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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars 4029x3567x3
This annotated image shows landing ellipses for five NASA missions to Mars.
PIA24377:
Mars Probe Landing Ellipses
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-05 Asteroid Deep Space Network
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On March 21, 2021, the large asteroid 2001 FO32 made a close approach with our planet, passing at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) — or 5 1/4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
PIA24561:
Goldstone Radar Observations of Asteroid 2001 FO32
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-28 Mars 1600x900x3
NASA's Mars missions, clockwise from top left: Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, InSight lander, Odyssey orbiter, MAVEN orbiter, Curiosity rover, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA24838:
NASA's Mars Missions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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A JPL engineer examines the 3D-printed titanium scoop of NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system. The arm is designed to function in frigid temperatures that would stymie current spacecraft.
PIA25316:
Testing NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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NASA's COLDArm combines several new technologies that allow it to operate in temperatures as cold as minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 degrees Celsius) without the use of energy-consuming heaters required by robotic arms on current spacecraft.
PIA25317:
NASA's COLDArm at Lunar Regolith Simulant Test Bed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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The 3D-printed titanium scoop of the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system is poised above a test bed filled with material to simulate lunar regolith (broken rocks and dust) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25318:
Close-Up on COLDArm's Titanium 3D-Printed Scoop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-24 Earth 1440x1570x3
This visualization shows sea surface height measurements of the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia. The data was collected on Jan. 21, 2023, by seven satellites currently in operation.
PIA25773:
Sea Level Visualization of Gulf Stream
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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 2023-12-20 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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Engineers and technicians prepare NASA's COLDArm robotic arm system for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in November 2023.
PIA26162:
NASA's COLDArm in Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The rugged, arcuate rim of the 90 km crater Reuyl dominates this NASA Mars Odyssey image. Reuyl crater is at the southern edge of a region known to be blanketed in thick dust based on its high albedo (brightness) and low thermal inertia values.
PIA03794:
Reuyl Crater Dust Avalanches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Hebrus Valles is located in the Elysium Planitia region of the northern lowlands of Mars. This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows three sinuous tributaries of the channel system which carved up the surrounding plains.
PIA03820:
Hebrus Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-08-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The lineations seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image occur in Acidalia Planitia. These fissures, or cracks in the ground, are possibly evidence that there was once subsurface ice or water in the region.
PIA03906:
Acidalia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The channels and impact crater rim shown in this NASA Mars Odyssey image provide insight to the forces that have sculpted the surface within the extensive Reull Vallis network.
PIA04031:
Reull Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in August 2003, showing a large outflow channel, split and diverted around an obstacle just north of Memnonia Fossae on Mars.
PIA04705:
Outflow Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Meridiani Planum. Meridiani Planum has been the home of the Opportunity MER rover since January 2004.
PIA23092:
Goodbye Opportunity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-08 Phobos 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Six views of the Martian moon Phobos captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter as of March 2020. The orbiter's THEMIS camera is used to measure temperature variations that suggest what kind of material the moon is made of.
PIA23893:
Odyssey's Six Views of Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter arrived at Mars on October 24, 2001.
PIA24915:
Mars Odyssey Orbiter By the Numbers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-30 Earth Aqua
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This image shows Hurricane Frances in August 2004 as captured by instruments onboard two different NASA satellites: the AIRS infrared instrument onboard Aqua, and the SeaWinds scatterometer onboard QuikSCAT.
PIA00435:
Hurricane Frances as Observed by NASA's Spaceborne Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and SeaWinds Scatterometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-13 Earth Aqua
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The quick dry-out of vegetation in Southern California this year is depicted in this pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's Aqua spacecraft.
PIA17053:
MODIS Satellite See Double Jeopardy for Socal Fire Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-13 Earth Aqua
OSCAT
 MODIS
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Extensive and persistent rains between Jan. 24 and Jan. 27, 2013, significantly increased soil moisture and enhanced vegetation growth in Southern California based on data from NASA's Aqua spacecraft and ISRO's Oceansat-2 satellite.
PIA17052:
Satellites See Double Jeopardy for Socal Fire Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-26 Aquarius
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Technicians from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., install thermal blankets on the Aquarius instrument at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
PIA13825:
NASA's Salt-Seeking Instrument Gets a Silvery Blanket
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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After a four-year development effort, the Goddard Space Flight Center delivered NASA's Aquarius radiometer to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for integration with the Aquarius instrument.
PIA14051:
Aquarius Radiometer in Goodard Space Flight Center Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Engineers check cables on back of Aquarius instrument in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
PIA14052:
Back of Aquarius Instrument
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Engineers test Aquarius 2.5 meter reflector in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
PIA14053:
Aquarius Reflector Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Aquarius 2.5 meter reflector is hoisted before being attached to boom in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
PIA14054:
Aquarius Reflector Attachment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Aquarius 2.5 meter composite reflector being fitted with gold foil covering in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
PIA14055:
Gold Foil on Aquarius Reflector
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Aquarius reflector deployment is tested in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
PIA14056:
Aquarius Deployment Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Aquarius instrument, including 2.5 meter reflector, in the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
PIA14057:
Aquarius at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Engineers inspect NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D observatory at INVAP facility in Bariloche, Argentina.
PIA14058:
Aquarius/SAC-D at INVAP facility in Bariloche, Argentina
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Completion of the thermal blanket patterns for the Aquarius bipod after routing the flight harness from the SAC-D service platform.
PIA14059:
Thermal Blanket Check
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius instrument, covered in silver foil, is shown attached to the SAC-D satellite bus at INVAP facility.
PIA14060:
Close-up View of Aquarius
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius instrument is lifted upright onto the SAC-D service platform at the INVAP high bay facility in Bariloche, Argentina.
PIA14061:
Aquarius Lifted onto SAC-D Service Platform
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius instrument on SAC-D sevice platform in INVAP high bay facility for mechanical integration activities.
PIA14062:
Aquarius Instrument on SAC-D Service Platform
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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A 'fit check' of half the sunshade is completed to verify the clearance of NASA's Aquarius ground lug as well as the blanket interface with the service platform top deck.
PIA14063:
Aquarius Sunshade "Fit Check" of Half the Sunshade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius instrument power interfaces are tested prior to connection with the SAC-D service platform at the INVAP facility in Bariloche, Argentina.
PIA14064:
Aquarius Instrument Electrical Interface Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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Dr. Cristina Fernández Kirchner, the President of Argentina, visits INVAP for the inauguration of the new facilities including a tour of the high bay where NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D satellite is being tested and integrated.
PIA14065:
President of Argentina Visits Aquarius/SAC-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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All NASA's Aquarius electrical interfaces have successfully been connected to the SAC-D service platform (S/P).
PIA14066:
Aquarius Electrical Integration with SAC-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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After months of integration and testing at the INVAP facility (Bariloche, Argentina), NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D is removed from the service platform in preparation for shipping to Brazil.
PIA14067:
Aquarius/SAC-D Removed from Service Platform
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D being prepared for shipment to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research Integration and Testing Lab. At INPE, the Aquarius/SAC-D observatory will undergo its final environmental testing.
PIA14068:
Aquarius/SAC-D Observatory Being Crated for Shipment to Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius Principal Investigator Gary Lagerloef photographed in front of the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite observatory as it is being readied for transportation from Brazil to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for a June 2011 launch.
PIA14069:
Aquarius Principal Investigator with Observatory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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After months of environmental tests at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE), NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D observatory is loaded into a crate for shipment to Vandenberg Air Force Base.
PIA14070:
Aquarius/SAC-D Observatory before Departing Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D observatory is moved into the thermal-vacuum chamber at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
PIA14071:
Aquarius/SAC-D Observatory in Thermal-vacuum Test Chamber
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-19 Aquarius
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NASA's Aquarius instrument thermal blanketing is completed and inspected. In addition, all external surfaces of the satellite are cleaned and inspected with white light to uncover any visible debris.
PIA14072:
Aquarius Thermal Blanket Completion and Inspection
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-07 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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On New Year's Eve 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Saturn's intriguing moon Iapetus, capturing the four visible light images that were put together to form this global view.
PIA06166:
Encountering Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-16 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a close-up look at Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA06209:
Deep Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the smog-enshrouded moon on April 16, 2005.
PIA06218:
Cassini's April 16 Flyby of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-22 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's yin-yang moon Iapetus is seen in these two views showing the moon's dark leading hemisphere. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on April 8, 2006.
PIA08164:
From Dark to Bright and Red to White
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Polydeuces Cassini-Huygens
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This magnified view shows tiny Polydeuces, a moon that was discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft and is a mere 3 kilometers (2 miles) across. Along with much larger Helene, Polydeuces orbits Saturn at the same distance as large, icy Dione.
PIA08209:
New Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini radar instrument shows an impact crater with a diameter of 30 kilometers (19 miles) on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA08737:
Crater Studies on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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These side-by-side views of a star seen through Saturn's densely populated B ring show marked contrast between the region. Images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 26, 2006.
PIA08300:
The B Ring Variations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This three-image mosaic is the highest resolution view yet obtained of Enceladus' north polar region. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2008.
PIA08409:
The North Polar Region of Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole provides valuable insight about the mechanisms that power the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2008.
PIA11104:
Convection in Saturn's Southern Vortex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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New insights into the nature of Saturn's rings are revealed in this panoramic mosaic of 15 images taken during the planet's August 2009 equinox, taken by NASA's Cassini Orbiter.
PIA11670:
Ring Scan Spilling Secrets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic, created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, looks straight at Saturn's moon Mimas' huge Herschel Crater revealing bright-walled craters, with floors and surroundings about 20 percent darker than the steep crater walls.
PIA12568:
Examining Herschel Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's impression by the European Space Agency shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft exploring the magnetic environment of Saturn. The image is not to scale.
PIA16739:
Cassini at Saturn's Bow Shock (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini scientists continue their quest to understand the origin and evolution of the newly discovered features observed in Saturn's A ring which have become known as 'propellers' as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17125:
Earhart in the A Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This view, acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, looks toward the unilluminated side of Saturn's rings from about 47 degrees below the ringplane.
PIA17143:
Still Alive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-13 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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During its final close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft revisited a landscape, and a mystery, that it had originally glimpsed more than 10 years earlier.
PIA20017:
Enceladus Dalmatian Terrain Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-10-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn appears as a serene globe amid tranquil rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. In reality, the planet's atmosphere is an ever-changing scene of high-speed winds and evolving weather patterns, punctuated by occasional large storms.
PIA20502:
View from Above
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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What appears as a pair of bright dashes at the center of this image is one of the features rings scientists have dubbed 'propellers.' This image of Bleriot is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20525:
Checking in on Bleriot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-17 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus' intriguing south-polar jets are viewed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft from afar, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows softly in reflected Saturn-shine.
PIA21338:
Jets from a Distance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-06 Cassiopeia A Chandra X-ray Observatory
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For the first time, a multiwavelength three-dimensional reconstruction of a supernova remnant has been created. This visualization of Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, the result of an explosion approximately 330 years ago, uses data from several NASA telescopes.
PIA11748:
Supernova Remnant in 3-D Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Ceres Dawn
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This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft during its initial approach to the dwarf planet, prior to being captured into orbit in March 2015.
PIA19063:
Dawn's First Color Map of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-30 Ceres Dawn
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This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft during its high-altitude mapping orbit, in August and September, 2015.
PIA19977:
Hints at Ceres' Composition from Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-04-19 Ceres Dawn
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Ceres' Haulani Crater, with a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers), shows evidence of landslides from its crater rim as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
PIA20358:
Haulani Crater in Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-20 Ceres Dawn
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This close-up view of Hakumyi crater, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides insight into the origin of the small crater and lobe-shaped flow next to its southern rim.
PIA21414:
Hakumyi Crater from LAMO
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-27 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
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A new map created with measurements from an airborne instrument developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, reveals the devastating effect of California's ongoing drought on Sierra Nevada conifer forests.
PIA20717:
California Drought Effects on Sierra Trees Mapped by NASA
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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 2022-05-12 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument made this image of ground temperatures near Delhi, around midnight on May 5. The urban heat islands of Delhi and smaller villages peaked at 102 degrees F (39 degrees C) while nearby fields were about 40 degrees F cooler.
PIA24987:
ECOSTRESS Detects Heat Islands in Indian Heat Wave
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-15 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument recorded ground temperatures around Las Vegas at 5:23 p.m. on June 10. In the city, the hottest surfaces were the dark-colored streets at more than 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).
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NASA's ECOSTRESS Sees Las Vegas Streets Turn Up the Heat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-22 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument recorded this image of ground surface temperatures in Houston and its environs on June 20, 2022.
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NASA's ECOSTRESS Shows Surface Heat in Houston
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-22 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument recorded this image of ground surface temperatures in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, on June 20, 2022.
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NASA's ECOSTRESS Shows Heat in Dallas and Fort Worth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-22 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument recorded this image of ground surface temperatures in London and surrounding areas on July 15, 2022.
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NASA's ECOSTRESS Shows Overnight Heat in London
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-12 Earth ENVISAT
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This image shows strain rates on the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey along the east-to-west sequence of earthquakes since 1939. Tectonic strain builds up along this fault -- one of the worlds most deadly earthquake zones -- at a remarkably steady rate.
PIA22412:
Turkish Fault Reveals Seismic Steadiness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
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An engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) works with an engineering model of part of the Europa Imaging System (EIS) that will fly aboard NASA's Europa Clipper.
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Europa Clipper's Europa Imaging System in the Works
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
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Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC).
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Europa Imaging System Narrow Angle Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Europa Clipper
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Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Wide Angle Camera (WAC).
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Europa Imaging System Wide Angle Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-13 M33 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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This image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, is a perennial favorite of amateur and professional astronomers alike, due to its orientation and relative proximity to us.
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Anatomy of a Triangulum
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Callisto Galileo
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Images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft provide new insights into this region near Callisto's south pole. This two frame mosaic shows a heavily cratered surface with smooth plains in the areas between craters.
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Heavy Cratering near Callisto's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-21 Europa Galileo
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During the two year Galileo Europa Mission (GEM), NASA's Galileo spacecraft will focus intensively on Jupiter's intriguing moon, Europa. This montage shows samples of some of the features that will be imaged during eight successive orbits.
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Europa Imaging Highlights During GEM
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-13 Callisto Galileo
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This mosaic shows the Asgard multi-ring structure on Callisto, Jupiter's second largest icy moon. Images obtained with the clear filter of the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system when NASA's Galileo spacecraft was less than 9,500 kilometers from Callisto.
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Asgard Multi-Ring Structure on Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-07-10 Europa Galileo
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This false-color image reveals the scar of a past major impact of a comet or small asteroid on Europa's surface. A city-sized impact crater was viewed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
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Europa Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-12 GRACE-FO
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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) twin satellites, attached to turntable fixtures, at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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GRACE-FO Satellites in a Clean Room at Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-12 GRACE-FO
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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) twin satellites, attached to turntable fixtures, at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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GRACE-FO Satellites in a Clean Room at Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-12 GRACE-FO
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One of the two Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites and its turntable fixture at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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GRACE-FO Satellites in a Clean Room at Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-12 GRACE-FO
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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) twin satellites, attached to turntable fixtures, at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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GRACE-FO Satellites in a Clean Room at Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Two NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars, taken about a month apart on September 18 and October 15, 1996, reveal a state-sized dust storm churning near the edge of the Martian north polar cap.
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Springtime Dust Storm Swirls at Martian North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Uranus Hubble Space Telescope
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five of the inner moons, and bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere.
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Hubble Observes the Moons and Rings of Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Neptune Hubble Space Telescope
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Using powerful ground-and space-based NASA telescopes, scientists have obtained a moving look at some of the wildest, weirdest weather in the solar system.
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Neptune's Stormy Disposition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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This is a spectacular NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter.
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Satellite Footprints Seen in Jupiter Aurora
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-01 Globular cluster M22 Hubble Space Telescope
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Scientists are mystified by what may be unexpected, wandering, planet-sized objects. This image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope implies the presence of these objects.
PIA04202:
Globular Cluster M22
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-02 M82 Galaxy Hubble Space Telescope
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A colorful image showing violent star formation triggered when two galaxies bumped into each other has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Galaxy M82
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 Hubble -V Hubble Space Telescope
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Resembling curling flames from a campfire, a magnificent nebula in a nearby galaxy observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provides new insight into the fierce birth of stars as it may have occurred in the early universe.
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Hubble-V
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-28 InSight
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This artist rendition is of the Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) Lander. InSight proposes to place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep interior.
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InSight, a Mars MIssion (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-20 InSight
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Artist rendition of the formation of rocky bodies in the solar system -- how they form and differentiate and evolve into terrestrial planets.
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Mars Interior (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-20 InSight
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Artist rendition of the InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander.
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Artist's Rendition of InSight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-26 InSight
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This artist's concept depicts the stationary NASA Mars lander known by the acronym InSight at work studying the interior of Mars. InSight is scheduled to launch in March 2016.
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Artist's Concept of InSight Lander on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-17 InSight
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Technicians in a Lockheed Martin clean room near Denver prepare NASA's InSight Mars lander for propulsion proof and leak testing on Oct. 31, 2014. Following the test, the lander was moved to another clean room for start of the mission's ATLO phase.
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Work on NASA's InSight Lander Starts New Phase
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-04 Mars InSight
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This map shows the single area under continuing evaluation as the InSight mission's Mars landing site, as of a year before the mission's May 2016 launch of flat-lying Elysium Planitia.
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Landing Site for InSight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-04 InSight
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In the weeks after NASA's InSight mission reaches Mars in September 2016, the lander's arm will lift two science instruments off the deck and place them onto the ground.
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Testing for Instrument Deployment by InSight's Robotic Arm
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