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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-08 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS)
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This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the wispy filamentary structure of Henize 206, is a four-color composite mosaic created by combining data from an infrared array camera (IRAC).
PIA05517:
Star Formation in Henize 206
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A cold, dusky Saturn looms in the distance in this striking, natural color view of the ringed planet and five of its icy satellites. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini's narrow angle camera on Nov. 9, 2003, from a distance of 111.4 million kilometers.
PIA04913:
Looming Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Dark dunes caught in a crater in the southern mid-latitudes slowly climb out. Winds push the sand to the NW (upper left), burying features on the crater wall that may be gullies. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in October 2003.
PIA04789:
Dunes on Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wide angle view of the giant martian volcano, Olympus Mons.
PIA04737:
Oblique Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Mars' two natural satellites, or moons, Phobos and Deimos.
PIA04589:
Phobos Over the Martian Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in the Solar System. The surface is rugged, with many overlapping lava flow structures, all of which are mantled by a thick blanket of dust and wind-scoured sediment.
PIA04583:
Flows on Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows clouds and hazes above a sunward martian limb over the planet's northern plains.
PIA04562:
Clouds Over Morning Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows heavily cratered terrain at high southern latitudes. A thin line of haze, high in the martian atmosphere, can be seen above the planet's surface.
PIA04271:
The Martian Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-09-03 Earth Terra
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Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier of Europe, covers more than 120 square kilometers (more than 45 square miles) in southern Switzerland. NASA's Terra satellite captured this image on July 23, 2001.
PIA03857:
Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-08-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil that seen climbing the wall of a crater at 4.1°S, 9.5°W on May 21, 2002. This crater is in western Terra Meridiani on Mars.
PIA03917:
A Dust Devil Making a Streak and Climbing a Crater Wall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which displays clearly the contrast between bedrock, sand, and dust surfaces, covers a portion of Coprates Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris system of canyons that stretch for thousands of kilometers.
PIA03834:
Coprates Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The finely layered deposit in Becquerel crater, seen in the center of this NASA Mars Odyssey image, is slowly being eroded away by the action of windblown sand.
PIA03814:
Becquerel Crater Deposit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the northern interior wall of Coprates Chasma, one of the major canyons that form Valles Marineris.
PIA03809:
Coprates Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-04-19 Earth Terra
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Chiliques volcano in Chile shows a hot spot in the summit crater and several others along the upper flanks of the edifice, indicating volcanic activity. NASA's Terra satellite acquired this image on May 24, 2000.
PIA03493:
Chiliques Volcano, Chile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The circular feature seen in blue is the extremely cold martian south polar carbon dioxide ice cap as seen by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03461:
First THEMIS Infrared and Visible Images of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This thermal infrared image was acquired by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on October 30, 2001, as the spacecraft orbited Mars on its ninth revolution around the planet.
PIA03459:
First THEMIS Image of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-03 Borrelly Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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This image, taken by NASA's Deep Space 1 on September 22, 2001, has been enhanced to reveal dust being ejected from the nucleus of comet Borrelly. As a result, the nucleus is bright white in the image.
PIA03501:
Several Jets and a Crater on Comet Borrelly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-10-22 Earth Terra
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The nearly perfectly conical profile of Fuji, Japans highest mountain, soars 3,776 meters (12,388 feet) above sea level on southern Honshu, near Tokyo. This image was acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA11166:
Mt. Fuji, Japan Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-10-04 Io Galileo
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Backlit views show a giant volcanic plume as a bulge on the crescent edge of Jupiter's moon Io, and more fully lit views reveal rings where sulfur-rich plume material has fallen back to the ground, in images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA02592:
Northern Plume and Plume Deposits on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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This is a spectacular NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter.
PIA03155:
Satellite Footprints Seen in Jupiter Aurora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-29 Io Cassini-Huygens
Galileo
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Two tall volcanic plumes and the rings of red material they have deposited onto surrounding surface areas appear in images taken of Jupiter's moon Io by NASA's Galileo and Cassini spacecraft in late December 2000 and early January 2001.
PIA02588:
Galileo and Cassini Image Two Giant Plumes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-21 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
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Japan's Mt. Fuji presents a beautiful backdrop for the city of Tokyo as seen in this image generated from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data on February 21, 2000.
PIA02793:
Perspective View with Radar Image Overlaid, Color as Height: Mt. Fuji and Tokyo, Japan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-19 Io Voyager
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During its 1979 flyby, NASA's Voyager 2 observed Io only from a distance. However, the volcanic activity discovered by Voyager 1 months earlier was readily visible.
PIA02857:
Io Rotation Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-05 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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Mercury's south pole was photographed by one of NASA's Mariner 10's TV cameras; the pole is located inside the large crater on Mercury's limb (lower center).
PIA02941:
Mercury's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-10 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
 Multi-Spectral Imager
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This image from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker shows the shaded interior of the 'saddle' on asteroid Eros looking over the north polar region to the limb.
PIA02491:
Eros Surface Morphology
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 Ganymede Voyager
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This picture of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite, was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on the afternoon of March 5, 1979 from a range of 253,000 kilometers (151,800 miles).
PIA02278:
Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
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The crescent of Saturn, the planet's rings and their shadows are seen in this NASA Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 13, 1980 at a distance of 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) as the spacecraft began to leave the Saturn system.
PIA02271:
Crescent of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Mimas Voyager
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This image of Saturn's moon Mimas was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 and shows the heavily and uniformly cratered surface of the satellite.
PIA02267:
Mimas - cratered surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Mathilde NEAR Shoemaker
 Multi-Spectral Imager
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This image of asteroid 253 Mathilde was returned by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on June 27, 1997. The shadowed, wedge-shaped feature at the lower right is another large crater viewed obliquely.
PIA02477:
Mosaic of Mathilde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
 Multi-Spectral Imager
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On February 23, 2000, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft obtained a sequence of image mosaics showing Eros' surface as the asteroid rotated under the spacecraft; shown here is the stark beauty of the two opposite hemispheres.
PIA02474:
Eros' Eastern and Western Hemispheres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-24 Callisto Voyager
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This black and white image of Callisto was taken by NASA's Voyager 2 about 3:20 A.M PDT Saturday, July 7, from a range of about 1.1 million kilometers (675,000 miles).
PIA02253:
Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the summit region of Olympus Mons on Mars including surfaces mantled by fine dust and pocked by small impact craters, and no surfaces exhibit fresh, dark lava flows. Olympus Mons is not an active volcano.
PIA02392:
A Traverse Across the Summit of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-06 Phoebe Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this photo sequence of Saturn's outer satellite, Phoebe, on Sept. 4, 1981, from 2.2 million kilometers (1.36 million miles) away.
PIA02260:
Voyager 2 Movie of Saturn's Moon: Phoebe Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-03-23 Io Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this picture of Io July 10, 1979, from a range of 1.2 million kilometers (750,000 miles).
PIA02254:
Io - Crescent with Plumes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-03-06 Europa Galileo
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This 12-frame mosaic provides the highest resolution view ever obtained of the side of Jupiter's moon Europa that faces the giant planet. It was obtained by the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft during the spacecrafts 25th orbit of Jupiter.
PIA02528:
Europa's Jupiter-Facing Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-04 Io Voyager
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This picture of Io captured by NASA's Voyager 1 was taken on the morning of March 5 at a range of 75,445 kilometers.
PIA02232:
Io - High Res Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-21 Moon Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This view from NASA's Mariner 10 is of eastern Mare Frigor near the center, while Mare Crisiumis the large circular feature near the lower right. The heavily cratered region shown in the top of the mosaic shows portions of the Moon not seen from the Earth
PIA02442:
Moon's North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 Io Voyager
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Voyager 2 took this picture of Io on the evening of July 9, 1979, from a range of 1.2 million kilometers. On the limb of Io are two blue volcanic eruption plumes about 100 kilometers high.
PIA01362:
Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This mosaic, made from over 140 individual TV frames taken about two hours after encounter, shows the planet Mercury as seen by NASA's Mariner 10 as it sped away from the planet on March 29, 1974.
PIA02418:
Outgoing Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows thermal wave phenomena that are caused by the large topographic variety of Mars' surface.
PIA02335:
Thermal Wave Phenomena
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-27 Jupiter Galileo
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Cloud features north of Jupiter's equator, in the region between 3 and 30 degrees north latitude, are shown in approximately true color (left mosaic) and in false color (right mosaic). The images were taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA02097:
Cloud Features North of Jupiter's Equator
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01587:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - 4 Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01592:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01591:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Elysium
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01589:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Pathfinder Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this view of Mars taking advantage of the space-based observatory's close approach to Mars, centering on the region known as Tharsis, home of the largest volcanoes in the solar system.
PIA01590:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-20 Triton Voyager
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This natural color image of the limb of Triton was taken early in the morning of Aug. 25 1989, when the Voyager 2 spacecraft was at a distance of about 210,000 kilometers (128,000 miles) from the icy satellite.
PIA02213:
The Limb of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-19 Neptune Voyager
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This contrast enhanced color picture of Neptune was acquired by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 14, 1989. As Voyager 2 approached Neptune, rapidly increasing image resolution is revealed striking new details. Bright, wispy clouds are seen overlying the Great Dar
PIA02210:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-01 Triton Voyager
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This mosaic from NASA's Galileo Probe is of an equatorial 'hotspot' on Jupiter and shows the features of a hazy cloud layer tens of kilometers above Jupiter's main visible cloud deck.
PIA02203:
Limb clouds over Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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On July 23, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took this picture of Neptune through a clear filter on its narrow-angle camera. The image on the right has a latitude and longitude grid added for reference. Neptune's Great Dark Spot is visible on the left.
PIA01999:
Neptune Through a Clear Filter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-23 Io Voyager
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This NASA Voyager 2 picture of Io was taken in ultraviolet light on the evening of July 4, 1979, at a range of 4.7 million kilometers (2.9 million miles).
PIA01989:
Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-16 Io Voyager
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VOLCANIC EXPLOSION ON IO: NASA's Voyager 1 acquired this image of Io on March 4 at 5:30 p.m. (PST) about 11 hours before closest approach to the Jupiter moon.
PIA01971:
Volcanic Explosion on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-12 Moon DSPSE
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In this picture the Moon is seen illuminated solely by light reflected from the Earth--Earthshine from NASA's Clementine spacecraft.
PIA00434:
Clementine Observes the Moon, Solar Corona, and Venus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Uranus Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking its first peek at Uranus, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) detected six distinct clouds in images taken July 28,1997.
PIA01278:
Hubble Tracks Clouds on Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Here is the discovery image (left) from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Martian polar storm as seen in blue light (410 nm). The storm is located near 65 deg.
PIA01545:
Hubble Views Colossal Polar Cyclone on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Titan Voyager
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This photograph of Titan is from NASA's Voyager 2, taken Aug. 23, 1981 from a range of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles), shows some detail in the cloud systems on this Saturnian moon.
PIA01532:
Titan's Cloud Systems
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Titan Voyager
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Layers of haze covering Saturn's satellite Titan are seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 at a range of 22,000 kilometers (13,700 miles).
PIA01533:
Titan Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 J Rings Voyager
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Jupiter's faint ring system is shown in this color composite as two light orange lines protruding from the left toward Jupiter's limb. This image was taken by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft.
PIA01529:
Jupiter Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 high-resolution view of Saturn's rings on Aug. 23, 1981, at a range of 3.3 million kilometers (2 million miles). The planet's limb is visible through the C-ring and the inner part of the B-ring.
PIA01962:
High-resolution View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-06 Callisto Voyager
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This color photo of Jupiter's satellite Callisto was made from three black-and-white images taken by NASA's Voyager March 5, 1979 from a distance of 746,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers).
PIA00362:
Callisto's Icy Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-06 Tethys Voyager
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This series of pictures from NASA's Voyager 2 of Tethys shows its distinctive large crater as it rotates toward the termination and limb of this satellite of Saturn. These images were obtained at four-hour intervals beginning late Aug. 24, 1980.
PIA01385:
Pictures of Tethys' Large Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-07 Io Galileo
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These four views of Jupiter's moon Io clearly show airborne plumes of gas and dust from two of Io's active volcanoes, Zamama and Prometheus. The bottom row consists of enlargements of the plume areas. Images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01652:
Sequence Showing Active Volcanic Plumes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn storms observed by NASA's Voyager, Aug. 5, 2004. Voyager 1 and 2 observed radio signals from lightning which were interpreted as being from a persistent, low-latitude storm system.
PIA01364:
Saturn Taken from Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 S Rings Voyager
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Both the limb of Saturn and the shadow of its ring system are seen through the transparent C-ring in this striking picture taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 9, 1980. Gaps and regions of high transparency are seen throughout the C-ring, especially in the a
PIA01374:
Saturn's Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-04 Jupiter Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet Jupiter on Jan. 6, 1979, the first in its three-month-long, close-up investigation of the largest planet.
PIA01371:
Voyager Picture of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-03 Ida Galileo
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During its examination of the asteroid Ida, NASA's Galileo spacecraft returned images of a second object, Dactyl--the first confirmed satellite or moon of an asteroid; the much smaller moon is visible to the right of Ida.
PIA00333:
Asteroid Ida and its Satellite Dactyl in Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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The image of Neptune shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible in this image obtaind by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA01492:
Neptune Full Disk View
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Uranus' moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites,
PIA01490:
South Polar View of Miranda
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-26 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken on Dec. 1, 1994, of the ringed planet Saturn shows a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead-shaped feature near the planet's equator.
PIA01464:
Hubble Observes a New Saturn Storm
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This image was returned by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 3, 1989. The planet and its largest satellite, Triton, are captured in view; Triton appears in the lower right corner at about 5 o'clock relative to Neptune.
PIA01287:
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 Observations of Neptune
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In 1995, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered a new great dark spot, located in the northern hemisphere of the planet Neptune. Because the planet's northern hemisphere was tilted away from Earth, the new feature appeared near the limb of the planet.
PIA01286:
Hubble Finds New Dark Spot on Neptune
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Taken in 1997, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, using visible light, detected clouds in the northern hemisphere of Uranus.
PIA01279:
Hubble Spots Northern Hemispheric Clouds on Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01277:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing (Satellites Labeled)
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01276:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-03 Earth Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)
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This image displays wind measurements taken by the satellite-borne NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) during the last 10 days of May 1997, showing the relationship between the ocean and the atmosphere at the onset of the 1997-98 El Niño condition.
PIA01452:
Microwave Limb Sounder/El Niño Watch - 1997 Research Data Reveal Clues about El Niño's Influence
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-03 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
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This series of six images shows the evolution of atmospheric water vapor over the Pacific Ocean during the 1998 El Niño condition.
PIA01450:
TOPEX/El Niño Watch - Moisture in the Atmosphere, Jan & Feb, 1998
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-10 Jupiter Galileo
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Mosaics of Jupiter's night side show the Jovian aurora at approximately 45 minute intervals as the auroral ring rotated with the planet below the spacecraft. The images were obtained by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01603:
Time Series of Jupiter's Aurora
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Mosaics of Jupiter's night side show the Jovian aurora at approximately 45 minute intervals as the auroral ring rotated with the planet below the spacecraft. The images were obtained by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01602:
Time Series of Jupiter's Aurora
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Mosaics of Jupiter's night side show the Jovian aurora at approximately 45 minute intervals as the auroral ring rotated with the planet below the spacecraft. The images were obtained by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01601:
Time Series of Jupiter's Aurora
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Mosaics of Jupiter's night side show the Jovian aurora at approximately 45 minute intervals as the auroral ring rotated with the planet below the spacecraft. The images were obtained by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01600:
Time Series of Jupiter's Aurora
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Moon DSPSE
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Maria Orientale (ringed feature just below image center) is just visible from Earth on the extreme western edge of the nearside of the Moon in this image from NASA's Clementine spacecraft.
PIA00305:
West Limb View of Earth's Moon as Seen by the Clementine Spacecraft
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The dark albedo features Mare Smythii (image center) and Mare Marginis (above Smythii) are visible in this image of the Moon from NASA's Clementine spacecraft.
PIA00303:
East Limb View of Earth's Moon as Seen by the Clementine Spacecraft
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Copernicus is 93 km wide and is located within the Mare Imbrium Basin, northern nearside of the Moon (10 degrees N., 20 degrees W.). This image from NASA's Lunar Orbiter shows crater floor, floor mounds, rim, and rayed ejecta.
PIA00094:
Limb of Copernicus Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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These four NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter, as seen in visible (violet) and far-ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, show the remarkable spreading of the clouds of smoke and dust thrown into the atmosphere.
PIA01266:
Jupiter's Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope
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These images, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal changes in Jupiter's auroral emissions and how small auroral spots just outside the emission rings are linked to the planet's volcanic moon, Io.
PIA01257:
Hubble Images Reveal Jupiter's Auroras
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of a 400-km-high (250-mile-high) plume of gas and dust from a volcanic eruption on Io, Jupiter's large innermost moon.
PIA01256:
Hubble Captures Volcanic Eruption Plume From Io
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a complete view of Jupiter's northern and southern auroras. Images taken in ultraviolet light by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) show both auroras, the oval-shaped objects in the inset photos.
PIA01254:
Hubble Provides Complete View of Jupiter's Auroras
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the planet Mars was, at the time it was taken, the clearest picture ever taken from Earth, surpassed only by close-up shots sent back by visiting space probes. The picture was taken on February 25, 1995.
PIA01253:
Springtime on Mars: Hubble's Best View of the Red Planet
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope views provide the most detailed complete global coverage of the red planet Mars ever seen from Earth. The pictures were taken on February 25, 1995, when Mars was at a distance of 65 million miles.
PIA01252:
Mars At Opposition
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Four faces of Mars as seen on March 30, 1997 are presented in this montage of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images. Proceeding in the order upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, lower-right, Mars has rotated about ninety degrees.
PIA01248:
Four Views of Mars in Northern Summer
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Io Galileo
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The three images of Io in eclipse (top) show volcanic hot spots and airglow associated with volcanic plumes and Io's atmosphere. They were acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during three separate orbits of Jupiter when the Io was in Jupiter's shadow.
PIA00739:
Eclipse Images of Io (3 views)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Jupiter Galileo
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Mosaic of Jupiter's southern hemisphere between -25 and -80 degrees (south) latitude. These images were taken on May 7, 1997, at a range of 1.5 million kilometers by the Solid State Imaging system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01229:
Jupiter's Southern Hemisphere in the Near-Infrared (Time Set 3)
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Mosaic of Jupiter's southern hemisphere between -25 and -80 degrees (south) latitude. These images were taken on May 7, 1997, at a range of 1.5 million kilometers by the Solid State Imaging system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01228:
Jupiter's Southern Hemisphere in the Near-Infrared (Time Set 2)
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Mosaic of Jupiter's southern hemisphere between -10 and -80 degrees (south) latitude. These images were taken on May 7, 1997, at a range of 1.5 million kilometers by the Solid State Imaging system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01227:
Jupiter's Southern Hemisphere in the Near-Infrared (Time Set 1)
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This color composite of Io was acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during its sixth orbit (E6) of Jupiter as part of a sequence of images designed to monitor changes in the surface color due to volcanic activity.
PIA01223:
Changes on Io's Loki-Pele hemisphere
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This image is a mosaic of Jupiter's northern hemisphere, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1997. Jupiter's atmospheric circulation is dominated by alternating eastward and westward jets from equatorial to polar latitudes.
PIA00897:
Jupiter's Northern Hemisphere in False Color (Time Set 3)
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This image is a mosaic of Jupiter's northern hemisphere, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1997. Jupiter's atmospheric circulation is dominated by alternating eastward and westward jets from equatorial to polar latitudes.
PIA00896:
Jupiter's Northern Hemisphere in True Color (Time Set 3)
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Jupiter's atmospheric circulation is dominated by alternating eastward and westward jets from equatorial to polar latitudes. This image was taken on April 3, 1997, by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA00890:
Jupiter's Northern Hemisphere in Violet Light (Time Set 3)
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Jupiter's atmospheric circulation is dominated by alternating eastward and westward jets from equatorial to polar latitudes. This image was taken on April 3, 1997, by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA00889:
Jupiter's Northern Hemisphere in a Methane Band (Time Set 3)
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Jupiter's atmospheric circulation is dominated by alternating eastward and westward jets from equatorial to polar latitudes. This image was taken on April 3, 1997, by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA00888:
Jupiter's Northern Hemisphere in a Methane Band (Time Set 3)
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