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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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A planetary protection engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepares samples for analysis on March 20, 2024.
PIA26441:
Preparing for Planetary Protection Analysis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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A planetary protection engineer carefully collects samples from NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft to verify its biological cleanliness.
PIA26440:
Keeping Europa Clipper Clean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists believe that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
PIA26438:
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is tasked with up-close study of Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa.
PIA26436:
Europa Clipper's Elliptical Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts the long, looping path NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will take to reach the Jupiter system.
PIA26432:
Europa Clipper's Looping Journey to Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit at Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon Europa.
PIA26431:
Europa Clipper in the Shadow of Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's NEO Surveyor in deep space. The black-paneled angular structure in the belly of the spacecraft is the instrument enclosure that is being built at JPL.
PIA26388:
NASA's NEO Surveyor in Deep Space (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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A technician operates articulating equipment to rotate NEO Surveyor's aluminum optical bench in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on July 17, 2024.
PIA26387:
NEO Surveyor's Telescope Optical Bench Under Construction at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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A mirror that was later installed inside the telescope for NASA's NEO Surveyor shows a reflection of principal optical engineer Brian Monacelli during an inspection of the mirror's surface.
PIA26386:
NEO Surveyor's Mirrors Undergo Inspection at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This view of the western edge of Mars' Jezero Crater shows the steep crater rim. A blue icon shows Perseverance's general location as of Aug. 14, 2024. The rover began its ascent of the crater rim on Aug. 27, 2024.
PIA26402:
Perseverance's Location at the Base of Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected 42 powderized rock samples with the drill on the end of its robotic arm.
PIA26403:
Curiosity's 42 Drill Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.
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Europa Clipper Artist's Concept
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after engineers and technicians tested and stowed the spacecraft's giant solar arrays.
PIA26067:
Europa Clipper Solar Arrays Stowed for Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA26066:
Testing Europa Clipper's Solar Arrays
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take (in blue) as it climbs the western rim of Jezero Crater.
PIA26374:
Perseverance's Climb to 'Witch Hazel Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This panorama shows the area NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater's rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4, 2024.
PIA26373:
Perseverance Rover's View Up Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view looking back at the Bright Angel area on July 30, 2024.
PIA26372:
Perseverance Looks Back at 'Bright Angel'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024. A rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.
PIA26344:
Perseverance's Selfie With 'Cheyava Falls'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Cheyava Falls (left) shows the dark hole where NASA's Perseverance took a core sample. A rock nicknamed Steamboat Mountain (right) also shows an abrasion patch. This image was taken by Mastcam-Z on July 23, 2024.
PIA26401:
Mastcam-Z Views the 'Cheyava Falls' Workspace
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance used its Mastcam-Z instrument to view the Cheyava Falls rock sample within the rover's drill bit.
PIA26370:
Mastcam-Z Views 'Leopard Spots' in Perseverance's Drill Bit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region on Mars called Bright Angel. Cheyava Falls was discovered in the area slightly right of center.
PIA26369:
Perseverance Captures 'Bright Angel' in 360 Degrees
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover discovered leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in Mars' Jezero Crater in July 2024.
PIA26368:
Perseverance Finds a Rock With 'Leopard Spots'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment exposed along the side of a mound called Fascination Turret.
PIA26364:
Curiosity's Detailed View of 'Fascination Turret'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama from within Gediz Vallis channel on June 19, 2024.
PIA26363:
Curiosity Takes a 360-Degree View of Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA's Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024.
PIA26307:
Curiosity Captures Close-Up of Sulfur Crystals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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While exploring Gediz Vallis channel in May, NASA's Curiosity captured this image (Figure C) of rocks that show a pale color near their edges. When groundwater leaks into rocks along fractures, it causes chemical reactions that change the color.
PIA26366:
Curiosity Views Rocks With 'Halos'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Gediz Vallis channel on March 31. This area was likely formed by large floods of water and debris that piled jumbles of rocks into mounds within the channel.
PIA26367:
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this close-up image of a rock nicknamed Snow Lake on June 8, 2024. Nine days earlier, the rover had crushed a similar-looking rock and revealed crystalline textures – and elemental sulfur – inside.
PIA26308:
Curiosity Views Rock Made of Sulfur at 'Snow Lake'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These yellow crystals were revealed after NASA's Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May 30. Using an instrument on the rover's arm, scientists later determined these crystals are elemental sulfur.
PIA26309:
Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of a rock target nicknamed Thunderbolt Peak was created by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using PIXL, which determines the mineral composition of rocks by zapping them with X-rays.
PIA26365:
Perseverance's PIXL Instrument Examines 'Thunderbolt Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its 23 years of operation around the Red Planet.
PIA26361:
Odyssey's Accomplishments at Its 100,000th Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this single image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, on March 11, 2024.
PIA26305:
Odyssey's THEMIS Views Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's team used the SHERLOC instrument's Autofocus and Context Imager to capture this image of its calibration target on May 11, 2024 to confirm an issue with a stuck lens cover had been resolved.
PIA26337:
SHERLOC's Labyrinth Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of NASA's Perseverance rover gathering data on the Walhalla Glades abrasion was taken in the Bright Angel region of Jezero Crater by one of the rover's front hazard avoidance cameras on June 14, 2024.
PIA26320:
Perseverance's Abrasion Patch at 'Walhalla Glades'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The cover for the Autofocus and Context Imager camera on SHERLOC is seen moving in images captured by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on May 11, 2024.
PIA26338:
Moving the Lens Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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Imagery captured by a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows the position of a cover on the SHERLOC instrument. The cover became stuck in January but the rover team has found a way to address the issue for continued operation.
PIA26339:
Checking the Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the ancient Neretva Vallis river channel when it captured this view of an area of scientific interest named Bright Angel with one of its navigation cameras on June 6, 2024.
PIA26336:
Perseverance Views 'Bright Angel'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance captured this mosaic looking downstream of the dune-filled Neretva Vallis river channel on May 17, 2024. The channel fed Jezero Crater with fresh water billions of years ago.
PIA26335:
Perseverance's View of Neretva Vallis River Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows Perseverance's path between Jan. 21 and June 11, 2024. White dots indicate where the rover stopped after completing a traverse beside Neretva Vallis river channel. The pale blue line indicates the rover's route inside the channel.
PIA26334:
Perseverance's Path to 'Bright Angel' in Mars' Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Stitched together from 18 images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover, this mosaic shows a boulder field on Mount Washburn on May 27, 2024. The rover's science team nicknamed the rock Atoko Point.
PIA26333:
Standing Out on Mars' 'Mount Washburn'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars MAVEN
 Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS)
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The purple color in this animated GIF shows auroras on Mars' nightside as detected by the ultraviolet instrument aboard NASA's MAVEN orbiter between May 14 and 20, 2024. The brighter the purple, the more auroras were present.
PIA26304:
MAVEN Detects Auroras During Solar Storm in 2024
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
PIA26303:
Curiosity Sees Specks Caused By 2024 Solar Storm While Recording a Wind Gust on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured streaks and specks using one of its navigation cameras just as particles from a solar storm arrived on the Martian surface. These artifacts are caused by energetic particles hitting the camera's image detector.
PIA26302:
Curiosity Sees Streaks and Specks During 2024 Solar Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Sol (our sun) Mars 2020 Rover
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Sunspots are seen in images captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z cameras between May 8 and 20, 2024. These flares would send charged particles toward Mars, where several NASA spacecraft were able to study them.
PIA26301:
Perseverance Views Sunspots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Salin-de-Giraud, a major center of salt production on the right bank of the Rhone River in southern France.
PIA26325:
Salin-de-Giraud, France
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, engineers and technicians pose with the agency's Farside Seismic Suite while the payload is readied for testing.
PIA26342:
FSS team
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, technician Nik Schwarz prepares the agency's Farside Seismic Suite (FSS) for testing.
PIA26341:
Getting Farside Seismic Suite Ready for Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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Seen here in November 2023, Farside Seismic Suite's inner cube houses the NASA payload's battery and two seismometers. The gold, puck-shaped device holds the Short Period sensor, while the silver enclosure contains the Very Broadband seismometer.
PIA26300:
Farside Seismic Suite's Cube Within a Cube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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NASA's Farside Seismic Suite undergoes work in a JPL clean room in March, 2024. The instrument's two seismometers are packaged in a cube-within-a-cube structure. The shiny blanket is an outer insulating layer; the single solar panel provides power.
PIA26299:
Farside Seismic Suite Before Testing at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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JPL engineers and technicians prepare NASA's Farside Seismic Suite for testing in simulated lunar gravity. The payload will gather the agency's first-ever seismic measurements from the far side of the Moon.
PIA26298:
Farside Seismic Suite Prepared for Testing in JPL Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a field of sand dunes in the Martian springtime while the seasonal carbon dioxide frost is sublimating into the air.
PIA26330:
Defrosting Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 14, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively fresh crater with gullies.
PIA26329:
Gullies in the Depths of Hellas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 9, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain of two distinct ages. The slopes and hilltops here are made up of rough rocky outcrop, while the valley floors are filled with smooth materials with fewer craters.
PIA26328:
Sediment Ponds in Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 18, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows bright materials, likely to be sediments rich in the hydrated sulfates, covered by a thin deposit of dark material, perhaps sand.
PIA26327:
Hydrated Sulfates in Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-17 Mars Mars Helicopter
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The Ingenuity team celebrates during their final shift working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
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Ingenuity Team's Final Shift
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson celebrates with Perseverance rover deputy project manager Steve Lee during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26317:
Ingenuity Fist Bump
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Teddy Tzanetos, project manager for NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, addresses members of the team during their final shift at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26316:
Ingenuity Project Manager Says Goodbye
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson and project manager Teddy Tzanetos react during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
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Ingenuity Team Lead All Smiles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-16 Mars Mars Helicopter
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Engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity together monitored a transmission from the history-making helicopter in a JPL control room on April 16, 2024.
PIA26318:
Mars Helicopter Team Witnesses Final Downlink
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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The viewing gallery above High Bay 1 in JPL's historic Spacecraft Assembly Facility provided members of the media with a vantage point to observe the clean room where Europa Clipper was put together.
PIA26292:
A View of Europa Clipper From Above
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Members of the media visited a clean room at JPL April 11 to get a close-up look at NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The spacecraft is expected to launch in October 2024 to the Jupiter system, where it will study the ice-encased moon Europa.
PIA26291:
JPL Shows Off Europa Clipper in the Clean Room
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Europa Clipper Science Communications Lead Cynthia Phillips explains the science of the mission to members of the media in von Kármán Auditorium at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 11.
PIA25319:
Explaining the Science of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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The 21st rock core captured by NASA's Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The sample was cored from Bunsen Peak on March 12, 2024.
PIA26314:
Perseverance Cores 'Bunsen Peak'
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Perseverance's CacheCam captured this image of the rover's latest cored sample – taken from an intriguing rock called Bunsen Peak – on March 12, 2024.
PIA26313:
Perseverance's 'Bunsen Peak' Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic shows a rock called Bunsen Peak where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover extracted its 21st rock core and abraded a circular patch to investigate the rock's composition.
PIA26312:
Perseverance's View of 'Bunsen Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This map shows the locations of NASA's Perseverance rover (white star) and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (cyan star) on Dec. 19, 2023.
PIA26311:
Rover, Helicopter Locations in Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This animation shows a simulation of the response of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to the Sys-ID process. Sys-ID is a method for understanding the behavior of a system by studying how specific inputs impact the motion of the vehicle.
PIA26240:
Animation of Mars Helicopter Flight Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this selfie using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 3, 2024. The selfie is made up of 36 individual images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26310:
Curiosity Takes a Navcam Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 1, 2024. The panorama is made up of 10 images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26247:
Curiosity Looks Back Down the Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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After arriving at Gediz Vallis channel, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using one of its black-and-white navigation cameras on Feb. 3, 2024.
PIA26246:
Curiosity Arrives at Gediz Vallis Channel
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The steep path NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took to reach Gediz Vallis channel is indicated in yellow in this visualization made with orbital data.
PIA26241:
Curiosity's Route to Gediz Vallis Channel (Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows secondary impact craters around 20 kilometers from the primary impact.
PIA26324:
Searching for Distant Secondary Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 17, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows many craters in the mid-latitudes of Mars are partially filled with deposits that have been interpreted to be ice-rich.
PIA26323:
A Song of Ice and Tectonics
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This image acquired on January 15, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows multiple dark spots corresponding to numerous new craters.
PIA26322:
Mars Atmosphere Fights Back!
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This image acquired on January 30, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 13-meter (43 feet) diameter crater in Arcadia Planitia where ice was exposed both in the crater interior and ejecta.
PIA26321:
Mars Mysteries: Unveiling the Icy Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Members of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration team pose with two full-scale development model rovers in the Mars Yard at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in January 2024.
PIA26170:
CADRE Team in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Two full-scale development model rovers are tested in JPL's Mars Yard in August 2023 as part of NASA's CADRE tech demo. These tests confirmed the project's hardware and software can work together to accomplish key goals.
PIA26168:
CADRE Test Rovers in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Mercury Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in front of the Sun on Oct. 28, 2023.
PIA26250:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Deimos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Deimos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26249:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Deimos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Feb. 8, 2024.
PIA26248:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover appears as a dark speck in this image captured from directly overhead by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO.
PIA26245:
HiRISE Spots Curiosity Driving Toward Upper Gediz Vallis
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this video showing the shadows of its rotor blades turning on Feb. 11, 2024. Engineers planned the video to get more information about damage that was sustained during the helicopter's 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024
PIA26244:
Ingenuity's Navcam Reveals a Missing Rotor Blade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took these images of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and one of its rotor blades on Feb. 24, 2024.
PIA26238:
SuperCam's RMI Spots Ingenuity's Broken Rotor
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This natural-color mosaic showing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at Valinor Hills was acquired by the agency's Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 21, 2024. The helicopter sits just left of center, a speck-like figure amid a field of sand ripples.
PIA26237:
Ingenuity at 'Valinor Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at its final airfield on Feb. 4, 2024. The helicopter damaged its rotor blades during landing on its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024.
PIA26236:
Perseverance Spots Ingenuity at Its Final Airfield
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This image acquired on October 21, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively large (280-meter diameter) circular structure that is most likely a relaxed impact crater.
PIA23700:
An Impact Structure in Brain Terrain
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This image acquired on September 26, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain north of Elysium Planitia and Athabasca Valles.
PIA23427:
Dark Craters
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This image acquired on September 23, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater located in Acidalia Planitia. It is in an area of elongated mounds and hosts a variety of gully forms on its interior slopes.
PIA23145:
Gullies in Acidalia Planitia
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This image acquired on August 27, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ridges in Aeolis Planum which tell a story of ancient rivers and a Mars very different to that of today.
PIA22822:
Flowing Rivers on Ancient Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-25 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
PIA26243:
Ingenuity Spots the Shadow of Its Damaged Rotor Blade
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this view of sand ripples during its 70th flight, on Dec. 22, 2023. The smooth terrain proved difficult for the helicopter's navigation system to track, resulting in a rough landing.
PIA26242:
Ingenuity's View of Sand Ripples During Flight 70
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's shadow is visible on the surface in these images taken by the front Hazcam.
PIA26209:
Curiosity's Hazcams Capture a Day on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Lyot Crater, including a large field of sand dunes on the crater floor.
PIA26270:
Lyot Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the central part of Tithonium Chasma.
PIA26269:
Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Shalbatana Vallis.
PIA26268:
Shalbatana Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Ismeniae Fossae.
PIA26267:
Ismeniae Fossae
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Cerberus Fossae.
PIA26266:
Cerberus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region of wind etched materials near the margin of Lucus Planum.
PIA26265:
Wind Erosion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Olympica Fossae, a complex channel located on the volcanic plains between Alba Mons and Olympus Mons.
PIA26264:
Olympica Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This image shows a test flight of a full-scale prototype of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA26233:
First Controlled Flight of Mars Helicopter Prototype
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