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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Navcam (MSL)
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This view through a valley called 'Artist's Drive' from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the terrain ahead of the rover as it makes its way westward.
PIA19163:
Curiosity View Ahead Through 'Artist's Drive'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a small portion of the lava flows that make up Daedalia Planum. These flows originate at Arsia Mons.
PIA19277:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Although we are used to seeing Saturn's moons lit directly by the Sun, sometimes we can catch them illuminated by 'Saturnshine.' Here, NASA's Cassini spacecraft see Mimas (upper right) lit by light reflected off of Saturn.
PIA18312:
Mimas by Saturnshine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Ceres Dawn
VIR
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These images, from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR), highlight two regions on Ceres containing bright spots. The top images show a region scientists have labeled '1' while the region labeled '5' is shown in the bottom images.
PIA19316:
Dawn VIR Images of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Ceres Dawn
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This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft during its initial approach to the dwarf planet, prior to being captured into orbit in March 2015.
PIA19063:
Dawn's First Color Map of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-10 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Carnegie Rupes makes a dramatic sight in this large image mosaic taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The giant lobate scarp cuts through Duccio crater.
PIA19279:
Carnegie Cuts a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a large sand sheet with surface dune forms on the floor of an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
PIA19275:
Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-09 Earth AVIRIS
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NASA's AVIRIS spectral map of the 2013 Rim fire in and near Yosemite National Park, California.
PIA19361:
NASA's AVIRIS Map shows Spectral Signature of 2013 Rim Fire
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-09 Earth LIDAR
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These before-and-after LIDAR images from the 2014 King fire show an area on the west side of the Rubicon River where fire damage was severe.
PIA19360:
Before-and-After LIDAR Images from 2014 King Fire in El Dorado National Forest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a section of Samara Valles.
PIA19274:
Samara Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Recurring slope lineae are active flows on warm Martian slopes that might be caused by seeping water. One of the most active sites known is in the central peaks of Hale Crater as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19359:
Seasonal Flows in the Central Mountains of Hale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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The target of this observation as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a circular depression in a dark-toned unit associated with a field of cones to the northeast.
PIA19358:
Layers and Dark Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Coprates Chasma is located in the huge canyon system, Vallis Marineris. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds indications of high thermal inertia.
PIA19357:
What on Mars is a High Thermal-Inertia Surface?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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There are some interesting erosional signs in this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will make for a good comparison with other intracrater fans and fluvial sedimentary landforms.
PIA19356:
Sinuous Ridge Materials in Reuyl Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Lessing crater can be seen in the lower left of this image captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. Instead of the typical central peak found in a complex crater on Mercury, Lessing sports a central pit.
PIA19276:
Pits and Scarps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This infrared image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows bright toned material, which is warmer than dark toned surfaces. Material has moved downslope from the top of this hill in Promethei Terra.
PIA19273:
Debris Flow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The faint dark lines in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are caused by dust devils. As the dust devil travels along the surface it scours away the loose surface dust, revealing the darker surface beneath.
PIA19271:
Dust Devil Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-06 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Disappearing Act
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Disappearing Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-06 Earth Terra
ASTER
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The March, 2015 eruption of Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica caught everyone by surprise as seen in this image from the ASTER instrument onboard NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA19355:
Costa Rica's Turrialba Volcano, Continued Activity seen by NASA Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Numerous gullies are visible on the central peak in Martz Crater, as shown in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA19270:
Martz Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-06 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stared toward Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus for about a week in early 2015, in a campaign motivated in part to investigate subtle color differences within the moon's bright terrain.
PIA19062:
Investigating Subtle Colors on Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-03 Sol (our sun) SDO
Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
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A pair of substantial coronal holes were the most notable features on the Sun over the week of Mar. 28 - Apr. 2, 2015. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light by NASA GSFC's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
PIA17915:
Two Coronal Holes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-03 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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This is one of the earliest images of Mercury returned by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. It was taken in January 2008.
PIA19269:
These are the voyages...
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the floor of Muller Crater.
PIA19266:
Muller Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-02 Earth Terra
ASTER
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On February 15, 2015 the Desert Sunlight solar project in California's Mojave Desert became operational. This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the 550-megawatt plant generates enough electricity to power 160,000 average homes.
PIA19268:
California Solar Farms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Candor Chasma.
PIA19265:
Candor Chasma - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-01 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This view from the Mars Hand Lens Imager on the arm of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a close-up of a two-tone mineral vein at a site called 'Garden City' on lower Mount Sharp. It was taken during night, illuminated by LEDs, on March 25, 2015.
PIA19162:
Night Close-up of Mineral Veins at 'Garden City,' Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-01 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Mastcam
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This March 18, 2015, view from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called 'Garden City' on lower Mount Sharp.
PIA19161:
Prominent Veins at 'Garden City' on Mount Sharp, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Mercury's hollows are among its most distinctive and unusual surface features. In this stunning view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, we see a field of hollows in the western portion of the floor of Zeami impact basin.
PIA19267:
A Field of Hollows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA19264:
Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-31 Earth Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
SAM
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A Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) team member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland prepares the SAM testbed for an experiment.
PIA19149:
Preparation for Analytical Measurements on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-31 Planck
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This map of the entire sky was captured by the European Space Agency's Planck mission. The band running through the middle corresponds to dust in our Milky Way galaxy.
PIA19330:
Astronomers Dig Up Treasure Trove of Galaxy Clusters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-31 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS VIS 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 depressions in the surface of southern Noachis Terra.
PIA19262:
Sisyphi Cavi - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini captured these views of Saturn's icy moon Rhea on Feb. 9. The spacecraft returned to equatorial orbits around Saturn in March after nearly two years, allowing the mission to once again have close encounters with moons other than Titan.
PIA19057:
Return to Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows that Mercury's surface is scarred by abundant tectonic deformation, the vast majority of which is due to the planet's history of cooling and contraction through time.
PIA19263:
Crumpled Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an unnamed crater in Isidis Planitia.
PIA19259:
Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Much as its name implies, tiny Epimetheus (Greek for hindsight) was discovered in hindsight. It was only later that astronomers realized that Janus and Epithemeus were not the same object.
PIA18305:
20-20 Hindsight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has extended its robotic arm for studying a light-toned rock target called 'Athens' in this March 25, 2015, image from the rover's front hazard avoidance camera.
PIA19160:
Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Bright 'Athens'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Anatomy of a Fresh Crater
PIA19261:
Anatomy of a Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
HiRISE
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This frame from a sequence of images shows a blast zone where the sky crane from NASA's Curiosity rover mission hit the ground after setting the rover down in August 2012. The images are from HiRISE on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19159:
Changes in Scars From 2012 Mars Landing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Asimov Crater is unique in that the crater floor has been completely filled with material to approximately the crater rim and then a series depressions have occurred near the crater rim.
PIA19258:
Asimov Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-26 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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A new study analyzes several sites where dead stars once exploded. The explosions, called Type Ia supernovae, occurred within galaxies, six of which are shown in these images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
PIA18929:
After the Explosion: Investigating Supernova Sites
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-26 NEOWISE
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NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft viewed comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) for a second time on January 30, 2015, as the comet passed through the closest point to our sun along its 14,000-year orbit, at a solar distance of 120 million miles (193 million kilometers).
PIA19354:
NEOWISE Wise to Comet Lovejoy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows gullies on the inner rim of an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
PIA19256:
Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an interesting crater floor with what appear to be inverted channels, rounded lobe-like landforms, and light-toned layered deposits along the southern portion of the crater wall.
PIA19353:
Possible Fluvial Features in Golden Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Osuga Valles lies around 170 kilometers to the south of Eos Chasma, which is at the eastern end of the vast Valles Marineris canyon system as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19352:
The Lowest Point of Osuga Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows samples of bedrock lithologies which give us a measure of the post-flood erosion and modification history for the floor of Kasei Valles.
PIA19351:
At the Head of a Kasei Valles Cataract
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image is of a portion of the Southern plains region within Hellas, the largest impact basin on Mars, with a diameter of about 2300 kilometers (1400 miles), as observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19350:
Pitted Landforms in Southern Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Inside and Up Close
PIA19260:
Inside and Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a section of Tader Valles located in Terra Sirenum.
PIA19257:
Tader Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Eleven years and two months after its landing on Mars, the total driving distance of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed the length of a marathon race: 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers).
PIA19158:
Opportunity's Marathon Journey
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Eleven years and two months after its landing on Mars, the total driving distance of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed the length of a marathon race: 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers).
PIA19157:
Opportunity Rover Surpasses Marathon Distance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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Cumulative driving by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed marathon distance on March 24, 2015, as the rover neared a destination called 'Marathon Valley,' which is middle ground of this stereo view from early March.
PIA19156:
Opportunity's Approach to 'Marathon Valley' (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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Cumulative driving by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed marathon distance on March 24, 2015, as the rover neared a destination called 'Marathon Valley,' which is middle ground of this dramatic view from early March.
PIA19155:
Opportunity's Approach to 'Marathon Valley'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
CTX
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, working on Mars since January 2004, passed marathon distance in total driving on March 24, 2015.
PIA19154:
Opportunity Rover's Full Marathon-Length Traverse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This infrared image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows dunes in an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
PIA19255:
Dunes in IR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This 3-D stereo scene from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows part of 'Marathon Valley,' a destination on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, as seen from an overlook north of the valley.
PIA19153:
Mars 'Marathon Valley' Overlook, in Stereo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This false color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows part of 'Marathon Valley,' a destination on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, as seen from an overlook north of the valley.
PIA19152:
Mars 'Marathon Valley' Overlook (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows part of 'Marathon Valley,' a destination on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, as seen from an overlook north of the valley.
PIA19151:
Mars 'Marathon Valley' Overlook
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-23 Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
Kitt Peak National Observatory
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Infrared images from instruments at Kitt Peak National Observatory (left) and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope document the outburst of HOPS 383, a young protostar in the Orion star-formation complex.
PIA18928:
Embryonic Star's Outburst
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows warm dunes are brighter than their surroundings in this infrared image of an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
PIA19252:
Dunes in IR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Pandora, Prometheus, and Pan, seen here, from right to left, also appear to be holding some sort of convention in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18306:
Moon Convention
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-20 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Small graben, narrow linear troughs, have been found associated with small scarps (bottom left, white arrows) on Mercury and the Moon are seen here by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19254:
Small and Young
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the floor of Trouvelot Crater.
PIA19251:
Trouvelot Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows windstreaks around an unnamed crater.
PIA19250:
Windstreaks - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-18 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Wide Angle
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This image, acquired at 24 m/pixel by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, is the highest resolution that has been obtained for any of Mercury's shadowed polar craters.
PIA19253:
A Shot in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Granicus Valles.
PIA19240:
Granicus Valles - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the floor of Becquerel Crater.
PIA19239:
Becquerel Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the wall of a volcanic vent located between the Rachmaninoff basin and Copland crater.
PIA19248:
Flute Music
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This view captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows Mercury's north polar region, colored by the maximum biannual surface temperature, which ranges from >400 K (red) to 50 K (purple).
PIA19247:
Hot and Cold
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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This high-resolution view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows hollows on the southwestern peak ring of the Scarlatti basin. The hollows are the irregularly shaped, flat-floored depressions.
PIA19246:
The Young Ones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Images obtained from NASA's MESSENGER have revealed a population of small fault scarps (white arrows) that can be more than an order of magnitude smaller in size than their larger counterparts, like Enterprise Rupes.
PIA19245:
Small Scarp Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Wide Angle
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NASA's MESSENGER's low-altitude campaign has enabled imaging of Fuller crater (named after American architect Buckminster Fuller) in greater detail than previously possible.
PIA19244:
Fuller Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Enterprise Rupes
PIA19243:
Enterprise Rupes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Earth Terra
ASTER
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In southern California, the combined ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach account for 33% of the nation's containerized imports. This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the large backlog of waiting cargo ships being slowly unloaded.
PIA19249:
Los Angeles - Long Beach Harbors, CA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a channel dissecting the rim of Moreux Crater.
PIA19235:
Moreux Crater - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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From afar, Saturn's rings look like a solid, homogenous disk of material. But upon closer examination from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, we see that there are varied structures in the rings at almost every scale imaginable.
PIA18308:
Groovy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-13 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma-ray Spectrometer (GRS)
X-ray Spectrometer (XRS)
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Maps of magnesium/silicon (left) and thermal neutron absorption (right) across Mercury's surface (red indicates high values, blue low) are shown here by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19242:
Surface Chemistry Maps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-13 Earth Terra
ASTER
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On March 3, 2015, Chile's Villarrica volcano erupted, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. The eruption and its effects were captured by NASA's Terra spacecraft on March 9.
PIA19241:
NASA Spacecraft Views Erupting Chilean Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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These dunes on Mars are darker in visible wavelengths than the surrounding material as seen by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA19234:
Noachis Terra Dunes - VIS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-12 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
HiRISE
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This area at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars includes a pale outcrop, called 'Pahrump Hills,' that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover investigated from September 2014 to March 2015.
PIA19148:
Curiosity Heading Away from 'Pahrump Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This IR image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a dune field on the floor of an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra. The bright tone indicates the dunes are warmer than most of the material surrounding them.
PIA19233:
Noachis Terra Dunes - IR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers Raga Crater, the location of well-studied recurring slope lineae (RSL). RSL are dark flows that disappear and re-form every Mars year at certain locations.
PIA19309:
Recurring Slope Lineae in Raga Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Gullies are commonly found in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars. In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter they start near top of a long ridge, and descend into an impact crater that lies at the bottom of the ridge.
PIA19308:
Gullies and Layers in a Crater Near Mariner Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the nature of large fissures in a smooth apron around a mound in the Phlegra region.
PIA19307:
Cracks in a Debris Apron
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a region of Acidalia Planitia which is covered by dense fields of boulders up to several meters high.
PIA19306:
Ares 3 and The Martian
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Earth RoboSimian
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This artist's rendering shows a concept for a robot called AquaSimian that would assist with hazardous situations underwater.
PIA19315:
AquaSimian Poster (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Earth RoboSimian
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This artist's concept shows Surrogate, a robot that could one day assist in disasters or hazardous situations such as a dangerous chemical laboratory.
PIA19314:
Surrogate Poster (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Earth RoboSimian
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This artist's concept shows RoboSimian, a robot intended to assist with disaster relief and mitigation.
PIA19313:
RoboSimian 'Disaster Relief' Poster (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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The large degraded impact crater near the center is Coleridge. It has been pummeled by later impacts, as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19238:
Wherefore Stopp'st Thou Me?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration depicts potential origins of methane found in the plume of gas and ice particles that sprays from Saturn's moon, Enceladus, based on research by scientists working with the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer on NASA's Cassini mission.
PIA19059:
Trapping of Methane In Enceladus' Ocean
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This cutaway view of Saturn's moon Enceladus is an artist's rendering that depicts possible hydrothermal activity that may be taking place on and under the seafloor of the moon's subsurface ocean, based on published results from NASA's Cassini mission.
PIA19058:
Enceladus: Possible Hydrothermal Activity (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows dark dunes on Russel crater on Mars.
PIA19229:
Russell Crater Dunes - VIS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-10 Earth Terra
ASTER
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Lake Ilopango, a crater lake which fills a volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, immediately east of the capital city San Salvador.
PIA19237:
Lake Ilopango, El Salvador
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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In this infrared image of the dunes on the floor of Russell Crater, the dunes are brighter than the surround materials, as shown in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA19228:
Russell Crater Dunes - IR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-09 Earth SMAP
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Fresh off the recent successful deployment of its 20-foot (6-meter) reflector antenna and associated boom arm, NASA's SMAP observatory has successfully completed a two-day test of its science instruments.
PIA19236:
NASA's Soil Moisture Mapper Takes First 'SMAPshots'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-09 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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This view captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows two craters in an area of smooth plains.
PIA19232:
Riddle Me This
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the large dune field on the floor of Proctor Crater.
PIA19227:
Proctor Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The moon Iapetus, like the 'force' in Star Wars, has both a light side and a dark side. Scientists think that Iapetus' dark/light asymmetry was actually created by material migrating away from the dark side.
PIA18307:
Path to the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-06 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's MESSENGER reveals that Impact crater floors are commonly flat and relatively smooth, the result of the cooling and solidification of impact melt generated by the impact event itself.
PIA19231:
Melting Point
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