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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-06-06 Earth SAR
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NASA, along with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility to create a powerful web-based tool that will show the movement of land across North America.
PIA26494:
NASA Portal Details Land Motion Across North America
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-06-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet's atmosphere.
PIA26557:
THEMIS Views Mars' Arsia Mons Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, located in northwest Ohio along the shores of Lake Erie.
PIA26622:
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, Ohio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance took this selfie on May 10, 2025. The small puff of dust left of center and below the horizon line is a dust devil.
PIA26574:
Dust Devil Photobombs Perseverance's Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-15 Deimos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025.
PIA26556:
Perseverance Views Deimos Before Sunrise
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-12 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mackinac Island, Michigan, a small island off the northern coast of Lake Huron.
PIA26621:
Mackinac Island, Michigan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-29 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Hutt Lagoon, an elongate lake, located in a dune swale adjacent to the coast of the Indian Ocean, in the mid west region of Western Australia.
PIA26510:
Hutt Lagoon, Australia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back down at the floor of Gale Crater from its location on Mount Sharp on Feb. 7, 2025.
PIA26551:
Curiosity Looks Downslope From the Sulfate Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020, the 2,946th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26552:
Curiosity on the Road to Boxwork Formations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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At one of the Mount Vernon, Alabama, fires, firefighters used AVIRIS-3 maps to determine where to establish fire breaks beyond the northwestern end of the fire.
PIA26499:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Mount Vernon, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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As firefighters worked to prevent a wildfire near Perdido, Alabama, they saw in an infrared fire map from NASA's AVIRIS-3 sensor that showed the fire's hot spot was inside its perimeter.
PIA26498:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Perdido, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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NASA's AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer was used to map a wildfire near Castleberry, Alabama, on March 19, 2025. Within minutes, the image was transmitted to firefighters on the ground, who used it to contain the blaze.
PIA26497:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Castleberry, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-17 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed Ubajara on April 30, 2023.
PIA26554:
Curiosity Surveys the 'Ubajara' Sampling Site on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Sealing the Green Gardens sample, collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, presented an engineering challenge. The sample was finally sealed on March 2, 2025.
PIA26529:
'Green Gardens' Sample in Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill on March 10, 2025.
PIA26571:
Perseverance Cores 'Main River'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance on Dec. 25, 2024, at the site where the rover cored a sample dubbed Silver Mountain.
PIA26530:
Christmas at Crater Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-07 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Heard, a remote volcanic island located in the southern Indian Ocean. It is an Australian Territory.
PIA26509:
Heard Volcano, Australia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming its smaller friend in this short video made of images taken at the rim of Jezero Crater by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 25, 2025.
PIA26528:
Perserverance Captures Crater Rim Dust Devil Eating Its Own
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-01 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of its first exposures March 27, 2025.
PIA26280:
First Images From NASA's SPHEREx
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries a calibration target consisting of five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as they degrade.
PIA26520:
Perseverance and SHERLOC's Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-24 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Runnymede meadow, a short drive from Windsor, England, west of London, near the Thames.
PIA26508:
JFK Memorial, Runnymede Meadow, England
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-12 NEO Surveyor
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The instrument enclosure of NASA's NEO Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston in December 2024.
PIA26583:
NEO Surveyor Instrument Enclosure Inside Historic Chamber A
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-12 NEO Surveyor
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The instrument enclosure for NASA's NEO Surveyor is prepared for environmental testing in the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston in December 2024.
PIA26582:
NEO Surveyor Instrument Enclosure Begins Environmental Tests
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-12 NISAR
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NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's ecosystems, including its agricultural lands. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26496:
NISAR in Orbit Over Northeastern India (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-11 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina, with almost 1 million people.
PIA26507:
Charleston, SC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-24 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Taal Volcano in the Philippines, about 50 km south of Manila. It is the second most active volcano in the country, with 38 recorded historic eruptions.
PIA26506:
Taal Volcano, Philippines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nevada's only lithium-producing site, in Clayton Valley, Nevada.
PIA26505:
Clayton Valley, NV
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE is attached to a fixture in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26428:
CADRE Rover Awaits Shipping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE is prepared for shipping in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26427:
Taking a CADRE Rover in Hand
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers and technicians prepare one of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE, in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26426:
Packing Up a CADRE Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-04 Europa Clipper
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Engineers on NASA's Europa Clipper mission work with a piece of hardware called star trackers before they are integrated onto the spacecraft at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2022.
PIA26562:
Star Trackers for Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-31 Earth UAVSAR
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Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used data from an airborne radar to measure the movement of the slow-moving landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County.
PIA26495:
NASA Radar Looks at Palos Verdes Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the continuing eruption of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, on January 18.
PIA26504:
Halemaumau, Kilauea Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-28 Io Juno
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A massive hotspot can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 27, 2024.
PIA26527:
Massive Hot Spot on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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Operating from low Earth orbit, the SPHEREx telescope will sweep across the sky, taking about 600 exposures each day.
PIA26533:
Building an All-Sky Map With SPHEREx (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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This artist's concept depicts the SPHEREx spacecraft's orbital plane in orange, and its field of view in green.
PIA26532:
SPHEREx's Perspective From Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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This artist's concept shows the SPHEREx spacecraft and its distinctive conical photon shields, which protect the telescope from infrared light and heat from the Sun and Earth.
PIA26531:
SPHEREx in Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-21 NISAR
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NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's solid surfaces, including the Antarctic ice sheet. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26493:
NISAR in Orbit Over Antarctica (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-06 NISAR
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NISAR will offer insights into Earth's constantly changing land and ice surfaces using synthetic aperture radar technology. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26492:
NISAR in Orbit Over Antarctica (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-06 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mayotte, a volcanic island in the Comoros archipelago between the eastern coast of Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar.
PIA26503:
French Overseas Territory of Mayotte, Indian Ocean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera on Sept. 8, 2022.
PIA26517:
MRO's HiRISE Views Frosty Martian Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-20 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Barra Island Eoligarry Airport, located in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, U.K.
PIA26502:
Barra Airport, Outer Hebrides, U.K.
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This pair of images shows the Martian surface captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera on Nov. 7, 2024, the 4,357th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26516:
MARDI Peeks Under Curiosity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-17 Earth SWOT
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Data from the SWOT satellite was used to calculate average water levels for lakes and reservoirs in the Ohio River Basin from July 2023 to November 2024.
PIA26188:
Ohio Basin Lakes Water Levels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-16 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its right Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama on Nov. 26, 2024, the 4,375th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26477:
Curiosity Surveys 'Texoli'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animation captured from NASA's rover driving software depicts the agency's Perseverance during a slippery drive as it ascends toward the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on Oct. 16, 2024.
PIA26514:
View of Rover Driving Software During a Slippery Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of slippery terrain while ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Nov. 28, 2024.
PIA26513:
Perseverance Navcam Movie of a Slippery Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA26476:
Jezero Crater Elevation Graph
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the location of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 10, 2024, in which it reached Lookout Hill at the top of Jezero Crater's rim.
PIA26512:
Perseverance Reaches 'Lookout Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed Rio Chiquito on Nov. 23, 2024.
PIA26474:
Perseverance Makes Tracks at 'Rio Chiquito'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills on Oct. 22, 2024.
PIA26473:
Perseverance Views 'Pico Turquino Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024.
PIA26511:
Perseverance's View From 'Lookout Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.
PIA26480:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene showing the slippery terrain that's made its climb up to the rim of Jezero Crater challenging.
PIA26479:
Perseverance Views Slippery Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 5, 2024.
PIA26475:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-29 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Craters of the Moon National Monument, located in southern Idaho in the Snake River Plain.
PIA26501:
Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-26 Europa Europa Clipper
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On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth, using the gravity of each planet as a slingshot to boost the spacecraft's speed.
PIA26435:
Europa Clipper's Trajectory to Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on Nov. 2, 2024.
PIA26472:
Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama within Gediz Vallis channel on Sept. 21 and 22, 2024.
PIA26410:
Curiosity's View Within Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Scientists think that ancient groundwater formed this weblike pattern of ridges, called boxwork, that were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 10, 2006.
PIA26306:
HiRISE Views Mount Sharp's Boxwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white sulfur stones on Oct. 11, 2024, before leaving Gediz Vallis channel.
PIA26210:
Curiosity Takes a Last Look at Sulfur Stones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Curiosity captured this panorama using its Mastcam while heading west away from Gediz Vallis channel on Nov. 2, 2024. The Mars rover's tracks across the rocky terrain are visible at right.
PIA26471:
Curiosity Makes Rover Tracks While Heading West
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-15 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Eastern Black Sea region on the slopes of the Pontic mountain range, in Turkey.
PIA26450:
Pontic Range, Turkey
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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Perched on the International Space Station, NASA's EMIT can differentiate between types of vegetation to help researchers understand the distribution and traits of plant communities.
PIA26418:
NASA's EMIT Collects Data on Mid-Atlanic Plant Communities
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30, 2024, as part of an effort to map global ecosystem biodiversity.
PIA26417:
NASA's EMIT Scans the Amazon River in Northern Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic showing Observation Rock was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover. The location is near an area the Perseverance science team is calling Curtis Ridge.
PIA26481:
NASA's Perseverance Observes 'Observation Rock'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-31 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nyamulagira volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, continuing eruptive activity since July 2024.
PIA26449:
Nyamulagira Volcano, Democratic Republic Congo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-30 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of the Martian moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on Sept. 30, 2024.
PIA26380:
Perseverance Captures Transit of Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-29 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system reaches out from a lander on the Moon and scoops up regolith (broken rock and dust).
PIA26347:
NASA's COLDArm Operating on the Moon (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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Tracks shown in this image indicate the slipperiness of the terrain Perseverance has encountered during its climb up the rim of Jezero Crater.
PIA26379:
Tracks Tell Tale of Perseverance's Crater Rim Climb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance drives first backward then forward as it negotiates some slippery terrain found along a route up to the rim of Jezero Crater on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26377:
Perseverance Drives Backward Up Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27, 2024 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero Crater.
PIA26378:
Perseverance's Mid-Climb View of Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-25 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
PIA26448:
Klamath River, OR and CA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-25 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Humboldt, or La Corona, Glacier in the Andes, Venezuela.
PIA26447:
Humboldt Glacier, Venezuela
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-23 NISAR
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A container holding NISAR's radar antenna reflector is loaded into NASA's C-130 cargo plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California, on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26419:
NISAR Radar Antenna Reflector Loaded for Return to India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-17 Earth 4928x3264x3
These holes, captured on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier in July 2012, are formed by cryoconite – dust particles that melt into the ice over time, eventually forming small pockets of water below the glacier's surface.
PIA26409:
Cryoconite Holes on Matanuska Glacier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces.
PIA26103:
Icy Moons in Our Solar System That May Have Oceans Now
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The white material seen within this gully is believed to be dusty water ice in a Martian region called Dao Vallis, captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA26408:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Dao Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges of Martian gullies in a region named Terra Sirenum.
PIA26407:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-02 Europa Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This image shows a close-up view of terrain within the region of Europa's surface named Conamara.
PIA26446:
Conamara Color Closeup
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-02 Asteroid ATLAS
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This animation depicts the motion of small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 as it orbits the Sun.
PIA26452:
Asteroid 2024 PT5's Orbit Around the Sun (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-02 Earth SAR
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NASA's OPERA project generated a radar image of Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 26, 2024, at 7:38 p.m. local time, as the storm approached the Florida coast.
PIA26414:
NASA's OPERA Project Generates Radar Image of Hurricane Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-27 Earth Aqua
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NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) captured an infrared image of Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, at 3:47 a.m. local time, nearly five hours after it made landfall on the Florida coast.
PIA26413:
NASA's AIRS Instrument Captures Hurricane Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Araxa mine in southern Brazil which produces more than 80% of the world's Niobium.
PIA26395:
Araxa Mine, Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-25 Earth Carbon Mapper Coalition
 Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
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An imaging spectrometer designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory captured its first data over Karachi, Pakistan, on Sept. 19, 2024.
PIA26412:
Tanager-1 First Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-17 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This series of radar images obtained by the DSN's Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Sept. 16, 2024, shows the near-Earth asteroid 2024 ON a day before its close approach with our planet.
PIA26451:
NASA's Planetary Radar Spies (Another) Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is on its ascent to the rim of Jezero Crater, and it captured a portion of the journey with one of its navigation cameras.
PIA26376:
NASA's Perseverance Is Going Up and Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Earth ECOSTRESS
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Data from NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument aboard the International Space Station shows three wildfires burning in the mountains east and southeast of the Los Angeles area on Sept. 10, 2024.
PIA26187:
Southern California Wildfires Captured by NASA's ECOSTRESS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising.
PIA26362:
Curiosity Views Earth Setting, Phobos Rising
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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Jupiter's moon Europa is smaller than Earth's moon yet may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
PIA26434:
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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A planetary protection engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepares samples for analysis on March 20, 2024.
PIA26441:
Preparing for Planetary Protection Analysis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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A planetary protection engineer carefully collects samples from NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft to verify its biological cleanliness.
PIA26440:
Keeping Europa Clipper Clean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists believe that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
PIA26438:
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is tasked with up-close study of Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa.
PIA26436:
Europa Clipper's Elliptical Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts the long, looping path NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will take to reach the Jupiter system.
PIA26432:
Europa Clipper's Looping Journey to Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The terracotta army, was buried nearby.
PIA26394:
Terra Cotta Army, China
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-29 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This series of radar images obtained by the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Aug. 18, 2024, shows the asteroid 2024 JV33 shortly before its close approach with Earth.
PIA26389:
Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-29 IceNode
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A remote camera captured an IceNode prototype deployed below the frozen surface of Lake Superior, off Michigan's Upper Peninsula, during a field test in 2022. The three thin legs of the robot's landing gear affix the prototype to the icy ceiling.
PIA26421:
IceNode Prototype Under the Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-29 IceNode
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A prototype of an autonomous robot, part of a project called IceNode being developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was tested in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska in March 2024.
PIA26349:
Arctic Test for JPL's IceNode Prototype
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's NEO Surveyor in deep space. The black-paneled angular structure in the belly of the spacecraft is the instrument enclosure that is being built at JPL.
PIA26388:
NASA's NEO Surveyor in Deep Space (Artist's Concept)
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