My Favorite Images from the Planetary Photojoural
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List 		Catalog # Target Mission Instrument Addition Date Size
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17112 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2013-06-25 1158x2904x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows North Stradbroke Island, 30 km southeast of Brisbane, Australia, one of the largest sand islands in the world.
Title:
North Stradbroke Island, Australia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17133 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2013-10-21 1015x1016x1
Although their gravitational effects on nearby ring material look quite different, Prometheus and Pan are both shepherd moons, holding back nearby ring edges in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Two Shepherds
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17134 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2013-10-28 1003x1003x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft uses special infrared glasses to peer through Titan's haze and monitor its surface inequatorial region dubbed 'Senkyo.' The dark features are believed to be vast dunes of hydrocarbon particles.
Title:
Senkyo Through the Clouds
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17140 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2013-12-09 1005x1005x1
Prometheus, seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, sculpting the F ring while Daphnis (too small to discern in this image) raises waves on the edges of the Encke gap.
Title:
Artists at Work
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17153 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2014-01-27 1016x1016x1
Similar to many of the small, inner moons of Saturn, Prometheus points its long axis at Saturn as if giving us directions to the planet. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Pointing Toward Saturn
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17158 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2014-03-31 1020x1020x1
Saturn's moon Prometheus orbits near some of its handiwork in the F ring in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Prometheus and its partner Pandora gravitationally sculpt and maintain the narrow F ring.
Title:
Prometheus' Handiwork
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17207 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2015-12-08 1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of Saturn's moon Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) during a moderately close flyby on Dec. 6, 2015. This is one of Cassini's highest resolution views of Prometheus.
Title:
Prometheus Up Close
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17234 Earth Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)
 Hyperion Hyperspectral Imager
 2013-06-07 1200x1166x3
NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft observed Copahue volcano, a 2965 meter high volcano on the Chile-Argentina border, on Jun. 4, 2013. Having recently displayed signs of unrest, the volcano is under close scrutiny by local volcanologists.
Title:
NASA's Earth Observing-1 Keeps Watchful Eye on South American Volcano Copahue
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17248 Earth CSIRO Parkes Observatory
 Parks Telescope
 2013-07-08 3220x2225x3
This image shows the Parkes telescope in Australia, part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Researchers used the telescope to detect the first population of radio bursts known to originate from beyond our galaxy.
Title:
Parkes Telescope
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17263 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MCS
 2013-06-12 1883x2437x3
This graphic depicts the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter measuring the temperature of a cross section of the Martian atmosphere as the orbiter passes above the south polar region.
Title:
Scanning Martian Atmospheric Temperatures (Graphic)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17265 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2013-06-21 5274x1001x1
NASA's Opportunity used its Pancam to record this view of the rise in the foreground, called 'Nobbys Head.' This view is centered toward the south-southeast, with Opportunity's next destination, 'Solander Point,' toward the right edge of the view.
Title:
'Nobbys Head' on Opportunity's Southward Route
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17271 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Hazcam
 2013-07-02 1024x774x1
This view shows the terrain that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is crossing in a flat area called 'Botany Bay' on the way toward 'Solander Point,' which is visible on the horizon.
Title:
Opportunity's View in 'Botany Bay' Toward 'Solander Point'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17278 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2013-07-17 1616x839x3
This image taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, captures Opportunity traversing south (at the end of the white arrow) to new science targets and a winter haven at 'Solander Point,' another portion of the Endeavour rim.
Title:
Color View From Orbit Showing Opportunity in 'Botany Bay'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17279 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Hazcam (MSL)
 2013-07-17 4267x4267x1
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this image on with its Hazcam just after completing a drive that took the mission's total driving distance past the 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) mark.
Title:
One Down, Many Kilometers to Go
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17284 Earth Aqua
Terra
 MODIS
MODIS
 2013-06-13 1659x1452x3
Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves (melting of the shelves from underneath) overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of Antarctica created from data from NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft.
Title:
Rates of Basal Melt of Antarctic Ice Shelves
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17305 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 2013-08-27 1024x576x3
Mars is kept company by two cratered moons -- an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos.
Title:
The Moons of Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17312 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2013-07-09 1578x1716x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the town of Kirkenes in northernmost Norway, with its 3400 inhabitants, as they prepare for an expected boom as a shipping hub, as global warming has led to the opening up of the Northern Sea Route.
Title:
Kirkenes, Norway
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17355 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 HiRISE
 2013-08-27 3300x2550x3
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left the 'Glenelg' area on July 4, 2013, on a 'rapid transit route' to the entry point for the mission's next major destination, the lower layers of Mount Sharp.
Title:
Curiosity's Progress on Route from 'Glenelg' to Mount Sharp
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17364 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-01-23 2940x3000x3
Researchers used NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to find a water-related mineral on the ground that had been detected from orbit, and found it in the dark veneer of rocks on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Mineral Detected from Orbit Found in Dark Veneers
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17366 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2013-10-23 4243x1135x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this southward uphill view after beginning to ascend the northwestern slope of 'Solander Point' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Mars Hill-Climbing Opportunity at 'Solander Point'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17383 Earth Terra
 MISR
 2013-07-20 904x755x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Mountain Fire near Idyllwild, Calif., on Jul. 17, 2013. Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean can been seen to the left and the Salton Sea is the dark feature in the right center of the image.
Title:
NASA's MISR Instrument Captures View of Mountain Fire Near Idyllwild, Calif.
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17411 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2013-08-16 2523x2922x3
Radially symmetrical, star dunes dominate the Grand Erg Oriental of the Algerian Sahara, as depicted in this image acquired October 27, 2012 acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
Title:
Star Dunes, Algeria
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17413 Earth CloudSat
 Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR)
MODIS
 2013-08-22 1199x206x3
NASA's CloudSat satellite flew over Typhoon Utor in the West Pacific on Aug. 11, 2013 at 0518 UTC, passing within about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) from the center of the storm, and revealing the structure of the storm's eye and eyewall.
Title:
NASA's CloudSat Eyes Powerful Typhoon Utor
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17427 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
 2013-08-27 879x600x3
The plume of carbon monoxide pollution from the Rim Fire burning in and near Yosemite National Park, Calif., shows a three-day running average of daily measurements from NASA's Aqua spacecraft.
Title:
NASA's Aqua Spacecraft Images Pollution from California's Rim Fire
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17428 Earth Terra
 MISR
 2013-08-27 704x968x3
This image from the MISR instrument onboard NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a 121-by-165-mile (194-by-266 kilometer) portion of California's Rim fire where the smoke is the thickest.
Title:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Measures Height of California Rim Fire Smoke Plumes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17429 Earth Terra
 MISR
 2013-08-27 1551x1258x3
This visible image of California's Rim Fire was acquired Aug. 23, 2013 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, showing extensive, brownish smoke.
Title:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Eyes Smoke Plumes from Massive Rim Fire Near Yosemite
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17444 Spitzer Space Telescope
 2013-09-24 4533x2550x3
This artist's concept shows NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope surrounded by examples of exoplanets the telescope has examined in over its ten years in space.
Title:
Spitzer Trains Its Eyes on Exoplanets (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17446 Spitzer Space Telescope
 Spitzer Space Telescope
 2013-10-17 1024x683x3
The center of the Milky Way galaxy imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is displayed on a quarter-of-a-billion-pixel, high-definition 23-foot-wide (7-meter) LCD science visualization screen at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Title:
Big Data on the Big Screen
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17449 Planck
 Planck Telescope
 2013-10-23 5645x3500x3
The oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave background, as observed by the Planck space telescope is shown in the oval sky map. An artist's concept of Planck is next to the map.
Title:
Planck and the Cosmic Microwave Background (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17454 Earth OSTM/Jason-2
 Altimeter
 2013-09-09 1100x960x3
New data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show near-normal sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific Ocean persisting for a 16th straight month.
Title:
'La Nada' Climate Pattern Lingers in the Pacific
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17466 Vesta Dawn
Hubble Space Telescope
 Framing Camera
Hubble Space Telescope
 2013-09-27 683x807x3
These two images compare topographic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta as discerned by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (top) and as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft (bottom). Hubble has been in an orbit around Earth, while Dawn orbited Vesta from 2011 to 2012.
Title:
Comparing Vesta's Topography
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17478 Vesta Dawn
 Framing Camera
 2013-11-06 1648x728x1
This image from NASA's Dawn mission shows a crater in the northern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta called Bellicia.
Title:
Bellicia Crater, in Visible Light
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17483 ISON Hubble Space Telescope
 2013-07-02 1008x935x3
Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour in this still from a Hubble animation.
Title:
Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17504 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2013-09-24 2003x3287x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the Cordoba province of northern Argentina, struck by wildfires caused by high temperatures and strong winds.
Title:
NASA Spacecraft Images Destructive Argentine Wildfire
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17513 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2013-09-26 1460x1470x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, with a population of about 2.5 million inhabitants for the greater metropolitan area.
Title:
Kathmandu, Nepal
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17539 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2013-10-17 1866x1632x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, a showcase of geology in the southwest desert of the United States.
Title:
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17577 Earth Terra
 MISR
 2013-10-24 1013x795x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Blue Mountains to the west and north of Sydney, A mild winter and an extremely hot September in Australia have led to an early start to the fire season.
Title:
MISR Stereo Imagery of Blue Mountain Fires in New South Wales, Australia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17583 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2013-11-13 9908x3546x3
This scene shows the 'Murray Ridge' portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars, as seen by NASA's Opportunity rover. It is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see.
Title:
'Murray Ridge' on Rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars, False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17585 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2013-11-13 4253x1820x1
This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, shows the lower reaches of 'Murray Ridge,' informally named to honor the late Bruce Murray, who led NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory through a period of great challenge and achievement.
Title:
Opportunity's View Climbing 'Murray Ridge'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17586 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2013-11-13 8192x4298x3
This view of Murray Ridge was generated from data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Rover and a digital topographic map generated from stereo HiRISE coverage.
Title:
A New Perspective on Murray Ridge
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17588 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2013-11-13 3985x1776x3
This stereo view shows the 'Murray Ridge' portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars. You need 3D glasses to view this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Title:
'Murray Ridge' in Stereo from Mars Rover Opportunity
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17589 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 CTX
 2013-12-03 4731x3605x3
The gold line on this image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's route as it investigating on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Opportunity's Journey, Approaching 10th Anniversary
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17590 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2013-12-03 1024x1024x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this image as the rover ascended 'Murray Ridge' above 'Solander Point' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Tracks of a Climb on Opportunity's Sol 3485
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17596 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 CTX
 2013-12-09 3300x2550x3
This illustration depicts a concept for the possible extent of an ancient lake inside Gale Crater. The base map combines image data from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and color information from Viking Orbiter imagery.
Title:
Possible Extent of Ancient Lake in Gale Crater, Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17661 Vesta Dawn
 Framing Camera
 2013-12-16 1437x863x3
This colorful composite image from NASA's Dawn mission shows the flow of material inside and outside a crater called Aelia on the giant asteroid Vesta. To the naked eye, these structures would not be seen. But here, they stand out in blue and red.
Title:
Flowing in, Flowing out of Aelia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17665 Rosetta
 2014-01-24 718x476x3
NASA has provided part of the electronics package for an instrument called the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer, which is part of the Swiss-built Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) instrument.
Title:
Electronics for a Spectrometer
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17676 Mercury MESSENGER
 MDIS - Narrow Angle
 2013-11-08 1020x1024x1
Ride Along with MESSENGER: Movie 2
Title:
Ride Along with MESSENGER: Movie 2 Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17680 Earth Aqua
OSCAT
 AIRS
OSCAT
 2013-11-08 1200x600x3
Satellite images obtained from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua spacecraft provide a glimpse into one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on Earth, Typhoon Haiyan.
Title:
Super Typhoon Haiyan
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17756 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-01-23 1035x651x3
Rock targets known as 'Esperance6,' and 'Lihir,' are shown in this false-color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Esperance6 was deeply abraded with the rover's rock abrasion tool.
Title:
'Esperance6' and 'Lihir' Rover Targets
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17758 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 CTX
 2014-01-23 4853x3687x3
The gold line on this image shows NASA's Opportunity's route from the landing site, in upper left, to the area it is investigating on the western rim of Endeavour Crater as of the rover's 10th anniversary on Mars, in Earth years.
Title:
Opportunity's First Decade of Driving on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17759 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-01-23 3408x2772x3
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the component images for this self-portrait about three weeks before completing a decade of work on Mars.
Title:
Self-Portrait by Opportunity Mars Rover in January 2014
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17761 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-01-21 1171x720x3
This before-and-after pair of images of the same patch of ground in front of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity 13 days apart documents the arrival of a bright rock onto the scene.
Title:
Rock That Appeared in Front of Opportunity on "Murray Ridge"
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17771 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
 2013-05-02 4000x3000x3
Mt. Dana and Dana Plateau in the Tuolumne River Basin within Yosemite National Park, Calif., as seen out the window of a Twin Otter aircraft carrying NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory on April 3, 2013.
Title:
Tuolumne River Basin seen by NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17772 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
 2013-05-02 910x1178x3
A natural color image of Mt. Lyell, the highest point in the Tuolumne River Basin (top image) is compared with a three-dimensional color composite image of Mt. Lyell from NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory depicting snow depth (bottom image).
Title:
Snow Depth Depicted on Mt. Lyell by NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17796 Comet Rosetta
 OSIRIS
 2014-03-27 2048x1966x3
This image of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko was taken on March 20, 2014, by the wide-angle camera of the Rosetta spacecraft's Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS).
Title:
Rosetta Images its Target
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17800 OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2008-12-09 8192x8192x3
Artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL.
Title:
OCO-2 in Space
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17896 Earth OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-01-22 2560x1440x3
Artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL.
Title:
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17898 SMAP
 2014-01-22 8196x8196x3
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will produce high-resolution global maps of soil moisture to track water availability around our planet and guide policy decisions.
Title:
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17941 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2014-02-19 1416x1441x3
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught this view of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Feb. 14, 2014. The red arrow points to Opportunity at the center of the image. Blue arrows point to tracks left by the rover in October 2013.
Title:
Opportunity Rover on 'Murray Ridge' Seen From Orbit
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17942 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-02-14 1020x1020x3
This image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the location of 'Pinnacle Island' rock before it appeared in front of the rover in early January 2014.
Title:
Where Martian 'Jelly Doughnut' Rock Came From
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17943 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-02-14 4383x934x3
This view toward the south is a mosaic of images taken by Opportunity's Pancam on Dec. 25, 2013. The rover team plans to use Opportunity during 2014 to investigate rock layers exposed on the slope upward toward the McClure-Beverlin Escarpment.
Title:
Opportunity's Southward View of 'McClure-Beverlin Escarpment' on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17956 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Hazcam
 2014-03-27 1024x1024x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image from the rover's rear HAZCAM on Mar, 20, 2014; its shadow falls across a slope called McClure-Beverlin Escarpment on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Shadow Portrait of NASA Rover Opportunity on Martian Slope
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18032 Comet NEOWISE
 NEOWISE Telescope
 2014-02-27 1148x1148x3
Comet NEOWISE was first observed by NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft on Valentine's Day, 2014. This heat-sensitive infrared image was made by combining six exposures taken by the NEOWISE mission of the newly discovered comet.
Title:
An Infrared portrait of Comet NEOWISE (C/2014 C3)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18042 OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
The Delta II second stage for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, is lifted to the top of the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Lifting of NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18043 OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
Workers monitor the Delta II second stage for NASA's OCO-2, as it is lifted into position for mating with the rocket's first stage in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Lifting NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle Second Stage into Position for Mating
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18044 OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
The Delta II second stage for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, is positioned atop the rocket's first stage in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Positioning NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle Second Stage for Mating
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18045 OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
The Delta II second stage for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, makes contact with the rocket's first stage in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Mating NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle First and Second Stages
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18047 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
 2014-04-29 900x695x3
NASA's Aqua spacecraft passed over central and southern United States on April 27-29, 2014 capturing this false-color infrared image of the slow-moving low-pressure system that spawned the strong supercell thunderstorms.
Title:
NASA Satellite Spots Severe Weather Outbreak in South
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18079 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-04-17 7694x6016x3
A self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken by the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) in late March 2014 shows effects of recent winds removing much of the dust from the rover's solar arrays.
Title:
Self-Portrait by Freshly Cleaned Opportunity Mars Rover in March 2014
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18080 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-04-17 7694x6016x3
A false-color self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken by the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) shows effects of recent winds removing much of the dust from the solar arrays.
Title:
Self-Portrait by Freshly Cleaned Opportunity Mars Rover, False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18094 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-05-19 5454x1264x3
This false-color vista of the Endeavour Crater rim was acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera on April 18, 2014, from 'Murray Ridge' on the western rim of the crater.
Title:
Endeavour Crater Rim From 'Murray Ridge' on Mars, False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18097 Earth Aqua
 MODIS
 2014-05-29 7091x5556x1
Amanda, the first named storm of the 2014 hurricane season in the Americas, is seen off the west coast of Mexico in an image acquired on May 25 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite.
Title:
Hurricane Amanda
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18156 Aqua
 2002-05-08 1280x720x3
NASA's Aqua satellite carries six state-of-the-art instruments in a near-polar low-Earth orbit. Aqua is seen in this artist's concept orbiting Earth.
Title:
Aqua Satellite Orbiting Earth (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18157 ACRIMSAT
 1999-12-21 800x688x3
Artist's concept of NASA's Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor satellite, or ACRIMSAT, was launched in December 1999.
Title:
Active Cavity Irradiance Monitor Satellite (ACRIMSAT) Artist's Concept
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18159 Clementine
 1994-01-25 1024x768x3
Artist's conception of the Clementine spacecraft, a joint mission of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and NASA.
Title:
Clementine Fully Deployed (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18162 Lunar Prospector
 1998-01-08 2000x1594x3
This artist's concept of the Lunar Prospector shows the spacecraft in lunar orbit. Instrument masts are fully deployed.
Title:
Lunar Prospector (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18169 SDO
 2010-02-11 1280x720x3
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, shown above the Earth as it faces toward the Sun. SDO is designed to study the influence of the Sun on the Earth and the inner solar system by studying the solar atmosphere.
Title:
Solar Dynamics Observatory (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18172 Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 2011-06-01 1280x720x3
An artist's conception of one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. The two observatories currently lie on either side of the sun, providing views of the entire sun simultaneously.
Title:
Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Spacecraft (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18175 Magellan
 1990-08-10 818x615x3
An artist's concept of the Magellan spacecraft making a radar map of Venus. The spacecraft was commanded to plunge into Venus' atmosphere in 1994 as part of a final experiment to gather atmospheric data.
Title:
Magellan Orbit (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18186 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2010-02-19 700x700x1
Saturn's potato-shaped moon Prometheus is shown in this close-up from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Prometheus Popping
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18211 Earth Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)
 Advanced Land Imager (ALI)
 2014-09-15 1158x879x3
On Sept. 8, 2014, NASA's Earth Observing 1 spacecraft obtained this infrared image of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, which has been in continuous eruption since 1983. New lava flows can be seen.
Title:
Hawaii Lava Threat Closely Monitored by NASA EO-1 Spacecraft
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18270 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2014-06-09 1018x1018x1
Prometheus is caught in the act of creating gores and streamers in the F ring. Scientists believe that Prometheus and its partner-moon Pandora are responsible for much of the structure in the F ring as shown by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Gored of the Rings
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18272 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 2014-07-14 983x975x1
Seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft within the vast expanse of Saturn's rings, Prometheus appears as little more than a dot. But that little moon still manages to shape the F ring, confining it to its narrow domain.
Title:
A Dot Does a Lot
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18283 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2014-09-22 1024x1024x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn's moons that couldn't be more different from each other. Shown here are Tethys (center), Hyperion (upper left), and Prometheus (lower left).
Title:
The Odd Trio
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18306 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2015-03-23 1024x1024x1
Pandora, Prometheus, and Pan, seen here, from right to left, also appear to be holding some sort of convention in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Moon Convention
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18308 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 2015-03-16 1024x1024x1
From afar, Saturn's rings look like a solid, homogenous disk of material. But upon closer examination from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, we see that there are varied structures in the rings at almost every scale imaginable.
Title:
Groovy
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18324 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2015-07-06 958x1020x1
Saturn's moon Prometheus, seen here looking suspiciously blade-like, is captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft near some of its sculpting in the F ring.
Title:
Ring Slicer
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18334 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2015-09-21 1023x587x1
Prometheus and Pandora are almost hidden in Saturn's rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Prometheus is the left most moon in the ring plane, roughly in the center of the image. Pandora is towards the right.
Title:
Moons In Hiding
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18337 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2015-10-19 928x1020x1
In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft we see features ring scientists call 'gores,' to the right of the bright clump, and a 'jet,' to the left of the bright spot.
Title:
Gored Clump in Saturn's F Ring
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18374 OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-05-15 10666x6000x3
This most recent artist's rendering shows NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Title:
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18375 OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-05-15 8192x8192x3
This most recent artist's rendering shows NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Title:
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18393 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-06-23 7843x2000x3
This scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity catches 'Pillinger Point,' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, in the foreground.
Title:
'Pillinger Point' Overlooking Endeavour Crater on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18394 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-06-23 7843x2000x3
This false-color scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity catches 'Pillinger Point,' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, in the foreground.
Title:
'Pillinger Point' Overlooking Endeavour Crater on Mars (False Color)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18404 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 CTX
 2014-07-28 2420x1838x3
NASA's Opportunity rover, working on Mars since January 2004, passed 25 miles of total driving on the July 27, 2014. The gold line on this map shows Opportunity's route from the landing site inside Eagle Crater, in upper left.
Title:
Opportunity's Journey Exceeds 25 Miles
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18414 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-07-28 3609x3130x3
This scene from NASA's Opportunity rover shows 'Lunokhod 2 Crater,' which lies south of 'Solander Point' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. Lunokhod 2 Crater is approximately 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter.
Title:
'Lunokhod 2 Crater' on Mars (False Color)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18416 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-07-28 3609x3130x3
This scene from NASA's Opportunity rover shows 'Lunokhod 2 Crater,' which lies south of 'Solander Point' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. Lunokhod 2 Crater is approximately 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter.
Title:
'Lunokhod 2' Crater on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18421 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 2014-08-12 1307x784x1
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped away from Titan following a relatively close flyby, its cameras monitored the moon's northern polar region, capturing signs of renewed cloud activity.
Title:
Northern Clouds Return to Titan
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18422 Comet Rosetta
 OSIRIS
 2014-07-31 423x442x1
This image of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen with ESA'S OSIRIS onboard the Rosetta spacecraft, shows the hazy circular structure to the right and center of the coma is an artifact due to overexposure of the nucleus.
Title:
Rosetta's Comet: Imaging the Coma
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18430 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
 2014-09-29 2000x658x1
These three images, created from NASA's Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, show the appearance and evolution of a mysterious feature in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest hydrocarbon seas on Saturn's moon Titan.
Title:
Mysterious Changing Feature in Ligeia Mare
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18435 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 2014-11-04 15960x7980x3
This set of global, color mosaics of Saturn's moon Enceladus was produced from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its first ten years exploring the Saturn system.
Title:
Color Maps of Enceladus - 2014
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18457 Earth OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-06-30 4928x3280x3
The launch gantry, surrounding the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite onboard, is seen at Space Launch Complex 2, Sunday, June 29, 2014, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Title:
Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Ready to Blast Off
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18458 Earth OCO-2
 OCO-2
 2014-06-30 2232x1643x3
This illustration highlights key events in the launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, beginning with its liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California.
Title:
Key Events in the Launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18478 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-09-11 1319x1187x3
The 'Bonanza King' rock on Mars, pictured here, was tapped by the drill belonging to NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The tapping resulted in sand piling up on the rock after drilling, showing the rock was not firmly in place.
Title:
Loose Rock Leads to Incomplete Drilling
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18567 Earth RoboSimian
 2014-07-16 1500x956x3
RoboSimian, a limbed robot developed by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, competed in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials in Florida in December 2013.
Title:
RoboSimian's Inner Workings
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18591 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-10-20 1020x1024x1
Researchers used the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to capture this view of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it flew near Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.
Title:
Mars Rover Opportunity's View of Passing Comet
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18592 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-10-20 1020x1024x1
Researchers used the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to capture this view of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it flew near Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.
Title:
Mars Rover Opportunity's View of Passing Comet (Short Exposure)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18595 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2014-08-14 7688x1962x1
This July 29, 2014, panorama combines several images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to show the rover's surroundings after surpassing 25 miles (40.23 kilometers) of total driving on Mars.
Title:
Opportunity's Surroundings After 25 Miles on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18598 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2014-08-29 2246x884x1
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured this view southward just after completing a 338-foot (103-meter) southward drive, in reverse, on Aug. 10, 2014. The foreground of this view from the rover's Navcam includes the rear portion of the rover's deck.
Title:
Opportunity's Rear-Facing View Ahead After a Drive
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18604 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-09-09 2285x1168x3
This scene from the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014.
Title:
Rover Tracks in Northward View Along West Rim of Endeavour
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18605 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-09-09 2285x1168x3
This false-color scene from the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014.
Title:
Rover Tracks in Northward View Along West Rim of Endeavour, False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18614 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-10-16 4457x2488x3
This vista from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows 'Wdowiak Ridge,' from left foreground to center, as part of a northward look with the rover's tracks visible at right.
Title:
Opportunity's Northward View of 'Wdowiak Ridge'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18615 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2014-10-16 4461x2498x3
This north-looking vista from NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity shows 'Wdowiak Ridge,' from left foreground to center. This version is presented in false color, which enhances visibility of the rover's wheel tracks at right.
Title:
Opportunity's Northward View of 'Wdowiak Ridge' (False Color)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18778 Comet Rosetta
 OSIRIS
 2014-08-25 1954x1896x1
This annotated image depicts four of the five potential landing sites for ESA's Rosetta mission's Philae lander.
Title:
Four Rosetta Candidate Landing Sites
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18779 Comet Rosetta
 OSIRIS
 2014-08-25 1893x1904x1
This annotated image depicts the two potential landing sites for ESA's Rosetta's Philae lander that are on the comet's larger lobe.
Title:
Two Large-Lobe Landing Sites for Rosetta
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18795 Earth Aqua
 MODIS
 2014-09-02 6843x3890x3
In this image from NASA's Aqua satellite, the red areas seen by the MODIS instrument revealed that live fuel moisture had excessively dried up by more than 50 percent prior to the Rim Fire in August 2013.
Title:
2013 Yosemite Fire Assessed by NASA Satellite Data
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18799 Earth Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)
 Advanced Land Imager (ALI)
Hyperion Hyperspectral Imager
 2014-09-03 2800x4000x3
This image shows Iceland's volcanic eruption monitored by NASA's EO-1 spacecraft. To the south is the edge of Dyngjujökull and to the north is the volcano called Askja.
Title:
Iceland Volcanic Eruption Monitored by NASA EO-1 Spacecraft
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18826 Comet Rosetta
 CIVA
 2014-10-14 1024x1024x1
A composite image from a camera on ESA's Rosetta mission's Philae comet lander shows a solar array, with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the background.
Title:
Rosetta Selflessly Offers Beautiful Comet Selfie
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18828 SMAP
 2014-10-15 5396x3807x3
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft is slowly lowered into place in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Title:
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Lowered into Place
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18859 Mars Mars Express (MEX)
 Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS)
 2014-11-07 2373x2138x3
These spectrograms from the MARSIS instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter show the intensity of radar echo in Mars' far-northern ionosphere at three times on Oct. 19 and 20, 2014.
Title:
Radar-Detected Change in Martian Near-Polar Ionosphere After Comet's Flyby
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18860 Mars Mars Express (MEX)
 Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS)
 2014-11-07 2373x2138x3
These plots portray data from radar sounding of Mars' mid-latitude ionosphere at three times on Oct. 19 and 20, 2014. The data are from the MARSIS instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter.
Title:
Change in Mars' Mid-Latitude Ionosphere After Comet Flyby
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18862 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2014-11-07 973x779x3
This graph shows changes in apparent brightness of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it approached and receded from Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The pattern suggests the comet rotates once every eight hours.
Title:
Brightness Rhythm of Mars Flyby Comet Is Clue to Rotation Rate
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18870 Comet Rosetta
 CIVA
 2014-11-12 1024x1024x1
The Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission took this parting shot of its mother ship, Rosetta, shortly after separation on Nov. 12, 2014. The image was taken with the lander's CIVA-P imaging system.
Title:
Farewell Shot of Rosetta by Philae Lander
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18872 Comet Rosetta
 CIVA
 2014-11-11 1024x1024x1
The Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2014, at a distance of about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Title:
Rosetta Mission Selfie at 30 Miles
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18879 Comet Rosetta
 CIVA
 2014-11-13 1451x1772x1
The Philae lander of Europe's Rosetta mission has returned the first panoramic image from the surface of a comet. The unprocessed panorama from the lander's CIVA-P camera shows a 360-degree view around the point of final touchdown.
Title:
First Panoramic View from Comet Lander
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18885 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Microscopic Imager
 2014-11-18 1760x1069x1
This close-up view of a target rock called 'Last Chance' was acquired by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity on March 3, 2004 of Opportunity's work on Mars. The embedded spherules evident in this image were nicknamed 'blueberries.'
Title:
Clues to Wet History in Texture of a Martian Rock
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18908 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
 2015-01-27 3000x1688x3
'Yellow balls' -- which are several hundred to thousands times the size of our solar system -- are pictured here in the center of this image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Title:
Finding 'Yellowballs' in our Milky Way
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18918 NuSTAR
XMM-Newton
 2015-02-19 3000x2400x3
This plot of data from two space telescopes, NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM-Newton determines for the first time the shape of ultra-fast winds from supermassive black holes, or quasars.
Title:
The Answer is Blowing in the Black Hole Wind
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19037 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-11-04 768x768x3
This image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows a sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover's drill from the 'Confidence Hills' target -- the first rock drilled after Curiosity reached the base of Mount Sharp in September 2014.
Title:
'Confidence Hills' Drill Powder in Scoop
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19040 Comet Rosetta
 OSIRIS
 2014-11-06 2048x2048x1
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was obtained on October 30, 2014 by the OSIRIS scientific imaging system on the Rosetta spacecraft. The right half is obscured by darkness.
Title:
Dark Side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19047 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
 2014-11-10 1500x728x1
NASA's Cassini's radar instrument images show that a bright feature appeared in Kraken Mare, Titan's largest sea.
Title:
Bright Feature Appears in Titan's Kraken Mare
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19054 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
 2015-02-12 1407x843x1
Presented here are side-by-side comparisons of a traditional Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) view, at left, and one made using a new technique for handling electronic noise that results in clearer views of Titan's surface, at right.
Title:
Leilah Fluctus Despeckled
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19066 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-11-25 4188x2799x3
This view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a swath of bedrock called 'Alexander Hills,' which the rover approached for close-up inspection of selected targets. It is a mosaic of six frames taken on Nov. 23, 2014.
Title:
Within Rover's Reach at Mars Target Area 'Alexander Hills'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19067 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 HiRISE
 2014-12-08 3300x2550x3
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the location where it landed in August 2012 to the 'Pahrump Hills' outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp.
Title:
Curiosity Mars Rover's Route from Landing to Base of Mount Sharp
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19068 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-12-08 3619x2196x3
This image from Curiosity's Mastcam shows inclined beds of sandstone interpreted as the deposits of small deltas fed by rivers flowing down from the Gale Crater rim and building out into a lake where Mount Sharp is now.
Title:
Inclined Martian Sandstone Beds Near 'Kimberley'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19069 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-12-08 4657x1024x3
On March 25, 2014, view from the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks southward at the Kimberley waypoint. Multiple sandstone beds show systematic inclination to the south suggesting progressive build-out of delta sediments.
Title:
Bedding Pattern Interpreted as Martian Delta Deposition
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19071 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 2014-12-08 1931x1078x3
This diagram depicts rivers entering a lake. Where the water's flow decelerates, sediments drop out, and a delta forms, depositing a prism of sediment that tapers out toward the lake's interior.
Title:
How a Delta Forms Where River Meets Lake
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19072 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-12-08 2440x1049x3
This image shows inclined beds characteristic of delta deposits where a stream entered a lake, but at a higher elevation and farther south than other delta deposits north of Mount Sharp.
Title:
Sol 696 (July 22, 2014), Left
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19073 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 2014-12-08 1391x467x3
This diagram depicts a vertical cross section through geological layers deposited by rivers, deltas and lakes. Deposits from a series of successive deltas build out increasingly high in elevation as they migrate toward the center of the basin.
Title:
Multiple Deltas Built Out Over Time
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19074 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-12-08 1588x1160x3
This evenly layered rock photographed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover on Aug. 7, 2014, shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit not far from where flowing water entered a lake.
Title:
Sedimentary Signs of a Martian Lakebed
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19075 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-12-08 2011x1198x3
This image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an example of a thin-laminated, evenly stratified rock type that occurs in the 'Pahrump Hills' outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars. This type of rock can form under a lake.
Title:
Thin-Laminated Rock in 'Pahrump Hills' Outcrop
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19079 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 2014-12-08 4030x1275x3
This image depicts how a mountain inside a Mars' Gale Crater might have formed. At left, the crater fills with layers of sediment. Yellow is for deposits in alluvial fans, deltas, and drifts during both wet and dry periods.
Title:
Sedimentation and Erosion in Gale Crater, Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19081 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2014-12-08 2350x1026x3
Cross-bedding seen in the layers of this Martian rock is evidence of movement of water recorded by the waves or ripples of loose sediment the water passed over, such as a current in a lake. This image is from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
Title:
Martian Rock's Evidence of Lake Currents
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19082 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Hazcam
 2014-12-11 1024x1024x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is continuing its traverse southward on the western rim of Endeavour Crater during the fall of 2014, stopping to investigate targets of scientific interest along way.
Title:
Opportunity Pausing at a Bright Outcrop on Endeavour Rim, Sol 3854
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19090 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 SAM
 2014-12-16 960x720x3
This graphic offers comparisons between the amount of an organic chemical named chlorobenzene detected in the 'Cumberland' rock sample and amounts of it in samples from three other Martian surface targets analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
Title:
Comparing 'Cumberland' With Other Samples Analyzed by Curiosity
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19098 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2015-01-08 2586x1007x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this view of the summit of 'Cape Tribulation,' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater on the day before the rover drove to the top.
Title:
Opportunity's View from Atop 'Cape Tribulation'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19099 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2015-01-08 4102x1091x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this view of the summit of 'Cape Tribulation,' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater on the day before the rover drove to the top.
Title:
Opportunity's Approach to 'Cape Tribulation' Summit
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19105 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 MAHLI
 2015-01-14 1196x1607x3
This Jan. 13, 2015, view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows outcomes of a mini-drill test to assess whether the 'Mojave' rock is appropriate for full-depth drilling to collect a sample.
Title:
Results from Curiosity's Mini-Drill Test at 'Mojave'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19109 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2015-01-22 8097x2000x3
This panorama is the view NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gained from the top of the 'Cape Tribulation' segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover Mission on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19110 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2015-01-22 8108x2000x3
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity obtained this view from the top of the 'Cape Tribulation' segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover reached this point three weeks before the 11th anniversary of its January 2004 landing on Mars.
Title:
High Martian Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover (False-Color Landscape)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19112 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2015-01-27 3924x2052x3
On March 20, 2004, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used a wheel to dig a trench revealing subsurface material beside the lander hardware that carried the rover to the surface of Mars 55 Martian days earlier.
Title:
Lander Trench Dug by Opportunity
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19113 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Microscopic Imager
 2015-01-27 1077x1077x3
These small spherules on the Martian surface are near Fram Crater, visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during April 2004. The area shown is 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across.
Title:
Martian Concretions Near Fram Crater
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19141 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 HiRISE
 2015-02-10 3602x2208x3
In February 2015, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is approaching a cumulative driving distance on Mars equal to the length of a marathon race. This map shows the rover's position relative to where it could surpass that distance.
Title:
Opportunity Rover Nears Mars Marathon Feat
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19145 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 2015-03-06 1278x1092x3
This raw-color view from Curiosity's Mastcam shows the rover's drill just after finishing a drilling operation at 'Telegraph Peak' on Feb. 24, 2015.
Title:
Curiosity's Drill After Drilling at 'Telegraph Peak'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19146 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Hazcam
 2015-03-05 1024x742x1
The flat-faced rock near the center of this image is a target for contact investigation by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in early March 2015. The rock includes a target called 'Sergeant Charles Floyd.'
Title:
Blocky Rock is Exam Target for Mars Rover Opportunity
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19148 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 HiRISE
 2015-03-12 1138x711x3
This area at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars includes a pale outcrop, called 'Pahrump Hills,' that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover investigated from September 2014 to March 2015.
Title:
Curiosity Heading Away from 'Pahrump Hills'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19149 Earth Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 SAM
 2015-03-31 1019x702x3
A Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) team member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland prepares the SAM testbed for an experiment.
Title:
Preparation for Analytical Measurements on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19151 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2015-03-23 3687x1006x3
This view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows part of 'Marathon Valley,' a destination on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, as seen from an overlook north of the valley.
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Mars 'Marathon Valley' Overlook
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 Panoramic Camera
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This false color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows part of 'Marathon Valley,' a destination on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, as seen from an overlook north of the valley.
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Mars 'Marathon Valley' Overlook (False Color)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, working on Mars since January 2004, passed marathon distance in total driving on March 24, 2015.
Title:
Opportunity Rover's Full Marathon-Length Traverse
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 Navigation Camera
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Cumulative driving by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed marathon distance on March 24, 2015, as the rover neared a destination called 'Marathon Valley,' which is middle ground of this dramatic view from early March.
Title:
Opportunity's Approach to 'Marathon Valley'
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
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Eleven years and two months after its landing on Mars, the total driving distance of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed the length of a marathon race: 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers).
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Opportunity Rover Surpasses Marathon Distance
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Eleven years and two months after its landing on Mars, the total driving distance of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed the length of a marathon race: 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers).
Title:
Opportunity's Marathon Journey
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Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 HiRISE
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This frame from a sequence of images shows a blast zone where the sky crane from NASA's Curiosity rover mission hit the ground after setting the rover down in August 2012. The images are from HiRISE on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Changes in Scars From 2012 Mars Landing Animation Icon
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 Hazcam
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has extended its robotic arm for studying a light-toned rock target called 'Athens' in this March 25, 2015, image from the rover's front hazard avoidance camera.
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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Bright 'Athens'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA19328 Earth RoboSimian
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The spindly appearance of JPL's RoboSimian was somewhat unique among competitors in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, as most were bipedal walkers.
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RoboSimian at DARPA Robotics Challenge
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This infographic explains how NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can be used in tandem with a telescope on the ground to measure the distances to planets discovered using the 'microlensing' technique.
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Infographic: Finding Planets With Microlensing
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This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most of the thousands of exoplanets discovered to date are closer to our solar system, as indicated by the pink/orange areas.
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Map of Exoplanets Found in Our Galaxy (Artist's Concept)
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NASA's NuSTAR has made the most precise measurements yet of a radioactive element, called titanium-44, in the supernova remnant called 1987A.
Title:
Tracing Titanium's Escape
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NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft viewed comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) for a second time on January 30, 2015, as the comet passed through the closest point to our sun along its 14,000-year orbit, at a solar distance of 120 million miles (193 million kilometers).
Title:
NEOWISE Wise to Comet Lovejoy
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 Navcam (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to capture this view on April 11, 2015, during the 952nd Martian day, or sol of the rover's work on Mars.
Title:
Scene From 'Artist's Drive' on Mars (Stereo)
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 Panoramic Camera
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An elongated crater called 'Spirit of St. Louis,' with a rock spire in it, dominates a recent scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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Rock Spire in 'Spirit of St. Louis Crater' on Mars
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An elongated crater called 'Spirit of St. Louis,' with a rock spire in it, dominates this false-color image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Title:
Rock Spire in 'Spirit of St. Louis Crater' on Mars (False Color)
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An elongated crater called 'Spirit of St. Louis,' with a rock spire in it, dominates this stereo view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Title:
Rock Spire in 'Spirit of St. Louis Crater' on Mars (Stereo)
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 Mastcam
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This frame is from sequence of views NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater.
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Sunset Sequence in Mars' Gale Crater (Animation) Animation Icon
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Measurements from NASA's MESSENGER's MLA instrument during the spacecraft's greater than four-year orbital mission have mapped the topography of Mercury's northern hemisphere in great detail.
Title:
The Ups and Downs of Mercury's Topography
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 Mastcam
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a site where two different types of bedrock meet on lower Mount Sharp.
Title:
Geological Contact Zone Near 'Marias Pass' on Mars
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 MAHLI
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This view of a sandstone target called 'Big Arm' covers an area about 1.3 inches (33 millimeters) wide in detail that shows differing shapes and colors of sand grains in the stone.
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Diverse Grains in Mars Sandstone Target 'Big Arm'
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 LORRI
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These images, taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show four different 'faces' of Pluto as it rotates about its axis with a period of 6.4 days.
Title:
Faces of Pluto
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 LORRI
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These images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show numerous large-scale features on Pluto's surface. When various large, dark and bright regions appear near limbs, they give Pluto a distinct, but false, non-spherical appearance.
Title:
Features on the Close Approach Hemisphere
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 LORRI
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This map of Pluto, created from images taken from June 27-July 3, 2015, by NASA's New Horizons. This map gives mission scientists an important tool to decipher the complex and intriguing pattern of bright and dark markings on Pluto's surface.
Title:
The Whale and the Donut
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 LORRI
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A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) on Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from NASA'as New Horizon's spacecraft, taken late on July 13, 2015.
Title:
Charon's Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain
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 LORRI
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Like that of Charon, Hydra's surface is probably covered with water ice, the most abundant ice in the universe. This image, with a resolution of 2 miles per pixel, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from approximately 400,000 miles away.
Title:
Hydra Emerges from the Shadows
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 LORRI
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This annotated view from NASA's New Horizons of a portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth's first artificial satellite, shows an array of enigmatic features.
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Portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain)
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 MAHLI
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This view of a test rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, results from advance testing of arm positions and camera pointings for taking a low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
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Test Rover at JPL During Preparation for Mars Rover's Low-Angle Selfie
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This Martian scene from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows contrasting textures and colors of 'Hinners Point,' at the northern edge of 'Marathon Valley,' and swirling reddish zones on the valley floor to the left.
Title:
'Hinners Point' Above Floor of 'Marathon Valley' on Mars
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This enhanced color Martian scene from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows contrasting textures and colors of 'Hinners Point,' at the northern edge of 'Marathon Valley,' and swirling reddish zones on the valley floor to the left.
Title:
'Hinners Point' Above Floor of 'Marathon Valley' on Mars (Enhanced Color)
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 LORRI
 2015-07-17 1280x720x3
At center left of Pluto's vast heart-shaped feature ('Tombaugh Regio') lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Title:
Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto's 'Heart'
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 LORRI
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Four images from NASA's New Horizons were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this global view of Pluto. (The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.)
Title:
Pluto in True Color
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 LORRI
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The science team of NASA's New Horizons mission has produced this global map of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The map includes all available resolved images of the surface acquired between July 7-14, 2015 on the anti-Pluto facing hemisphere.
Title:
Global Map of Pluto's Moon Charon
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope celebrated its 12th anniversary with a new digital calendar showcasing some of the mission's most notable discoveries and popular cosmic eye candy.
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NASA's Spitzer 12th Anniversary Space Calendar
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 Mastcam
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This composite image looking toward the higher regions of Mount Sharp was taken in mid-September, 2015, by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Title:
Mount Sharp Comes In Sharply
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 MAHLI
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This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the 'Big Sky' site, where its drill collected the mission's fifth taste of Mount Sharp.
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Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Big Sky' Drilling Site
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 MAHLI
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Light material emplaced within darker vein material is seen in this view of a mineral vein at the 'Garden City' site on lower Mount Sharp, Mars. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the arm of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover took the image on April 4, 2015.
Title:
Injection of Light Material into an Older Dark Vein
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 LORRI
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In the center of this 300-mile (470-kilometer) wide image of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is a large region of jumbled, broken terrain on the northwestern edge of the vast, icy plain informally called Sputnik Planum, to the right.
Title:
Chaos Region
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 LORRI
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Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, transmitted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015. The image is dominated by the informally-named icy plain Sputnik Planum, the smooth, bright region across the center.
Title:
Surface Variety
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 MVIC
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This image from NASA's New Horizons is re-projected from the oblique, backlit view shown in the new crescent image of Pluto.
Title:
Intricate Valley Glaciers on Pluto
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 MVIC
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Ice (probably frozen nitrogen) that appears to have accumulated on the uplands on the right side of this image from NASA's New Horizons, is draining from Pluto's mountains onto the informally named Sputnik Planum.
Title:
Valley Glaciers on Pluto
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 MVIC
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Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured a near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon.
Title:
Closer Look: Majestic Mountains and Frozen Plains