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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-21 Earth Terra
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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The art on this side of the plate features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by the word water in 103 languages. At center is a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for water.
PIA26063:
Europa Clipper's 'Water Words'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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A commemorative plate mounted on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft features U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's handwritten In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa. It will be affixed with a silicon microchip stenciled with names submitted by the public.
PIA26062:
Europa Clipper's 'Golden Record'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Members of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration team pose with two full-scale development model rovers in the Mars Yard at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in January 2024.
PIA26170:
CADRE Team in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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With its solar panels open, a small rover that is bound for the Moon sits in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 26, 2024.
PIA26169:
Completed CADRE Rover in the Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Two full-scale development model rovers are tested in JPL's Mars Yard in August 2023 as part of NASA's CADRE tech demo. These tests confirmed the project's hardware and software can work together to accomplish key goals.
PIA26168:
CADRE Test Rovers in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Clamped to a shaker table, one of NASA's CADRE rovers gets shaken vigorously during a test in November 2023.
PIA26167:
CADRE Rover Gets a Big Shake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A CADRE rover is prepared for electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing in a special chamber at JPL in November 2023.
PIA26166:
CADRE Rover Undergoes Electromagnetic Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Members of the CADRE assembly, test, launch, and operations team pose with completed hardware in a clean room at JPL in late January, 2024.
PIA26165:
CADRE ATLO Team Presents Completed Rovers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration, three small rovers show off their ability to drive as a team autonomously during a test in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in December 2023.
PIA26164:
NASA's CADRE Rovers Take First Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Mercury Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in front of the Sun on Oct. 28, 2023.
PIA26250:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Deimos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Deimos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26249:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Deimos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Feb. 8, 2024.
PIA26248:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Earth SWOT
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This image shows SWOT satellite data for water surface height in part of Mendocino County, Northern California, on Jan. 15, 2024, before several atmospheric rivers arrived, and on Feb. 4, after the first storms.
PIA26182:
California Coastal Flooding Captured in SWOT Data
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-04 Europa Juno
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This illustration shows charged particles from Jupiter impacting Europa's surface, splitting frozen water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Scientists believe these newly created oxygen gases could migrate toward the moon's subsurface ocean.
PIA26239:
Oxygen Production at Europa (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover appears as a dark speck in this image captured from directly overhead by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO.
PIA26245:
HiRISE Spots Curiosity Driving Toward Upper Gediz Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Smith Island, located in the Gulf of California, just off the eastern shore of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
PIA26284:
Smith Island, Gulf of California
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this video showing the shadows of its rotor blades turning on Feb. 11, 2024. Engineers planned the video to get more information about damage that was sustained during the helicopter's 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024
PIA26244:
Ingenuity's Navcam Reveals a Missing Rotor Blade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took these images of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and one of its rotor blades on Feb. 24, 2024.
PIA26238:
SuperCam's RMI Spots Ingenuity's Broken Rotor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This natural-color mosaic showing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at Valinor Hills was acquired by the agency's Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 21, 2024. The helicopter sits just left of center, a speck-like figure amid a field of sand ripples.
PIA26237:
Ingenuity at 'Valinor Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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The day before asteroid 2008 OS7 made its close approach with Earth on Feb. 2, 2024, this series of images was captured by the powerful 230-foot (70-meter) Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna near Barstow, California.
PIA26149:
NASA's Planetary Radar Images Slow-Spinning Asteroid 2008 OS7
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-20 NISAR
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This artist's concept depicts NISAR in orbit over central and Northern California.
PIA26285:
NISAR Satellite in Earth Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-15 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows volcanic activity near the town of Grindavik, Iceland on January 14, 2024.
PIA26283:
Grindavik, Iceland Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-14 NICER
NuSTAR
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A magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this artist's concept. The magnetar's strong, twisted magnetic field lines can influence the flow of electrically charged material from the object.
PIA26274:
A Magnetar Loses Mass (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-08 Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Deep Space Station 13 at NASA's Goldstone complex is an experimental antenna that has been retrofitted with an optical terminal. This proof of concept received both radio frequency and laser signals from deep space at the same time.
PIA26148:
DSN's Experimental Hybrid Antenna Tracks DSOC's Laser Downlink
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at its final airfield on Feb. 4, 2024. The helicopter damaged its rotor blades during landing on its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024.
PIA26236:
Perseverance Spots Ingenuity at Its Final Airfield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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The Roman Coronagraph was peppered with radio waves to test its response to stray electrical signals. The test was performed inside a chamber lined with foam padding that absorbs the radio waves to prevent them from bouncing off the walls.
PIA26273:
Roman Coronagraph Undergoes Electromagnetic Interference Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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JPL scientist Vanessa Bailey stands behind the Nancy Grace Roman Coronagraph, which has been undergoing testing at JPL. The Coronagraph is designed to block starlight and allow scientists to see the faint light from planets outside our solar system.
PIA26272:
Roman Coronagraph on View in a JPL Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 21, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively large (280-meter diameter) circular structure that is most likely a relaxed impact crater.
PIA23700:
An Impact Structure in Brain Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 26, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain north of Elysium Planitia and Athabasca Valles.
PIA23427:
Dark Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 23, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater located in Acidalia Planitia. It is in an area of elongated mounds and hosts a variety of gully forms on its interior slopes.
PIA23145:
Gullies in Acidalia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 27, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ridges in Aeolis Planum which tell a story of ancient rivers and a Mars very different to that of today.
PIA22822:
Flowing Rivers on Ancient Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-30 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26061:
Europa Clipper With Instruments Aboard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-29 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Rupganj, Bangladesh, one of the top 3 fastest growing cities in the world between 2000 and 2020. The population increased from 76,000 to 482,000.
PIA26282:
Rupganj, Bangladesh
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-25 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
PIA26243:
Ingenuity Spots the Shadow of Its Damaged Rotor Blade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-25 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this view of sand ripples during its 70th flight, on Dec. 22, 2023. The smooth terrain proved difficult for the helicopter's navigation system to track, resulting in a rough landing.
PIA26242:
Ingenuity's View of Sand Ripples During Flight 70
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
 Landing System
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Engineer Matthew Cameron-Hooper performs a checkout on some systems of the Europa Lander landing gear testbed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on May 27, 2022.
PIA26200:
System Checkouts on Testbed for Europa Lander Landing Gear
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
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Engineers test the mechanical landing system for the proposed Europa Lander project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept. 15, 2022.
PIA26199:
Testing a Landing Gear for Potential Future Landing on Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
 Landing System
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare flight-like landing gear in the Europa Lander landing gear testbed in summer 2022.
PIA26198:
Engineers Prepare Europa Lander Landing Gear for Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Earth Landsat
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Zachariae Isstrom, a glacier in northeast Greenland, retreated significantly between 1999 and 2022. A recent study found that it lost 176 billion tons (160 billion metric tons) of ice from 1985 to 2022.
PIA26118:
Retreat of Greenland's Zachariae Isstrom Glacier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Earth Landsat
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Jakobshavn Isbrae, a glacier on Greenland's western coast, retreated significantly between 1985 and 2022, losing about 97 billion tons (88 billion metric tons) of ice.
PIA26117:
Retreat of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-11 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Rinjani Caldera in Indonesia.
PIA26281:
Rinjani Caldera, Indonesia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Hazcam (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's shadow is visible on the surface in these images taken by the front Hazcam.
PIA26209:
Curiosity's Hazcams Capture a Day on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Lyot Crater, including a large field of sand dunes on the crater floor.
PIA26270:
Lyot Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the central part of Tithonium Chasma.
PIA26269:
Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Shalbatana Vallis.
PIA26268:
Shalbatana Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Ismeniae Fossae.
PIA26267:
Ismeniae Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Cerberus Fossae.
PIA26266:
Cerberus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 Io Juno
 JunoCam
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This JunoCam image of Jupiter's moon Io captures a plume of material ejected from the (unseen) volcano Prometheus. The image was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft on June 15, 2023.
PIA26235:
Io Plume Captured by JunoCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 Io Juno
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This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on June 15 by NASA's Juno. Three of the mountain peaks visible in the upper part of image were observed here for the first time by the spacecraft's JunoCam.
PIA26234:
Imaging Io's Volcanos With JunoCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 IRAS
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Clouds of gas and dust in space – like Rho Ophiuchi, shown here – mostly radiate infrared light. IRAS, imaged the region in 1983 and revealed previously hidden features, including newly forming stars nestled deep inside the dust.
PIA26271:
Rho Ophiuchi Imaged by IRAS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 James Webb Space Telescope
IRAS
Spitzer Space Telescope
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Scientists have been studying the universe with infrared space telescopes for 40 years, including these NASA missions, from left: the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS); the Spitzer Space Telescope; and the James Webb Space Telescope.
PIA25790:
Three of NASA's Infrared Telescopes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region of wind etched materials near the margin of Lucus Planum.
PIA26265:
Wind Erosion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-21 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers tested the system that will lower three small rovers onto the lunar surface when NASA's CADRE technology demonstration arrives at the Moon aboard a lunar lander.
PIA26163:
Testing the Deployer System for NASA's CADRE Project
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Olympica Fossae, a complex channel located on the volcanic plains between Alba Mons and Olympus Mons.
PIA26264:
Olympica Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This image shows a test flight of a full-scale prototype of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA26233:
First Controlled Flight of Mars Helicopter Prototype
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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Engineers and technicians prepare NASA's COLDArm robotic arm system for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in November 2023.
PIA26162:
NASA's COLDArm in Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Candor Chasma, one of the largest canyons that make up Valles Marineris.
PIA26263:
Eastern Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 14, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows large, streamlined features and grooves that have been carved by enormous water volumes into the floor of Granicus.
PIA25990:
Fluvial Landforms in Granicus Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 3, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows multiple processes, which may have occurred billions of years apart, reflected in this HiRISE image of Aeolis Planum.
PIA25989:
Curving Ridges in Aeolis Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 28, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a fan of sedimentary rock on the southeast area of Gale Crater's floor.
PIA25988:
A Sedimentary Fan in Southeast Gale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 23, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the northern lowlands of Mars stippled with mounds in this location.
PIA25987:
Muddy Mounds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Shalbatana Vallis.
PIA26262:
Shalbatana Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-18 Psyche
 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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This image shows an annotated screenshot from the first ultra-HD video streamed from deep space via a laser. NASA's DSOC experiment aboard the Psyche spacecraft sent the 15-second video back to Earth on Dec. 11, 2023.
PIA26146:
Explaining the First Ultra-HD Video Sent From Deep Space via Laser
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-18 Psyche
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Members of the DSOC team react to the first high-definition streaming video to be sent via laser from deep space on Dec. 11, 2023, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA26145:
DSOC Team Members React to the First HD Streaming Video From Deep Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater in Utopia Planitia, with an indentation in the crater rim at the middle of the crater.
PIA26261:
Utopia Planitia Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Bahram Vallis.
PIA26260:
Bahram Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-14 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, after Hurricane Hilary (August, 2023) dropped a year's worth of rain in a single day.
PIA26197:
Badwater, Death Valley
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater in southern Acidalia Planitia.
PIA26259:
Acidalia Planitia Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-13 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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This artist's concept depicts a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration headed for the Moon – on the lunar surface.
PIA26161:
CADRE Rover on the Moon (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Naktong Vallis.
PIA26258:
Naktong Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The path taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover during the first 1,000 sols of its mission at Jezero Crater is annotated on this overhead view taken by the HiRISE camera aboard the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA26231:
1,000 Days of Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Shown here is an annotated representation of the 13 sample tubes containing rock-core samples that are being carried aboard NASA's Perseverance rover as of Dec. 12, 2023.
PIA26232:
Cored Samples Aboard Perseverance at Sol 1,000
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of a location nicknamed Castell Henllys using its Mastcam-Z camera on April 13, 2023.
PIA26208:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Views Castell Henllys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This time-lapse video uses an engineering model of one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover to show how the instrument evaluates safe placement against a rock.
PIA26204:
How Perseverance's PIXL Gets Close to a Rock Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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PIXL, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, analyzed the chemical makeup of an area of abraded rock dubbed Ouzel Falls, finding it rich in minerals containing phosphate.
PIA26206:
PIXL Instrument on NASA's Perseverance Studies 'Ouzel Falls'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Analyzing this abraded rock patch dubbed Bills Bay, the PIXL instrument on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found it rich in carbonates (purple) and silica (green), both of which are good at preserving signs of ancient life.
PIA26205:
PIXL Instrument on NASA's Perseverance Studies 'Bills Bay'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animated artist's concept depicts water breaking through the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance rover is now exploring. Water entered the crater billions of years ago, forming a lake before the Red Planet dried up.
PIA26207:
Water Enters Jezero Crater Billions of Years Ago (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This 360-degree mosaic from the Airey Hill location inside Jezero Crater was generated using 993 individual images taken by the Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z from Nov. 3-6, 2023.
PIA26080:
Perseverance's 360-Degree View From 'Airey Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater in Tartarus Colles.
PIA26257:
Tartarus Colles Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-11 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth's dry regions using data from the year ending November 2023.
PIA26116:
NASA's EMIT Mission Produces Maps of Arid Region Surface Minerals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Tantalus Fossae.
PIA26256:
Tantalus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the boundary between Elysium Planitia and Terra Cimmeria.
PIA26255:
Wind Etching
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of Tempe Fossae.
PIA26254:
Tempe Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of the floor of an unnamed crater in Arabia Terra.
PIA26253:
Crater Floor Deposit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-05 Pan Psyche
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This mosaic was made from first light images acquired by both of the cameras on NASA's Psyche spacecraft on Dec. 4, 2023.
PIA25960:
First Images From NASA's Psyche
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the Jezero Crater delta deposit.
PIA26252:
Jezero Crater Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear features which are tectonic graben.
PIA26251:
Graben
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unusual channel feature, located south of Tooting Crater near Lycus Sulci.
PIA26230:
Odd Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-30 SunRISE
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The six satellites that make up NASA's SunRISE mission are each only about the size of a cereal box, flanked by small solar panels. SmallSats will work together to effectively create a much larger radio antenna in space.
PIA25789:
Completed SunRISE SmallSats Pictured Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a linear feature, part of Labeatis Fossae.
PIA26229:
Labeatis Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Nili Fossae.
PIA26228:
Nili Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This unusual view of the horizon of Mars was captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter using its THEMIS camera, in an operation that took engineers three months to plan.
PIA26203:
Odyssey's THEMIS Views the Horizon of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of the many channel forms found radial to the Elysium Mons volcanic complex.
PIA26227:
Elysium Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Idaeus Fossae.
PIA26226:
Idaeus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is a complex channel system in Utopia Planitia near Elysium Mons.
PIA26225:
Hephaestus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows linear features called Oti Fossae. Oti Fossae is located on the eastern flank of Arsia Mons and aligns with the regional northeast/southwest trend of the major Tharsis volcanoes.
PIA26224:
Oti Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-22 Mars Helicopter
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A dual rotor system for the next generation of Mars helicopters is tested in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept.15, 2023.
PIA26079:
Testing Next-Generation Mars Helicopter Rotors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Mars Helicopter
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This image shows two perspectives of the 59th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The image on the left was captured by the Mastcam-Z on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover; the black-and-white image on the right was taken by Ingenuity.
PIA26078:
Two Views of Ingenuity's 59th Flight
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