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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-12 Mars Europa Clipper
E-THEMIS
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This picture of Mars is a colorized composite of several images captured by Europa Clipper's thermal imager.
PIA26566:
Europa Clipper Captures Infrared Image of Mars (Color Added)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-12 Mars Europa Clipper
E-THEMIS
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This picture of Mars is a composite of several images captured by Europa Clipper's thermal imager on March 1, 2025.
PIA26565:
Mars in Infrared, Captured by NASA's Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-29 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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JunoCam captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant planet's cloud tops on Jan. 28, 2025.
PIA26595:
Juno Sees Turbulence in Jupiter's Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-29 Io Juno
JIRAM
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Made with data from the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno, this animation shows the south polar region of Jupiter's moon Io during a Dec. 27, 2024, flyby.
PIA26594:
Juno's JIRAM Captures Hots Spots on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 4284x5712x3
Engineers from JPL and NASA Johnson set up a test of the xEMU boot inside CITADEL. The chamber offers unique capabilities that have made it useful for testing spacesuit parts.
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Preparing CITADEL for Astronaut Boot Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 2894x2714x3
An astronaut boot – part of a NASA lunar spacesuit prototype, the xEMU – is readied for testing in JPL's CITADEL.
PIA26592:
Astronaut Boot Test in JPL's CITADEL
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Engineers with NASA Johnson and the NASA Engineering and Safety Center ready an astronaut glove for insertion into the main CITADEL chamber at JPL.
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Preparing for Astronaut Glove Testing in CITADEL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 7141x4017x3
An astronaut glove is prepped for testing in a chamber called CITADEL at NASA JPL. Conducted at frigid temperatures, the testing supports next-generation spacesuit development.
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Astronaut Glove Tested in JPL's CITADEL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-11 Europa Clipper
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Soon after NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft launched on Oct. 14, 2024, the mission team powered on each of the science instruments for a series of test or checkout activities.
PIA26564:
Europa Clipper Camera Passes First Test in Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-04 Star Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured multiple star and planet images in late January 2025 that include notable appearances by Mars, Jupiter, and the Jovian moons Io, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.
PIA26563:
NASA's Psyche Images Stars, Jovian System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-27 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this series of images as it approached the giant planet and swung low over its north polar region on Sept. 20, 2024.
PIA25730:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures Close-Ups of Polar Storms on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-20 DUSTIE
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To simulate conditions on the giant asteroid Vesta that would occur after meteoroids strike the surface, scientists used the Dirty Under-vacuum Simulation Testbed for Icy Environments (DUSTIE), at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA26070:
Using JPL's DUSTIE Planetary Simulation Chamber to Mimic Vesta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
JIRAM
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A map of infrared radiance in Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io.
PIA26525:
The Islands of Loki as Viewed by Voyager 1 and Juno's JIRAM
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft collected this visible wavelength image of Io's night side while the surface was illuminated by Jupiter-shine on April 4, 2024.
PIA26524:
NASA's Juno Sees Changes at Masubi
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft observed an unprecedented glow from active lava at the base of a mountain on Io.
PIA26522:
NASA's Juno Sees Glowing Lava on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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A zoom of a Dec. 30, 2023, image from the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft shows Io's night side while illuminated by Jupiter-shine.
PIA26490:
NASA's Juno Sees New Flows at Zal Montes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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This black-and-white image of Io's surface was taken by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during a close flyby of the volcanic moon on Dec. 30, 2023.
PIA26489:
NASA's Juno Sees Fresh Lava Flows at Zal Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
JunoCam
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captured these images showing surface changes at Nusku Patera (center in each sub-figure) on Jupiter's moon Io.
PIA26488:
Surface Changes at Nusku Captured by NASA's Juno
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
JunoCam
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A new volcanic feature east of Kanehekili on Jupiter's moon Io was imaged by NASA's Juno mission during its 58th close flyby of the gas giant on Feb. 3, 2024.
PIA26487:
NASA's Juno Sees New Feature East of Kanehekili
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
JunoCam
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This global map of Jupiter's moon Io shows the volcanic activity and other surface changes detected by the JunoCam instrument.
PIA26486:
Surface Changes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
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Lava islands within Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io are depicted in an artist's concept that's based on data from the JIRAM instrument about NASA's Juno spacecraft.
PIA26485:
A View of Loki (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
JunoCam
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The north polar region of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA's Juno during spacecraft's the 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023.
PIA26484:
Juno Captures North Polar Region of Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
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An artist's concept shows the internal structure of Jupiter's moon Io.
PIA26483:
Io's Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-26 Europa Europa Clipper
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On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth, using the gravity of each planet as a slingshot to boost the spacecraft's speed.
PIA26435:
Europa Clipper's Trajectory to Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3900x2860x3
Two prototypes for a NASA mission concept called SWIM are arranged beside a much smaller nonfunctioning model representing the final envisioned size of the robot: about 5 inches (12 centimeters) long.
PIA26425:
NASA's SWIM Prototypes
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A model of the final envisioned SWIM robot, right, sits beside a capsule holding an ocean-composition sensor. The sensor was tested on an Alaskan glacier in July 2023.
PIA26424:
Model of NASA's SWIM Robot on Glacial Ice in Alaska
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3840x2160x3
A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water's surface during a pool test at Caltech in September, 2024.
PIA26423:
NASA's SWIM Robot Casts Reflection During Pool Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-14 Europa Europa Clipper
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Mission members celebrate during the successful launch of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 14, 2024, in the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA26422:
Europa Clipper Launch Team at JPL's Mission Control
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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This animation shows how NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will orbit Jupiter and perform 49 flybys of Europa during its prime mission.
PIA26463:
Portion of Europa Clipper's Tour at Jupiter (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
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Ultraviolet observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2012 illustrate two key elements in the thin atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Europa: hydrogen and oxygen.
PIA26462:
Hubble's Ultraviolet Observations Reveal Hydrogen and Oxygen at Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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This graphic illustrates the main science objectives of NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.
PIA26461:
Science Objectives of NASA's Europa Clipper Mission
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept shows how scientists think the thin atmosphere on Jupiter's moon Europa is formed.
PIA26107:
Creation of Europa's Atmosphere (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Galileo
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Colors were mapped onto infrared data from NASA's Galileo mission in this image revealing locations around a crater on the Jovian moon Europa where there are signatures of water.
PIA26104:
Map of Water Signatures at Europa's Manannán Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces.
PIA26103:
Icy Moons in Our Solar System That May Have Oceans Now
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft approaching Jupiter and its icy moon Europa.
PIA26445:
Europa Clipper Approaches Its Target (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the gas giant's ice-covered moon Europa.
PIA26444:
Europa Clipper Explores an Icy Ocean World (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft performing a close flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
PIA26443:
Europa Clipper Zooms Over Its Target of Study (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft silhouetted against Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon Europa.
PIA26442:
Europa Clipper Spies Jupiter and Europa (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft carries a suite of nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses its telecommunications system.
PIA26439:
Europa Clipper: Equipped for Discovery (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA26437:
Europa Clipper Launch Ascent Timeline
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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Jupiter's moon Europa is smaller than Earth's moon yet may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
PIA26434:
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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With its solar arrays and antennas fully extended, the Europa Clipper spacecraft stretches out larger than a basketball court.
PIA26433:
Europa Clipper: NASA's Largest Planetary Spacecraft (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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A planetary protection engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepares samples for analysis on March 20, 2024.
PIA26441:
Preparing for Planetary Protection Analysis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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A planetary protection engineer carefully collects samples from NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft to verify its biological cleanliness.
PIA26440:
Keeping Europa Clipper Clean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists believe that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
PIA26438:
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is tasked with up-close study of Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa.
PIA26436:
Europa Clipper's Elliptical Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts the long, looping path NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will take to reach the Jupiter system.
PIA26432:
Europa Clipper's Looping Journey to Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit at Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon Europa.
PIA26431:
Europa Clipper in the Shadow of Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-29 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
Deep Space Network
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This series of radar images obtained by the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Aug. 18, 2024, shows the asteroid 2024 JV33 shortly before its close approach with Earth.
PIA26389:
Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.
PIA26068:
Europa Clipper Artist's Concept
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-20 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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This view of Jupiter was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's 62nd close flyby of the giant planet on June 13, 2024. Citizen scientist Jackie Branc made the image using raw JunoCam data.
PIA26350:
JunoCam Captures Jupiter on 62nd Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-31 ORCAA
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A group of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions spent two weeks on a glacier in Alaska in July 2023 for a project called ORCAA.
PIA26345:
NASA JPL'S ORCAA Field Work in Alaska
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-19 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet's northern hemisphere, during its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024.
PIA25729:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Io Juno
JIRAM
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Infrared data collected Oct. 15, 2023, by the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft shows Chors Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter's moon Io.
PIA26371:
Juno Captures Lava Lake Chors Patera on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Io Juno
JunoCam
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured two volcanic plumes rising above the horizon of Jupiter's moon Io. The image was taken Feb. 3, 2024, from a distance of about 2,400 miles (3,800 kilometers).
PIA26340:
JunoCam Captures Io Spouting Off
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Europa Juno
Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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This black-and-white image of Europa's surface was taken by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the Sept. 29, 2022, flyby. The chaos feature nicknamed the Platypus is seen in the lower right corner.
PIA26332:
Europa Seen Up Close by Juno's SRU
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Europa Juno
JunoCam
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Jupiter's moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. The images show the fractures, ridges, and bands that crisscross the moon's surface.
PIA26331:
A JunoCam View of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-13 Amalthea Juno
JunoCam
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet on March 7, 2024.
PIA25728:
NASA's Juno Mission Spots Jupiter's Tiny Moon Amalthea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-18 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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This composite shows views of Jupiter's northern polar cyclones in three different wavelengths of light – microwave, visible, and ultraviolet – as captured by NASA's Juno mission.
PIA26295:
NASA's Juno Catches 3 Waves of Jupiter's Polar Cyclones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-17 Io Juno
JunoCam
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's moon Io during Juno's 60th flyby of Jupiter on Apr. 9, 2024.
PIA25697:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures View of Io's South Polar Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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The viewing gallery above High Bay 1 in JPL's historic Spacecraft Assembly Facility provided members of the media with a vantage point to observe the clean room where Europa Clipper was put together.
PIA26292:
A View of Europa Clipper From Above
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Members of the media visited a clean room at JPL April 11 to get a close-up look at NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The spacecraft is expected to launch in October 2024 to the Jupiter system, where it will study the ice-encased moon Europa.
PIA26291:
JPL Shows Off Europa Clipper in the Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Europa Clipper Science Communications Lead Cynthia Phillips explains the science of the mission to members of the media in von Kármán Auditorium at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 11.
PIA25319:
Explaining the Science of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen being lifted into the Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024. Thermal vacuum testing, which lasted 16 days, ensures that the spacecraft will withstand the harsh conditions of space.
PIA26065:
Europa Clipper Rolls Into Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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Europa Clipper is seen in the 85-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024, before the start of thermal vacuum testing. A battery of tests ensures that the NASA spacecraft can withstand the extreme hot, cold, and airless environment of space.
PIA26064:
Europa Clipper Prepares for Test in Space Simulator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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The art on this side of the plate features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by the word water in 103 languages. At center is a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for water.
PIA26063:
Europa Clipper's 'Water Words'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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A commemorative plate mounted on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft features U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's handwritten In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa. It will be affixed with a silicon microchip stenciled with names submitted by the public.
PIA26062:
Europa Clipper's 'Golden Record'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-04 Europa Juno
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This illustration shows charged particles from Jupiter impacting Europa's surface, splitting frozen water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Scientists believe these newly created oxygen gases could migrate toward the moon's subsurface ocean.
PIA26239:
Oxygen Production at Europa (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-30 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26061:
Europa Clipper With Instruments Aboard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
Landing System
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Engineer Matthew Cameron-Hooper performs a checkout on some systems of the Europa Lander landing gear testbed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on May 27, 2022.
PIA26200:
System Checkouts on Testbed for Europa Lander Landing Gear
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
Landing System
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Engineers test the mechanical landing system for the proposed Europa Lander project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept. 15, 2022.
PIA26199:
Testing a Landing Gear for Potential Future Landing on Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
Landing System
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare flight-like landing gear in the Europa Lander landing gear testbed in summer 2022.
PIA26198:
Engineers Prepare Europa Lander Landing Gear for Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 Io Juno
JunoCam
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This JunoCam image of Jupiter's moon Io captures a plume of material ejected from the (unseen) volcano Prometheus. The image was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft on June 15, 2023.
PIA26235:
Io Plume Captured by JunoCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-16 Psyche
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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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
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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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
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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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 Europa Europa Lander
Landing System
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On Aug. 17 and 18, 2023, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tested the landing system for a proposed future mission that would touch down on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
PIA26010:
Testing Hardware for Potential Future Landing on Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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NASA's Juno captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 54th close flyby of the giant planet on Sept. 7, 2023. The image was made with raw data from the JunoCam instrument that was processed to enhance details in cloud features and colors.
PIA26077:
NASA's Juno Mission Images Jupiter's Belts and Zones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 Jupiter Juno
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This illustration depicts findings that Jupiter's atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner and parallel to its spin axis.
PIA26076:
Cylindrical Orientation of Jupiter's East-West Jet-Streams
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-30 Ganymede Juno
JIRAM
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Processed data from the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) spectrometer aboard NASA's Juno mission is superimposed on a mosaic of optical images from the agency's Galileo and Voyager spacecraft that show grooved terrain on Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
PIA26075:
Ganymede Grooved Terrain as Seen by Juno's JIRAM
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-25 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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As often occurs in views from NASA's Juno mission, Jupiter's clouds in this picture lend themselves to pareidolia, the effect that causes observers to perceive faces or other patterns in largely random patterns.
PIA25727:
Just in Time for Halloween, NASA's Juno Mission Spots Eerie "Face" on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA's Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL on Oct. 7, 2023. The vault will protect the electronics of the spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter.
PIA25959:
Closing of the Europa Clipper Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-12 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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Just hours before NASA's Juno mission completed its 53rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 31, 2023, the spacecraft sped past the planet's volcanic moon Io and captured this dramatic view of both bodies in the same frame.
PIA25726:
A Portrait of Planet and Moon: NASA's Juno Mission Captures Jupiter and Io Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-28 Asteroid Psyche
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Members of NASA's Psyche mission pose at JPL in April 2022.
PIA25140:
Psyche Mission Team at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-28 Asteroid Psyche
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Psyche undergoes vibration testing at JPL in March 2022 to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the jostling of launch.
PIA25139:
Psyche Undergoes Vibration Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-28 Asteroid Psyche
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft with its large solar arrays fully deployed and one of its four Hall-effect thrusters firing (visible via its blue glow) atop the spacecraft's body.
PIA25138:
Psyche Spacecraft en Route to the Asteroid Belt (Artist's Concept)
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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 2023-07-26 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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Photo illustration of Jupiter and the three Jovian moons (Ganymede, Europa, Io – from left to right) NASA's Juno mission has flown past, was created from data collected by the spacecraft's JunoCam imager.
PIA25966:
Jovian Family Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-26 Io Juno
JunoCam
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At top and bottom right, JunoCam images taken in May 2023 of Jupiter's moon Io show lava fields surrounding volcanoes Volund A and B appear to be growing in size.
PIA25964:
Io Over the Years
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-18 Asteroid Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on June 26, 2023, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA25953:
Home Stretch to Launch for Psyche
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-18 Asteroid Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on June 26, 2023, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA25952:
Psyche Ramping up to Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-22 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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As NASA's Juno spacecraft flew low over the giant planet's cloud tops, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at bands of high-altitude haze forming above cyclones in an area known at Jet N7.
PIA25725:
NASA's Juno Mission Observes High-Altitude Hazes in Jupiter's atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-15 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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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 2023-05-15 Io Juno
JunoCam
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This composite image of Io was generated using data collected by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during four flybys of the Jovian moon.
PIA25887:
4 JunoCam Views of Jovian Moon Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-14 Europa Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
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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 2022-12-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Roman Coronagraph
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The filters on NASA's Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument's Color Filter Assembly each block all but a specific wavelength of light. Many of the filters appear dark in this photo because they are transparent only to infrared light.
PIA25436:
Roman Coronagraph Instrument Color Filter Assembly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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JunoCam, the color public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this sequence of images during its 46th close pass by the giant planet on September 29, 2022.
PIA25723:
Juno Offers a Window Seat for a Jupiter Flyby
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