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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance took this selfie on May 10, 2025. The small puff of dust left of center and below the horizon line is a dust devil.
PIA26574:
Dust Devil Photobombs Perseverance's Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-15 Deimos Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025.
PIA26556:
Perseverance Views Deimos Before Sunrise
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-12 Mars Europa Clipper
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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
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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 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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At one of the Mount Vernon, Alabama, fires, firefighters used AVIRIS-3 maps to determine where to establish fire breaks beyond the northwestern end of the fire.
PIA26499:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Mount Vernon, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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As firefighters worked to prevent a wildfire near Perdido, Alabama, they saw in an infrared fire map from NASA's AVIRIS-3 sensor that showed the fire's hot spot was inside its perimeter.
PIA26498:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Perdido, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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NASA's AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer was used to map a wildfire near Castleberry, Alabama, on March 19, 2025. Within minutes, the image was transmitted to firefighters on the ground, who used it to contain the blaze.
PIA26497:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Castleberry, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-12 NEO Surveyor
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The instrument enclosure of NASA's NEO Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston in December 2024.
PIA26583:
NEO Surveyor Instrument Enclosure Inside Historic Chamber A
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-12 NEO Surveyor
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The instrument enclosure for NASA's NEO Surveyor is prepared for environmental testing in the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston in December 2024.
PIA26582:
NEO Surveyor Instrument Enclosure Begins Environmental Tests
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-11 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 2025-02-26 Lunar Trailblazer
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Sunlight gleams off NASA's Lunar Trailblazer as the spacecraft orbits the Moon in this artist's concept. The mission will discover where the Moon's water is, producing the best-yet maps of water on the lunar surface.
PIA26429:
Lunar Trailblazer in Science Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.
PIA26519:
Curiosity Views Twilight Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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This artist's concept depicts the SPHEREx spacecraft's orbital plane in orange, and its field of view in green.
PIA26532:
SPHEREx's Perspective From Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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This artist's concept shows the SPHEREx spacecraft and its distinctive conical photon shields, which protect the telescope from infrared light and heat from the Sun and Earth.
PIA26531:
SPHEREx in Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This pair of images shows the Martian surface captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera on Nov. 7, 2024, the 4,357th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26516:
MARDI Peeks Under Curiosity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's InSight Mars lander acquires the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet in a set of images from 2018 to 2024 that were captured by the agency's MRO HiRISE camera.
PIA26515:
HiRISE Studies the Dust on InSight
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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 2024-11-15 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Eastern Black Sea region on the slopes of the Pontic mountain range, in Turkey.
PIA26450:
Pontic Range, Turkey
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-31 Earth SWOT
 KaRIn
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A SWOT data visualization shows high water levels on the northern side of Greenland's Dickson Fjord on Sept. 17, 2023. A huge rockslide into the fjord led to a tsunami.
PIA26420:
SWOT Captures Planet-Rumbling Greenland Tsunami
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-30 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of the Martian moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on Sept. 30, 2024.
PIA26380:
Perseverance Captures Transit of Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The white material seen within this gully is believed to be dusty water ice in a Martian region called Dao Vallis, captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA26408:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Dao Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges of Martian gullies in a region named Terra Sirenum.
PIA26407:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-02 Asteroid ATLAS
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This animation depicts the motion of small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 as it orbits the Sun.
PIA26452:
Asteroid 2024 PT5's Orbit Around the Sun (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-11 4032x3024x3
These formations similar to the Red Planet's spiders appeared within Martian soil simulant during experiments in JPL's DUSTIE chamber.
PIA26406:
Cracks Forming in Frozen Martian Soil Simulant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's NEO Surveyor in deep space. The black-paneled angular structure in the belly of the spacecraft is the instrument enclosure that is being built at JPL.
PIA26388:
NASA's NEO Surveyor in Deep Space (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Gediz Vallis channel on March 31. This area was likely formed by large floods of water and debris that piled jumbles of rocks into mounds within the channel.
PIA26367:
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-03 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This sunset photo shows NASA's Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14), the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California.
PIA26150:
The Goldstone Solar System Radar at Sunset
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-02 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19 recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns in minutes to seconds, as indicated in the legend above.
PIA25529:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars MAVEN
 Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS)
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The purple color in this animated GIF shows auroras on Mars' nightside as detected by the ultraviolet instrument aboard NASA's MAVEN orbiter between May 14 and 20, 2024. The brighter the purple, the more auroras were present.
PIA26304:
MAVEN Detects Auroras During Solar Storm in 2024
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Navcam (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured streaks and specks using one of its navigation cameras just as particles from a solar storm arrived on the Martian surface. These artifacts are caused by energetic particles hitting the camera's image detector.
PIA26302:
Curiosity Sees Streaks and Specks During 2024 Solar Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Sol (our sun) Mars 2020 Rover
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Sunspots are seen in images captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z cameras between May 8 and 20, 2024. These flares would send charged particles toward Mars, where several NASA spacecraft were able to study them.
PIA26301:
Perseverance Views Sunspots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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One of the two shoebox-size CubeSats that make up NASA's PREFIRE mission sits on a table at Blue Canyon Technologies. The company built the satellite bus and integrated the JPL-provided thermal infrared spectrometer instrument.
PIA26186:
PREFIRE CubeSat Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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This artist's concept depicts one of two PREFIRE CubeSats in orbit around Earth. The NASA mission will measure the amount of far-infrared radiation the planet's polar regions shed to space.
PIA26185:
PREFIRE CubeSat in Earth Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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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 2024-04-22 Voyager
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After receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in five months, members of the Voyager flight team celebrate in a conference room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 20, 2024.
PIA26275:
Voyager Team Celebrates Engineering Data Return
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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 2024-03-05 Mercury Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in front of the Sun on Oct. 28, 2023.
PIA26250:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Deimos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Deimos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26249:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Deimos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Feb. 8, 2024.
PIA26248:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-14 NICER
NuSTAR
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A magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this artist's concept. The magnetar's strong, twisted magnetic field lines can influence the flow of electrically charged material from the object.
PIA26274:
A Magnetar Loses Mass (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Hazcam (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's shadow is visible on the surface in these images taken by the front Hazcam.
PIA26209:
Curiosity's Hazcams Capture a Day on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-21 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers tested the system that will lower three small rovers onto the lunar surface when NASA's CADRE technology demonstration arrives at the Moon aboard a lunar lander.
PIA26163:
Testing the Deployer System for NASA's CADRE Project
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-11 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
 EMIT
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NASA's EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth's dry regions using data from the year ending November 2023.
PIA26116:
NASA's EMIT Mission Produces Maps of Arid Region Surface Minerals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-30 SunRISE
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The six satellites that make up NASA's SunRISE mission are each only about the size of a cereal box, flanked by small solar panels. SmallSats will work together to effectively create a much larger radio antenna in space.
PIA25789:
Completed SunRISE SmallSats Pictured Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This unusual view of the horizon of Mars was captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter using its THEMIS camera, in an operation that took engineers three months to plan.
PIA26203:
Odyssey's THEMIS Views the Horizon of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-14 NISAR
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The NISAR satellite enters the thermal vacuum chamber at an ISRO facility in Bengaluru on Oct. 19, 2023.
PIA26114:
NISAR Passes Thermal Vacuum Test in Indian Spacecraft Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of the location where it will be parked for several weeks during Mars solar conjunction.
PIA26202:
Perseverance's Parking Spot During Conjunction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-10 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter captured this view on Nov. 3, 2023, of its parking spot during Mars solar conjunction – a period when the Sun is between Earth and Mars, limiting communications.
PIA26050:
Ingenuity's View of Sand Going Into Conjunction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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The telescope for NASA's SPHEREx mission undergoes testing at JPL. It is tilted on its base so it can see as much of the sky as possible while remaining within the protection of three concentric cones that protect the telescope from light and heat.
PIA25787:
SPHEREx Telescope at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Part of one of the protective photon shields for NASA's SPHEREx telescope are shown here being assembled at Applied Aerospace Structures in Stockton, California.
PIA25785:
SPHEREx Photon Shields Assembled
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA's SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft's photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light and heat from the Sun and the Earth.
PIA25784:
SPHEREx Outer Photon Shield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-25 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 2023-09-01 Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft will gather science at the asteroid Psyche at four orbit altitudes, as depicted in this graphic. It has been updated to reflect an October 2023 launch.
PIA26102:
Psyche Orbital Operations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-01 Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft takes a spiral path to the asteroid Psyche, as depicted in this graphic that shows the path from above the plane of the planets, labeled with key milestones of the prime mission.
PIA24930:
Psyche's Mission Plan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-24 Carbon Mapper Coalition
 Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in April 2023 examine the imaging spectrometer that will ride aboard the first of two satellites to be launched by the Carbon Mapper Coalition.
PIA25869:
JPL Engineers Work on Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-08 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in 2022. It produced a plume 58 km high, the biggest atmospheric explosion ever recorded.
PIA26006:
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-08 Earth Suomi NPP
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Amid a record heat wave in July, the Phoenix area saw surfaces such as roads and buildings stay hot long after sunset, as documented in NASA-NOAA satellite data that was used to produce this series of maps.
PIA25868:
Phoenix Land-Surface Temperatures Documented Amid Record Heat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-25 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows shade covering shelter farmed ginseng from the effects of direct sunlight in Heilongjiang province, northeast China.
PIA25895:
Heilongjiang Province, China
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-15 Earth 1440x700x3
A March 2023 study by JPL researchers compared methane emissions in 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, to emissions measured in 2016-17. It found large reductions in overall emission rates.
PIA25864:
Declining Methane Emissions at California Oil Fields and Refineries
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This collage represents a selection of NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2006 HV5 on April 25, 2023, less than one day before its close approach with our planet at a distance of about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers).
PIA25834:
NASA's Planetary Radar Images Asteroid 2006 HV5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-06 NuSTAR
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In this illustration of an ultra-luminous X-ray source, two rivers of hot gas are pulled onto the surface of a neutron star. Strong magnetic fields may change the interaction of matter and light, increasing how bright they can become.
PIA25781:
Magnetic Fields Around an Ultraluminous X-ray Source (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take a series of images of drifting clouds just before sunrise on March 18, 2023.
PIA25821:
Perseverance Views Drifting Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This feather-shaped iridescent cloud was captured just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023. Studying the colors in iridescent clouds tells scientists something about particle size within the clouds and how they grow over time.
PIA25740:
Curiosity Views Feather-Shaped Iridescent Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these sun rays shining through clouds at sunset on Feb. 2, 2023. It was the first time that sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, have been viewed so clearly on Mars.
PIA25739:
Curiosity Views First Martian 'Sun Rays'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows mass wasting activity within a very steep (more than 60 degrees) scarp.
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A Look at a Steep North Polar Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-09 Sol (our sun) NuSTAR
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This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's NuSTAR shown in blue; lower energy X-ray data from the XRT on the JAXA's Hinode mission shown in green; and ultraviolet light detected by the AIA on NASA's SDO shown in red.
PIA25628:
Three-Telescope View of the Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-24 Asteroid Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on Dec. 8, 2022, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA25664:
NASA's Psyche: Picking up Launch Prep for 2023
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Asteroid NEO Surveyor
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NASA's NEO Surveyor is seen in this illustration against an infrared observation of a starfield made by the agency's WISE mission.
PIA25253:
NEO Surveyor in an Infrared Starfield Filled With Asteroids (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This video shows the deployment of the solar arrays that power the SWOT satellite. The arrays deployed over the course of about 10 minutes after the spacecraft's Dec. 16, 2022, launch.
PIA25563:
Deployment of SWOT's Solar Arrays
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Europa Juno
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NASA's Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter's intriguing, icy moon Europa during a close pass on September 29, 2022.
PIA25694:
Looking for Eruptions at Jupiter's Moon Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-12 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This illustration shows the SWOT satellite in orbit with sunlight glinting off one array of solar panels, as well as both KaRIn instrument antennas deployed.
PIA25595:
SWOT in Orbit (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-12 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed. The small satellite will take about three months to reach its science orbit to seek out surface water ice in the Moon's South Pole.
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Lunar Flashlight With Solar Arrays Deployed (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Earth Aqua
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The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite detected volcanic sulfur dioxide (SOâ‚‚) plumes emanating from Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, which started erupting Nov. 27, 2022.
PIA25562:
NASA's AIRS Instrument Tracks Volcanic Sulfur Dioxide Plume from Mauna Loa Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-22 Orion Nebula Herschel Space Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it's possible to see hot spots where new stars are forming, while unseen bright, massive stars have carved out caverns of empty space.
PIA25434:
Orion Nebula in Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This illustration shows the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite in orbit with its solar panels and KaRIn instrument antennas deployed.
PIA25623:
SWOT Orbiting Earth (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite with solar arrays fully deployed.
PIA25622:
SWOT Satellite With Solar Arrays in Full View (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 14, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a curious depression with zig-zag walls on the north rim of Secchi Crater.
PIA25559:
The Tale of a Retreating Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-13 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to view Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, on Jan. 12, 2022, the 319th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25419:
Perseverance Views Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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The image cube's front panel is a true-color view of part of southwestern Libya observed by NASA's EMIT mission. The side panels depict the spectral fingerprints for every point in the image.
PIA25430:
NASA's EMIT Mission Generates Image Cube of Surface Minerals in Southwestern Libya
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT mission recently gathered mineral spectra in northwest Nevada that match what the agency's AVIRIS instrument found in 2018, helping to confirm EMIT's accuracy.
PIA25428:
NASA's EMIT Collects Mineral Maps, Spectral Fingerprints From Nevada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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This image cube shows the true-color view of an area in northwest Nevada observed by NASA's EMIT imaging spectrometer. The side panels depict the spectral fingerprint for each point in the image.
PIA25427:
NASA's EMIT Generates Image Cube of Surface Minerals in Northwest Nevada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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The mineral map shows a part of southwestern Libya, in the Sahara, observed by NASA's EMIT mission.
PIA25424:
EMIT Instrument's First Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Star James Webb Space Telescope
 Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)
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The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 produce shells of dust every eight years that look like rings, as seen in this image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Each ring was created when the stars came close together and their stellar winds collided.
PIA25432:
Dust Rings in the Wolf-Rayet 140 System
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This graphic shows the relative size of the Sun, upper left, compared to the two stars in the system known as Wolf-Rayet 140. The O-type star is roughly 30 times the mass of the Sun, while its companion is about 10 times the mass of the Sun.
PIA25431:
Comparing Sizes: the Sun and WR 140
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-11 Earth S-MODE
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Autonomous wave gliders are seen being prepared for deployment on the deck of the research vessel Oceanus during the pilot campaign for NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. West Coast.
PIA25522:
High Seas at Sunset During S-MODE Field Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows sand dunes moving across the landscape. Winter frost covers the colder, north-facing half of each dune.
PIA25552:
Frosted Dunes in the Depths of Winter
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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.
PIA25423:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Shows Overnight Heat in London
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-29 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This collage and animation represent NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 7335 1989 JA on May 26, 2022, one day before it made its closest approach with Earth.
PIA25251:
Radar Observations of Near-Earth Asteroid 7335 1989 JA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows several craters in Eridania Planitia.
PIA25389:
Morning Frost - False Color
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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.
PIA25422:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Shows Heat in Dallas and Fort Worth
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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.
PIA25421:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Shows Surface Heat in Houston
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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).
PIA24988:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Sees Las Vegas Streets Turn Up the Heat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-31 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the south polar cap. The sun has just risen on the cap as winter has transitioned into spring.
PIA25372:
South Polar Cap
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-26 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This graphic depicts the environmental conditions at Jezero Crater from the day NASA's Perseverance Mars rover landed through Sol 600.
PIA25322:
Environmental Plot at Jezero
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 16, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows massive deposits of sediments rich in hydrated sulfates in central Valles Marineris.
PIA25352:
Cliffs of Crumbling, Layered Sediments
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-21 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument.
PIA25015:
Juno Captures Moon Shadow on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, eclipsing the Sun.
PIA25179:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Captures a Phobos Solar Eclipse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-15 Mars InSight
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NASA's InSight lander snapped a series of images of the Sun rising and setting on Mars using the camera on its robotic arm on April 10, 2022, the 1,198th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25178:
InSight Captures a Martian Sunrise and Sunset
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-06 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily identified on NASA's Psyche spacecraft, seen in this December 2021 photograph.
PIA24570:
DSOC Flight Laser Transceiver Integrated with NASA's Psyche Spacecraft
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