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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 2023-08-16 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 2023-08-16 Lunar Trailblazer
Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM)
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, shortly after being integrated with its second and final science instrument, the Lunar Thermal Mapper.
PIA25837:
Lunar Trailblazer Spacecraft Nears Completion
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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 2023-11-16 Psyche
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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The downlink laser signal for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration is detected at the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,
PIA26142:
Confirmation of DSOC 'First Light' at JPL's Table Mountain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-16 Psyche
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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The flight laser transceiver operations team for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration works in the Psyche mission support area at JPL in the early hours of Nov. 14, 2023, when the project achieved first light.
PIA26143:
DSOC 'First Light' at JPL's Psyche Mission Support Area
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-16 Psyche
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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DSOC ground laser transmitter operators pose for a photo at the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, shortly after the technology demonstration achieved first light on Nov. 14, 2023.
PIA26144:
The DSOC Ground Laser Transmitter Team After 'First Light'
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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 2024-03-07 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 2024-05-01 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 2024-05-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope highlights the stars and dust clouds in the Andromeda galaxy.
PIA26276:
The Infrared Face of the Andromeda Galaxy
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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 2005-10-27 Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
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The Tadpole galaxy is the result of a recent galactic interaction in the local universe. These spectacular images were taken by NASA's Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) Legacy project.
PIA03543:
A SWIRE Picture is Worth Billions of Years
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-24 Chandrayaan-1
Moon Mineralogy Mapper
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The Moon Mineralogy Mapper imaging spectrometer, an instrument on India's Chandrayaan-1, during development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA12231:
Building the Moon Mineralogy Mapper
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-08 1989N2 Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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These NASA Voyager 2 images of satellite 1989N2 at a resolution of 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles) per pixel reveal it to be and irregularly shaped, dark object.
PIA02206:
Satellite 1989N2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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This artist's concept takes us on a journey to 55 Cancri, a star with a family of five known planets - the most planets discovered so far around a star besides our own.
PIA10109:
Journey to a Star Rich with Planets (Artist Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-11-18 Amalthea Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft's first view of Amalthea, a small inner moon of Jupiter, showing the end of the elongated satellite that faces permanently toward the giant planet, Sept. 7, 1996.
PIA01072:
Galileo's First Image of Amalthea
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Amalthea Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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These four images of Jupiter's moon, Amalthea, were taken by NASA's Galileo's solid state imaging system at various
times between February and June 1997.
PIA01074:
Four Galileo Views of Amalthea
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Amalthea Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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These images, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft between Nov. 1996-June 1997, provide the first ever 'family portrait' of the four small, irregularly shaped moons that orbit Jupiter in the zone between the planet's ring and the larger Galilean satellites.
PIA01076:
Family Portrait of the Small Inner Satellites of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-15 Amalthea Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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The upper series of images represents the best yet of the four small inner satellites of Jupiter taken by the camera on NASA's Galileo spacecraft. From left to right, in order of decreasing distance to Jupiter, are Thebe, Amalthea, Adrastea and Metis.
PIA01624:
Shapes of the Small Inner Satellites of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-24 Amalthea Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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A montage of images of the small inner moons of Jupiter from the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows the best views obtained of these moons during Galileo's 11th orbit around the giant planet in November 1997.
PIA02530:
Jupiter Small Satellite Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-24 Amalthea Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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These images of the inner Jovian moons Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis (left to right), taken in January 2000 by the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft, are the highest-resolution images ever obtained of these small, irregularly shaped satellites.
PIA02531:
Best images yet of Thebe, Amalthea and Metis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-24 Amalthea Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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These two images of Jupiter's small, irregularly shaped moon Amalthea, obtained by the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft, form a 'stereo pair' that helps scientists determine this moon's shape and the topography of its surface features.
PIA02532:
Bright Streak on Amalthea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-31 Amalthea Galileo
Voyager
Solid-State Imaging
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These images of Jupiter's moon Amalthea were taken with NASA's Galileo and Voyager spacecraft. Amalthea is almost pure water ice, hinting that it may not have formed where it now orbits.
PIA07248:
Amalthea, A Rubble-Pile Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-13 Amalthea Juno
JunoCam
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet on March 7, 2024.
PIA25728:
NASA's Juno Mission Spots Jupiter's Tiny Moon Amalthea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-05 Anthe Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals the existence of a faint arc of material orbiting with Saturn's small moon Anthe.
PIA11100:
Anthe's Faint Arc
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-05 Anthe Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals the existence of a faint arc of material orbiting with Saturn's small moon Anthe.
PIA11101:
The Anthe Arc
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-02 Ariel Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This picture is part of NASA's Voyager 2 imaging sequence of Ariel, a moon of Uranus taken on January 24, 1986. The complexity of Ariel's surface indicates that a variety of geologic processes have occurred.
PIA00037:
Ariel at Voyager Closest Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Ariel Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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On Jan. 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this color picture of the Uranian moon, Ariel. Most of the visible surface consists of relatively intensely cratered terrain transected by fault scarps and fault-bounded valleys (graben).
PIA00041:
Ariel - Highest Resolution Color Picture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-06 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
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NASA's Deep Space Network, Goldstone radar images show triple asteroid 1994 CC, which consists of a central object approximately 700 meters (2,300 feet) in diameter and two smaller moons that orbit the central body. Animation available at the Photojournal
PIA12134:
Triple Asteroid System Triples Asteroid Observers Interest Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-07 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
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This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. on Nov. 7, 2011, when the space rock was at 3.6 lunar distances, which is about 860,000 miles, or 1.38 million kilometers, from Earth.
PIA15019:
Asteroid 2005 YU55 Approaches Close Earth Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-26 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
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Images of asteroid 2007 PA8 have been generated with data collected by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar. The images of 2007 PA8 reveal possible craters, boulders, an irregular, asymmetric shape, and very slow rotation.
PIA16474:
Nine Radar Images of Asteroid PA8
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-06 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
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This radar imagery of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon was generated from data collected by NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on June 1, 2013.
PIA17235:
Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-07 Asteroid NEOWISE
NEOWISE Telescope
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The six red dots in this composite picture indicate the location of the first new near-Earth asteroid, called 2013 YP139, as seen by NASA's NEOWISE.
PIA17829:
NEOWISE's New Find
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-06 Asteroid 1024x768x3
This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2014 EC past Earth on March 6, 2014. The asteroid's closest approach is a distance equivalent to about one-sixth of the distance between Earth and the moon. The indicated times are in Universal Time.
PIA17957:
Asteroid 2014 EC Flyby of Earth on March 6, 2014
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-05 Asteroid 1024x768x3
This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2014 DX110 past Earth on March 5, 2014. The asteroid's closest approach was at a distance equivalent to about nine-tenths of the distance between Earth and the moon.
PIA17955:
Asteroid 2014 DX110 Flyby of Earth on March 5, 2014
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-12 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
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NASA scientists used Earth-based radar to produce these sharp views -- an image montage and a movie sequence -- of the asteroid designated '2014 HQ124' on June 8, 2014.
PIA18412:
Radar Images of Asteroid 2014 HQ124 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-23 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
NRAO Green Bank Telescope
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Scientists using two giant, Earth-based radio telescopes bounced radar signals off passing asteroid 2011 UW158 to create images for an animation showing the rocky body's fast rotation. This is a frame from the animation.
PIA19644:
Radar Movie of Asteroid 2011 UW158 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-31 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
NRAO Green Bank Telescope
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This frame from a movie made from radar images of asteroid 1999 JD6, obtained on July 25, 2015. The asteroid is approximately 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) on its long axis.
PIA19646:
Radar Movie of Asteroid 1999 JD6 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-31 Asteroid Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
Goldstone Solar System Radar
NRAO Green Bank Telescope
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This collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 1999 JD6 was collected by NASA scientists on July 25, 2015. The asteroid is between 660-980 feet (200-300 meters) in diameter.
PIA19647:
Asteroid 1999 JD6
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-30 Asteroid Catalina Sky Survey (CSS)
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This frame from a sequence of four images of the asteroid name 2014 AA, seen as a speck of light moving relative to the background stars, is a small asteroid, observed by NASA's Catalina Sky Survey. It was, at the time, about as far away as the moon.
PIA21712:
Sky Survey Detected This Small Asteroid Animation Icon
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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 2018-07-12 Asteroid 1041x586x3
Artist's illustration of the trajectory of asteroid 2017 YE5 through the solar system. At its closest approach to Earth, the asteroid came to within 16 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
PIA22560:
Trajectory of Asteroid 2017 YE5 (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-05 Asteroid Deep Space Network
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On March 21, 2021, the large asteroid 2001 FO32 made a close approach with our planet, passing at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) — or 5 1/4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
PIA24561:
Goldstone Radar Observations of Asteroid 2001 FO32
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Asteroid Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART)
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This diagram shows the orbit of binary asteroid Didymos around the Sun.
PIA24565:
The Orbit of Asteroid Didymos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-10 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
Deep Space Network
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These images and animation represent NASA radar observations of 4660 Nereus on December 10, 2021, before the asteroid's close approach on December 11, when it came within 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) of Earth.
PIA24566:
Radar Observations of Asteroid 4660 Nereus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-29 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
Deep Space Network
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This collage and animation represent NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 7335 1989 JA on May 26, 2022, one day before it made its closest approach with Earth.
PIA25251:
Radar Observations of Near-Earth Asteroid 7335 1989 JA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-22 Asteroid Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
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This illustration depicts NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system.
PIA25329:
NASA's DART at the Didymos System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-17 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
Deep Space Network
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This collage represents NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2011 AG5 on Feb. 4, 2023, one day after its close approach to Earth brought it about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) from our planet.
PIA25259:
Radar Observations of Elongated Near-Earth Asteroid 2011 AG5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
Deep Space Network
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This collage represents a selection of NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2006 HV5 on April 25, 2023, less than one day before its close approach with our planet at a distance of about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers).
PIA25834:
NASA's Planetary Radar Images Asteroid 2006 HV5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
Deep Space Network
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The day before asteroid 2008 OS7 made its close approach with Earth on Feb. 2, 2024, this series of images was captured by the powerful 230-foot (70-meter) Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna near Barstow, California.
PIA26149:
NASA's Planetary Radar Images Slow-Spinning Asteroid 2008 OS7
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-30 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sighted the tiny moon Atlas, which is seen here for the first time since Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980.
PIA06076:
Atlas Found! Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-09 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A new found ring of material, S/2004 1 R, in the orbit of Saturn's moon Atlas has been seen in this view of the region between the edge of Saturn's A ring and the F ring. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on July 1, 2004.
PIA06113:
The Atlas Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-30 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's little moon Atlas orbits Saturn between the outer edge of the A ring and the fascinating, twisted F ring. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft just barely resolves the disk of Atlas.
PIA06659:
A Glimpse of Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-26 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The small ring moon Atlas is seen here, on the far side of Saturn's immense ring system. NASA's Cassini spacecraft was only 0.6 degrees above the ring plane when this image was taken.
PIA06635:
Straight Across the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-10 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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From a viewing angle slightly above the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied Saturn's moon Atlas, which orbits Saturn between the broad A ring and the thin F ring.
PIA07516:
Embedded Atlas
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The 'flying saucer' in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is the small moon Atlas (20 kilometers, 12 miles across), whose shadowy profile reveals its flattened shape.
PIA07592:
A Shadowy Figure
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft contains not one, but two moons. Tethys is slightly overexposed so that the real target of this image, tiny Atlas, can be seen. Atlas is at image center, just outside the A ring.
PIA07682:
Speck of a Moon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds oddly-shaped Atlas gliding along the edge of the A ring. The moon has a prominent equatorial bulge, which is accentuated here by the grazing viewing angle of Cassini, making Atlas appear pointy
PIA08233:
Watching Atlas's Waistline
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These images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Pan and Atlas, showing their distinctive 'flying saucer' shapes, owing to equatorial ridges not seen on the other moons of Saturn.
PIA08405:
Saturn's Saucer Moons
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 8, 2007, shows the small moon Atlas clinging to the edge of Saturn's A ring. External to the moon is the thin and contorted F ring.
PIA09818:
Atlas Alone
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Atlas, one of two moons that ply Roche Division -- the region between Saturn's A and F rings. Prometheus also orbits within this division.
PIA09885:
Roche Division
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Saturn's moon Atlas, shown at the center of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 2, 2009, orbits within the Roche Division separating the A ring from the tenuous F ring.
PIA11507:
Plying a Division
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Saturn's moon Atlas plies the Roche Division between the A ring and the thin F ring. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11524:
Navigating the Blackness
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Atlas joins other moons casting shadows on Saturn's rings as the planet approaches its August 2009 equinox. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11551:
Atlas' Ring Shadow Premiere
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The shadow of the moon Janus dwarfs the shadow of Daphnis on Saturn's A ring in this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11574:
Small Moon Shadow
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Saturn's moon Atlas, just below the center of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, orbits in the Roche Division between the A ring and thin F ring.
PIA12595:
Charting Atlas' Path
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Saturn's tiny moon Atlas, just to the left of the center of the image, appears almost indistinguishable from the background stars seen in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12610:
Lost Among Stars
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Atlas can be seen just above the center of this NASA Cassini spacecraft image as the moon orbits in the Roche Division between Saturn's A ring and thin F ring.
PIA12645:
Speck Between Rings
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks past Saturn's main rings to spy the tiny moon Atlas, which orbits between the main rings and the thin F ring. The main rings are closer to the spacecraft than Atlas is, and the moon appears as only a small, white dot.
PIA14621:
Atlas in the Distance
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a glimpse of the moon Atlas shortly after emerging from Saturn's shadow.
PIA17167:
Emerging from Darkness
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ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's moon Atlas (30 kilometers, or 19 miles across), with its smooth equatorial ridge, during a moderately close flyby on Dec. 6, 2015. The view offers one of Cassini's best glimpses of Atlas.
PIA17206:
Atlas Escaping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-26 C/2008 Q3 (Garradd) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
WISE Telescope
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a mosaic of 3 individual WISE frames spanning an area on the sky about 7 times the size of the full Moon in portions of the constellations Bootes and Canes Venatici.
PIA12985:
M3 & Comet Garradd
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Callisto Voyager
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This false color picture of Callisto was taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on July 7, 1979 at a range of 1,094,666 kilometers (677,000 miles) and is centered on 11 degrees N and 171 degrees W.
PIA00457:
Callisto False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-12-18 Callisto Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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A portion of a chain of impact craters on Jupiter's moon Callisto is seen in this image from NASA' Galileo spacecraft on November 4, 1996. This crater chain on Callisto is believed to result from the impact of a split object, similar to the fragments.
PIA00514:
A Chain of Impact Craters on Callisto
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Solid-State Imaging
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A portion of the central zone of the large impact structure Valhalla on Jupiter's moon Callisto was imaged by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on November 4, 1996.
PIA00516:
Callisto's Valhalla Impact Structure
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Solid-State Imaging
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This four-frame mosaic shows the ancient impact structure Asgard on Jupiter's moon Callisto. This image was taken on November 4, 1996, by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during its third orbit around Jupiter.
PIA00517:
Asgard Impact Structure on Callisto
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Solid-State Imaging
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This mosaic of three images shows an area within the Valhalla region on Jupiter's moon, Callisto, as seen by NASA's Galileo orbiter.
PIA00549:
Callisto Crater Chain Mosaic
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Solid-State Imaging
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This mosaic of two images shows an area within the Valhalla region on Jupiter's moon, Callisto.This mosaic of two images shows an area within the Valhalla region on Jupiter's moon, Callisto, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA00561:
Callisto Scarp Mosaic
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Solid-State Imaging
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Low-resolution color data were combined with a higher resolution mosaic from NASA's Galileo spacraft to produce this infrared composite image of a pair of ancient multi-ringed impact basins on Jupiter's moon, Callisto.
PIA00562:
Asgard Scarp Mosaic
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Solid-State Imaging
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A portion of a chain of impact craters on Jupiter's moon Callisto is seen in this image taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on November 4, 1996.
PIA00581:
Callisto Crater Chain at High Resolution Shown in Context
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Solid-State Imaging
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This composite portait includes the four largest moons of Jupiter which are known as the Galilean satellites. From left to
right, the moons shown are Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.
PIA00601:
The Galilean Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Callisto Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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This mosaic covers part of the equatorial region of Jupiter's moon, Callisto. The mosaic combines six separate image frames obtained by the solid state imaging (CCD) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft during its ninth orbit around Jupiter.
PIA00745:
Callisto's Equatorial Region
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Solid-State Imaging
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View of Callisto, most distant of the four large moons of Jupiter. This mosaic was prepared from images obtained by three spacecraft: NASA's Voyager 1 (left side), Galileo (middle), and Voyager 2 data (right side).
PIA01055:
View of Callisto from Voyager and Galileo
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Solid-State Imaging
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NASA's Galileo images of the surface of Jupiter's moon Callisto have revealed large landslide deposits within two large impact craters seen in the right side of this image. The two landslides are about 3 to 3.5 kilometers (1.8 to 2.1 miles) in length.
PIA01095:
Landslides on Callisto
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Solid-State Imaging
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False color view of a portion of the leading hemisphere of Jupiter's moon Callisto as seen through the infrared filters of the Solid State Imaging (CCD) system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01100:
The Asgard Hemisphere of Callisto
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Solid-State Imaging
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This observation of a small section of the Asgard terrain reveals compositional variations over the surface of Callisto was captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1996.
PIA01128:
Compositional Variations in Callisto's Asgard Impact Structure
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Solid-State Imaging
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Cutaway view of the possible internal structure of Callisto. The surface of the satellite is a mosaic of images obtained in 1979 by NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
PIA01131:
Interior of Callisto
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Solid-State Imaging
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This two frame mosaic of images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an area in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter's moon, Callisto, that was not imaged during the 1979 flyby of NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
PIA01225:
Craters in a Newly Imaged Area on Callisto
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Solid-State Imaging
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Four views of Jupiter's second largest moon, Callisto, highlight how increasing resolutions enable interpretation of the surface. North is to the top of these frames which were taken by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01297:
View of Callisto at Increasing Resolutions
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