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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-30 Spitzer Space Telescope
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The varying brightness of an exoplanet called 55 Cancri e is shown in this plot of infrared data captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA20069:
Hot N' Hotter Planet Measured by Spitzer
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This illustration shows one possible scenario for the hot, rocky exoplanet called 55 Cancri e, which is nearly two times as wide as Earth. New data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the planet has extreme temperature swings.
PIA20068:
Hot-Lava World Illustration Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-30 Ceres Dawn
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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a sinuous canyon in the southern hemisphere of Ceres, south of Yalode Crater.
PIA20551:
Dawn LAMO Image 56
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Cerberus Fossae, a group of graben located near the southern part of Tartarus Montes.
PIA20439:
Cerberus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-29 Comet Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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These radar images of comet P/2016 BA14 were taken on March 22, 2016, by scientists using an antenna of NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, CA. At the time, the comet was about 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
PIA19298:
Comet Scanned by NASA Radar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-29 Ceres Dawn
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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an area in mid-southern latitudes on Ceres. The crater named Juling (12 miles, 20 kilometers wide) is seen at lower right. Bright material is visible along its upper walls.
PIA20410:
Dawn LAMO Image 55
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows both linear and sinuous channel forms.
PIA20438:
Olympica Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-28 Ceres Dawn
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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a moderate-sized impact feature that is imprinted upon the southern rim of Mondamin Crater. Boulders of various sizes can be seen around the crater's rim and on the sunlit part of its floor.
PIA20409:
Dawn LAMO Image 54
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-28 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Astronomers watched an exoplanet called HD 80606b heat up and cool off during its sizzling-hot orbit around its star. The results are shown in this data plot from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA20067:
HD 80606b Light Curve
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-28 Spitzer Space Telescope
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The turbulent atmosphere of a hot, gaseous planet known as HD 80606b is shown in this simulation based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA20066:
Simulated Atmosphere of a Hot Gas Giant Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The arc shaped feature at the bottom of this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is the remaining rim of a crater.
PIA20436:
More Olympia Undae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Two moons hover above the rings from this perspective, Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across), at left, and Janus (111 miles or 179 kilometers across), at right as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18360:
Dark Moons, Dark Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-25 Ceres Dawn
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft flys over dwarf planet Ceres which Dawn has been orbiting for mre than a year, providing us with fascinating views of an alien world.
PIA20408:
Dawn LAMO Image 53
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a small portion of Olympia Undae, a large dune field located near the north polar cap.
PIA20435:
Olympia Undae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Comet Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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These radar images of comet P/2016 BA14 were taken on March 23, 2016, by scientists using an antenna of NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California. At the time, the comet was about 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
PIA20542:
Comet Frozen In Time by NASA Radar Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Each of these two montages shows four synthetic views of Titan created using data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2004 and 2015. With each flyby, a brief opportunity to add small pieces to the overall mapping coverage of Titan.
PIA20022:
Working Toward 'Seamless' Infrared Maps of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Sol (our sun) SDO
 Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a long coronal hole has rotated so that was temporarily facing right towards Earth (Mar. 23-25, 2016). Coronal holes appear dark when viewed in some wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light.
PIA19178:
Elongated Coronal Hole Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Pluto New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this feature which appears to be a frozen, former lake of liquid nitrogen, located in a mountain range just north of Pluto's informally named Sputnik Planum.
PIA20543:
Pluto: On Frozen Pond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Ceres Dawn
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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an impact site at high southern latitude on Ceres. A smooth blanket of ejecta surrounds the crater. Many boulders can be seen around the crater's rim and on the sunlit part of its floor.
PIA20407:
Dawn LAMO Image 52
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image of the north polar cap captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the layering of ice and dust materials.
PIA20434:
Polar Cap Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan identifies the locations of mountains that have been named by the International Astronomical Union.
PIA20024:
Mountains of Titan Map - 2016 Update
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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The trio of ridges on Titan known as Mithrim Montes is home to the hazy Saturnian moon's tallest peak. The mountain is located midway along the lower of the three ridges shown in this radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20023:
Radar View of Titan's Tallest Mountains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The North Polar layered deposits provide a record of recent climate changes on Mars as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Color variations between layers are due to differences in composition of the dust.
PIA20541:
Colorful Polar Layered Deposits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image was targeted for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to look at a candidate new crater on a lobate apron. Such aprons are often ice-rich, but the crater shows no bright material that would indicate ice.
PIA20540:
Looking for Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Scientists think these polygonal fractures seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft contain chlorides, like sodium chloride or table salt, or maybe chloride of calcium or magnesium.
PIA20539:
Old Salt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Alluvial fans are gently-sloping wedges of sediments deposited by flowing water. Some of the best-preserved alluvial fans on Mars are in Saheki Crater, seen here by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
PIA20538:
Stratigraphy of Alluvial Fans in Saheki Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-23 Ceres Dawn
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the southeastern rim of Occator Crater. Compacted material forms spurs along the crater wall. A group of roughly parallel, braided fractures can be seen on the crater floor at top center.
PIA20406:
Dawn LAMO Image 51
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a small portion of Olympia Undae, an extensive dune field near the north polar cap.
PIA20433:
Olympia Undae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft flys over dwarf planet Ceres which Dawn has been orbiting for mre than a year, providing us with fascinating views of an alien world.
PIA20537:
Unveiling Ceres (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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This frame from a movie shows that the brightest area on Ceres, located in Occator Crater, was one of the last features to be imaged as NASA's Dawn progressively built its map.
PIA20356:
Ceres LAMO Coverage Map Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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The bright central spots near the center of Occator Crater are shown in enhanced color in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Such views can be used to highlight subtle color differences on Ceres' surface.
PIA20355:
Center of Occator Crater (Enhanced Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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The map is a Mercator projection and has a resolution of 460 feet (140 meters) per pixel. The images used to make this map were taken from Dawn's high-altitude mapping orbit (HAMO), at a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) from Ceres.
PIA20354:
Colorized Map of Ceres (Mercator Projection)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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Ceres' Haulani Crater is shown in these views from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. These views reveal variations in the region's brightness, mineralogy and temperature at infrared wavelengths.
PIA20353:
Ceres Neutron Counts Reflect Hydrogen Abundance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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Ceres' Haulani Crater is shown in these views from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. These views reveal variations in the region's brightness, mineralogy and temperature at infrared wavelengths.
PIA20352:
Haulani Crater in Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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This global map elliptical map from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the surface of Ceres in enhanced color, encompassing infrared wavelengths beyond human visual range. Some areas near the poles are black where Dawn's color imaging coverage is incomplete.
PIA20351:
Color Map of Ceres (Elliptical Projection)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Ceres Dawn
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured Occator Crater, containing the brightest area on Ceres; this closeup reveals a dome in a smooth-walled pit in the bright center of the crater.
PIA20350:
Occator Crater and Ceres' Brightest Spots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Cerberus Fossae. The linear depressions are called fossae.
PIA20432:
Cerberus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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On March 21, 2016, Torrential rains in the mid-South of the United States in mid-March 2016 produced flooding throughout Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, as seen by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA20533:
Persistent Flooding in Louisiana Imaged by NASA Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Kepler
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The brilliant flash of an exploding star's shockwave -- what astronomers call the 'shock breakout' -- is illustrated in artist's concept based on NASA's Kepler.
PIA20065:
Caught: A Supernova Shock Breakout (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MOLA
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This map shows local variations in Mars' gravitational pull on orbiters, presenting unprecedented detail based on several years of data from tracking three of NASA's Mars orbiters.
PIA20327:
Local Variations in the Gravitational Pull of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MOLA
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This Mars map shows variations in thickness of the planet's crust, the relatively thin surface layer over the interior mantle of the planet. It shows unprecedented detail derived from new mapping of variations in Mars' gravitational pull on orbiters.
PIA20326:
Newly Detailed Map of Mars' Crustal Thickness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Newly detailed mapping of local variations in Mars' gravitational pull on orbiters (center), combined with topographical mapping of the planet's mountains and valleys (left) yields the best-yet mapping of Mars' crustal thickness (right).
PIA20277:
Using Gravity and Topography to Map Mars' Crustal Thickness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Ceres Dawn
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a variety of small craters in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The majority of Ceres images from Dawn show heavily cratered terrains such as this.
PIA20405:
Dawn LAMO Image 50
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the interior of an unnamed crater near Nili Fossae.
PIA20431:
Crater Interior
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Dione Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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Cassini captures a crater duo (Italus on ancient trough called Petelia Fossae, and Caieta, atop Helorus Fossa) on Saturn's moon Dione that is superimposed on older, linear features.
PIA18359:
Helorus in Half-light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-18 Ceres Dawn
 Framing Camera
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows mountainous terrain along the rim of Ikapati Crater, located in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The scene is lightly cratered, mostly by small impacts.
PIA20404:
Dawn LAMO Image 49
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Capri Mensa.
PIA20430:
Capri Mensa - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-17 Pluto New Horizons
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This image of haze layers above Pluto's limb was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. About 20 haze layers are seen.
PIA20536:
Pluto's Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-17 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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NASA's New Horizons views the informally named Sputnik Planum on Pluto (top) and the informally named Vulcan Planum on Charon (bottom).
PIA20535:
Mountains, Craters and Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-17 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons is of Pluto's surface diversity At lower right, ancient, heavily cratered terrain is coated with dark, reddish tholins. At upper right, volatile ices fill the informally named Sputnik Planum.
PIA20534:
Surface Diversity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-17 SDSS
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In archived NASA data, researchers have discovered 'super spiral' galaxies that dwarf our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, and compete in size and brightness with the largest galaxies in the universe.
PIA20064:
Gargantuan 'Super Spiral' Galaxies Loom Large in the Cosmos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-17 Ceres Dawn
 Framing Camera
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern rim of Jarovit Crater in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. Compacted material forms spurs along the upper part of the crater wall, near the center of the image.
PIA20403:
Dawn LAMO Image 48
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Tyrrhena Terra.
PIA20429:
Tyrrhena Terra - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-16 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a cluster of villages known as Mawsynram in India, which is the current world record holder for the wettest place on earth.
PIA20437:
Mawsynram, India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-16 Ceres Dawn
 Framing Camera
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows cratered terrain in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The large crater in the scene appears quite ancient.
PIA20402:
Dawn LAMO Image 47
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a hill in Tyrrhena Terra.
PIA20428:
Tyrrhena Terra - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-16 Earth Jason-3
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The U.S./European Jason-3 satellite has produced its first map of sea surface height. El Nino is visible as the red blob in the eastern equatorial Pacific.
PIA20532:
Jason-3 Produces First Global Map of Sea Surface Height
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-15 Ceres Dawn
 Framing Camera
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows unnamed craters high in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. A bright patch of material can be seen on the upper wall of the large crater (near the lower left corner of the view).
PIA20401:
Dawn LAMO Image 46
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the plains of Terra Sirenum.
PIA20427:
Terra Sirenum - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-14 ExoMars
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The European Space Agency's ExoMars 2016 mission, combining the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli landing demonstrator, launches on a Proton launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
PIA20325:
Launch of Europe's ExoMars 2016 from Kazakhstan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-14 Ceres Dawn
 Framing Camera
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a scene located at mid-latitudes in the southern hemisphere of Ceres. The view features a portion of a crater between the large impact features Urvara and Yalode.
PIA20400:
Dawn LAMO Image 45
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Terra Sirenum.
PIA20426:
Terra Sirenum - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's moon Enceladus that shows wrinkled plains that are remarkably youthful in appearance, being generally free of large impact craters.
PIA18362:
Tilted Terminator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The nodule in the center of this image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows individual grains of sand and (on the right) laminations from the sandstone deposit in which the nodule formed.
PIA20324:
Sandstone Nodule Beside 'Naukluft Plateau' on Mount Sharp, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This view from NASA's Curiosity shows nodules exposed in sandstone that is part of the Stimson geological unit on Mount Sharp, Mars. The nodules can be seen to consist of grains of sand cemented together.
PIA20323:
Nodules of Cemented Sand Grains Within Martian Sandstone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Patches of Martian sandstone visible in this view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have a knobbly texture due to nodules apparently more resistant to erosion than the host rock in which some are still embedded.
PIA20322:
Knobbly Textured Sandstone on Mount Sharp, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the location where it landed in August 2012 to its location in early March 2016, approaching a geological waypoint called Naukluft Plateau.
PIA20166:
New Waypoint, Science Team Newcomers for Curiosity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-11 Ceres Dawn
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These color topographic views from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show variations in surface height around Ahuna Mons, a mysterious mountain on Ceres.
PIA20399:
Dawn Color Topography of Ahuna Mons on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the floor of Coprates Chasma.
PIA20425:
Coprates Chasma - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-10 Pluto New Horizons
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Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant bite-mark on the planet's surface. The southern portion of the left inset above shows the cratered plateau uplands informally named Vega Terra.
PIA20531:
What's Eating at Pluto?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-10 Ceres Dawn
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a small patch of bright material close to the northern rim of the giant crater Yalode, seen at lower left. Yalode is one of the largest impact basins on Ceres.
PIA20398:
Dawn LAMO Image 44
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a region of chaos in Eos Chasma.
PIA20424:
Chasma Chaos - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft was taken to look at seasonal frost in gullies during southern winter on Mars, with the Sun only about two degrees over the horizon (just before sunset).
PIA20480:
Night Vision
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West of NASA's Curiosity landing site, this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft along the northwestern floor of Gale Crater is between Aeolis Mons (informally called 'Mt. Sharp') and the crater rim.
PIA20479:
The Northwest Floor of Gale Crater
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This image, acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, shows the eastern edge of a very large deposit of wind-blown dust that occupies Ganges Chasma.
PIA20478:
The Dune Sea of Ganges Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its HiRISE camera to obtain this view of an area with unusual texture on the southern floor of Gale Crater. An enigmatic deposit appears to have flowed into the small crater from the south.
PIA20167:
For a Decade Orbiting Mars: One Recent View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-09 Mars MAVEN
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This artist's depiction shows the close encounter between comet Siding Sprng and Mars in 2014. The comet's powerful magnetic field temporarily merged with, and overwhelmed, the planet's weak magnetic field.
PIA20321:
Passing Comet Affects Magnetic Field at Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-09 Ceres Dawn
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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an unnamed Cerean crater that is surrounded by a smooth blanket of ejecta, including bright material. Both the area around the crater and its floor are peppered with giant boulders.
PIA20397:
Dawn LAMO Image 43
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Martin Crater.
PIA20423:
Martin Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-08 Ceres Dawn
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of unnamed craters in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The crater at left displays rough spurs of compacted material along its lower edge, while the rest of its rim appears much smoother.
PIA20396:
Dawn LAMO Image 42
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the plains of Terra Sabaea.
PIA20422:
Terra Sabaea - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-08 Earth OMG
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This image shows a region of the sea floor off the coast of northwest Greenland mapped as part of NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission. The data shown here will be used to understand the pathways by which warm water can reach glacier edges.
PIA20476:
NASA's OMG Mission Maps Sea Floor Depth off Greenland's Coast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-07 Ceres Dawn
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Heavily-shadowed craters in the northernmost latitudes of Ceres are seen in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken on Jan. 25, 2016.
PIA20395:
Dawn LAMO Image 41
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea.
PIA20420:
Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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he view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn sides of Tethys and Rhea. North on both moons is up. Rhea and Tethys are medium-sized moons that are large enough to have pulled themselves into round shapes.
PIA18363:
The Saturnian Sisters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-07 Ceres Dawn
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This side-perspective view of Ceres' mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons was made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images in December 2015.
PIA20349:
Ahuna Mons Perspective View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-07 Ceres Dawn
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Ceres' mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons is seen in this mosaic of images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken in December 2015.
PIA20348:
Ahuna Mons Seen from LAMO
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the rim of Ikapati Crater on Ceres. The rough features around the rim of this impact scar give way to smoother, lightly cratered terrain in the lower half of the image.
PIA20394:
Dawn LAMO Image 40
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows where several channels join together. These channels are located in Terra Sabaea.
PIA20419:
Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-03 CHIMERA
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This image of the Crab Pulsar was taken with CHIMERA, an instrument at the Palomar Observatory, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology.
PIA20347:
Versatile Instrument to Scout for Kuiper Belt Objects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-03 Pluto New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of a chain of snow-capped mountains stretching across the dark expanse on Pluto informally named Cthulhu Regio.
PIA20477:
Methane Snow on Pluto's Peaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-03 Ceres Dawn
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Ikapati Crater with its complex of central peaks on Ceres. Several groupings of roughly parallel fractures are present in smooth areas of the crater floor.
PIA20393:
Dawn LAMO Image 39
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an unnamed crater located northwest of Elysium Mons. This crater contains a central pit, which formed at the time of impact.
PIA20418:
Central Pit Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-02 Earth Terra
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In Dec. 2015, one of Nicaragua's largest volcanoes, Momotombo, erupted for the first time since 1905. NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image showing large ash columns and pyroclasitc flows.
PIA20475:
Momotombo's Fury in Nicaragua Captured by NASA Satellite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from the Radar instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the evolution of a transient feature in the large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA20021:
Mystery Feature Evolves in Titan's Ligeia Mare
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this view of Azacca Crater on Ceres. The rim of this crater has terraces descending from its rim down to its floor. The crater's floor is relatively free of large impact scars and is named for the Haitian god of agriculture
PIA20392:
Dawn LAMO Image 38
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a portion of Nilus Chaos. Located north of Kasei Vallis, this chaos formed at the elevation boundary between Kasei Valles and the surrounding plains.
PIA20417:
Nilus Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-01 Ceres Dawn
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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the southwestern rim of Sintana Crater. The inside of the crater shows a hummocky surface.
PIA20391:
Dawn LAMO Image 37
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This unnamed crater in Amazonis Planitia has a complex rim. The bottom portion of this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows several parallel rims, while the rim at the top of the image is lobate but not quite round.
PIA20416:
Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-02-29 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Beihai, a city in the south of Guangxi, People's republic of China.
PIA20421:
Beihai, Guanxi, China
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