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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Panoramic Camera
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This set of images shows the results from the rock abrasion tool from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity (left) and the drill from NASA's Curiosity rover (right).
PIA16834:
Studying Habitability in Ancient Martian Environments
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Panoramic Camera
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This set of images compares rocks seen by NASA's Opportunity rover and Curiosity rover at two different parts of Mars.
PIA16833:
Two Different Aqueous Environments
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-12 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This false-color map shows the area within Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (Aug. 6, 2012 EDT) and the location where Curiosity collected its first drilled sample at the 'John Klein' rock.
PIA16832:
Location of John Klein Drill Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-12 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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A sampling pit exposing clay-bearing lake sediments, deposited in a basaltic basin in southern Australia -- a modern terrestrial analog to the 'Yellowknife Bay' area that NASA's Curiosity rover is exploring.
PIA16831:
An Earth Analog to Mars' Yellowknife Bay
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-12 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These images, made from data obtained by Curiosity's CheMin, show the patterns obtained from a drift of windblown dust and sand called 'Rocknest' and from a powdered rock sample drilled from the 'John Klein' bedrock.
PIA16830:
Minerals at 'Rocknest' and 'John Klein'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Many small channels dissect the rim of Martz Crater, as shown in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA16273:
Martz Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-11 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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WISE J104915.57-531906, center of the larger image, was taken by the NASA's WISE. This is the closest star system discovered since 1916, and the third closest to our sun. It is 6.5 light-years away.
PIA16872:
Two Brown Dwarfs in Our Backyard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-11 Mercury MESSENGER
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Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
PIA16890:
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-11 Juno
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This artist's rendering shows NASA's Juno spacecraft above the north pole of Jupiter.
PIA16869:
Juno Above Jupiter's Pole (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Wind has played a large role in sculpting the complex features in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. This image is located north of Gusev Crater.
PIA16272:
Wind Erosion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Ghostly spokes in Saturn's B ring continue to put on a show for NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras in this recent image. The spokes, believed to be a seasonal phenomenon, are expected to disappear as Saturn nears its northern hemisphere summer.
PIA14651:
Still Active Spokes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-08 Mercury MESSENGER
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Theophanes the Greek
PIA16868:
Theophanes the Greek
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The finely ridged material in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are huge landslide deposits called Coprates Labes. These landslide deposits are located on the floor of Coprates Chasma.
PIA16271:
Coprates Labes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-07 Mercury MESSENGER
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On the Other Side
PIA16867:
On the Other Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This illustration schematically shows where the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected flood channels that had been buried by lava flows in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars.
PIA16767:
Visualization of Buried Marte Vallis Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The small channel in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is located on the floor of Newton Crater.
PIA16270:
Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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Breaking Mercury
PIA16866:
Breaking Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The parallel sides and low interior seen in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are faults and down-dropped material between the faults. This tectonic feature is called a graben. The graben in this image is located in Daedalia Planum.
PIA16268:
Graben
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-05 Rosette Nebula Herschel Space Observatory
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Artist's impression of Herschel is set against an image captured by the observatory, showing baby stars forming in the Rosette nebula. The bright spots are dusty cocoons containing massive forming stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our own sun.
PIA16871:
Herschel's Cool Universe (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-05 Europa Galileo
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This view of Jupiter's moon Europa features several regional-resolution mosaics overlaid on a lower resolution global view for context. The regional views were obtained during several different flybys of the moon by NASA's Galileo mission.
PIA16827:
Repeated Flybys Yield a Pole-to-Pole View of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-05 Europa 2550x3300x3
Based on new evidence from Jupiter's moon Europa, astronomers hypothesize that chloride salts bubble up from its global liquid ocean and reach the frozen surface where they are bombarded with sulfur from volcanoes on Jupiter's innermost large moon, Io.
PIA16826:
Taste of the Ocean on Europa's Surface (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Secondary Concerns
PIA16865:
Secondary Concerns
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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A network of small channels is visible in image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA16267:
Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Observation and Imagination
PIA16864:
Observation and Imagination
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Several gullies of different sizes in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are located on the southern rim of this unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA16266:
Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Dawn on Saturn is greeted across the vastness of interplanetary space by the morning star, Venus, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Venus appears just off the edge of the planet directly above the white streak of Saturn's G ring.
PIA14936:
Morning Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Peering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus.
PIA14935:
Cassini Spies Bright Venus from Saturn Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-04 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The famed wispy terrain on Saturn's moon Dione is front and center in this recent image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The 'wisps' are fresh fractures on the trailing hemisphere of the moon's icy surface.
PIA14650:
Wispy Terrain on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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My Buddy and Me
PIA16863:
My Buddy and Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Several landslide deposits are visible in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft of an unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA16265:
Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-28 Mercury MESSENGER
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Love's Secret Domain
PIA16862:
Love's Secret Domain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows windstreaks on the volcanic plains of Daedalia Planum.
PIA16264:
Windstreaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Blue Serge
PIA16861:
Blue Serge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 NuSTAR
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NASA's NuSTAR, has helped to show that the spin rates of black holes can be measured conclusively. The solid lines show two theoretical models that explain low-energy X-ray emission seen previously from the spiral galaxy NGC 1365 by XMM-Newton.
PIA16870:
Two X-Ray Observatories are Better Than One
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 NuSTAR
XMM-Newton
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This image taken by the ultraviolet-light monitoring camera on the European Space Agency's (ESA's) XMM-Newton telescope shows the beautiful spiral arms of the galaxy NGC1365.
PIA16699:
NuSTAR's Improved View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 NuSTAR
XMM-Newton
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This chart depicts the electromagnetic spectrum, highlighting the X-ray portion. NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM-Newton telescope complement each other by seeing different colors of X-ray light.
PIA16698:
Complementary X-Ray Vision
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 NuSTAR
XMM-Newton
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Scientists measure the spin rates of supermassive black holes by spreading the X-ray light into different colors. The light comes from accretion disks that swirl around black holes, as shown in both of the artist's concepts.
PIA16697:
Two Models of Black Hole Spin (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 NuSTAR
XMM-Newton
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Black holes are tremendous objects whose immense gravity can distort and twist space-time, the fabric that shapes our universe as this chart from NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM-Newton telescope illustrates.
PIA16696:
How to Measure the Spin of a Black Hole (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 NuSTAR
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This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.
PIA16695:
Black Holes: Monsters in Space (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The depressions and offset ridge in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are evidence of faulting in this region of Sinai Dorsa.
PIA16263:
Faults
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-26 Mercury MESSENGER
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From Beyond
PIA16860:
From Beyond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the dune field on the floor of Hussey Crater.
PIA16262:
Hussey Crater Dunes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.824 MB)     JPEG (271.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-25 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 CHIMRA
Mastcam
SAM
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has delivered sample portions of rock powder collected from the interior of a rock on Mars into laboratory instruments inside the rover.
PIA16766:
Check-up Image After Delivering Martian Rock Powder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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From Beyond
PIA16859:
From Beyond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the eastern flank of Arsia Mons midway between the summit of the volcano and the surrounding plains.
PIA16261:
Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The propeller-shaped white dashes near the bottom of NASA's Cassini spacecraft image reveal the location of a small moonlet embedded in Saturn's A ring.
PIA14649:
Bleriot Recaptured
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-22 Mercury MESSENGER
 Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Global Coverage
PIA16858:
Global Coverage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows dunes in a topographic low within Aonia Terra.
PIA16260:
Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-21 Mercury MESSENGER
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In Prokofiev's Shadow
PIA16857:
In Prokofiev's Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the part of the floor of Melas Chasma. Melas Chasma in the central chasma of Valles Marineris.
PIA16259:
Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 CHIMRA
Mastcam
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NASA's Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover's drill. The image was taken after the sample was transferred from the drill to the rover's scoop.
PIA16729:
First Curiosity Drilling Sample in the Scoop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from an animation of NASA's Curiosity rover shows the complicated suite of operations involved in conducting the rover's first rock sample drilling on Mars and transferring the sample to the rover's scoop for inspection.
PIA16730:
Drilling into Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from a video clip shows moments during a demonstration of drilling into a rock at NASA's JPL, Pasadena, Calif., with a test double of the Mars rover Curiosity. The drill combines hammering and rotation motions of the bit.
PIA16733:
Video Clip of a Rover Rock-Drilling Demonstration at JPL Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The development of the Mars rover Curiosity's capabilities for drilling into a rock on Mars required years of development work. Seen here are some of the rocks used in bit development testing and lifespan testing at JPL in 2007.
PIA16732:
Preparation on Earth for Drilling on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Phoenix
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Panoramic Camera
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This set of images from Mars shows the handiwork of different tools on three NASA missions to the surface of Mars.
PIA16731:
Different Tools for Different Purposes on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These schematic drawings show a top view and a cutaway view of a section of the drill on NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.
PIA16727:
Views of Curiosity's Drill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This figure shows the location of CHIMRA on the turret of NASA's Curiosity rover, together with a cutaway view of the device. CHIMRA processes samples from the rover's scoop or drill and delivers them to science instruments.
PIA16691:
Preparing Samples on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 CHIMRA
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This image shows the location of the 150-micrometer sieve screen on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, a device used to remove larger particles from samples before delivery to science instruments.
PIA16688:
Sifting Martian Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows details of rock texture and color in an area where the rover's Dust Removal Tool (DRT) brushed away dust that was on the rock.
PIA16687:
Zapped, Martian Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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From a position in the shallow 'Yellowknife Bay' depression, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its right Mast Camera (Mastcam) to take the telephoto images combined into this panorama of geological diversity.
PIA16685:
Setting the Scene for Curiosity's First Drilling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mercury MESSENGER
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The Return of Xiao Zhao
PIA16856:
The Return of Xiao Zhao
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Kepler
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NASA's Kepler mission compares artist's concepts of the planets in the Kepler-37 system to the moon and planets in the solar system. The smallest planet, Kepler-37b, is slightly larger than our moon.
PIA16694:
A Moon-size Line Up (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Kepler
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NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star like our sun, approximately 210 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.
PIA16693:
A Tiny Planet (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a landslide deposit which flowed towards the floor of Ganges Chasma.
PIA16258:
Ganges Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Earth Terra
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Wasco, California advertises itself as the 'Rose Capital of the World'; over 8000 acres are devoted to cultivation of existing and new varieties of roses, shipped to every state in the U.S. and all over the world.
PIA16855:
Wasco, California
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows 'quasi-parallel' (top) and 'quasi-perpendicular' (bottom) magnetic field conditions at a planetary bow shock. Bow shocks are shockwaves created when the solar wind blows on a planet's magnetic field.
PIA16825:
Magnetic Fields and Bow Shocks (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's impression by the European Space Agency shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft exploring the magnetic environment of Saturn. The image is not to scale.
PIA16739:
Cassini at Saturn's Bow Shock (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mountains in the Distance
PIA16854:
Mountains in the Distance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a field of dunes on the floor of an unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA16257:
Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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Colors of the Innermost Planet: View 1
PIA16853:
Colors of the Innermost Planet: View 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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Colors of the Innermost Planet: View 2
PIA16852:
Colors of the Innermost Planet: View 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The parallel ridges in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of Arsia Sulci - a region west of Arsia Mons. How these features were formed is unknown.
PIA16256:
Arsia Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The F ring shows off a rich variety of phenomena in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14653:
F Ring Zoo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-16 Earth 1920x1280x3
This image shows the flash above Chelyabinsk, Russia, from the fireball streaking through the sky on Feb. 15, 2013. The small asteroid was approximately 56 to 66 feet in diameter. The picture was taken by a local, M. Ahmetvaleev.
PIA16829:
Fireball Flash over Russia
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This photograph of the meteor streaking through the sky above Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, was taken by a local, M. Ahmetvaleev. The small asteroid was about 56 to 66 feet (17 to 20 meters) wide.
PIA16828:
Fireball Streaking over Russia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Bit of an Exaggeration
PIA16851:
A Bit of an Exaggeration Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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Getting the Spins
PIA16850:
Getting the Spins Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-15 Asteroid Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca
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This set of images from the La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain, shows the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 shortly after its closest, and safe, approach to Earth.
PIA16738:
Outbound Near-Earth Asteroid, as Seen from Spain Animation Icon
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An animated set of images, from the telescope known as the iTelescope.net Siding Spring Observatory, shows asteroid 2012 DA14 as the streak moving from top to bottom in the field of view. The animation is available in the Planetary Photojournal.
PIA16737:
Asteroid 2012 DA14 as Seen from Siding Spring, Australia Animation Icon
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This frame from a movie shows the asteroid 2012 DA14 flying safely by Earth, as seen by the Gingin Observatory in Australia around the time of its closest approach, 11:24:42 a.m. PST (2:24:42 p. The animation is available in the Planetary Photojournal.
PIA16736:
Gingin Observatory Spots Near-Earth Asteroid at Closest Approach Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-15 Asteroid Samford Valley Observatory
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This frame from a movie from the Samford Valley Observatory in Brisbane, Australia, shows the progress of asteroid 2012 DA14 across the night sky as it nears its closest approach. It was taken at 12:59 UTC on Feb. 15 (7:59 a.m. EST, or 4:59 a.m. PST).
PIA16735:
Approach of Asteroid 2012 DA14 from Samford Valley Observatory Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-15 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft reveals the still-active lava flows in the snowy winter landscape of Plosky Tolbachik volcano, which erupted for the first time in 35 years on Nov. 27, 2012, in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.
PIA16824:
NASA Satellite Captures New Russian Volcanic Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows more of the extensive lava flows in Daedalia Planum.
PIA16255:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Another Girl, Another Planet
PIA16823:
Another Girl, Another Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The volcanic flows in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of Daedalia Planum, an extensive flow field originating from Arsia Mons.
PIA16254:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 ChemCam
Mastcam
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A day after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilled the first sample-collection hole into a rock on Mars, the rover's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument shot laser pulses into the fresh rock powder that the drilling generated.
PIA16765:
Laser Hits on Martian Drill Tailings
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The arcuate fractures and depressions in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of Avernus Cavi.
PIA16253:
Avernus Fractures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in a new region at the edge of our solar system where the magnetic field lines generated by our sun are piling up and intensifying.
PIA16734:
Magnetic Field Line Pile-Up (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-12 Euclid
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ESA's Euclid spacecraft, shown in this artist's impression, is scheduled to launch in 2020 with participation from NASA.
PIA16692:
Euclid in Space (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Small gullies captured in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey are located on the north and south sides of this hill. The hill is part of the mountainous region that borders the northeastern side of Argyre Planitia.
PIA16252:
Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-11 Mercury MESSENGER
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Ancient Heritage
PIA16822:
Ancient Heritage
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the southern margin of Pavonis Mons.
PIA16251:
Pavonis Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's moon Rhea at crescent phase, a view never visible from Earth. Near the terminator, a few of Rhea's many craters show up in sharp relief.
PIA14647:
Crescent Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-09 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Hazcam (MSL)
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This frame from a set of three images from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the rover's drill in action on Feb. 8, 2013, or Sol 182, Curiosity's 182nd Martian day of operations.
PIA16728:
Ready, Set, Drill Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-09 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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At the center of this image from NASA's Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called 'John Klein' where the rover conducted its first sample drilling on Mars.
PIA16726:
Curiosity's First Sample Drilling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-09 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) to take the images combined into this mosaic of the drill area, called 'John Klein,' where the rover ultimately performed its first sample drilling.
PIA16686:
Investigating Curiosity's Drill Area
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-08 Earth Terra
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The Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) is a large layered igneous intrusion within the earth's crust, exposed at the edge of the Transvaal Basin in South Africa. Numerous mines, tailings piles, and leach ponds are shown in blue.
PIA16788:
Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-08 Mercury MESSENGER
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The Beauty of Calibration
PIA16820:
The Beauty of Calibration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the dune field on the floor of Brashear Crater.
PIA16250:
Brashear Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-07 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This rectangular version of a self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013).
PIA16764:
Curiosity Rover's Self Portrait at 'John Klein' Drilling Site, Cropped
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