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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-24 NISAR
 L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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On March 20, 2021, NISAR mission members from ISRO and JPL moved the S-band SAR into the airlock to the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 clean room. Once the radar moves into the clean room, it will be unpacked over several days.
PIA24138:
NISAR Unload Group
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-24 NISAR
 L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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The S-band SAR arrived at JPL on March 19. The next day, technicians and engineers moved the S-SAR into the airlock to the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 clean room, to be unpacked over several days in the clean room.
PIA24137:
NISAR S-Band SAR Arrival
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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These sets of images show doors opening and closing on parts of the Sample Caching System aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA24497:
Perseverance Sample Caching System Doors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-23 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This graphic shows the general activities the team behind NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hopes to accomplish on a given test flight on the Red Planet.
PIA24496:
Ingenuity's Test Flight Activities (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the flight zone of NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter flight zone from the perspective of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The flight zone is the area within which the helicopter will fly.
PIA24495:
Rover Point of View of Ingenuity Flight Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-23 Mars Helicopter
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Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth on December 17, 1903. Material covering the wing of the aircraft was flown to Mars aboard NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA24434:
The Wright Brothers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The debris shield, a protective covering on the bottom of NASA's Perseverance rover, was released on March 21, 2021. The debris shield protects the agency's Ingenuity helicopter during landing.
PIA24448:
Perseverance Rover Drops its Debris Shield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 23, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows layering near the base of the south polar layered deposits (SPLD). Radar observations of these deposits show that they are rich in water ice.
PIA24469:
Informative Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-16 Jupiter Juno
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This illustration depicts ultraviolet polar aurorae on Jupiter and Earth.
PIA24433:
Aurorae on Jupiter and Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows a close-up view of the rock target named Maaz from the SuperCam instrument on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was taken by SuperCam's Remote Micro-Imager (RMI). Maaz means Mars in the Navajo language.
PIA24493:
SuperCam Close-Up of Maaz
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Combining two images, this mosaic shows a close-up view of the rock target named Yeehgo from the SuperCam instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
PIA24492:
SuperCam Close-Up of Yeehgo Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Stitched together from five images, this mosaic shows the calibration target for the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. The component images were taken by SuperCam's remote micro-imager (RMI).
PIA24491:
SuperCam Calibration Target on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Taken on March 5, 2021, this color-calibrated image from a Navigation Camera aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover shows tracks from the rover's first drive and an area scoured by the Mars 2020 mission's descent stage rockets.
PIA24488:
Rocket Scour and Wheel Prints
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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These sets of animated GIFs show seven views of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover wiggling its wheels on March 4, 2021, the day Perseverance completed its first drive on Mars.
PIA24489:
Multiple Views of Perseverance's Wheels Wiggling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The imagery for this animated gif was taken on March 5, 2021, by a Navigation Camera on NASA's Perseverance rover during its first drive on Mars.
PIA24490:
Perseverance Is Moving Right Along
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows two of Guatemala's active volcanoes, Fuego and Pacaya erupting when the ASTER nighttime thermal infrared image was acquired on March 5, 2021.
PIA24419:
Pacaya and Fuego Volcanoes, Guatemala
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image shows two possible routes (blue and purple) to the fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta for NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. The yellow line marks a notional traverse exploring the Jezero delta.
PIA24486:
The Road Ahead for Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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From its landing site, Octavia E. Butler Landing, NASA's Perseverance rover can see a remnant of a fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta (the raised area of dark brown rock in the middle ground) with its Mastcam-Z instrument.
PIA24485:
Perseverance View of the Delta in Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover shows a target for analysis by the rover's SuperCam instrument.
PIA24484:
A Target for Perseverance's SuperCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA has named the landing site of the agency's Perseverance rover after the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, as seen in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA24483:
Welcome to Octavia E. Butler Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image was captured while NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021. One of Perseverance's Hazcams captured this image as the rover completed a short traverse and turn from its landing site in Jezero Crater.
PIA24482:
Perseverance Hazcam First Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory driving the agency's Perseverance rover use visualization software to plan how the rover moves around on Mars. This clip from their visualization shows the rover's first drive on March 4, 2021.
PIA24481:
Perseverance Drive Visualization
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This simulation shows the motions the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover carried out during its first two-hour checkout on Mars. This simulation does not run in real-time.
PIA24332:
Simulation of Perseverance Arm Movement
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This set of images shows part of the deployment of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) wind sensors on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, taken by the rover's Navigation Cameras on Feb. 28, 2021.
PIA24339:
Perseverance's Weather Sensors Deployed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance rover wiggles one of its wheels in this set of images obtained by the rover's left Navigation Camera on March 4, 2021.
PIA24340:
Perseverance Wiggles a Wheel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This set of images shows parts of the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover flexing and turning during its first checkout after landing on Mars.
PIA24338:
Flexing Perseverance's Robotic Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image was taken during the first drive of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021.
PIA24487:
Perseverance Is Roving on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-04 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the 142 images that make up Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24445:
Still: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-04 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This GIF shows the order in which the 142 images that makeup the Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama were taken. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24444:
GIF: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Stitched together from 79 individual images, this Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z right-eye 110-mm zoom mosaic is from the camera's first high-resolution panorama imaging sequence.
PIA23727:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z First High-Resolution Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-26 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mt. Etna, Italy, sending rivers of lava down the southeast flank of the volcano. The ASTER visible image shows the extent of the active lava flows (derived from the thermal infrared data).
PIA24418:
Mt. Etna--February 26, 2021
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-24 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together from 142 individual images taken on February 21, 2021.
PIA24264:
Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-23 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mt. Etna, Italy, sending rivers of lava down the southeast flank of the volcano, and spewing ashes and volcanic stones over nearby villages.
PIA24417:
Mt. Etna February 2021
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, imaged its calibration targets for the first time on Feb. 20, 2021. The targets are used as reference markers so scientists can adjust the colors and settings on the cameras.
PIA24423:
Mastcam-Z Looks at Its Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.
PIA24422:
Perseverance Navcams 360-Degree Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of the rover's deck on Feb. 20, 2021. This view provides a good look at PIXL, one of the instruments on the rover's stowed arm.
PIA24421:
Navcam View of Perseverance's Rover Deck
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of the final location of the heat shield that helped protect NASA's Perseverance rover during its landing on the surface of Mars.
PIA24337:
Close-Up of Perseverance Heat Shield on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of the final location of the parachute that helped slow down NASA's Perseverance rover during its landing on the surface of Mars.
PIA24336:
Close-Up of Perseverance Parachute on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of the descent stage that helped fly NASA's Perseverance rover down to the surface of Mars.
PIA24335:
Close-Up of Perseverance Descent Stage on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of NASA's Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars.
PIA24334:
Close-Up of Perseverance on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image shows with a green dot where NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The base image was taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA24331:
Perseverance's Landing Spot in Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This first image of NASA's Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars from the Context Camera (CTX) aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the many parts of the Mars 2020 mission landing system that got the rover safely on the ground.
PIA24333:
Perseverance and Mars 2020 Spacecraft Components on the Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Inside Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars 2020 Perseverance team members eagerly watched and waited before the rover safely landed on the Martian surface.
PIA23726:
Great Anticipation as Perseverance Lands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Members of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission were jubilant on Feb. 18, 2021, after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars.
PIA23725:
Cheers for a Successful Mars Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24430:
Perseverance's First Full-Color Look at Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb.18, 2021. The image was taken by one of Perseverance's color Hazard Cameras (Hazcams).
PIA24429:
Perseverance's Big Wheel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This is a high-resolution still image, part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.
PIA24428:
High-Resolution Still Image of Perseverance's Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Before NASA's Mars Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, the entry, descent, and landing team posed at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with individual bags of traditional lucky peanuts.
PIA23724:
Mars Perseverance Team, Pre-landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Inside a mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars 2020 Perseverance team members displayed their joy as the spacecraft successfully touched down on the Martian surface.
PIA23723:
Cheering for Perseverance Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineer Mallory Lefland experienced the tension and relief shared by the team on Mars 2020 Perseverance landing day, on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA23722:
Excitement and Suspense on Landing Day
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover was able to use its new Terrain-Relative Navigation technology to avoid hazards and find a safe place to land in Jezero Crater on Mars.
PIA23970:
Avoiding Hazards at Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This is one of the first images NASA's Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The view, from one of Perseverance's Hazard Cameras, is partially obscured by a dust cover. The rover's shadow can be seen at left.
PIA24268:
Perseverance Rover's First Image from Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Members of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission celebrate on Feb. 18, 2021, after learning the spacecraft has touched down on Mars. They are in the Entry, Descent and Landing War Room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24267:
Perseverance Rover's Team in the EDL War Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-17 Mars Mars Sample Return
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During the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith will be collected and sealed inside collection tubes for later retrieval by the Sample Retrieval Lander mission in the late 2020s.
PIA24164:
Mars Sample Return Lander's Divert Maneuver
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-17 Earth Mars 2020 Project
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This image shows the finely layered internal structure of a stromatolite from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia.
PIA24240:
Tumbiana Stromatolite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey crosses both Ophir Chasma and Candor Chasma. Layered and eroded material covers the floors of both chasmata. Both canyons are part of Valles Marineris.
PIA24404:
Ophir and Candor Chasmata
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-09 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Banjul, the capital of The Gambia; it is located on St. Mary's Island, where the Gambia River enters the Atlantic Ocean in western Africa.
PIA24416:
Banjul, The Gambia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 25, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a textbook example of regular, nearly hexagonal polygon networks.
PIA24385:
On Frozen Ground
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Earth 1024x768x3
The rocks seen here along the shoreline of Lake Salda in Turkey were formed over time by microbes that trap minerals and sediments in the water. NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission will search for signs of ancient life on the Martian surface.
PIA24374:
Lake Salda Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Oblique view looks to the west above Jezero Crater floor over the fan-shaped delta and into the valley that cuts through the crater rim. The illustration was generated by U.S Geological Survey using data from NASA spacecraft.
PIA24310:
Angle on Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image is an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover exploring inside Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA24309:
Exploring Majestic Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts the some of the major milestones NASA's Perseverance rover will go through during its seven-minute descent to the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24265:
Perseverance's Stages of Descent (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated mosaic depicts a possible route the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could take across Jezero Crater as it investigates several ancient environments that may have once been habitable.
PIA24379:
Possible Path for Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the summit caldera of Arsia Mons. Several small volcanic vents are visible on the caldera floor.
PIA24393:
Arsia Mons Caldera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-26 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
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Serabit el-Khadim, Egypt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-22 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Maldives nation, in the Indian Ocean. It faces an environmental threat from sea level rise. To counter this threat, the country is creating a new artificial island, Hulhumale.
PIA24381:
Hulhumale, Maldives
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Three possible interiors of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets. All seven planets have very similar densities, so they likely have a similar compositions.
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Possible Interiors of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets
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This graph presents measured properties of the seven TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets.
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Comparison of TRAPPIST-1 to the Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-20 Mars Helicopter
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The Mars Helicopter Base Station stores and routes communications between NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and mission controllers on Earth.
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Mars Helicopter Base Station on Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-19 Mars 2020 Rover
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This engineering model of Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument is about to undergo vibration testing in a lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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MOXIE Shakes it UP
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-12 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.
PIA24180:
Curiosity's View of Benches on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-08 Jupiter Juno
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A JunoCam image of Jupiter's storm, Oval BA, taken on Juno's 26th perijove (PJ) pass, inspired this work of art.
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Jupiter's Storm Oval BA As Viewed By An Artist
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-04 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, which began erupting on December 20, 2020.
PIA24284:
Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a short section of Reull Vallis. Reull Vallis starts in Promethei Terra and empties into Hellas Plainitia.
PIA24355:
Reull Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts the interior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
PIA24307:
Anatomy of a Sample Tube Interior
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts the exterior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
PIA24306:
Anatomy of a Sample Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-22 Mars 2020 Rover
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Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong works with an Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container during a lunar surface simulation training exercise in Building 9, Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.
PIA24297:
Armstrong and Rock Box
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration shows NASA's Mars Perseverance rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Perseverance Rover on Mars (Gradient Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration shows NASA's Mars Perseverance rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
PIA24343:
Perseverance Rover on Mars (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-16 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a strong eruptive episode began, starting December 13, 2020, at Mt. Etna's New SE summit crater.
PIA24283:
Mt. Etna, Italy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-11 Jupiter Juno
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This image was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on April 10, 2020. Oval BA, a large muddy circle of clouds near the upper-left of picture, is a storm approximately the same size as Earth.
PIA24234:
Southern Hemisphere Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-08 Mars 2020 Rover
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This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24179:
Supercam's Mars Meteorite Aboard the ISS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-08 Mars 2020 Rover
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Scientists use the color swatches on the primary calibration target for Mastcam-Z aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Symbols and mottos relevant to the mission are included around the target's perimeter.
PIA24178:
Mastcam-Z's Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-07 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Kliuchevskoi stratovolcano, erupting almost constantly, and the tallest volcano in Kamchatka.
PIA24282:
Kliuchevskoi Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-07 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Providencia Island, located in the Caribbean Sea. It is part of Colombia even though located 800 km northwest of mainland Colombia.
PIA24281:
Providencia Island, Colombia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-24 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers lower MOXIE into the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA24176:
Engineers Lower MOXIE into Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-18 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of debris. The base of one cone is moving toward Earth. Both bases are outlined in magenta, revealing shockwaves created as the debris races through space.
PIA23868:
Geometry of the Blue Ring Nebula (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-18 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of gas ejected into space by a stellar merger. As the gas cools, it forms hydrogen molecules that collide with particles in interstellar space, causing them to radiate far-ultraviolet light.
PIA23867:
The Blue Ring Nebula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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One of two wind sensors springs out of the mast on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These sensors are part of Perseverance's weather instrumentation, called MEDA.
PIA24175:
MEDA's Wind Sensor Springs Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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SkyCam is a sky-facing camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. As part of MEDA, the rover's set of weather instruments, SkyCam will take images and video of clouds passing in the Martian sky.
PIA24174:
Perseverance Rover's SkyCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-10 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) along the Blue Nile River is well under way near the Ethiopia-Sudan border.
PIA24150:
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-05 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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Technicians and engineers working on the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite pose in front of the spacecraft in its protective nosecone, or payload fairing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Spacecraft Team and Fairing
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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is encapsulated in a protective nosecone, or payload fairing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fairing will sit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the satellite into Earth orbit.
PIA24133:
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Encapsulated
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-28 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Sea of Galilee (or Sea of Kinneret) in northern Israel, the lowest freshwater lake on Earth.
PIA24130:
Sea of Galilee, Israel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-28 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged the Western United States drought on Oct. 16, 2020, and compared the same area to an image from ECOSTRESS taken a year earlier on Oct. 16, 2019.
PIA24132:
ECOSTRESS Drought Stress Comparison
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Mars 2020 Project
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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover reached its halfway point — 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) — on its journey to Jezero Crater on Oct. 27, 2020, at 1:40 p.m. PDT (4:40 EDT).
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Perseverance Rover at Halfway Point
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Mars 2020 Project
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This illustration of the Mars 2020 spacecraft in interplanetary space was generated using imagery from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System. The image is from the mission's midway point between Earth and Mars.
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Mars 2020 Spacecraft Mid-Cruise (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Jupiter 1185x1973x3
The lightning phenomenon known as a sprite depicted at Jupiter in this illustration. Jupiter's hydrogen-rich atmosphere would likely make them appear blue. In Earth's upper atmosphere, the presence of nitrogen gives them a reddish color.
PIA23990:
Jovian Sprite (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-20 Mars 3840x2160x3
This illustration shows Jezero Crater as it may have looked billions of years go on Mars, when it was a lake. An inlet and outlet are also visible on either side of the lake.
PIA24172:
Ancient Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows three super-sensitive gravitational wave-detection systems in America and Europe. The two American LIGO systems are located near Livingston, LA and near Hanford, WA. The European VIRGO system is located near Pisa, Italy.
PIA24129:
Gravity Wave Detectors
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