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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-24 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).
PIA24252:
Nirgal Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a linear depression, part of Sirenum Fossae.
PIA24251:
Sirenum Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a large sand sheet with surface dune forms, located on the complex floor of Rabe Crater.
PIA24250:
Rabe Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-19 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).
PIA24249:
Nirgal Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows several channels, all draining into a large unnamed basin in Margaritifer Terra.
PIA24248:
Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-18 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of debris. The base of one cone is moving toward Earth. Both bases are outlined in magenta, revealing shockwaves created as the debris races through space.
PIA23868:
Geometry of the Blue Ring Nebula (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-18 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of gas ejected into space by a stellar merger. As the gas cools, it forms hydrogen molecules that collide with particles in interstellar space, causing them to radiate far-ultraviolet light.
PIA23867:
The Blue Ring Nebula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a dune field on the floor of an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
PIA24247:
Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Sirenum Fossae.
PIA24246:
Sirenum Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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Flight Director Matt Smith studies the data during the second post-launch trajectory correction maneuver during Perseverance's cruise to Mars.
PIA24195:
A Flight Director's Focus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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Propulsion Lead Rebekah Lam participates in Perseverance's second trajectory correction maneuver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Propulsion Lead Checks the Tanks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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Matt Smith, flight director for the second Mars 2020 mission trajectory correction maneuver (TCM-2), studying the screens at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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All Systems Go for Planned Course Correction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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The Mars 2020 navigation team celebrates Perseverance's nominal, or successful, trajectory correction maneuver in the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24192:
Celebrating a Good Day in Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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Attitude Control Systems lead Chris Pong donned a dinosaur-themed mask for his participation in the Mars 2020 mission's second trajectory correction maneuver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24191:
Maneuvers While Masked
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Europa 3840x2160x3
This illustration of Jupiter's icy moon Europa depicts a cryovolcanic eruption in which brine from within the icy shell could blast into space. A new model proposing this process may also shed light on plumes on other icy bodies.
PIA24029:
Briny Plumes on Europa (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Sirenum Fossae.
PIA24245:
Sirenum Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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One of two wind sensors springs out of the mast on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These sensors are part of Perseverance's weather instrumentation, called MEDA.
PIA24175:
MEDA's Wind Sensor Springs Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-13 Mars 2020 Project
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SkyCam is a sky-facing camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. As part of MEDA, the rover's set of weather instruments, SkyCam will take images and video of clouds passing in the Martian sky.
PIA24174:
Perseverance Rover's SkyCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Sirenum Fossae.
PIA24244:
Sirenum Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-12 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed Mary Anning after a 19th century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region.
PIA24173:
Curiosity's Selfie at the Mary Anning location on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed channel located on the northern boundary of Terra Sirenum near Lucus Planum.
PIA24243:
Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-10 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) along the Blue Nile River is well under way near the Ethiopia-Sudan border.
PIA24150:
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-10 Mars 2020 Project
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An electrical cable can be seen snaking its way along insulation material in this in-flight image of the interior of the Mars 2020 spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet.
PIA24233:
Mars 2020 Showing Some Inflight Heat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows complex dune forms on the floor of Russell Crater.
PIA24242:
Russell Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of Dao Vallis. Located south of Hadriacus Mons (a volcano), this channel is approximately 1200km (750 miles) long.
PIA24241:
Dao Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-09 Europa 1600x900x3
This illustration of Jupiter's moon Europa shows how the icy surface may glow on its nightside, the side facing away from the Sun. Variations in the glow and the color of the glow itself could reveal information about the composition of ice on Europa's su
PIA24028:
Night on Europa (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows several linear depressions called graben. Graben are formed due to extensional tectonic stresses, creating linear faults that allow subsidence of blocks of material between paired faults.
PIA24190:
Mangala and Memnonia Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-05 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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Technicians and engineers working on the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite pose in front of the spacecraft in its protective nosecone, or payload fairing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
PIA24134:
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Spacecraft Team and Fairing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-05 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is encapsulated in a protective nosecone, or payload fairing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fairing will sit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the satellite into Earth orbit.
PIA24133:
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Encapsulated
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Osuga Valles. Osuga Valles is a complex set of channels located near Eos Chasma.
PIA24189:
Osuga Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the floor of Matara Crater. A large sand sheet with surface dune forms dominates the floor of this crater located in Noachis Terra.
PIA24188:
Matara Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Mangala Valles. Mangala Valles is a complex channel more than 900km long (560 miles).
PIA24187:
Mangala Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region, south of Eos Chasma, where the mesas have eroded down into small hills, as well as large, steep sided mesas.
PIA24186:
Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of an unnamed channel in Arabia Terra. This channel empties into Madler Crater.
PIA24185:
Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows dunes located on the complex floor of Rabe Crater.
PIA24184:
Rabe Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-28 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Sea of Galilee (or Sea of Kinneret) in northern Israel, the lowest freshwater lake on Earth.
PIA24130:
Sea of Galilee, Israel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-28 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged the Western United States drought on Oct. 16, 2020, and compared the same area to an image from ECOSTRESS taken a year earlier on Oct. 16, 2019.
PIA24132:
ECOSTRESS Drought Stress Comparison
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Ma'adim Valles. Ma'adim Valles is an outflow channel that starts in the southern lowlands and flows northward into Gusev crater, the home of the MER Spirit rover.
PIA24183:
Ma'adim Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Mars 2020 Project
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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover reached its halfway point — 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) — on its journey to Jezero Crater on Oct. 27, 2020, at 1:40 p.m. PDT (4:40 EDT).
PIA24232:
Perseverance Rover at Halfway Point
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Mars 2020 Project
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This illustration of the Mars 2020 spacecraft in interplanetary space was generated using imagery from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System. The image is from the mission's midway point between Earth and Mars.
PIA24231:
Mars 2020 Spacecraft Mid-Cruise (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Jupiter Juno
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The south pole of Jupiter and a potential transient luminous event — a bright, unpredictable, and extremely brief flash of light — is seen in this annotated image of data acquired on April 10, 2020, from Juno's UVS instrument.
PIA24050:
Possible Jupiter Sprite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Jupiter 1185x1973x3
The lightning phenomenon known as a sprite depicted at Jupiter in this illustration. Jupiter's hydrogen-rich atmosphere would likely make them appear blue. In Earth's upper atmosphere, the presence of nitrogen gives them a reddish color.
PIA23990:
Jovian Sprite (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of an unnamed crater in Terra Sirenum. The inner crater rim is dissected by numerous small channels.
PIA24182:
Crater Rim Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region of chaos where the isolated mesas are still very large, as well as other locations that are already reduced by erosion into small mesas.
PIA24181:
Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region of hills in the plains of Terra Cimmeria.
PIA24160:
Bright Hills
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-22 Mars 2020 Project
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MEDLI2 sensors are installed on the Mars 2020 heat shield and back shell prior that will protect NASA's Perseverance rover on its journey to the surface of Mars.
PIA23989:
MEDLI2 Onboard Mars 2020 Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-22 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.
PIA24159:
Russell Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a large sand sheet with surface dune forms, located on the complex floor of Rabe Crater.
PIA24158:
Rabe Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-20 Mars 3840x2160x3
This illustration shows Jezero Crater as it may have looked billions of years go on Mars, when it was a lake. An inlet and outlet are also visible on either side of the lake.
PIA24172:
Ancient Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-20 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.
PIA24157:
Eberswalde Crater Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows three super-sensitive gravitational wave-detection systems in America and Europe. The two American LIGO systems are located near Livingston, LA and near Hanford, WA. The European VIRGO system is located near Pisa, Italy.
PIA24129:
Gravity Wave Detectors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Mars 2020 Rover
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This nickel-alloy heat exchanger is among several that were 3D printed for MOXIE, an instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24171:
Close-up of 3D printed MOXIE Heat Exchanger
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Mars 2020 Rover
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This video clip shows a 3D printing technique where a printer head scans over each layer of a part, blowing metal powder which is melted by a laser.
PIA23972:
Video of 3D printing at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Mars 2020 Rover
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This X-ray image shows the interior of a 3D-printed heat exchanger in Perseverance's MOXIE instrument. X-ray images like these are used to check for defects within parts.
PIA24100:
X-ray Image of 3D-Printed MOXIE Part
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Ganges Chasma. Deposits of fine surface materials and bright layered deposits are visible in this image.
PIA24156:
Ganges Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Russell Crater.
PIA24155:
Russell Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-16 Mars InSight
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This footage from Aug. 19, 2019, shows a replica of InSight scraping soil with a scoop on the end of its robotic arm in a test lab at JPL. On Mars, InSight will scrape and tamp down soil on top of the mole to help it dig.
PIA24099:
Replica of InSight's Arm Practices Scraping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-16 Mars InSight
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NASA's InSight retracted its robotic arm on Oct. 3, 2020, revealing where the spike-like mole is trying to burrow into Mars. In the coming months, the arm will scrape and tamp down soil on top of the mole to help it dig.
PIA24098:
InSight's Arm Pulls Back, Revealing the Mole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-16 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite undergoes final preparations in a clean room at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for an early November launch.
PIA24131:
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich processing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-15 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts five major components of the Mars 2020 spacecraft.
PIA24128:
Mars 2020 Expanded Spacecraft Illustration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions that are part of Sirenum Fossae.
PIA24154:
Sirenum Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows multiple channels dissecting the inner rim of this unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA24153:
Crater Rim Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-13 DuAxel Project
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The two-wheeled Axel descends the slope while tethered to its counterpart anchored above the slope. The tether serves as a climbing rope of sorts while also providing power and a means of communication.
PIA24110:
The Tethered Axel Autonomously Descends a Rocky Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-13 DuAxel Project
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During the same field test, the DuAxel rover separates into two single-axled robots so that one can rappel down a slope too steep for conventional rovers.
PIA24109:
DuAxel Undocks a Tethered Axel to Explore a Steep Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-13 DuAxel Project
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The DuAxel rover is seen here participating in field tests in the Mojave Desert. The four-wheeled rover is composed of two Axel robots. One part anchors itself in place while the other uses a tether to explore otherwise inaccessible terrain.
PIA24108:
The DuAxel Rover During a Field Test in California's Mojave Desert
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-13 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.
PIA24152:
Proctor Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 16, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the ceiling of a lava tube has collapsed in one spot and made this pit crater.
PIA24149:
Pit Craters and Giant Volcanoes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 3, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows loops in the tracks that can often be used to discern the direction traveled by dust devils.
PIA24148:
Dust Devil Dance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 15, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a brownish, dusty cliff wall, where the faint light-blue-colored ice shows through.
PIA24147:
Cliffs in Ancient Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on June 23, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows terrain near Mangala Valles.
PIA24146:
A Criss-Cross Landscape with Fresh Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a large sand sheet with surface dune forms, located on the complex floor of Rabe Crater.
PIA24151:
Rabe Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Margaritifer Terra near Eos Chasma.
PIA24145:
All Broken Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Jupiter Juno
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During the closest approach of this pass, NASA's Juno spacecraft came within approximately 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops.
PIA23807:
A Flight Over Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
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Highlighted in blue in this visualization, the RIMFAX instrument's antenna is externally mounted underneath the MMRTG (the rover's nuclear battery) on the back of Perseverance.
PIA24049:
RIMFAX Location on NASA's Perseverance Rover (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
 Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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A test model of the RIMFAX instrument, aboard the trailer behind the snow mobile, undergoes field testing in Svalbard, Norway.
PIA24048:
Testing RIMFAX for NASA's Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) uses radar waves to probe the ground, revealing the unexplored world that lies beneath the Martian surface.
PIA24047:
RIMFAX at Work on NASA's Perseverance (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows southern Noachis Terra.
PIA24144:
Southern Noachis Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the intersection of Mangala Fossae and an impact crater.
PIA24143:
Mangala Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-06 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.
PIA24142:
Proctor Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the southwestern flank of Ascraeus Mons.
PIA24141:
Ascraeus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-02 Earth ECOSTRESS
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Throughout the month of September 2020, NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged multiple wildfires across the state of California.
PIA23721:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Images California Wildfires From Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-02 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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This illustration shows the rear of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.
PIA24107:
The Rear of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite (Illustration)
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This illustration shows the front of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.
PIA24106:
The Front of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-02 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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In this illustration, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft, the world's latest sea-level satellite, orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.
PIA24105:
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Orbits Earth (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-02 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).
PIA24125:
Nirgal Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-01 Mars Helicopter
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This illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on Mars.
PIA24127:
Helicopter Above Perseverance on Mars
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A disk of hot material around a supermassive black hole emits a burst of visible light, which travels out to a ring of dust that subsequently emits infrared light.
PIA23866:
Echo Mapping in a Black Hole Accretion Disk and Torus (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The black speck circled in the lower left corner of this image is a cluster of recently formed craters spotted on Mars using a new machine-learning algorithm. This image was taken by the Context Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA24091:
Machine Learning Spots a Cluster of Mars Craters: Context Camera's view
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of a crater cluster on Mars, the first ever to be discovered AI.
PIA24040:
AI Spots a Cluster of Mars Craters: HiRISE's view
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Iani Chaos. Chaos terrain is typified by mesas and valleys.
PIA24124:
Iani Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows parts of Ophir Chasma and Candor Chasma. Both are part of Valles Marineris.
PIA24123:
Ophir and Candor Chasmata
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This infrared global map of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus was created using images acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA24027:
Enceladus in the Infrared (Map View)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the central portion of Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is a complex channel system in Utopia Planitia near Elysium Mons.
PIA24122:
Hephaestus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a sand sheet with surface dune forms on the floor of an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
PIA24121:
Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-28 Mars 2020 Rover
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Visible both in the inset photograph on the upper left and near the center of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover in this illustration is the palm-size dome called the Laser Retroreflector Array (LaRA).
PIA24097:
Perseverance's Laser Retroreflector (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-25 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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A shipping container containing the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is transported on a truck to the SpaceX payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base after landing in California on Sept. 24, 2020.
PIA24104:
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Transported for Payload Processing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-25 Sentinel-6/Jason-CS
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A shipping container containing the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is removed from an aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. 24, 2020, after its two-day journey from an IABG engineering facility near Munich, Germany.
PIA24103:
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the contact of the southern flank of Ascraeus Mons and the surrounding Tharsis region lava flows.
PIA24120:
Ascraeus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-24 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Aldan, the administrative center of the Aldansky District in Siberia, Russia. It was founded in 1923 after discovery of rich gold and uranium deposits.
PIA24126:
Aldan, Siberia, Russia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows small dunes located in an unnamed crater in southern Noachis Terra.
PIA24119:
Noachis Terra Crater Dunes
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