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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image is from an animation that glides along the shoreline of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The animation is based on overlapping radar images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA13173:
Flying Over Ontario Lacus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The lake surface appears dark because it is smooth.
PIA13172:
Footprint of Ontario Lacus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Earth Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Workers at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif., pour in a new epoxy grout as the giant 'Mars antenna' undergoes major surgery. The grout is part of the hydrostatic bearing assembly, which enables the antenna to rotate horizontally.
PIA13272:
Pouring the New Grout
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Earth Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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An engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., checks the evenness of sole plates installed on the giant 'Mars antenna' at NASA's Deep Space Network communications site in Goldstone, Calif.
PIA13271:
Checking for Even Surfaces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Earth Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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As the sun sets on July 8, 2010, workers prepare to pour new epoxy grout for the hydrostatic bearing assembly of the giant 'Mars antenna' at NASA's Deep Space Network communications site in Goldstone, Calif.
PIA13270:
Mars Antenna Ready for Surgery
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Roughly a quarter of majestic Saturn is illuminated in this view captured while NASA's Cassini spacecraft was orbiting near the planet's equatorial plane.
PIA12677:
Quarter Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-14 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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How Common are Mare Pit Craters?
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How Common are Mare Pit Craters?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Layering is visible in these deposits on the floor of Juventae Chasma in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey.
PIA13278:
Juventae Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-14 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is dominated by the bright, young star IRAS 13481-6124; it is the first massive baby star for which astronomers could obtain a detailed look at the dusty disk closely encircling it.
PIA13276:
Massive Young Star and its Cradle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-14 4000x2666x3
Astronomers have obtained the first clear look at a dusty disk closely encircling a massive baby star; this artist's concept shows what such a massive disk might look like.
PIA13275:
Disk Around a Massive Baby Star (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-14 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward an area between the trailing hemisphere and anti-Saturn side of Tethys and spies the large crater Melanthius near the moon's south pole.
PIA12676:
Melanthius on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The Moon's Largest Impact Basin
PIA13496:
The Moon's Largest Impact Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The dunes in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey are located in an unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA13274:
Dunes in Terra Cimmeria
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a variety of surface textures within the south polar residual cap of Mars. It was taken during the southern spring, when the surface was covered by seasonal carbon dioxide frost and is easily seen.
PIA13269:
South Polar Layered Deposits and Residual Cap
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a view of the sand dune field in Richardson Crater covered with seasonal frost. The frost is a combination of frozen carbon dioxide and some water ice that covers the dunes in the winter and spring.
PIA13268:
Sand Dune Field in Richardson Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of the floor of a large impact crater in the southern highlands, north of the giant Hellas impact basin.
PIA13266:
Light Outcrop on Crater Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the very steep side of a plateau, part of the northern limit of the Kasei Valles system, which is one of the largest outflow channel systems on Mars.
PIA13265:
(Almost) Silent Rolling Stones in Kasei Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image was taken in the cleanroom where NASA's Curiosity rover is being assembled. It shows the rover, which is about the size of an SUV, hoisted on a white lift, with its black wheels suspended in the air.
PIA13273:
Wheels Spinning Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small, potato-shaped moon Prometheus orbits between the main rings and the thin F ring in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12675:
Prometheus Amid Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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Workers place the special radiation vault for NASA's Juno spacecraft onto the propulsion module. The whole vault, with more than 20 electronic assemblies inside, weighs about 200 kilograms (500 pounds).
PIA13260:
Setting up Juno's Radiation Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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Technicians installed the special radiation vault for NASA's Juno spacecraft on the propulsion module. The radiation vault has titanium walls to protect the spacecraft's electronic brain and heart from Jupiter's harsh radiation environment.
PIA13259:
Protecting Juno's Electronics from Radiation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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Technicians installed a special radiation vault onto the propulsion module of NASA's Juno spacecraft. Each titanium wall measures nearly a square meter (nearly 10 square feet) in area and about 1 centimeter (a third of an inch) in thickness.
PIA13258:
Installing Juno's Radiation Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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Technicians lowered a special radiation vault onto the propulsion module of NASA's Juno spacecraft. The vault will dramatically slow the aging effect radiation has on the electronics for the duration of the mission.
PIA13257:
Lowering Juno's Radiation Vault
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A technician inspects the special radiation vault being installed atop the propulsion module of NASA's Juno spacecraft; the vault has titanium walls to protect the spacecraft's electronic brain and heart from Jupiter's harsh radiation environment.
PIA13256:
Inspecting Juno's Radiation Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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Once the radiation vault was installed on top of the propulsion module, NASA's Juno spacecraft was lifted onto a large rotation fixture. The fixture allows the spacecraft to be turned for convenient access for integrating and testing instruments.
PIA13255:
Rotating Juno for Integrating Instruments
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer takes in several interesting objects in the constellation Cassiopeia which are not easily seen in visible light. The red circle visible at upper left is SN 1572, often called Tycho's Supernova.
PIA13119:
Tycho's Supernova Remnant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image of Utopia Planitia, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey, is covered with the tracks of dust devils.
PIA13263:
Utopia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy terrain stretches across the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione on the right of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the spacecraft's flyby on April 7, 2010.
PIA12674:
Flying by Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows just one of many lava channels located on the Elysium Mons volcanic complex.
PIA13262:
Elysium Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-09 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines old and new terrain on Saturn's fascinating Enceladus, a moon where jets of water ice particles and vapor spew from the south pole. Newly created terrain is at the bottom, in the center and on the left of this view.
PIA12673:
Differently Aged Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The floor of Melsa Chasma contains a variety of landforms. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows deposits of fine materials as well as layered deposits.
PIA13261:
Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Apollo 16, Footsteps Under High Sun
PIA13247:
Apollo 16, Footsteps Under High Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image is part of a set of images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft showing a propeller-shaped structure created by a hidden, embedded moon moving through one of Saturn's rings. An animation is available at the Photojournal.
PIA12792:
Propeller Churns the A Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A propeller-shaped structure created by an unseen moon appears dark in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the unilluminated side of Saturn's rings. The propeller is marked with a red arrow in the top left.
PIA12791:
Propeller from Unlit Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A propeller-shaped structure created by an unseen moon is brightly illuminated on the sunlit side of Saturn's rings in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon, which is too small to be seen, is marked with a red arrow.
PIA12790:
Sunlit Propeller
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a propeller-shaped disturbance in one of Saturn's rings created by a moon that is too small to be seen here. The moon is invisible at the center of the image.
PIA12789:
Tracking a Propeller
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
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Huge clouds swirl through the southern latitudes of Saturn where the rings cast dramatic shadows. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
PIA12672:
Sizeable Swirls
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image of part of Chryse Chaos shows landslide deposits at the head of the canyon. Chryse Chaos is part of a huge outflow channel on Mars. NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey captured this image on May 6, 2010.
PIA13254:
Chryse Chaos Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of Gorgonum Chaos, a large cluster of chaotic terrain found in the southern hemisphere.
PIA13267:
Gullies on Gorgonum Chaos Mesas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Rover shows a degraded impact crater in the southern highlands. Part of the crater rim is visible at the top and bottom of the image, with the boulder-covered crater floor in the center.
PIA13264:
Bouldery Deposit on Crater Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on July 7, 2010. Southern mid-latitudes (trailing hemisphere, Northern Mezzoramia.
PIA06679:
Titan Radar Swath (T-71 Flyby - July 7, 2010)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Earth GRACE
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This image is from data taken by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment showing the Amazon basin in South America. The amount of water stored in the Amazon basin varies from month to month. Animations are available at the Photojournal.
PIA13243:
Measuring Water Storage in the Amazon Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Earth Terra
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This view of Hurricane Alex in the western Gulf of Mexico was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite just after noon Central Daylight Time on June 30, 2010. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA13242:
Hurricane Alex Disrupts Gulf Cleanup
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly out from a bright explosion in this infrared light image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. These views have revealed that this dark cloud, called M17 SWex, is forming stars at a furious rate.
PIA13241:
The Invisible Dragon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This visible-light view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope highlights the bright M17 nebula, as well as the glowing hot gas filling the 'bubble' to its left.
PIA13240:
Dragon's Lair
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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In this image taken from a video clip, NASA's Curiosity rover's wheels are shown hoisted on a pink crane and moving closer to the rover's body. Video is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13238:
New Wheels (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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In this picture, the Curiosity rover sports a set of six new wheels. The wheels were installed on June 28 and 29 in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
PIA13237:
Wheel Installation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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In the middle of this image, three wheels are shown raised by a lift, with engineers on both sides of the wheels in the cleanroom, where NASA's Curiosity rover is being assembled.
PIA13236:
New Wheels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's largest moon and maps the dark Belet region on Titan.
PIA12671:
A Look at Belet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image taken by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows lava flows and tectonic features related to the Arsia Mons volcanic system. The tectonic graben (downdropped blocks bounded by faults) are called Oti Fossae.
PIA13253:
Oti Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Sending chills down the spine of all arachnophobes is the Tarantula nebula, seen in this image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; the nebula is the largest star-forming region known in our entire Local Group of galaxies.
PIA13118:
WISE Spies the Tarantula Nebula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Linné Crater
PIA13246:
Linné Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Planck
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This image of the microwave sky was synthesized using data spanning the range of light frequencies detected by ESA's Planck. A vast portion of the sky is dominated by the diffuse emission from gas and dust in our Milky Way galaxy.
PIA13239:
Planck's View of the Whole Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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Debussy and its Hundreds of Miles of Rays
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Debussy and its Hundreds of Miles of Rays
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Epimetheus moves in front of the larger moon Janus as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moons are lit by sunlight on the left and light reflected off Saturn on the right.
PIA12670:
Epimetheus Before Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Ituxi Vallis is a lava channel located on the eastern side of Elysium Mons in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey.
PIA13252:
Ituxi Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-05 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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With the wheels and suspension system already installed onto one side of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity the previous day, spacecraft engineers and technicians prepare the other side's mobility subsystem for installation on June 29, 2010.
PIA13234:
Installation of Curiosity's Wheels and Suspension
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-05 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Herschel Crater features prominently on the moon Mimas in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image, which gives the impression of an eye staring out into space.
PIA12669:
Staring Into Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-05 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Mars rover Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is coming together for extensive testing prior to its late 2011 launch.
PIA13235:
Mars rover Curiosity with Newly Installed Wheels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Echus Chasma separates the Tharsis region from Lunae Planum. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows volcanic flow materials from Tharsis within the chasma.
PIA13251:
Echus Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-02 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Wrinkle Ridge in Oceanus Procellarum
PIA13245:
Wrinkle Ridge in Oceanus Procellarum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A pair of Saturn's small satellites, Janus and Pandora, accompany the planet's rings in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft presenting the view in dramatic diagonal fashion.
PIA12668:
Rings on a Diagonal
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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North polar troughs are the typical location to see evidence of strong polar surface winds. This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows 'streamers' of clouds created by catabatic winds.
PIA13250:
Polar Winds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-01 Earth UAVSAR
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This false-color composite image from NASA's UAVSAR taken on June 23, 2010, shows the southern Louisiana coastline, covering the area around Grande Isle and the entrance to Barataria Bay.
PIA13233:
UAVSAR Maps the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-01 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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A kingly crescent Saturn rests on the right of this NASA Cassini spacecraft portrait while the moon Mimas appears above the rings on the left. Mimas looks like just a speck of light here but is actually 396 kilometers, or 246 miles, across.
PIA12667:
Regal Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Marte Vallis is a lava channel. The image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows the darker lava of Marte Vallis within the brighter surrounding materials. Platy flow texture is common in Marte Vallis.
PIA13249:
Marte Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-30 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione, in the foreground of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, appears darker than the moon Tethys. Tethys appears brighter because it has a higher albedo than Dione, meaning Tethys reflects more sunlight.
PIA12666:
Tethys and Darker Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey image shows a small portion of the southern flank of Alba Mons.
PIA13248:
Alba Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Reiner Gamma
PIA13244:
Reiner Gamma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
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This image from NASA's rover Opportunity shows mostly a portion of Endeavour's western rim (left); a paler-looking terrain on the horizon beyond Endeavour (right) is part of a thick deposit of material ejected by the impact that excavated Iazu Crater.
PIA13197:
Super-Resolution View of Endeavour Rim, Sol 2239
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic of images of the region around NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the relative locations of several craters, including Endeavour, in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars.
PIA13196:
Opportunity Amid Mars Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's brightly lit rings slice across this NASA Cassini spacecraft picture taken before a backdrop of the planet's clouds.
PIA12665:
Bright Slice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-28 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows the nearby galaxy M83. This is a spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra, sometimes referred to as the southern Pinwheel galaxy.
PIA13117:
Southern Pinwheel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-28 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory team carefully steer the hoisted Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument during its June 15, 2010, installation into the mission's Mars rover, Curiosity.
PIA13231:
Chemistry and Mineralogy Instrument Installed in Mars Rover
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 CheMin
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Decades of work preparing a miniaturized laboratory for identifying minerals on Mars have also yielded spinoff versions with diverse applications on Earth and, possibly, the moon.
PIA13230:
Laboratory-in-a-Box has Uses on Mars, Earth, Elsewhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Dunes appear on the floor of Nili Patera, one of the two volcanic calderas of Syrtis Major in this image taken by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey.
PIA13229:
Nili Patera Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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Sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere reaches NASA's Cassini as the spacecraft's camera is pointed at the dark side of the moon.
PIA12664:
Light on the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
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NASA's rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings after a drive on the 2,220th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's mission on Mars (April 22, 2010).
PIA13222:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity combined images into this stereo, 360-degree view on April 22, 2010. This site is about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) south-southwest of Victoria Crater. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA13221:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive (Stereo)
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 Navigation Camera
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In this polar projection image taken on April 22, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows wind-formed ripples of dark sand make up much of the terrain surrounding its position. Patches of outcrop are visible to the south.
PIA13220:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive (Polar)
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 Navigation Camera
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In this vertical projection image taken on April 22, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows wind-formed ripples of dark sand make up much of the terrain surrounding its position. Patches of outcrop are visible to the south.
PIA13219:
Opportunity's Surroundings After Sol 2220 Drive (Vertical)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by shows NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey the northern wall of Ganges Chasma. Dunes and a landslide deposit of visible at the bottom of the image.
PIA13228:
Ganges Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft swooped in for a close-up of the cratered, fractured surface of Saturn's moon Dione in this image taken during the spacecraft's Jan. 27, 2010, non-targeted flyby.
PIA12663:
Flying Over Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-24 Spitzer Space Telescope
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This artist's concept shows hundreds of brown dwarfs (deep red), expected to be added to the population of known stars in our solar neighborhood. Our sun and other known stars appear white, yellow or red.
PIA13217:
Coolest Orbs on the Block (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-24 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope using infrared light shows what astronomers think is one of the coldest brown dwarfs discovered so far (red dot in middle of frame).
PIA13216:
Cool as a Stellar Cucumber
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows dunes on the floor of Juventae Chasma.
PIA13218:
Juventae Chasma Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-24 Mars Viking
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 MOLA
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This view of Lyot Crater is a combined mapping by NASA's Project Viking with elevation information from Mars Global Surveyor showing at least one of the nine craters in the northern lowlands of Mars with exposures of hydrated minerals detected from orbit.
PIA13215:
Hydrated Minerals Exposed at Lyot, Northern Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-24 Mars Mars Express (MEX)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 Context Camera
High Resolution Stereo Camera
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This view of Stokes Crater is a mosaic of images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA's Mars Express showing at least one of the nine craters in the northern lowlands of Mars with exposures of hydrated minerals detected from orbit.
PIA13214:
Hydrated Minerals Exposed at Stokes, Northern Mars
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 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NAC)
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The Earth from the Moon
PIA13227:
The Earth from the Moon
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 ISS - Wide Angle
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The shadow of the moon Enceladus darkens a small portion of the swirling clouds on Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Enceladus itself is not visible in this view.
PIA12662:
Shadow from Unseen Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-23 Earth UAVSAR
 L-Band UAVSAR
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This radar image from NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar shows the deformed Earth caused by a 7.2 earthquake in Mexico's state of Baja California in 2010.
PIA13380:
NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake Deformed Earth
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From left to right: JPLers Felipe Santos Fregoso, Piotr Szwaykowski, Kurt Liewer and Stefan Martin with the nulling interferometer testbed at JPL, where the device is built and refined.
PIA13213:
Interferometer Testbed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows a portion of the floor of Ganges Chasma. Eroded deposits and sand dune forms are common features of Ganges Chasma.
PIA13212:
Ganges Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's rings and small moon Prometheus obscure NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view of the planet's second largest moon, Rhea. Prometheus can be seen just below the center of the image, in front of Rhea.
PIA12661:
Cutting Off Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Dark slope streaks are visible on the rim of this crater in Terra Sabaea in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey.
PIA13198:
Dark Slope Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-22 Earth OSTM/Jason-2
 Altimeter
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This image from NASA's European Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 shows that the moderate El Niño of the past year has officially bowed out, leaving his cool sibling, La Niña, poised to potentially take the equatorial stage.
PIA13211:
Adios El Niño, Hello La Niña?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-22 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NAC)
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Forked Impact Melt Flows at Farside Crater
PIA13226:
Forked Impact Melt Flows at Farside Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-22 Mercury MESSENGER
 MDIS - Narrow Angle
MDIS - Wide Angle
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The Complex Geology of Geddes Crater
PIA13470:
The Complex Geology of Geddes Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-22 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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The highly reflective surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is almost completely illuminated in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image taken at a low phase angle.
PIA12660:
Enceladus at Low Phase
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The windstreak in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey is located on lava flows from Arsia Mons.
PIA13210:
Windstreak
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