 Planets - Flyaround Animation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-11 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like from a vantage point near planet TRAPPIST-1f (at right).
PIA21751:
TRAPPIST-1 System - Artist Concept
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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 2018-04-13 ASTERIA
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This image from a series of images is from a single observation of a star by the ASTERIA spacecraft.
PIA22413:
Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-11-21 InSight
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An artist's impression shows the major interior layers of Earth, Mars and the Moon.
PIA22573:
Planetary Interiors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-31 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Side-by-side images depict NASA's Curiosity rover (left) and a moon buggy driven during the Apollo 16 mission.
PIA23041:
A Mars Buggy and a Moon Buggy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-27 CubeSat
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This artist's concept shows the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a six-unit CubeSat designed to search for ice on the Moon's surface using special lasers.
PIA23131:
Lunar Flashlight (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-27 CubeSat
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This artist's concept shows a view from above the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a six-unit CubeSat designed to search for ice on the Moon's surface using special lasers.
PIA23132:
Lunar Flashlight from Above (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-01 Europa Clipper
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This image shows a full-scale prototype of the high-gain antenna on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, undergoing testing in the Experimental Test Range at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
PIA22773:
Europa Clipper Antenna Prototype
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-19 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's illustration of the exoplanet LHS 3844b, shows the planet's surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock, with no apparent atmosphere, according to observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA23130:
Rare Glimpse of the Surface of a Rocky World (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-25 3342x1762x3
A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that can morph into rolling spheres, flying drones, swimming submersibles, and more.
PIA23433:
Shapeshifter Prototype Rolls and Flies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-25 875x700x3
An illustration of an early concept of Shapeshifter imagines the robots on Saturn's moon Titan. In the picture, the Shapeshifter breaks into smaller pieces that can investigate a methane waterfall from the sky.
PIA23434:
Illustration of Shapeshifter on Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-25 1920x1440x3
An illustration of the small robots that form Shapeshifter. Dubbed 'cobots,' they each have a propeller for flying and can combine to form a sphere, rolling on the ground to save energy.
PIA23435:
Transforming Cobots (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-11-20 Mars 2020 Rover
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Side-by-side images depict NASA's Surveyor 3 spacecraft (left) and an artist's concept of the Mars 2020 rover (right).
PIA23553:
Twelve and Twenty
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-11-25 Pioneer 4
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This image from March 2, 1959 shows engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory checking NASA's Pioneer 4 spacecraft.
PIA23497:
Preparing Pioneer 4 for the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-12-23 Ranger
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Engineers stand with Ranger 7 on Dec. 10, 1963, in High Bay 1, located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA23520:
Ranger 7 in SAF's High Bay 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-20 Mars 2020 Rover
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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This image shows the SHERLOC instrument, located at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
PIA23621:
Close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover's SHERLOC Instrument
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-10 6720x4480x3
A shoebox-sized wheeled robot explores the rugged terrain on the surface of the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during recent tests of the A-PUFFER project.
PIA23793:
A-PUFFER Robot Explores a Rocky Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-15 Mars 2020 Project
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The launch period window for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance opens on July 20, 2020.
PIA23920:
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-17 Mars 2020 Project
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In this artist's concept, a two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle speeds the Mars 2020 spacecraft toward the Red Planet. This will be NASA's fifth Mars launch on an Atlas V.
PIA23922:
Rocket to Mars (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-09 Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Deep Space Station 43 is the largest steerable parabolic antenna in the Southern Hemisphere and currently undergoing upgrades, which are expected to be completed by January 2021.
PIA23797:
A Big Crane for a Big Dish
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-04 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA23964:
Perseverance Test Rover's First Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-04 Mars 2020 Rover
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Technicians move an engineering version of the Perseverance Mars rover into to its new home in the Mars Yard, part of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA23965:
Test Rover Moves to Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover has put some dirt on its wheels at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA23966:
Perseverance Twin Drives Into the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover raises its head, or remote sensing mast, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA23967:
Perseverance Twin Raises Its Mast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-21 Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE)
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and shipped the receiver, transmitter, and electronics necessary to complete the radar instrument for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission.
PIA24024:
Vibration Testing of JUICE Mission's RIME Radar Transmitter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-21 Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE)
RIME
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and shipped the receiver, transmitter, and electronics necessary to complete the radar instrument for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, set to launch in 2022.
PIA24025:
JUICE Mission's RIME Transmitter Exits Thermal Chamber
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-21 Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE)
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JPL engineers and technicians follow COVID-19 Safe-at-Work guidelines as they transport the RIME transmitter and electronics on Aug. 19, 2020, for shipping to the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
PIA24026:
RIME Instrument en Route to JUICE
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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Perseverance's Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) uses radar waves to probe the ground, revealing the unexplored world that lies beneath the Martian surface.
PIA24047:
RIMFAX at Work on NASA's Perseverance (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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A test model of the RIMFAX instrument, aboard the trailer behind the snow mobile, undergoes field testing in Svalbard, Norway.
PIA24048:
Testing RIMFAX for NASA's Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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Highlighted in blue in this visualization, the RIMFAX instrument's antenna is externally mounted underneath the MMRTG (the rover's nuclear battery) on the back of Perseverance.
PIA24049:
RIMFAX Location on NASA's Perseverance Rover (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-13 DuAxel Project
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The DuAxel rover is seen here participating in field tests in the Mojave Desert. The four-wheeled rover is composed of two Axel robots. One part anchors itself in place while the other uses a tether to explore otherwise inaccessible terrain.
PIA24108:
The DuAxel Rover During a Field Test in California's Mojave Desert
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-13 DuAxel Project
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During the same field test, the DuAxel rover separates into two single-axled robots so that one can rappel down a slope too steep for conventional rovers.
PIA24109:
DuAxel Undocks a Tethered Axel to Explore a Steep Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-13 DuAxel Project
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The two-wheeled Axel descends the slope while tethered to its counterpart anchored above the slope. The tether serves as a climbing rope of sorts while also providing power and a means of communication.
PIA24110:
The Tethered Axel Autonomously Descends a Rocky Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA)
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SkyCam is a sky-facing camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. As part of MEDA, the rover's set of weather instruments, SkyCam will take images and video of clouds passing in the Martian sky.
PIA24174:
Perseverance Rover's SkyCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA)
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One of two wind sensors springs out of the mast on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These sensors are part of Perseverance's weather instrumentation, called MEDA.
PIA24175:
MEDA's Wind Sensor Springs Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-02 Lunar Trailblazer
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Peering into the Moon's permanently shadowed regions, Lunar Trailblazer will detect signatures of water ice in reflected light, and it will pinpoint the locations of micro-cold traps less than a football field in size.
PIA24161:
Lunar Trailblazer to Support NASA's Artemis Program
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-22 Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Deep Space Station 56, or DSS-56, is a powerful 34-meter-wide (112-foot-wide) antenna that was added to the Deep Space Network's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain in early 2021.
PIA24163:
New All-in-One Antenna for the Deep Space Network
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-23 Mars Helicopter
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Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth on December 17, 1903. Material covering the wing of the aircraft was flown to Mars aboard NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA24434:
The Wright Brothers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper, depicted in this illustration that was updated in December 2020, will swoop around Jupiter on an elliptical path, dipping close to its moon Europa on each flyby to collect data.
PIA24321:
Europa Clipper Spacecraft (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
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Technicians at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center check the fit of the cylinders of the propulsion module core of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2020.
PIA24322:
Stacked Cylinders: Europa Clipper Propulsion Module
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory test an engineering model of a high-frequency (HF) radar antenna that makes up part of NASA's Europa Clipper radar instrument on Dec. 17, 2019.
PIA24323:
Europa Clipper REASON Testing on the Mesa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
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Technicians and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory work together on Sept. 12, 2019, to bond thermal tubing to a panel built for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
PIA24324:
Europa Clipper's Thermal Tubing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
Europa Imaging System - Wide Angle
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An engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) works with an engineering model of part of the Europa Imaging System (EIS) that will fly aboard NASA's Europa Clipper.
PIA24325:
Europa Clipper's Europa Imaging System in the Works
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS)
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Pictured in a clean room at APL are NASA's Europa Clipper's recently assembled Faraday cup sensors and instrument housings in two configurations.
PIA24327:
Faraday Cups Up Close: NASA's Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
Europa Imaging System - Narrow Angle
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Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC).
PIA24328:
Europa Imaging System Narrow Angle Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
Europa Imaging System - Wide Angle
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Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Wide Angle Camera (WAC).
PIA24329:
Europa Imaging System Wide Angle Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS)
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In this photo, the Plasma Instrument Calibration Chamber at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, recreates the plasma environments that PIMS and other instruments will encounter in space.
PIA24330:
Preparing NASA's Europa Clipper's Plasma Instrument
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Helicopter
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Members of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed its first flight on April 19, 2021.
PIA24585:
Ingenuity's Team Waits for Data on Helicopter's First Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Helicopter
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Members of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory react to data showing that the helicopter completed its first flight on April 19, 2021.
PIA24499:
Ingenuity's Team Reacts to Data Showing It Completed Its First Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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JPL's Abigail Allwood, principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, examines rocks in Greenland.
PIA24667:
Abigail Allwood in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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JPL's Abigail Allwood (second from left), principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, conducts fieldwork with other scientists in Greenland.
PIA24668:
Abigail Allwood Doing Fieldwork in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Contamination control engineers in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, evaluate a propellant tank before it is installed in NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24478:
Prepping Europa Clipper's Propulsion Tanks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California stand between the thick-walled aluminum vault and its duplicate that they helped build for the agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24479:
Complete: Europa Clipper Vault and Its Twin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California build the nadir deck for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24480:
Building a Nadir Deck for Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE)
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The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE), is shown here in the midst of assembly in a clean room at JPL.
PIA24781:
The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) Science Instrument
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, integrate the tanks that will contain helium onto the propulsion module of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24782:
Europa Clipper Propulsion Module: Integration Underway
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, inspect the propulsion module of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24783:
Europa Clipper: Propulsion Module Inspection
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Seen here in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is the nadir deck for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24784:
Final Stretch for Europa Clipper's Nadir Deck
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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The dish antenna, seen here face down, for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is being fabricated at aerospace vendor Applied Aerospace Structures Corporation (AASC) in Stockton, California.
PIA24785:
Europa Clipper: High-Gain Antenna Under Construction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM)
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A test model of the boom that will be used for the magnetometer aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is readied in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24786:
Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM) Boom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-18 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover indicates the location of its two microphones.
PIA24931:
Illustration: Perseverance's Microphones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-18 Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries two commercial-grade microphones, including this one on its mast. The mast microphone is part of the SuperCam instrument.
PIA24932:
Perseverance's Mast Microphone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-18 Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries two commercial-grade microphones, including this one on its chassis.
PIA24933:
Perseverance's Body Microphone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineering models of the Curiosity Mars rover (foreground) and the Perseverance Mars rover share space in the garage at JPL's Mars Yard.
PIA24525:
Twin Rover Twins
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars 2020 Rover
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On October 29, 2021, a heavy-duty vehicle transports the Perseverance rover's engineering model, called OPTIMISM, from a test lab to the Mars Yard garage at JPL.
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Heavy-Duty OPTIMISM
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars 2020 Rover
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OPTIMISM faces a doorway of JPL's Mars Yard garage shortly after arriving there on October 29, 2021.
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OPTIMISM Ready for Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars 2020 Rover
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Updated with new features, the twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover arrives at JPL's Mars Yard garage on October 29, 2021.
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Improved OPTIMISM
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-09 Mars 2020 Rover
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This colorful illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance Rover on Mars, where it landed in February 2021.
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You've Got Perseverance! Illustration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers working with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover set up this test area at JPL to practice drilling into crumbly rocks using a duplicate of the rover's rock-coring drill.
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Testing a Roubion-Like Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory performed tests on rocks such as this one to understand why the first attempt by the agency's Perseverance rover resulted in a powderized sample.
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Creating a Drill Hole in a Test Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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This drill is a duplicate of the one aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was used in a test campaign to learn how crumbly rocks respond to the drill.
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Close-Up of a Perseverance-Like Drill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians examine and test the first of NASA's Europa Clipper's science instruments to be delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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NASA's Europa Clipper's Ultraviolet Spectrograph Is Delivered
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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An engineer inspects the radio frequency (RF) panel of NASA's Europa Clipper in a cleanroom at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
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Examining the Radio Frequency Panel of NASA's Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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The massive high-gain antenna for NASA's Europa Clipper mission is complete. The antenna will be integrated along with other telecommunications hardware into the spacecraft's propulsion module.
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Standing Tall: Europa Clipper's High-Gain Antenna
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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The propulsion module for NASA's Europa Clipper, the main body of the spacecraft, is nearing completion at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
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Europa Clipper's Propulsion Module
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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Science instruments and other hardware for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will come together in the mission's final phase before launching to Jupiter's icy moon Europa in 2024.
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NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-06 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in April 2021.
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DSOC's Flight Laser Transceiver
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-06 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily identified on NASA's Psyche spacecraft, seen in this December 2021 photograph.
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DSOC Flight Laser Transceiver Integrated with NASA's Psyche Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-14 7504x5003x3
Actor Chris Evans receives a boarding pass to the Moon from Suzanne Dodd, director of the Interplanetary Network Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The pair are seen in the Space Flight Operations Facility at JPL on June 6, 2022.
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Chris Evans Gets a Boarding Pass for NASA's Artemis I Mission
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Actor Chris Evans, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover Surface Mission Manager Jessica Samuels, and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn are seen in front of the rover model at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on June 6, 2022.
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Chris Evans Visits JPL, Perseverance Model
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In the Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers (SWIM) concept, illustrated here, dozens of small robots would descend through the icy shell of a distant moon via a cryobot to the ocean below.
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SWIM Exploring a Subsurface Ocean (Illustration)
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This illustration shows the NASA cryobot concept called Probe using Radioisotopes for Icy Moons Exploration (PRIME) deploying tiny wedge-shaped robots into the ocean miles below a lander on the frozen surface of an ocean world.
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Cryobot for Ocean Worlds Exploration (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-08 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) is one of two instruments that will be carried aboard NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, launching in 2023.
PIA25252:
Key Lunar Trailblazer Instrument Passes Milestone
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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.
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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.
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Testing Perseverance's Regolith Bit Here on Earth
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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.
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Perseverance's Cameras, Tallies of Their Images
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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.
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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.
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OPTIMISM Sticks the Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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Engineers work on the JPL-developed High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) for NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, in December 2022.
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Engineers Work on Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The side of the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) is seen as the instrument gets unwrapped in a clean room. The JPL-developed imaging spectrometer was later integrated with NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft.
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A Closer View of NASA Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The HVM³ instrument sits in a JPL clean room in early December 2022. The instrument was built at JPL then shipped to Lockheed Martin Space in Colorado to be integrated with NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft.
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Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer Before Spacecraft Integration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Lunar Trailblazer
Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM)
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Seen here before being shipped from the U.K. to the U.S., the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) is one of two instruments that will be carried by NASA's Lunar Trailblazer.
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Lunar Trailblazer's Thermal Mapper Has Arrived at Lockheed Martin
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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.
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CADRE Rover Testing in JPL's Mars Yard
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