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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-16 Psyche
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DSOC ground laser transmitter operators pose for a photo at the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, shortly after the technology demonstration achieved first light on Nov. 14, 2023.
PIA26144:
The DSOC Ground Laser Transmitter Team After 'First Light'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-16 Psyche
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The flight laser transceiver operations team for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration works in the Psyche mission support area at JPL in the early hours of Nov. 14, 2023, when the project achieved first light.
PIA26143:
DSOC 'First Light' at JPL's Psyche Mission Support Area
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-16 Psyche
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The downlink laser signal for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration is detected at the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,
PIA26142:
Confirmation of DSOC 'First Light' at JPL's Table Mountain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a cross section of the eastern flank of Ascraeus Mons.
PIA26218:
Ascraeus Mons Flank
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-14 NISAR
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The NISAR satellite stayed in this ISRO antenna testing facility for 20 days in September as engineers evaluated the performance of its L- and S-band radar antennas.
PIA26115:
NISAR Completes Trial in ISRO's Compact Antenna Test Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-14 NISAR
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The NISAR satellite enters the thermal vacuum chamber at an ISRO facility in Bengaluru on Oct. 19, 2023.
PIA26114:
NISAR Passes Thermal Vacuum Test in Indian Spacecraft Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of the location where it will be parked for several weeks during Mars solar conjunction.
PIA26202:
Perseverance's Parking Spot During Conjunction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-10 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter captured this view on Nov. 3, 2023, of its parking spot during Mars solar conjunction – a period when the Sun is between Earth and Mars, limiting communications.
PIA26050:
Ingenuity's View of Sand Going Into Conjunction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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The telescope for NASA's SPHEREx mission undergoes testing at JPL. It is tilted on its base so it can see as much of the sky as possible while remaining within the protection of three concentric cones that protect the telescope from light and heat.
PIA25787:
SPHEREx Telescope at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Part of one of the protective photon shields for NASA's SPHEREx telescope are shown here being assembled at Applied Aerospace Structures in Stockton, California.
PIA25785:
SPHEREx Photon Shields Assembled
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA's SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft's photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light and heat from the Sun and the Earth.
PIA25784:
SPHEREx Outer Photon Shield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-08 Earth SWOT
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Data from the SWOT satellite shows sea level anomalies off the coast of Ecuador and Peru on Aug. 12, 2023, and Oct. 3, 2023. The data indicates the development of an El Niño along the west coast of the Americas.
PIA26181:
SWOT Monitors El Niño off Peru
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-03 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a severe drought in the Amazon is disrupting transportation, isolating communities and putting wildlife at risk.
PIA26196:
Amazon Drought
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-30 Earth SWOT
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This animation shows global sea level data collected by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite from July 26 to Aug. 16, 2023.
PIA26100:
SWOT's Detailed View of Global Sea Level
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-27 Earth NISAR
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NISAR will track wetland flooding to study how these carbon-rich ecosystems are reacting to climate change. It will generate images like this one from an airborne radar that flew over Peru in 2013.
PIA26112:
Radar Image of Amazonian Flooding Similar to Future NISAR Imagery
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-27 Earth NISAR
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This composite uses data from two Japanese L-band SAR missions to reveal land-cover change in Brazil's Xingu River basin between 1996 and 2007.
PIA26111:
Composite of Brazil's 'Arc of Deforestation' Shows Imagery NISAR Will Produce
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars 2852x1169x3
These Mars global maps show the likely distribution of water ice buried within the upper 3 feet (1 meter) of the planet's surface and represent the latest data from the SWIM project.
PIA26046:
Distribution of Buried Ice on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars 2221x1288x3
The blue areas on this map of Mars are regions where NASA missions have detected subsurface water ice. Scientists can use the map to decide where the first astronauts to set foot on the Red Planet should land.
PIA26045:
SWIM Map Shows Subsurface Water Ice on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The ice-exposing impact crater at the center of this image is an example of what scientists look for when mapping places where future astronauts should land on Mars.
PIA26044:
Ice-Exposing Impact Crater Surrounded by Polygon Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-18 Earth Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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The maps in the animation show sea levels in the Pacific Ocean during early October of 1997, 2015, and 2023, in the run up to El Niño events.
PIA26099:
Comparing Sea Level During El Niño Events
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-18 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mar Menor, in southeast Spain. It is Europe's largest coastal saltwater lagoon.
PIA26009:
Mar Menor, Spain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-04 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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Shown here is an identical copy of the DSOC, superconducting nanowire single-photon detector that is coupled to the 200-inch (5.1-meter) Hale Telescope located at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California.
PIA26141:
DSOC's Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-04 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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Shown here is a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA25840:
DSOC's Downlink Detector Prototype
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-29 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this Martian dust devil moving east to west at a clip of about 12 mph (19 kph) along Thorofare Ridge on Aug. 30, 2023.
PIA26074:
Martian Whirlwind Takes the 'Thorofare'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Made with data recorded by NASA's Perseverance during a July 15, 2023 autonomous drive, this animation shows how the rover used AutoNav to maneuver around the 14-inch (35-centimeter) rock at center-left.
PIA26073:
Perseverance AutoNav Avoids a Boulder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic shows part of the path NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took through a portion of a boulder field dubbed Snowdrift Peak.
PIA26072:
Perseverance Makes Tracks in Boulder Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This composite image, acquired June 29, 2023 and annotated at JPL using visualization software, shows Perseverance's path through a dense section of boulders.
PIA26071:
Perseverance's AutoNav Leads the Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-19 Earth SWOT
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This data visualization shows sea surface heights off the northern California coast in August, 2023, as measured by the SWOT satellite.
PIA26091:
SWOT Monitors Warming Waters Off California Coast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The route NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has taken while driving through the lower part of Mount Sharp is shown as a pale line here. Different parts of the mountain are labeled by color.
PIA26042:
Curiosity's Path to Gediz Vallis Ridge and Beyond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this 360-degree panorama while parked below Gediz Vallis Ridge, a formation that preserves a record of one of the last wet periods seen on this part of Mars.
PIA26019:
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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This spectral fingerprint of methane was produced from data taken during a test of the imaging spectrometer at JPL. The instrument measures hundreds of wavelengths of light reflected by Earth's surface and absorbed by gases in the atmosphere.
PIA26095:
Methane Signal From Carbon Mapper Instrument Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the flank of Arsia Mons.
PIA26129:
Arsia Mons Flank - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-11 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Channeled Scablands in Washington, formed about 19,000 years ago when glacial Lake Missoula in Montana burst through its ice dam, and a 320 m deep lake emptied in a catastrophic flood that reached the Pacific Ocean.
PIA26008:
Channeled Scablands, Washington
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Audio of MOXIE at work on Mars was captured by the microphone on Perseverance's SuperCam instrument on May 27, 2021, the 96th day of the rover's mission. The recording is the sound of MOXIE's air compressor pumping air.
PIA26041:
The Sound of MOXIE at Work on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-01 Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft takes a spiral path to the asteroid Psyche, as depicted in this graphic that shows the path from above the plane of the planets, labeled with key milestones of the prime mission.
PIA24930:
Psyche's Mission Plan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-31 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Composed of 53 images, this mosaic looks west toward the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on July 8, 2023, the 847th Martian day, or sol, of NASA's Perseverance rover mission.
PIA25965:
Perseverance Rover Looks West
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-30 Earth Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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The mighty Yukon River and nearby lakes appear in red in this image produced using data recorded on June 18, 2023, by the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite as it passed over Alaska.
PIA25780:
SWOT Captures the Yukon River in Alaska
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-29 Earth COWVR
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A pair of weather instruments built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California captured images of Hurricane Franklin as the Category 4 storm moved off the East Coast of the United States on Aug. 29, 2023.
PIA25870:
COWVR, TEMPEST Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Franklin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-29 Earth COWVR
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A pair of weather instruments built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California captured images of Hurricane Idalia as the storm approached the Gulf Coast of Florida on Aug. 29, 2023.
PIA25569:
COWVR, TEMPEST Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Idalia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-24 Carbon Mapper Coalition
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in April 2023 examine the imaging spectrometer that will ride aboard the first of two satellites to be launched by the Carbon Mapper Coalition.
PIA25869:
JPL Engineers Work on Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-18 Earth Aqua
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NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) captured Hurricane Hilary on the morning of Aug. 18, 2023, when it was a Category 4 storm roughly 470 miles (760 kilometers) south of Baja California.
PIA25779:
Hurricane Hilary Captured by NASA's AIRS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on April 9, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that while surface ice deposits are mostly limited to the polar caps, patterns of slow, viscous flow abound in many non-polar regions of Mars.
PIA25984:
Icy Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-17 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows areas of deforestation, surrounded by bright green areas of tropical vegetation, in southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The image was acquired September 12, 2019.
PIA26007:
Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 54th flight on Aug. 3, 2023.
PIA25970:
Perseverance Rover Watches Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 54th Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft boasts its new 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna, after its Aug. 14, 2023 installation, in High Bay 1 of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25958:
Powerful Antenna Installed On Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians install Europa Clipper's high-gain antenna in the main clean room at JPL.
PIA25957:
Europa Clipper's High-Gain Antenna Installed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians use a crane to lift a 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna as they prepare to install it on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter is being assembled in preparation for its launch in October 2024.
PIA25956:
Europa Clipper Gets Its High-Gain On
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-14 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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The PREFIRE mission will send two CubeSats – shown as an artist's concept against an image of Earth from orbit – into space to study how much heat the planet absorbs and emits from its polar regions, including the Arctic and Antarctica.
PIA25778:
PREFIRE Satellite Illustration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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JPL engineer Patrick DeGrosse reviews data from a drop test of a full-size lander footpad with a group of fellow engineers.
PIA25826:
Going Over the Footpad Test Data
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This setup is being used at JPL to test a 16-inch-diameter (40-centimeter-diameter) footpad for a future Mars lander.
PIA25824:
A Full-Size Footpad Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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Morgan Montalvo, another JPL engineer, sets guardrails on the floor below the prototype in a test of a scenario where the lander would stub a toe against a rock while touching down on Mars.
PIA25823:
Setting Guardrails for Mars Lander Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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Engineer Abel Dizon explains how drop tests are conducted for a prototype lander being designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Mars Sample Return campaign.
PIA25822:
Testing a Prototype Mars Lander
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-09 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama captured by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a location nicknamed Pontours where scientists spotted preserved, ancient mud cracks believed to have formed during long cycles of wet and dry conditions over many years.
PIA25915:
Curiosity Views Mud Cracks in the Clay-Sulfate Transition Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the summit of Ascraeus Mons.
PIA26053:
Ascraeus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-08 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in 2022. It produced a plume 58 km high, the biggest atmospheric explosion ever recorded.
PIA26006:
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-08 Earth Suomi NPP
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Amid a record heat wave in July, the Phoenix area saw surfaces such as roads and buildings stay hot long after sunset, as documented in NASA-NOAA satellite data that was used to produce this series of maps.
PIA25868:
Phoenix Land-Surface Temperatures Documented Amid Record Heat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This view of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the agency's Perseverance Mars rover on Aug. 2, 2023.
PIA25968:
Perseverance Checks Out Ingenuity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This artist's concept shows Mars Sample Return Earth Entry System. The vehicle would bring curated Martian samples collected by NASA's Perseverance Rover on the final leg of their journey from Mars to Earth.
PIA25986:
Artist's Concept of the Earth Entry System for Mars Sample Return
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover attempted to climb a slope near the center of this image, but struggled due to the incline, slippery sand, and wheel-size rocks.
PIA26013:
Curiosity's Attempted Climb up a Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this 360-degree view of a challenging Martian slope that had a steep incline, slippery sand, and wheel-size boulders. This mosaic is composed of 145 images taken by the rover's Mastcam June 27, 2023.
PIA26012:
Curiosity's View up a Challenging Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity looks back down at Marker Band Valley, where the rover's tracks are visible in the distance, after climbing a steep slope. This mosaic was captured by the rover's Mastcam on June 21, 2023.
PIA26011:
Curiosity's View Back Toward 'Marker Band Valley'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity left these tracks after trying multiple times to crest a slippery slope. This mosaic, made up of seven images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth, was captured by the rover's Mastcam on June 13, 2023.
PIA25920:
Curiosity's Climb Attempt Leaves Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity used its Mastcam to capture this impact crater in a location nicknamed Jau on July 25, 2023. This was one of dozens of impact craters Curiosity stopped by after completing the most difficult climb of the mission.
PIA26014:
Curiosity Views a Crater at 'Jau'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A CADRE test rover appears to catch the attention of the much larger engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover, called OPTIMISM, at JPL's Mars Yard.
PIA25668:
Test Rovers Big and Small at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-31 Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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A development motor based on the second-stage solid rocket motor design for NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) undergoes testing March 29, at Northrop Grumman's facility in Elkton, Maryland.
PIA25967:
Mars Ascent Vehicle Second Stage Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Mastcam-Z imager on NASA's Perseverance rover captured a series of images on July 6 that were stitched together to show a field of boulders deposited in Jezero Crater by a fast-moving ancient river.
PIA25963:
Perseverance Views Jezero Boulder Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance captured this image of a sample it cored on June 12. The core shows distinctly colored areas that are individual minerals transported by a river that once flowed into Jezero Crater.
PIA25962:
Perseverance's 'Otis Peak' Sample Reveals Colors of Conglomerate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-18 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of central Africa.
PIA25981:
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear features called Oti Fossae. Oti Fossae is located on the eastern flank of Arsia Mons.
PIA26025:
Oti Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-13 NISAR
 L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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A team of engineers and technicians from ISRO and NASA pose in June at ISRO's U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru, India, after working together to combine the two main components of the NISAR satellite.
PIA25867:
U.S.-Indian Team Collaborates to Assemble Main Components of NISAR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-13 NISAR
 L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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A crane is used to align NISAR's radar instrument payload, seen partially wrapped in gold-colored thermal blanketing, with the satellite's spacecraft bus, which is inside blue blanketing, in an ISRO clean room in Bengaluru, India, in June, 2023.
PIA25866:
NISAR Satellite's Major Components Come Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-13 NISAR
 L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Engineers joined the two main components of NISAR in an ISRO clean room in Bengaluru, India, in June, 2023. The payload arrived from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in March, 2023, while the bus was built at the ISRO facility.
PIA25865:
Main Components of NISAR Satellite Joined
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image is of a rock target nicknamed Quartier, which was studied by the SHERLOC instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The white square shows the area that SHERLOC zapped with its ultraviolet laser.
PIA25919:
Perseverance Rover's SHERLOC Studies 'Quartier'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the summit of Ascraeus Mons. Ascraeus Mons is the northernmost and tallest of the three large aligned Tharsis volcanoes.
PIA26021:
Ascraeus Mons Summit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-29 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted this hollowed-out rock in Jezero Crater using its Mastcam-Z instrument on June 26, 2023.
PIA25917:
Perseverance Finds a Hollowed-Out Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-29 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this doughnut-shaped rock in Jezero Crater from about 328 feet (100 meters) away using its Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI), on June 22, 2023.
PIA25916:
Perseverance Discovers a Doughnut-Shaped Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-27 Earth Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission collected data on sea levels around two of the inhabited islands of Tuvalu, a nation in the South Pacific Ocean that has been threatened with sea level rise.
PIA25777:
SWOT Measures Tuvalu Sea Level
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-22 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows folded sedimentary rocks which are part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Belt in Iran, near the southwest shore of the Caspian Sea.
PIA25946:
Folded Rocks, Iran
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-15 Jupiter Juno
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In this view of a vortex near Jupiter's north pole, NASA's Juno mission observed the glow from a bolt of lightning.
PIA25020:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures Lightning On Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its navigation cameras to capture panoramas of Marker Band Valley at two times of day on April 8, 2023. Color was added to a combination of both panoramas.
PIA25912:
Curiosity's 'Postcard' of 'Marker Band Valley'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This map shows all the quadrant themes for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently in the Roraima quadrant. The red oval indicates the landing ellipse where the rover was targeted to touch down in 2012.
PIA25914:
Curiosity's Quadrant Themes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-08 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows various quadrant themes in the vicinity of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which is currently in the Rocky Mountain quadrant. The rover team chose quadrant themes related to various national parks across Earth.
PIA25913:
Perseverance's Quadrant Themes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the eastern flank of Ascraeus Mons.
PIA25972:
Ascraeus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-01 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the world's largest cemetery, Wadi-al-Salam, located in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, west of the Euphrates River, and along the Najaf Sea.
PIA25896:
Najaf, Iraq
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-25 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows shade covering shelter farmed ginseng from the effects of direct sunlight in Heilongjiang province, northeast China.
PIA25895:
Heilongjiang Province, China
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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The 152 images that make up this mosaic of Belva Crater were taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on April 22, 2023.
PIA25889:
Perseverance Takes in View at Belva Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-15 Earth 1440x700x3
A March 2023 study by JPL researchers compared methane emissions in 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, to emissions measured in 2016-17. It found large reductions in overall emission rates.
PIA25864:
Declining Methane Emissions at California Oil Fields and Refineries
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 3, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a classic example of platy-ridged lava. Scientists think that this is the same as a lava type called rubbly pahoehoe on Earth.
PIA25948:
Complicated Lava Cooling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 14, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an example of material having flowed downhill between two ridges.
PIA25947:
Glacier-like Features on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-12 Earth Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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This animation shows Kelvin waves moving across the equatorial Pacific Ocean from west to east during March and April, 2023. The signals can be an early sign of El Niño, and were detected by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite.
PIA25776:
Early El Niño Signs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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Sedimentary layers at Franklin Cliffs are displayed in a mosaic captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z camera on Feb. 12, 2023, the 704th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25911:
Mastcam-Z's View of 'Franklin Cliffs'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of a hill nicknamed Pinestand. Scientists think the tall sedimentary layers stacked on top of one another here could have been formed by a deep, fast-moving river.
PIA25830:
Mastcam-Z's View of 'Pinestand'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene at a location nicknamed Skrinkle Haven using its Mastcam-Z camera between Feb. 28 and March 9, 2023.
PIA25829:
Curved Bands of Rocks at 'Skrinkle Haven'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Sark, part of the English Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, France.
PIA25859:
Sark, English Channel Islands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This collage represents a selection of NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2006 HV5 on April 25, 2023, less than one day before its close approach with our planet at a distance of about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers).
PIA25834:
NASA's Planetary Radar Images Asteroid 2006 HV5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-20 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European Space Agency's Earth Return Orbiter.
PIA25860:
Illustration of the Capture, Containment, and Return System for Mars Sample Return
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-14 Europa Galileo
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Another image of Jupiter's moon Europa captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo shows possible fault scarps adjacent to smooth areas that may have been produced by landslides.
PIA25499:
Europa's Surface: Up-Close Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-14 Europa Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This view of Jupiter's moon Europa was captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The smooth slopes and nearby rubble may have been produced by landslides.
PIA25498:
Europa Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-12 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Notsuke Peninsula, on the east coast of Hokkaido, Japan. Its name is derived from the Ainu word for jawbone.
PIA25858:
Notsuke Peninsula, Japan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-12 VERITAS
 VISAR
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Seen here are members of the international team that participated in recent tests on prototype hardware for the VISAR instrument at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. VISAR is being developed at JPL for NASA's VERITAS mission that will explore Venus.
PIA25833:
International Collaboration for Early VERITAS Prototype Hardware Tests
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