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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 2025-05-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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A dust devil whirled by in the distance as one of the cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the Mars rover coring a sample near the rim of Jezero Crater on April 29, 2025.
PIA26572:
Dust Devil Whirls by Perseverance Coring Operation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-14 Voyager
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NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now traveling through interstellar space at around 35,000 mph (56,000 kph). This artist's concept depicts one of the probes speeding away.
PIA26353:
NASA's Voyager Probe Speeds Through Space (Artist's Concept)
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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 2025-05-01 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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Infrared image showing a dense field of teal stars with faint, cloudy regions of interstellar dust, captured by NASA's SPHEREx mission.
PIA26352:
SPHEREx's Dust Cloud Reveal
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-01 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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This video shows SPHEREx's field of view as it scans across one section of sky inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, with rainbow colors representing the infrared wavelengths the telescope's detectors see.
PIA26351:
SPHEREx Scans the Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-29 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Hutt Lagoon, an elongate lake, located in a dune swale adjacent to the coast of the Indian Ocean, in the mid west region of Western Australia.
PIA26510:
Hutt Lagoon, Australia
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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 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back down at the floor of Gale Crater from its location on Mount Sharp on Feb. 7, 2025.
PIA26551:
Curiosity Looks Downslope From the Sulfate Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020, the 2,946th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26552:
Curiosity on the Road to Boxwork Formations
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Artist's concept of a young, newly discovered planet, exposed to observation by a warped debris disk.
PIA26601:
Young Exoplanet (Artist's Concept)
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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.
PIA26593:
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.
PIA26591:
Preparing for Astronaut Glove Testing in CITADEL
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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.
PIA26430:
Astronaut Glove Tested in JPL's CITADEL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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NASA's Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA26553:
HiRISE Views Curiosity During a Drive
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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 2025-04-17 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed Ubajara on April 30, 2023.
PIA26554:
Curiosity Surveys the 'Ubajara' Sampling Site on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Mastcam-Z
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Sealing the Green Gardens sample, collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, presented an engineering challenge. The sample was finally sealed on March 2, 2025.
PIA26529:
'Green Gardens' Sample in Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill on March 10, 2025.
PIA26571:
Perseverance Cores 'Main River'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Mastcam-Z
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This mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance on Dec. 25, 2024, at the site where the rover cored a sample dubbed Silver Mountain.
PIA26530:
Christmas at Crater Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-08 Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Suzanne Dodd, the director for the Interplanetary Network Directorate at JPL, addresses an audience at the Deep Space Network's Canberra complex on March 19, 2025. That day marked 60 years since the Australian facility joined the network.
PIA26585:
JPL's Suzanne Dodd Speaks at the DSN Canberra 60th Anniversary Celebration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-07 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Heard, a remote volcanic island located in the southern Indian Ocean. It is an Australian Territory.
PIA26509:
Heard Volcano, Australia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Navigation Camera (M2020)
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A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming its smaller friend in this short video made of images taken at the rim of Jezero Crater by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 25, 2025.
PIA26528:
Perserverance Captures Crater Rim Dust Devil Eating Its Own
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-01 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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NASA's SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of its first exposures March 27, 2025.
PIA26280:
First Images From NASA's SPHEREx
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-28 NEO Surveyor
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In March, 2025, components for NASA's NEO Surveyor and the agency's ASTHROS mission are sharing the same clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory while work continues on both missions.
PIA26584:
NASA's NEO Surveyor and ASTHROS Share Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries a calibration target consisting of five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as they degrade.
PIA26520:
Perseverance and SHERLOC's Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-24 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Runnymede meadow, a short drive from Windsor, England, west of London, near the Thames.
PIA26508:
JFK Memorial, Runnymede Meadow, England
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-13 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
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This graph shows global mean sea level (in blue) since 1993 as measured by a series of five satellites. The solid red line indicates the trajectory of this increase. The dotted red line projects future sea level rise.
PIA26189:
Satellite Record of Sea Level Rise From 1993 to 2024
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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 2025-03-12 NISAR
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NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's ecosystems, including its agricultural lands. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26496:
NISAR in Orbit Over Northeastern India (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-11 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina, with almost 1 million people.
PIA26507:
Charleston, SC
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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 2025-02-24 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Taal Volcano in the Philippines, about 50 km south of Manila. It is the second most active volcano in the country, with 38 recorded historic eruptions.
PIA26506:
Taal Volcano, Philippines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-24 Lunar Trailblazer
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Members of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer team pose with the spacecraft at SpaceX's Payload Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in early February 2025.
PIA26581:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Team Members Pose With Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-24 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits on its rotation fixture after being fueled and prior to being installed to the EELV Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) ring, in early February 2025.
PIA26460:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Fueled Before Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-13 Lunar Trailblazer
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Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months. This orbital diagram shows the low-energy transfer trajectory of the NASA mission should it launch on Feb. 26, 2025.
PIA26459:
Lunar Trailblazer's Looping Lunar Voyage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-13 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft gets covered in anti-static wrap before being shipped from Lockheed Martin Space to the agency's Kennedy Space Center, where it arrived on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26458:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Gets Bagged Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-13 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer approaches the Moon as it enters its science orbit in this artist's concept.
PIA26457:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Moon's Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nevada's only lithium-producing site, in Clayton Valley, Nevada.
PIA26505:
Clayton Valley, NV
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE is attached to a fixture in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26428:
CADRE Rover Awaits Shipping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE is prepared for shipping in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26427:
Taking a CADRE Rover in Hand
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers and technicians prepare one of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE, in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26426:
Packing Up a CADRE Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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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 2025-02-10 Earth InSAR
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Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) analyzed vertical land motion along the California coast between 2015 and 2023. They detailed where land is sinking.
PIA25530:
Map of California Subsidence and Uplift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-04 Europa Clipper
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Engineers on NASA's Europa Clipper mission work with a piece of hardware called star trackers before they are integrated onto the spacecraft at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2022.
PIA26562:
Star Trackers for Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-04 Sky Europa Clipper
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This mosaic of a star field was made from three images captured Dec. 4, 2024, by star tracker cameras aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA26561:
First Images From NASA's Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 4, 2021, this impact crater was found in Cerberus Fossae. Scientists matched its appearance on the surface with a quake detected by NASA's InSight lander.
PIA26518:
HiRISE Views Impact Crater Matching InSight's Seismic Data
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-31 Earth UAVSAR
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Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used data from an airborne radar to measure the movement of the slow-moving landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County.
PIA26495:
NASA Radar Looks at Palos Verdes Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-30 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the continuing eruption of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, on January 18.
PIA26504:
Halemaumau, Kilauea Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-28 Io Juno
JIRAM
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A massive hotspot can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 27, 2024.
PIA26527:
Massive Hot Spot on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-28 Io Juno
JunoCam
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Images of Io captured in 2024 by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno show significant and visible surface changes near the Jovian moon's south pole.
PIA26526:
Three Views of Io's Southern Hemisphere
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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 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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Final assembly of NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft is shown at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in March 2024.
PIA26543:
Final Assembly of SPHEREx Observatory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the telescope.
PIA26542:
SPHEREx in Horizontal Orientation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is installed in the Titan Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) test Chamber at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in June 2024.
PIA26541:
SPHEREx Prepared for Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is surrounded by speaker stacks used to perform acoustics testing, which subjects the spacecraft to the acoustics loads that it will experience during launch.
PIA26540:
SPHEREx Undergoes Acoustic Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is subjected to vibrations in all three axes separately. The test was successfully completed Aug. 16, 2024.
PIA26539:
SPHEREx Prepared for Vibration Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024.
PIA26538:
SPHEREx Spacecraft During Integration and Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
Spectro-Photometer
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The SPHEREx observatory sits in a clean room after environmental testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late 2024.
PIA26537:
SPHEREx Spacecraft Nears Completion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in November 2024 after completing environmental testing.
PIA26536:
SPHEREx After Environmental Testing
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Spectro-Photometer
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In this illustration, NASA's SPHEREx mission is highlighted among a line of other NASA space telescopes.
PIA26535:
SPHEREx: Part of a Lineage of NASA Space Telescopes
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Members of the SPHEREx mission team pose for a photo on the campus of Caltech in Pasadena, California, in October 2023.
PIA26534:
SPHEREx Team at Caltech
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Spectro-Photometer
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Operating from low Earth orbit, the SPHEREx telescope will sweep across the sky, taking about 600 exposures each day.
PIA26533:
Building an All-Sky Map With SPHEREx (Artist's Concept)
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Spectro-Photometer
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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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Spectro-Photometer
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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 2025-01-21 NISAR
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NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's solid surfaces, including the Antarctic ice sheet. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26493:
NISAR in Orbit Over Antarctica (Artist's Concept)
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NISAR will offer insights into Earth's constantly changing land and ice surfaces using synthetic aperture radar technology. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist's concept, will launch from India.
PIA26492:
NISAR in Orbit Over Antarctica (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-06 Earth Terra
ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mayotte, a volcanic island in the Comoros archipelago between the eastern coast of Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar.
PIA26503:
French Overseas Territory of Mayotte, Indian Ocean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-20 Deep Space Network (DSN)
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In the early morning of Dec. 18, 2024, a crane looms over the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for Deep Space Station 23 reflector dish, which will soon be lowered into position on the antenna's base structure.
PIA26456:
A New Antenna at DSN's Goldstone Awaits Construction
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After the steel framework of the Deep Space Station 23 reflector dish was lowered into place on Dec. 18, 2024, a crew installed the quadripod, a four-legged support structure.
PIA26455:
Deep Space Station 23: Goldstone Antenna Gets Its Quadripod
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A crane lowers the steel reflector framework for Deep Space Station 23 into position Dec. 18, 2024. Panels will be affixed to the structure create a curved surface to collect radio frequency signals.
PIA26454:
Deep Space Station 23: Goldstone Antenna Gets Its Giant Reflector
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HiRISE
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Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera on Sept. 8, 2022.
PIA26517:
MRO's HiRISE Views Frosty Martian Dunes
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ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Barra Island Eoligarry Airport, located in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, U.K.
PIA26502:
Barra Airport, Outer Hebrides, U.K.
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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 2024-12-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MARDI
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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 2024-12-17 Earth SWOT
KaRIn
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Data from the SWOT satellite was used to calculate average water levels for lakes and reservoirs in the Ohio River Basin from July 2023 to November 2024.
PIA26188:
Ohio Basin Lakes Water Levels
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Mastcam
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its right Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama on Nov. 26, 2024, the 4,375th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26477:
Curiosity Surveys 'Texoli'
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HiRISE
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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 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animation captured from NASA's rover driving software depicts the agency's Perseverance during a slippery drive as it ascends toward the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on Oct. 16, 2024.
PIA26514:
View of Rover Driving Software During a Slippery Drive
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of slippery terrain while ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Nov. 28, 2024.
PIA26513:
Perseverance Navcam Movie of a Slippery Drive
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This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA26476:
Jezero Crater Elevation Graph
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HiRISE
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This map shows the location of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 10, 2024, in which it reached Lookout Hill at the top of Jezero Crater's rim.
PIA26512:
Perseverance Reaches 'Lookout Hill'
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Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed Rio Chiquito on Nov. 23, 2024.
PIA26474:
Perseverance Makes Tracks at 'Rio Chiquito'
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Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills on Oct. 22, 2024.
PIA26473:
Perseverance Views 'Pico Turquino Hills'
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024.
PIA26511:
Perseverance's View From 'Lookout Hill'
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HiRISE
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This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.
PIA26480:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene showing the slippery terrain that's made its climb up to the rim of Jezero Crater challenging.
PIA26479:
Perseverance Views Slippery Terrain
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Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 5, 2024.
PIA26475:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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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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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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Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft made this observation on Dec. 30, 2023, of a thermal emission feature and a linear emission segment to the west of South Zal Mons.
PIA26523:
NASA's Juno Captures Lava Channel Thermal Emissions at Zal Patera
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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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