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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 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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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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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
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A map of infrared radiance in Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io.
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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
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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
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
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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
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Glowing thermal emission from active lava breakouts are observed by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2023, in the Zal Montes-Patera complex on Io.
PIA26521:
NASA's Juno Captures Thermal Emissions at Zal Montes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Io Juno
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 2024-12-11 Earth 7831x4404x3
Saltwater intrusion will affect groundwater in about three of every four coastal aquifers around the world by the year 2100, a NASA-DOD study estimates.
PIA26491:
Projections of Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Watersheds by 2100
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-11 Mars 5000x3026x3
NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering, is a more capable proposed follow-on to the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA26375:
NASA's Mars Chopper Concept (Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-11 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This graphic depicts the most likely scenario for the hard landing of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd and final flight on Jan. 18, 2024.
PIA26482:
Ingenuity's Hard Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-29 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Craters of the Moon National Monument, located in southern Idaho in the Snake River Plain.
PIA26501:
Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
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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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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 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on Nov. 2, 2024.
PIA26472:
Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama within Gediz Vallis channel on Sept. 21 and 22, 2024.
PIA26410:
Curiosity's View Within Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Scientists think that ancient groundwater formed this weblike pattern of ridges, called boxwork, that were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 10, 2006.
PIA26306:
HiRISE Views Mount Sharp's Boxwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white sulfur stones on Oct. 11, 2024, before leaving Gediz Vallis channel.
PIA26210:
Curiosity Takes a Last Look at Sulfur Stones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Curiosity captured this panorama using its Mastcam while heading west away from Gediz Vallis channel on Nov. 2, 2024. The Mars rover's tracks across the rocky terrain are visible at right.
PIA26471:
Curiosity Makes Rover Tracks While Heading West
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-15 Earth Terra
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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 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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Perched on the International Space Station, NASA's EMIT can differentiate between types of vegetation to help researchers understand the distribution and traits of plant communities.
PIA26418:
NASA's EMIT Collects Data on Mid-Atlanic Plant Communities
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30, 2024, as part of an effort to map global ecosystem biodiversity.
PIA26417:
NASA's EMIT Scans the Amazon River in Northern Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-11 Uranus Voyager
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The energized particles around Uranus defied scientist's understanding of how magnetic fields work to trap particle radiation.
PIA26069:
Uranus Magnetosphere Mystery Unlocked (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic showing Observation Rock was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover. The location is near an area the Perseverance science team is calling Curtis Ridge.
PIA26481:
NASA's Perseverance Observes 'Observation Rock'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-31 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nyamulagira volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, continuing eruptive activity since July 2024.
PIA26449:
Nyamulagira Volcano, Democratic Republic Congo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-31 Earth SWOT
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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 2024-10-29 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system reaches out from a lander on the Moon and scoops up regolith (broken rock and dust).
PIA26347:
NASA's COLDArm Operating on the Moon (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-29 Lunar Trailblazer
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in lunar orbit about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the surface of the Moon.
PIA26453:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Orbit Around the Moon (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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Tracks shown in this image indicate the slipperiness of the terrain Perseverance has encountered during its climb up the rim of Jezero Crater.
PIA26379:
Tracks Tell Tale of Perseverance's Crater Rim Climb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance drives first backward then forward as it negotiates some slippery terrain found along a route up to the rim of Jezero Crater on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26377:
Perseverance Drives Backward Up Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27, 2024 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero Crater.
PIA26378:
Perseverance's Mid-Climb View of Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-25 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
PIA26448:
Klamath River, OR and CA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-25 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Humboldt, or La Corona, Glacier in the Andes, Venezuela.
PIA26447:
Humboldt Glacier, Venezuela
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-23 NISAR
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A container holding NISAR's radar antenna reflector is loaded into NASA's C-130 cargo plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California, on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26419:
NISAR Radar Antenna Reflector Loaded for Return to India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-17 Earth 4928x3264x3
These holes, captured on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier in July 2012, are formed by cryoconite – dust particles that melt into the ice over time, eventually forming small pockets of water below the glacier's surface.
PIA26409:
Cryoconite Holes on Matanuska Glacier
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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
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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.
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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 Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept illustrates how NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will use radar to peer beneath Europa's ice crust to reveal the structure underneath.
PIA26106:
How REASON Will Penetrate Europa's Surface (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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This image is a simulation of how NASA's Europa Clipper will understand which areas of the Jovian moon Europa are warm and active by studying the moon's thermal emissions.
PIA26105:
Simulated View of Thermal Emissions from Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Galileo
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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 2024-10-10 Earth Carbon Mapper Coalition
 Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
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On Sept. 19, 2024, the imaging spectrometer on the Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager-1 satellite detected this methane plume in Karachi, Pakistan, extending nearly 2½ miles (4 kilometers) from a landfill.
PIA26416:
Tanager-1 First Methane and Carbon Dioxide Plume Detections
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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 2024-10-09 Earth ASTER
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A data visualization shows the average concentration of PM2.5 particulate pollution in the Los Angeles region from 2000 to 2018, along with the locations of nearly 11,000 warehouses.
PIA26415:
Particulate Pollution and Warehouses in the Los Angeles Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-02 Europa Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This image shows a close-up view of terrain within the region of Europa's surface named Conamara.
PIA26446:
Conamara Color Closeup
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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 2024-10-02 Earth SAR
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NASA's OPERA project generated a radar image of Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 26, 2024, at 7:38 p.m. local time, as the storm approached the Florida coast.
PIA26414:
NASA's OPERA Project Generates Radar Image of Hurricane Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-27 Earth Aqua
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NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) captured an infrared image of Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, at 3:47 a.m. local time, nearly five hours after it made landfall on the Florida coast.
PIA26413:
NASA's AIRS Instrument Captures Hurricane Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Araxa mine in southern Brazil which produces more than 80% of the world's Niobium.
PIA26395:
Araxa Mine, Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-25 Earth Carbon Mapper Coalition
 Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
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An imaging spectrometer designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory captured its first data over Karachi, Pakistan, on Sept. 19, 2024.
PIA26412:
Tanager-1 First Light
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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 2024-09-17 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This series of radar images obtained by the DSN's Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Sept. 16, 2024, shows the near-Earth asteroid 2024 ON a day before its close approach with our planet.
PIA26451:
NASA's Planetary Radar Spies (Another) Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is on its ascent to the rim of Jezero Crater, and it captured a portion of the journey with one of its navigation cameras.
PIA26376:
NASA's Perseverance Is Going Up and Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Earth ECOSTRESS
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Data from NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument aboard the International Space Station shows three wildfires burning in the mountains east and southeast of the Los Angeles area on Sept. 10, 2024.
PIA26187:
Southern California Wildfires Captured by NASA's ECOSTRESS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising.
PIA26362:
Curiosity Views Earth Setting, Phobos Rising
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-11 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft sits in a clean room in August 2024 after undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado.
PIA26390:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Deploys Its Solar Arrays After Testing
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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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Here's a look inside of JPL's DUSTIE, a wine barrel-size chamber used to simulate the temperatures and air pressure of other planets.
PIA26405:
A Look Inside JPL's DUSTIE Planetary Simulation Chamber
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This video shows Martian soil simulant erupting in a plume during a JPL lab experiment that was designed to replicate the process believed to form Martian features called spiders.
PIA26404:
Experiment Re-Creating a Carbon Dioxide Plume
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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 2024-08-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The terracotta army, was buried nearby.
PIA26394:
Terra Cotta Army, China
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-29 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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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 2024-08-29 IceNode
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A remote camera captured an IceNode prototype deployed below the frozen surface of Lake Superior, off Michigan's Upper Peninsula, during a field test in 2022. The three thin legs of the robot's landing gear affix the prototype to the icy ceiling.
PIA26421:
IceNode Prototype Under the Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-29 IceNode
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A prototype of an autonomous robot, part of a project called IceNode being developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was tested in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska in March 2024.
PIA26349:
Arctic Test for JPL's IceNode Prototype
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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 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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A technician operates articulating equipment to rotate NEO Surveyor's aluminum optical bench in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on July 17, 2024.
PIA26387:
NEO Surveyor's Telescope Optical Bench Under Construction at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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A mirror that was later installed inside the telescope for NASA's NEO Surveyor shows a reflection of principal optical engineer Brian Monacelli during an inspection of the mirror's surface.
PIA26386:
NEO Surveyor's Mirrors Undergo Inspection at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This view of the western edge of Mars' Jezero Crater shows the steep crater rim. A blue icon shows Perseverance's general location as of Aug. 14, 2024. The rover began its ascent of the crater rim on Aug. 27, 2024.
PIA26402:
Perseverance's Location at the Base of Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected 42 powderized rock samples with the drill on the end of its robotic arm.
PIA26403:
Curiosity's 42 Drill Holes
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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 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after engineers and technicians tested and stowed the spacecraft's giant solar arrays.
PIA26067:
Europa Clipper Solar Arrays Stowed for Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA26066:
Testing Europa Clipper's Solar Arrays
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-26 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Three small rovers bound for the Moon are arrayed in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 26, 2024.
PIA26346:
CADRE Rovers, Hardware in JPL Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-20 Jupiter Juno
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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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