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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Claritas Fossae, a graben filled highland, is located between the lava plains of Daedalia Planum and Solis Planum.
PIA25620:
Claritas Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Mangala Fossae. Fossae are long linear depressions called a graben and were formed by extension of the crust and faulting.
PIA25619:
Mangala Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Cavi Angusti, located near the south polar cap. It consists of large irregular steep-sided depressions termed cavi.
PIA25618:
Cavi Angusti
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers install a 2-foot-wide reaction wheel onto the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA25497:
NASA's Europa Clipper Reaction Wheel in Process
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians work together to install reaction wheels on the underside of the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is in its assembly, test, and launch operations phase.
PIA25496:
NASA's Europa Clipper: Reaction Wheel Installation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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All four of the reaction wheels installed onto NASA's Europa Clipper are visible in this photo, which was shot from underneath the main body of the spacecraft while it is being assembled.
PIA25495:
NASA's Europa Clipper Reaction Wheels Installed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers install 2-foot-wide reaction wheels onto the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter is in its assembly, test, and launch operations phase in preparation for a 2024 launch.
PIA25494:
NASA's Europa Clipper Gets Its Reaction Wheels
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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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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 2022-11-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a short section of Reull Vallis. Reull Vallis starts in Promethei Terra and empties into Hellas Plainitia.
PIA25617:
Reull Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows sand dunes within Proctor Crater. These dunes are composed of basaltic sand that has collected in the bottom of the crater.
PIA25616:
Proctor Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons.
PIA25615:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-17 Jupiter Juno
JunoCam
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As NASA's Juno spacecraft sped low over the giant planet's cloud tops, on Nov. 29, 2021, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at two of Jupiter's largest moons.
PIA25019:
NASA's Juno Mission Spots Two Jovian Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This image of Yori Pass was taken by a Hazcam imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on November 5, 2022.
PIA25339:
Jezero Crater's Yori Pass
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the south polar cap. Taken in summer, the CO2 (dry ice) cap shows the layering of ice and dust that formed over millions of years.
PIA25614:
South Polar Cap
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows two small landslide deposits within a crater.
PIA25613:
Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Claritas Fossae is a graben filled highland, located between the lava plains of Daedalia Planum and Solis Planum.
PIA25612:
Claritas Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This illustration depicts three different of models of NASA's solar-powered Mars helicopter.
PIA25338:
NASA's Mars Helicopters: Present, Future, and Proposed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of a crater and its ejecta. Located in Noachis Terra, this impact crater is not the typical round shape.
PIA25611:
Out of Round
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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On June 27, 2021, teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the March Air Reserve Base, loaded the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into a C-17 airplane.
PIA25625:
SWOT Headed to France on C-17 Aircraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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On June 27, 2021, teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the March Air Reserve Base, loaded the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into a C-17 airplane.
PIA25624:
SWOT Secured for Transport in C-17 Aircraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
KaRIn
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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 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
KaRIn
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This illustration shows the SWOT satellite, which will use the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) instrument to measure the height of water in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and ocean.
PIA25621:
SWOT Above Earth (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
KaRIn
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The SWOT satellite, shown in this illustration, will use the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) to measure the height of water in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and ocean.
PIA24530:
SWOT in Orbit With View of KaRIn Instrument (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Earth Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This animation, created in 2012, shows the increasing clarity and detail of measurements of sea height made by successive satellite altimeters launched by NASA and other agencies over the past four decades.
PIA25561:
SWOT Satellite will Improve Clarity and Detail of Sea Height Measurements
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-11 Eagle Nebula Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The dusty face of the Eagle Nebula and its surroundings are revealed in this image based on data from NASA's Wide Field Survey Explorer (WISE).
PIA25433:
The Eagle Nebula Observed by WISE
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons.
PIA25610:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Hale Crater and the elongate axis of the central peak mountains.
PIA25609:
Hale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons.
PIA25608:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Eberswalde Crater.
PIA25607:
Eberswalde Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a short section of Reull Vallis. Reull Vallis starts in Promethei Terra and empties into Hellas Plainitia.
PIA25606:
Reull Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons.
PIA25605:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These images show changes in the dust accumulation over the course of four days on the rim of the collection tube containing Perseverance's 14th sample. The images were acquired by the rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam.
PIA25337:
CacheCam Image of Perseverance's 14th Sample of Martian Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons.
PIA25604:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the southern flank of Arsia Mons. The linear features are graben.
PIA25603:
Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Ladon Vallis. The channel is 278km long (173 miles). Ladon Vallis is located in Noachis Terrra and flows northward to Margaritifer Terra.
PIA25602:
Ladon Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-31 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of both Dao Vallis and Niger Vallis.
PIA25601:
Dao and Niger Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Claritas Fossae, a graben filled highland, located between the lava plains of Daedalia Planum and Solis Planum.
PIA25580:
Claritas Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
CTX
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This meteoroid impact crater on Mars was captured using the black-and-white Context Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA25587:
Context Camera Views a Mars Impact Crater in Tempe Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This animation depicts a flyover of a meteoroid impact crater on Mars that's surrounded by boulder-size chunks of ice. The animation was created using data from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA25586:
Flyover of Mars Impact Using HiRISE Data (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
MARCI
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The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this before-and-after comparison of a region of Mars called Amazonis Planitia, which was struck by a meteoroid on Dec. 24, 2021.
PIA25585:
MARCI Views a Mars Impact Crater in Amazonis Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
CTX
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This meteoroid impact crater on Mars was discovered using the black-and-white Context Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Context Camera took these before-and-after images of the impact in a region of Mars called Amazonis Planitia.
PIA25584:
Context Camera Views an Impact Crater in Amazonis Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Boulder-size blocks of water ice can be seen around the rim of an impact crater on Mars. The crater was formed Dec. 24, 2021, by a meteoroid strike in the Amazonis Planitia region.
PIA25583:
HiRISE Views a Mars Impact Crater Surrounded by Water Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars InSight
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This video includes a seismogram and sonification of the signals recorded by NASA's InSight Mars lander, which detected a giant meteoroid strike on Dec. 24, 2021, the 1,094th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25582:
NASA's InSight Records the Sound of a Martian Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons.
PIA25579:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unusual layer of smooth material covering the flanks of the volcano Peneus Patera just south of the Hellas Basin.
PIA25578:
Peneus Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-25 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
EMIT
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The cube shows methane (purple, orange, yellow) over Turkmenistan. The rainbow colors are the spectral fingerprints from corresponding spots in the front image. The blue line shows the methane detected by EMIT; the red line is the expected fingerprint.
PIA25593:
EMIT Methane Spectral Fingerprint
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-25 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
EMIT
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This image shows a 2-mile (3-kilometer) long plume of methane southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is much more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
PIA25592:
EMIT Spots Methane Hotspots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Ius Chasma and one of its mega gullies.
PIA25577:
Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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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 2022-10-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image acquired on August 24, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a large lava flow passed through the Athabasca Valles region of Mars long ago.
PIA25558:
In the Wake of Ancient Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image acquired on July 8, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows what appears to be a slightly expanded crater in a field of scalloped depressions. It's possible that it will evolve over time to look more like the scallops.
PIA25557:
A Crater in Scalloped Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image acquired on May 18, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Echus Chaos, a region of low hills located between Lunae Planum and Echus Palus.
PIA25556:
Slipping and Sliding in Echus Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a large sand sheet with surface dune forms as well as smaller sand dunes within an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
PIA25576:
Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Maunder Crater. Its floor has been filled by a significant amount of material.
PIA25575:
Maunder Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-20 Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD)
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This drop tower at JPL includes a bow launch system, which can hurl test articles 110 mph into the ground, re-creating the forces they would experience during a Mars landing.
PIA25581:
Bow Launch Drop Tower at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-20 Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD)
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This prototype base for SHIELD – a collapsible Mars lander that would enable a spacecraft to intentionally crash land on the Red Planet, absorbing the impact – was tested at JPL on Aug. 12, 2022.
PIA25420:
SHIELD Prototype Attached to Drop Tower
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-20 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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A container with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is offloaded from an Air Force C-5 airplane on Oct. 16, 2022, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Central California.
PIA25591:
SWOT Arrives at Vandenberg Space Force Base
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Nirgal Valles. Located in Noachis Terra, Nirgal Valles is 610km long (379 miles).
PIA25574:
Nirgal Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, twenty-eight kilometers south of Mexico City. The image was acquired April 27, 2019.
PIA25555:
Xochimilco, Mexico
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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Curiosity used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this image of its 36th successful drill hole on Mount Sharp, at a rock called Canaima. The pulverized rock sample was acquired on Oct. 3, 2022.
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Curiosity's 36th Drill Hole at Canaima
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its navigation cameras, or Navcams, to capture this panorama while driving through the narrow Paraitepuy Pass on Aug. 11, 2022, the 3,560th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25417:
Curiosity's Navcams View Paraitepuy Pass
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This grid shows all 36 holes drilled by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover using the drill on the end of its robotic arm. The images in the grid were captured by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the end of Curiosity's arm.
PIA25416:
Curiosity's 36 Drill Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detail shot of the sandy foreground, a hill nicknamed Orinoco within the sulfate-bearing unit, and upper Mount Sharp in the distance.
PIA25415:
Curiosity's Close-Up of Rocks in Paraitepuy Pass
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama of a hill nicknamed Bolívar and adjacent sand ridges on Aug. 23, the 3,572nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25414:
Curiosity's View of Sand Ridges and Bolívar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama while driving toward the center of this scene, an area that forms the narrow Paraitepuy Pass on Aug. 14, 2022.
PIA25413:
Curiosity's View of Paraitepuy Pass
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Ariadnes Colles. The term colles means hills or knobs.
PIA25573:
Ariadnes Colles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-18 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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Workers in a clean room in Cannes, France, load the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into a container in preparation for shipping the spacecraft to the U.S.
PIA24910:
Packing SWOT For Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Claritas Fossae, a graben filled highland, located between the lava plains of Daedalia Planum and Solis Planum.
PIA25572:
Claritas Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows many individual dunes located in Kaiser Crater.
PIA25571:
Kaiser Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Sirenum Fossae. The linear features are tectonic graben.
PIA25550:
Sirenum Fossae
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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 2022-10-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows complex dune forms located on the floor of Russell Crater.
PIA25549:
Russell Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration depicts the Mars Earth Entry System for the Mars Sample Return campaign. The system would contain the orbiting sample inside a disk-shaped vehicle with a heat shield for safe entry through the Earth's atmosphere.
PIA25336:
Mars Earth Entry System Aeroshell at Entry (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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)
EMIT
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Installed on the space station in July 2022, EMIT orbits Earth about once every 90 minutes, to map the world's mineral-dust sources. This includes the Sahara, where it recently gathered data in an area of southwest Libya marked by the red box.
PIA25429:
NASA's EMIT Measures Surface Dust in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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)
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)
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 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Sirenum Fossae. The linear features are tectonic graben.
PIA25548:
Sirenum Fossae
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Star 3840x2160x3
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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NASA's S-MODE field campaign brings to bear a densely equipped research vessel and a new generation of observational tools to study dynamics near the ocean surface.
PIA25524:
S-MODE Research Vessel and Marine Robots Prepare for Sea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-11 Earth S-MODE
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Saildrones like the one seen here are part of the fleet of autonomous marine research vessels measuring factors such as ocean currents, salinity, and chlorophyll content as part of NASA's S-MODE field campaign.
PIA25523:
S-MODE Saildrone in San Francisco Waters
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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 2022-10-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Rabe Crater.
PIA25547:
Rabe Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows graben at the top of the image, Mangala Fossae, the rest are part of Memnonia Fossae.
PIA25546:
Memnonia Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
MARCI
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The beige clouds seen in this global map of Mars are a continent-size dust storm captured on Sept. 29, 2022, by the Mars Color Imager camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA25412:
Mars Dust Storm in Relation to InSight, Curiosity and Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a complex channel, part of Mangala Fossae.
PIA25545:
Mangala Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Europa Juno
JunoCam
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This highly stylized view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa was created by reprocessing an image captured by JunoCam during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.
PIA25335:
Candy-Colored JunoCam Image of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Europa Juno
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This view of Jovian moon Europa was created by processing an image JunoCam captured during Juno's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.
PIA25334:
JunoCam Image of Europa From Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Europa Juno
JunoCam
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This pair of images, minimally processed and enhanced, shows the same portion of Europa as captured by the Juno spacecraft's JunoCam during the mission's Sept. 29 close flyby.
PIA25333:
JunoCam Images of Europa, Before and After
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Earth ARIA
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NASA scientists are using satellite data to assess the damage on Florida's Gulf Coast after Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in the state as a Category 4 storm on Sept. 28, 2022.
PIA25426:
ARIA Maps Damage in Fort Myers From Hurricane Ian
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows sand dunes within an unnamed creater in Noachis Terra.
PIA25544:
Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-05 Europa Juno
Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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Surface features of Jupiter's icy moon Europa are revealed in an image obtained by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) during the spacecraft's Sept. 29, 2022, flyby.
PIA25332:
Juno's Star Camera Sees Europa Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the delta deposit on the floor of Eberswalde Crater.
PIA25543:
Eberswalde Crater Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows apart of the rim of an unnamed crater in Terra Sirenum.
PIA25542:
Crater Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra. This crater has a pit in the center of the floor of the crater.
PIA25541:
Central Pit Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-30 Mars Mars Helicopter
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During the 33rd flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a small piece of foreign object debris can be seen attached to one of the rotorcraft's landing legs before falling away to the surface. There's no indication of damage to the helicopter.
PIA25331:
Navigation Camera Imagery of Ingenuity's Flight 33
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's MISR instrument captured an optical image of Hurricane Ian, as well as measurements of the storm's wind speed, at noon local time Sept. 27, 2022.
PIA24909:
MISR Captures Hurricane Ian
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