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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Sedimentary layers at Franklin Cliffs are displayed in a mosaic captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z camera on Feb. 12, 2023, the 704th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25911:
Mastcam-Z's View of 'Franklin Cliffs'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of a hill nicknamed Pinestand. Scientists think the tall sedimentary layers stacked on top of one another here could have been formed by a deep, fast-moving river.
PIA25830:
Mastcam-Z's View of 'Pinestand'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene at a location nicknamed Skrinkle Haven using its Mastcam-Z camera between Feb. 28 and March 9, 2023.
PIA25829:
Curved Bands of Rocks at 'Skrinkle Haven'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-04 Uranus Voyager
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New modeling shows that there likely is an ocean layer in four of Uranus' major moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. Miranda is too small to retain enough heat for an ocean layer.
PIA25500:
Major Moons of Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This collage represents a selection of NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2006 HV5 on April 25, 2023, less than one day before its close approach with our planet at a distance of about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers).
PIA25834:
NASA's Planetary Radar Images Asteroid 2006 HV5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Lunar Trailblazer
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Seen here before being shipped from the U.K. to the U.S., the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) is one of two instruments that will be carried by NASA's Lunar Trailblazer.
PIA25831:
Lunar Trailblazer's Thermal Mapper Has Arrived at Lockheed Martin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-14 Europa Galileo
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Another image of Jupiter's moon Europa captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo shows possible fault scarps adjacent to smooth areas that may have been produced by landslides.
PIA25499:
Europa's Surface: Up-Close Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-14 Europa Galileo
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This view of Jupiter's moon Europa was captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The smooth slopes and nearby rubble may have been produced by landslides.
PIA25498:
Europa Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-31 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the rock core from Berea inside inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Each core the rover takes is about the size of a piece of classroom chalk: 0.5 inches (13 millimeters) in diameter and 2.4 inches (60 millimeters) long.
PIA25690:
Perseverance's Rock Core From 'Berea' Outcrop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-31 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls Berea using a coring bit on the end of its robotic arm. The images were taken by one of the rover's front hazard cameras.
PIA25689:
Perseverance Cores 'Berea'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-31 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls Berea after the NASA Mars rover extracted a rock core and abraded a circular patch. The image was taken by one of the rover's front hazard cameras on March 30, 2023.
PIA25688:
Perseverance Samples 'Berea'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-23 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This animation shows the progress of Perseverance Mars Rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as they make their way up the Jezero river delta. The Mars Helicopter's route is depicted in green. The rover's progress is depicted in orange.
PIA25687:
Ingenuity and Perseverance Make Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take a series of images of drifting clouds just before sunrise on March 18, 2023.
PIA25821:
Perseverance Views Drifting Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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One of the Navcam imagers aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Feb. 26, 2023, the 719th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25685:
Perseverance's Navcam Captures Ingenuity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This movie is made from images taken by the Mars Perseverance rover's Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera between Sol 13 (March 4, 2021) and Sol 708 (Feb. 16, 2023), during the first two years of the rover's surface mission.
PIA25799:
Front Left Hazcam – Two Year Movie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-17 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This collage represents NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2011 AG5 on Feb. 4, 2023, one day after its close approach to Earth brought it about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) from our planet.
PIA25259:
Radar Observations of Elongated Near-Earth Asteroid 2011 AG5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of the floor of Jezero Crater was taken by one of the Navcam imagers aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 5, the 698th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25684:
Looking Back at Perseverance's Second Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this portrait of its recently completed sample depot using its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, 2023. Containing 10 samples, the depot is a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign.
PIA25736:
Perseverance's Portrait of the Sample Depot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes deposited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover at the Three Forks sample depot, as viewed by the WATSON camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm.
PIA25738:
WATSON's Photomontage of Mars Sample Depot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with nine of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot created within an area of Jezero Crater nicknamed Three Forks.
PIA25735:
Annotated Version of Perseverance Selfie With Sample Tubes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-02 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in the distance, near the base of Jezero Crater's river delta, in this image taken Dec. 18, 2022.
PIA25683:
Mars Helicopter at Three Forks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-30 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Perseverance rover's WATSON camera took this image of the 10th and last tube to be deployed during the creation of the first sample depot on another world, on Jan. 28, 2023.
PIA25340:
WATSON Documents Final Tube Dropped at Three Forks Sample Depot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-30 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover dropped each of its 10 samples so that a future mission could pick them up. The sample depot was completed Jan. 28, 2023.
PIA25682:
Perseverance's Three Forks Sample Depot Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-24 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance took a selfie looking down at one of 10 tubes the rover deposited at the sample depot it created in an area within Jezero Crater nicknamed Three Forks. This image was taken on Jan. 22, 2023.
PIA25681:
Perseverance's Three Forks Sample Depot Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-12 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight carrying out a trajectory correction maneuver with the Earth and Moon in the background. Powered by the small satellite's four thrusters, the maneuver is needed to reach lunar orbit.
PIA25258:
Lunar Flashlight's Trajectory Correction Maneuver (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-23 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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These images show two observations of NASA's Lunar Flashlight and the private ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 as the two spacecraft, seen as a pair of dots, journey to the Moon.
PIA25257:
NASA's Lunar Flashlight Spotted From Earth on Its Way to the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
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The HVM³ instrument sits in a JPL clean room in early December 2022. The instrument was built at JPL then shipped to Lockheed Martin Space in Colorado to be integrated with NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft.
PIA25256:
Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer Before Spacecraft Integration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
 High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The side of the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) is seen as the instrument gets unwrapped in a clean room. The JPL-developed imaging spectrometer was later integrated with NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft.
PIA25255:
A Closer View of NASA Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
 High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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Engineers work on the JPL-developed High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) for NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, in December 2022.
PIA25254:
Engineers Work on Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several sample tubes onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022.
PIA25663:
WATSON Documents First Sample on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the Martian surface.
PIA25677:
OPTIMISM Sticks the Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA's Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first sample tube on the Martian surface.
PIA25676:
Testing a Sample Drop in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25652:
Perseverance Deposits Its First Sample on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this image of the location where three of its 10 sample tubes will be deposited.
PIA25679:
Three of Perseverance's Depot Locations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will be dropping 10 samples that a future mission could pick up. The orange circles represent areas where a Sample Recovery Helicopter could safely operate to acquire the sample tubes.
PIA25678:
A Map of Perseverance's Depot Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The location where NASA's Perseverance will begin depositing its first cache of samples is shown in this image taken by the Mars rover on Dec. 14, 2022.
PIA25675:
Perseverance Views Depot in the Distance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Shown here is a representation of the 21 sample tubes that have been sealed to date by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Red dots indicate the locations where each sample was collected.
PIA25674:
A Map of Perseverance's Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows the planned route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take across the top of Jezero Crater's delta in 2023. The rover's planned route is in black while the ground it already covered is in white.
PIA25673:
Map of Perseverance's Delta Top Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color image of Hogwallow Flats on June 6, 2022.
PIA25672:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Views Hogwallow Flats
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color view of the eroded eastern edge of the delta within Mars' Jezero Crater on April 7, 2022.
PIA25671:
Mastcam-Z Views the Eastern Edge of Jezero's Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this rocky hilltop nicknamed Rockytop on July 24, 2022, the 507th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25660:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Views Rockytop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this image of Bettys Rock on June 23, 2022, the 477th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25656:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Views Bettys Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its WATSON camera to view the texture of a rock nicknamed Bettys Rock on June 22, 2022, the 476th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25659:
Perseverance's WATSON Views Bettys Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of Bettys Rock using one of the rover navigation cameras on June 20, 2022, the 474th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25658:
Perseverance's Navcam Views Bettys Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of Bettys Rock using one of its front hazard cameras on June 20, 2022, the 474th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25655:
Perseverance Views Bettys Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This GIF shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a regolith sampling bit on the end of its robotic arm.
PIA25654:
NASA's Perseverance Rover Collects Regolith
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated image points out the various cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover; the list on the right indicates how many images each camera has taken as of December 6, 2022.
PIA25653:
Perseverance's Cameras, Tallies of Their Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Ganymede Juno
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JunoCam, the public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured these views of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a close pass on June 7, 2021.
PIA25721:
Juno Zooms in on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Europa Juno
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The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is shown in an image from the JunoCam color public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. The data for this image was taken September 29, 2022.
PIA25696:
JunoCam Close-Up of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Europa Juno
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This view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa was captured by JunoCam, the public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.
PIA25695:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures Images of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Europa Juno
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NASA's Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter's intriguing, icy moon Europa during a close pass on September 29, 2022.
PIA25694:
Looking for Eruptions at Jupiter's Moon Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Ganymede Juno
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This animation illustrates how the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter's moon Ganymede interacts with and disrupts the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter.
PIA25724:
NASA's Juno Mission Explores the Magnetic Connection Between Jupiter and Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Io Juno
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The volcano-laced surface of Jupiter's moon Io was captured in infrared by the Juno spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) imager on July 5, 2022.
PIA25698:
Jupiter's Moon Io Seen in Infrared Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This video and audio show the results of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its SuperCam microphone to record the sounds of a Martian dust devil. The dust devil passed directly over Perseverance on Sept. 27, 2021.
PIA25657:
NASA's Perseverance Records a Martian Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-12 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed. The small satellite will take about three months to reach its science orbit to seek out surface water ice in the Moon's South Pole.
PIA25626:
Lunar Flashlight With Solar Arrays Deployed (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars 2020 Rover
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Optimism, a full-scale replica of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, tests a model of Perseverance's regolith bit in a pile of simulated regolith – broken rock and dust – at JPL.
PIA25651:
Testing Perseverance's Regolith Bit Here on Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars 2020 Rover
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The drill bits used by NASA's Perseverance rover are seen before being installed prior to launch. From left, the regolith bit, six bits used for drilling rock cores, and two abrasion bits.
PIA25590:
Perseverance's Drill Bits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA's Perseverance rover used a specialized drill bit to collect the mission's first samples of regolith on Dec. 2 and 6, 2022.
PIA25589:
Perseverance's First 2 Regolith Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this image of regolith – broken rock and dust – on Dec. 2, 2022. This regolith will be considered for deposit on the Martian surface as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign.
PIA25588:
Perseverance's CacheCam Views a Regolith Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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The 3D-printed titanium scoop of the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system is poised above a test bed filled with material to simulate lunar regolith (broken rocks and dust) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25318:
Close-Up on COLDArm's Titanium 3D-Printed Scoop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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NASA's COLDArm combines several new technologies that allow it to operate in temperatures as cold as minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 degrees Celsius) without the use of energy-consuming heaters required by robotic arms on current spacecraft.
PIA25317:
NASA's COLDArm at Lunar Regolith Simulant Test Bed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-05 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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A JPL engineer examines the 3D-printed titanium scoop of NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system. The arm is designed to function in frigid temperatures that would stymie current spacecraft.
PIA25316:
Testing NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers install a 2-foot-wide reaction wheel onto the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA25497:
NASA's Europa Clipper Reaction Wheel in Process
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians work together to install reaction wheels on the underside of the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is in its assembly, test, and launch operations phase.
PIA25496:
NASA's Europa Clipper: Reaction Wheel Installation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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All four of the reaction wheels installed onto NASA's Europa Clipper are visible in this photo, which was shot from underneath the main body of the spacecraft while it is being assembled.
PIA25495:
NASA's Europa Clipper Reaction Wheels Installed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers install 2-foot-wide reaction wheels onto the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter is in its assembly, test, and launch operations phase in preparation for a 2024 launch.
PIA25494:
NASA's Europa Clipper Gets Its Reaction Wheels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-17 Jupiter Juno
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As NASA's Juno spacecraft sped low over the giant planet's cloud tops, on Nov. 29, 2021, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at two of Jupiter's largest moons.
PIA25019:
NASA's Juno Mission Spots Two Jovian Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This image of Yori Pass was taken by a Hazcam imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on November 5, 2022.
PIA25339:
Jezero Crater's Yori Pass
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These images show changes in the dust accumulation over the course of four days on the rim of the collection tube containing Perseverance's 14th sample. The images were acquired by the rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam.
PIA25337:
CacheCam Image of Perseverance's 14th Sample of Martian Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-13 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to view Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, on Jan. 12, 2022, the 319th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25419:
Perseverance Views Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Europa Juno
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This highly stylized view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa was created by reprocessing an image captured by JunoCam during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.
PIA25335:
Candy-Colored JunoCam Image of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Europa Juno
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This view of Jovian moon Europa was created by processing an image JunoCam captured during Juno's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.
PIA25334:
JunoCam Image of Europa From Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-06 Europa Juno
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This pair of images, minimally processed and enhanced, shows the same portion of Europa as captured by the Juno spacecraft's JunoCam during the mission's Sept. 29 close flyby.
PIA25333:
JunoCam Images of Europa, Before and After
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-05 Europa Juno
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Surface features of Jupiter's icy moon Europa are revealed in an image obtained by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) during the spacecraft's Sept. 29, 2022, flyby.
PIA25332:
Juno's Star Camera Sees Europa Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-29 Europa Juno
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The complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter's moon Europa was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during a flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. At closest approach, the spacecraft came within a distance of about 219 miles (352 kilometers).
PIA25330:
First Image of Europa From Juno's Close Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-22 Asteroid Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
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This illustration depicts NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system.
PIA25329:
NASA's DART at the Didymos System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This video from NASA's Perseverance rover shows increasingly close views of an abraded rock at Wildcat Ridge in Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA25246:
Zooming in on Perseverance Rover's Wildcat Ridge Abrasion Patch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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This annotated image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows how its SHERLOC instrument investigates a rock surface.
PIA25245:
How SHERLOC Analyzes a Rock Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated image highlights potential routes that NASA's Perseverance team is considering in September 2022 for the rover to drive.
PIA25244:
Potential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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This annotated image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows its wheel tracks in Jezero Crater.
PIA25243:
Perseverance's View of Possible Future Sample Cache Depot Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance rover from an outcrop called Wildcat Ridge in Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA24929:
Perseverance Rock Cores From Wildcat Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Composed of multiple images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, this mosaic shows a rocky outcrop called Wildcat Ridge.
PIA24928:
Sample Collection and Rock Analysis at Wildcat Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance rover from an outcrop called Skinner Ridge in Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA24927:
Rock Cores From Skinner Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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This pair of images from NASA's Perseverance shows close-up views of two rock types the rover investigated in the delta area of Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA24926:
2 Abrasion Patches From Perseverance at Jezero Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called Skinner Ridge in Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA24925:
Perseverance Workspace at Skinner Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples for possible return to Earth in the future from two locations seen in this image of Mars' Jezero Crater: Wildcat Ridge and Skinner Ridge.
PIA24924:
2 Perseverance Sampling Locations in Jezero's Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Perseverance rover has been investigating rocks at the front of the delta in Mars' Jezero Crater along the path indicated in this annotated image taken by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA24923:
Perseverance Exploring the Front of the Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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HiRISE
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The route of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is shown in this annotated image composed of overhead views from the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA24922:
Perseverance's Route to the Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Intriguing Martian rocks surround NASA's Perseverance rover in this panorama showing an ancient river delta, made from images captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system.
PIA24921:
Detailed Panorama of Mars' Jezero Crater Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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The vault, with nadir deck attached, of NASA's Europa Clipper is prepared to be moved to the High Bay 1 clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25493:
NASA's Europa Clipper: Vault and Nadir Deck on the Move
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians use a crane to lower the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft into position in the High Bay 1 clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25492:
Easy Does It: NASA's Europa Clipper Is Lowered Into Place
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians use a crane to lift the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in the High Bay 1 clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25491:
The Lift: NASA's Europa Clipper Moves Into Position
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians work on the towering main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in the storied Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25240:
NASA's Europa Clipper Takes Center Stage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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Taken on August 17, 2022, this image shows the back of Coring Bit 2 in the bit carousel of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA25327:
Perseverance Coring Bit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this panorama of a proposed landing site for the Mars Sample Return lander that would serve as part of the campaign to bring samples of Mars rock and sediment to Earth.
PIA25406:
Perseverance's Panorama of Potential Mars Sample Return Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this image of flat terrain to be considered for a Mars Sample Return lander that would serve as part of the campaign to bring samples of Mars rock and sediment to Earth.
PIA25370:
Perseverance Scouts Landing Sites for Mars Sample Return Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-08 Lunar Trailblazer
 High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) is one of two instruments that will be carried aboard NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, launching in 2023.
PIA25252:
Key Lunar Trailblazer Instrument Passes Milestone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-29 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This collage and animation represent NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 7335 1989 JA on May 26, 2022, one day before it made its closest approach with Earth.
PIA25251:
Radar Observations of Near-Earth Asteroid 7335 1989 JA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-29 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This image of the sedimentary rocks of Enchanted Lake was taken by one of the Perseverance rover's Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) near the base of Jezero Crater's delta on April 30, 2022.
PIA25325:
Enchanted View of Jezero Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-28 8242x12513x3
This illustration shows the NASA cryobot concept called Probe using Radioisotopes for Icy Moons Exploration (PRIME) deploying tiny wedge-shaped robots into the ocean miles below a lander on the frozen surface of an ocean world.
PIA25314:
Cryobot for Ocean Worlds Exploration (Illustration)
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