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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-31 ORCAA
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A group of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions spent two weeks on a glacier in Alaska in July 2023 for a project called ORCAA.
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NASA JPL'S ORCAA Field Work in Alaska
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024. A rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.
PIA26344:
Perseverance's Selfie With 'Cheyava Falls'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Cheyava Falls (left) shows the dark hole where NASA's Perseverance took a core sample. A rock nicknamed Steamboat Mountain (right) also shows an abrasion patch. This image was taken by Mastcam-Z on July 23, 2024.
PIA26401:
Mastcam-Z Views the 'Cheyava Falls' Workspace
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance used its Mastcam-Z instrument to view the Cheyava Falls rock sample within the rover's drill bit.
PIA26370:
Mastcam-Z Views 'Leopard Spots' in Perseverance's Drill Bit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region on Mars called Bright Angel. Cheyava Falls was discovered in the area slightly right of center.
PIA26369:
Perseverance Captures 'Bright Angel' in 360 Degrees
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover discovered leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in Mars' Jezero Crater in July 2024.
PIA26368:
Perseverance Finds a Rock With 'Leopard Spots'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-19 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mount Mabu in northern Mozambique, famous for its old-growth rain forest.
PIA26392:
Mount Mabu, Mozambique
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-19 Jupiter Juno
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet's northern hemisphere, during its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024.
PIA25729:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-19 Earth 1654x1578x3
The location of Earth's spin axis moved about 30 feet (10 meters) between 1900 and 2023, as shown in this animation.
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Meandering Path of Earth's Spin Axis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment exposed along the side of a mound called Fascination Turret.
PIA26364:
Curiosity's Detailed View of 'Fascination Turret'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama from within Gediz Vallis channel on June 19, 2024.
PIA26363:
Curiosity Takes a 360-Degree View of Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA's Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024.
PIA26307:
Curiosity Captures Close-Up of Sulfur Crystals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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While exploring Gediz Vallis channel in May, NASA's Curiosity captured this image (Figure C) of rocks that show a pale color near their edges. When groundwater leaks into rocks along fractures, it causes chemical reactions that change the color.
PIA26366:
Curiosity Views Rocks With 'Halos'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Gediz Vallis channel on March 31. This area was likely formed by large floods of water and debris that piled jumbles of rocks into mounds within the channel.
PIA26367:
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this close-up image of a rock nicknamed Snow Lake on June 8, 2024. Nine days earlier, the rover had crushed a similar-looking rock and revealed crystalline textures – and elemental sulfur – inside.
PIA26308:
Curiosity Views Rock Made of Sulfur at 'Snow Lake'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These yellow crystals were revealed after NASA's Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May 30. Using an instrument on the rover's arm, scientists later determined these crystals are elemental sulfur.
PIA26309:
Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of a rock target nicknamed Thunderbolt Peak was created by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using PIXL, which determines the mineral composition of rocks by zapping them with X-rays.
PIA26365:
Perseverance's PIXL Instrument Examines 'Thunderbolt Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-03 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This sunset photo shows NASA's Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14), the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California.
PIA26150:
The Goldstone Solar System Radar at Sunset
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-03 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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These seven radar observations by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar shows the mile-wide asteroid 2011 UL21 during its June 27 close approach with Earth from about 4 million miles away.
PIA26384:
Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Binary Asteroid 2011 UL21
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-03 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Because close approaches by asteroids the size of 2024 MK are relatively rare, JPL's planetary radar team gathered as much information about the near-Earth object as possible.
PIA26383:
Detailed Planetary Radar Observations of Asteroid 2024 MK
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-02 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19 recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns in minutes to seconds, as indicated in the legend above.
PIA25529:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the small island of Handa, off Scotland's northwest coast.
PIA26391:
Handa Island, Scotland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its 23 years of operation around the Red Planet.
PIA26361:
Odyssey's Accomplishments at Its 100,000th Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this single image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, on March 11, 2024.
PIA26305:
Odyssey's THEMIS Views Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 NEO Surveyor
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At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on June 7, 2024, clean room technicians use a crane to lift the lid of the Medium Articulating Transportation System (MATS) that will be used for the components for NASA's NEO Surveyor mission.
PIA26382:
Lifting the Lid: NEO Surveyor's Medium Articulating Assembly Dolly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 NEO Surveyor
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A truck arrives at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 3, 2024, to deliver the Medium Articulating Transportation System (MATS), which will be used during the construction and transportation of components for NASA's NEO Surveyor mission.
PIA26381:
NEO Surveyor's Transportation System Arrives at JPL's High Bay 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's team used the SHERLOC instrument's Autofocus and Context Imager to capture this image of its calibration target on May 11, 2024 to confirm an issue with a stuck lens cover had been resolved.
PIA26337:
SHERLOC's Labyrinth Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This image of NASA's Perseverance rover gathering data on the Walhalla Glades abrasion was taken in the Bright Angel region of Jezero Crater by one of the rover's front hazard avoidance cameras on June 14, 2024.
PIA26320:
Perseverance's Abrasion Patch at 'Walhalla Glades'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The cover for the Autofocus and Context Imager camera on SHERLOC is seen moving in images captured by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on May 11, 2024.
PIA26338:
Moving the Lens Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Imagery captured by a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows the position of a cover on the SHERLOC instrument. The cover became stuck in January but the rover team has found a way to address the issue for continued operation.
PIA26339:
Checking the Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Io Juno
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Infrared data collected Oct. 15, 2023, by the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft shows Chors Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter's moon Io.
PIA26371:
Juno Captures Lava Lake Chors Patera on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Io Juno
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured two volcanic plumes rising above the horizon of Jupiter's moon Io. The image was taken Feb. 3, 2024, from a distance of about 2,400 miles (3,800 kilometers).
PIA26340:
JunoCam Captures Io Spouting Off
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-21 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows an eruption that began on March 2, 2024 at Fernandina Volcano, Galapagos.
PIA26326:
Fernandina Volcano, Galapagos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the ancient Neretva Vallis river channel when it captured this view of an area of scientific interest named Bright Angel with one of its navigation cameras on June 6, 2024.
PIA26336:
Perseverance Views 'Bright Angel'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance captured this mosaic looking downstream of the dune-filled Neretva Vallis river channel on May 17, 2024. The channel fed Jezero Crater with fresh water billions of years ago.
PIA26335:
Perseverance's View of Neretva Vallis River Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows Perseverance's path between Jan. 21 and June 11, 2024. White dots indicate where the rover stopped after completing a traverse beside Neretva Vallis river channel. The pale blue line indicates the rover's route inside the channel.
PIA26334:
Perseverance's Path to 'Bright Angel' in Mars' Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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Stitched together from 18 images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover, this mosaic shows a boulder field on Mount Washburn on May 27, 2024. The rover's science team nicknamed the rock Atoko Point.
PIA26333:
Standing Out on Mars' 'Mount Washburn'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars MAVEN
 Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS)
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The purple color in this animated GIF shows auroras on Mars' nightside as detected by the ultraviolet instrument aboard NASA's MAVEN orbiter between May 14 and 20, 2024. The brighter the purple, the more auroras were present.
PIA26304:
MAVEN Detects Auroras During Solar Storm in 2024
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Navcam (MSL)
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The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
PIA26303:
Curiosity Sees Specks Caused By 2024 Solar Storm While Recording a Wind Gust on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Navcam (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured streaks and specks using one of its navigation cameras just as particles from a solar storm arrived on the Martian surface. These artifacts are caused by energetic particles hitting the camera's image detector.
PIA26302:
Curiosity Sees Streaks and Specks During 2024 Solar Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Sol (our sun) Mars 2020 Rover
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Sunspots are seen in images captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z cameras between May 8 and 20, 2024. These flares would send charged particles toward Mars, where several NASA spacecraft were able to study them.
PIA26301:
Perseverance Views Sunspots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Salin-de-Giraud, a major center of salt production on the right bank of the Rhone River in southern France.
PIA26325:
Salin-de-Giraud, France
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, engineers and technicians pose with the agency's Farside Seismic Suite while the payload is readied for testing.
PIA26342:
FSS team
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, technician Nik Schwarz prepares the agency's Farside Seismic Suite (FSS) for testing.
PIA26341:
Getting Farside Seismic Suite Ready for Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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Seen here in November 2023, Farside Seismic Suite's inner cube houses the NASA payload's battery and two seismometers. The gold, puck-shaped device holds the Short Period sensor, while the silver enclosure contains the Very Broadband seismometer.
PIA26300:
Farside Seismic Suite's Cube Within a Cube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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NASA's Farside Seismic Suite undergoes work in a JPL clean room in March, 2024. The instrument's two seismometers are packaged in a cube-within-a-cube structure. The shiny blanket is an outer insulating layer; the single solar panel provides power.
PIA26299:
Farside Seismic Suite Before Testing at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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JPL engineers and technicians prepare NASA's Farside Seismic Suite for testing in simulated lunar gravity. The payload will gather the agency's first-ever seismic measurements from the far side of the Moon.
PIA26298:
Farside Seismic Suite Prepared for Testing in JPL Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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One of the two shoebox-size CubeSats that make up NASA's PREFIRE mission sits on a table at Blue Canyon Technologies. The company built the satellite bus and integrated the JPL-provided thermal infrared spectrometer instrument.
PIA26186:
PREFIRE CubeSat Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
 Roman Coronagraph
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This graphic shows a test of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument. At left, starlight leaks into the field of view when fixed components are used. The middle and right images show more starlight being removed as moveable components are engaged.
PIA26279:
Roman Coronagraph Digging the Dark Hole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
 Roman Coronagraph
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Team members at JPL said farewell to the Roman Coronagraph Instrument on May 17, 2024, by signing their names to a flag on the outside of the shipping container that carried the instrument to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
PIA26278:
Coronagraph Team Signs Flag Farewell
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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At JPL on May 17, 2024, members of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument team use a crane to lift the top portion of the shipping container that the instrument was stored in for its journey to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
PIA26277:
Coronagraph Prepared for Shipping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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This artist's concept depicts one of two PREFIRE CubeSats in orbit around Earth. The NASA mission will measure the amount of far-infrared radiation the planet's polar regions shed to space.
PIA26185:
PREFIRE CubeSat in Earth Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Europa Juno
 Stellar Reference Unit (SRU)
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This black-and-white image of Europa's surface was taken by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the Sept. 29, 2022, flyby. The chaos feature nicknamed the Platypus is seen in the lower right corner.
PIA26332:
Europa Seen Up Close by Juno's SRU
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Europa Juno
 JunoCam
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Jupiter's moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. The images show the fractures, ridges, and bands that crisscross the moon's surface.
PIA26331:
A JunoCam View of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-13 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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This animated artist's concept depicts three small rovers – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration headed for the Moon – driving together on the lunar surface.
PIA26296:
CADRE Rovers Explore the Moon Together (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-13 Amalthea Juno
 JunoCam
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet on March 7, 2024.
PIA25728:
NASA's Juno Mission Spots Jupiter's Tiny Moon Amalthea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope highlights the stars and dust clouds in the Andromeda galaxy.
PIA26276:
The Infrared Face of the Andromeda Galaxy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-07 Earth SWOT
 KaRIn
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Flooding from monsoon rains covers a wide region of northeast Bangladesh in this Oct. 8, 2023, image showing data from SWOT. The U.S.-French satellite is the first to provide water surface elevation information over entire regions at high resolution.
PIA26343:
SWOT Captures Flooding in Bangladesh
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-01 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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One of three small rovers bound for the Moon took an autonomous test drive in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in December 2023.
PIA26297:
NASA's CADRE Rover Takes an Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site east of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
PIA26290:
Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a field of sand dunes in the Martian springtime while the seasonal carbon dioxide frost is sublimating into the air.
PIA26330:
Defrosting Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 14, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively fresh crater with gullies.
PIA26329:
Gullies in the Depths of Hellas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 9, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain of two distinct ages. The slopes and hilltops here are made up of rough rocky outcrop, while the valley floors are filled with smooth materials with fewer craters.
PIA26328:
Sediment Ponds in Tithonium Chasma
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This image acquired on March 18, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows bright materials, likely to be sediments rich in the hydrated sulfates, covered by a thin deposit of dark material, perhaps sand.
PIA26327:
Hydrated Sulfates in Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-26 Deep Space Network (DSN)
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In a historic first, all six radio frequency antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex carried out a test to receive data from the agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft at the same time on April 20, 2024.
PIA26147:
Six Deep Space Network Antennas in Madrid Arrayed For the First Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-26 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia and home to over half the country's population of about 3 million people.
PIA26289:
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-26 Earth 1440x810x3
A NASA-led study combined stream-gauge measurements with computer models of 3 million river segments to create a global picture of how much water Earth's rivers hold. It estimated that the Amazon basin contains about 38% of the world's river water.
PIA26119:
Global Accounting of Earth's River Storage and Flow
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After receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in five months, members of the Voyager flight team celebrate in a conference room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 20, 2024.
PIA26275:
Voyager Team Celebrates Engineering Data Return
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This composite shows views of Jupiter's northern polar cyclones in three different wavelengths of light – microwave, visible, and ultraviolet – as captured by NASA's Juno mission.
PIA26295:
NASA's Juno Catches 3 Waves of Jupiter's Polar Cyclones
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Created using data collected by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno during flybys in December 2023 and February 2024, this animation is an artist's concept of a feature on the Jovian moon Io that the mission science team nicknamed Steeple Mountain.
PIA26294:
Io's 'Steeple Mountain' (Artist's Concept)
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This animation is an artist's concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter's moon Io, made using data from the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.
PIA26293:
Looking Into Io's Loki Patera (Artist's Concept)
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The Ingenuity team celebrates during their final shift working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26319:
Ingenuity Team's Final Shift
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson celebrates with Perseverance rover deputy project manager Steve Lee during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26317:
Ingenuity Fist Bump
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Teddy Tzanetos, project manager for NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, addresses members of the team during their final shift at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26316:
Ingenuity Project Manager Says Goodbye
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson and project manager Teddy Tzanetos react during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26315:
Ingenuity Team Lead All Smiles
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's moon Io during Juno's 60th flyby of Jupiter on Apr. 9, 2024.
PIA25697:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures View of Io's South Polar Region
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Engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity together monitored a transmission from the history-making helicopter in a JPL control room on April 16, 2024.
PIA26318:
Mars Helicopter Team Witnesses Final Downlink
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-15 Earth SWOT
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Water depths in Death Valley's temporary lake ranged between about 3 feet (or 1 meter, shown in dark blue) to less than 1.5 feet (0.5 meters, light yellow) from February through early March.
PIA26184:
SWOT Death Valley Lake Depth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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The viewing gallery above High Bay 1 in JPL's historic Spacecraft Assembly Facility provided members of the media with a vantage point to observe the clean room where Europa Clipper was put together.
PIA26292:
A View of Europa Clipper From Above
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Members of the media visited a clean room at JPL April 11 to get a close-up look at NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The spacecraft is expected to launch in October 2024 to the Jupiter system, where it will study the ice-encased moon Europa.
PIA26291:
JPL Shows Off Europa Clipper in the Clean Room
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Europa Clipper Science Communications Lead Cynthia Phillips explains the science of the mission to members of the media in von Kármán Auditorium at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 11.
PIA25319:
Explaining the Science of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The 21st rock core captured by NASA's Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The sample was cored from Bunsen Peak on March 12, 2024.
PIA26314:
Perseverance Cores 'Bunsen Peak'
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Perseverance's CacheCam captured this image of the rover's latest cored sample – taken from an intriguing rock called Bunsen Peak – on March 12, 2024.
PIA26313:
Perseverance's 'Bunsen Peak' Sample
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This mosaic shows a rock called Bunsen Peak where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover extracted its 21st rock core and abraded a circular patch to investigate the rock's composition.
PIA26312:
Perseverance's View of 'Bunsen Peak'
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This map shows the locations of NASA's Perseverance rover (white star) and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (cyan star) on Dec. 19, 2023.
PIA26311:
Rover, Helicopter Locations in Jezero Crater
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This animation shows a simulation of the response of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to the Sys-ID process. Sys-ID is a method for understanding the behavior of a system by studying how specific inputs impact the motion of the vehicle.
PIA26240:
Animation of Mars Helicopter Flight Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this selfie using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 3, 2024. The selfie is made up of 36 individual images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26310:
Curiosity Takes a Navcam Selfie
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 1, 2024. The panorama is made up of 10 images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26247:
Curiosity Looks Back Down the Slope
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After arriving at Gediz Vallis channel, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using one of its black-and-white navigation cameras on Feb. 3, 2024.
PIA26246:
Curiosity Arrives at Gediz Vallis Channel
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The steep path NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took to reach Gediz Vallis channel is indicated in yellow in this visualization made with orbital data.
PIA26241:
Curiosity's Route to Gediz Vallis Channel (Rendering)
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the March 16, 2024, volcanic eruption in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula.
PIA26288:
March 2024 Iceland Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen being lifted into the Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024. Thermal vacuum testing, which lasted 16 days, ensures that the spacecraft will withstand the harsh conditions of space.
PIA26065:
Europa Clipper Rolls Into Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Europa Clipper is seen in the 85-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024, before the start of thermal vacuum testing. A battery of tests ensures that the NASA spacecraft can withstand the extreme hot, cold, and airless environment of space.
PIA26064:
Europa Clipper Prepares for Test in Space Simulator
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows some of the tallest star dunes (or pyramid dunes), over 100 meters high, located in the Erg Chebbi sand sea in southeast Morocco.
PIA26287:
Star Dunes, Morocco
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This image acquired on February 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows secondary impact craters around 20 kilometers from the primary impact.
PIA26324:
Searching for Distant Secondary Craters
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This image acquired on January 17, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows many craters in the mid-latitudes of Mars are partially filled with deposits that have been interpreted to be ice-rich.
PIA26323:
A Song of Ice and Tectonics
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This image acquired on January 15, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows multiple dark spots corresponding to numerous new craters.
PIA26322:
Mars Atmosphere Fights Back!
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This image acquired on January 30, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 13-meter (43 feet) diameter crater in Arcadia Planitia where ice was exposed both in the crater interior and ejecta.
PIA26321:
Mars Mysteries: Unveiling the Icy Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-21 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
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This graph shows global mean sea level (in blue) since 1993. The solid red line indicates the trajectory of this increase, which more than doubled over the past three decades. The dotted red line projects future sea level rise.
PIA26183:
2023 Sea Level Rise Update
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the small town of Orce in the heart of the high plateau of Grenada in southern Spain.
PIA26286:
Orce, Spain
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