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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-28 19088x12500x3
In the Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers (SWIM) concept, illustrated here, dozens of small robots would descend through the icy shell of a distant moon via a cryobot to the ocean below.
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SWIM Exploring a Subsurface Ocean (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-14 7485x4990x3
Actor Chris Evans, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover Surface Mission Manager Jessica Samuels, and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn are seen in front of the rover model at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on June 6, 2022.
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Chris Evans Visits JPL, Perseverance Model
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Actor Chris Evans receives a boarding pass to the Moon from Suzanne Dodd, director of the Interplanetary Network Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The pair are seen in the Space Flight Operations Facility at JPL on June 6, 2022.
PIA25311:
Chris Evans Gets a Boarding Pass for NASA's Artemis I Mission
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-07 Europa Europa Clipper
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The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in its shipping container as it rolls into the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA25239:
Europa Clipper: Rolling Into NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-07 Europa Europa Clipper
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The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in its shipping container, just after arriving aboard a C-17 cargo plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California.
PIA25238:
NASA's Europa Clipper Arrives in Southern California
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-07 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is being unwrapped in a main clean room at JPL, as engineers and technicians inspect it just after delivery in early June 2022.
PIA25237:
Revealing Europa Clipper's Core
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-07 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is visible in a main clean room at JPL, as engineers and technicians inspect it just after delivery in early June 2022.
PIA25236:
Europa Clipper's Core
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This series of images from a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows a gust of wind sweeping dust across the Martian plain beyond the rover's tracks on June 18, 2021.
PIA25361:
Perseverance Views Wind Lifting a Massive Dust Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its navigation camera to capture these dust devils swirling across Jezero Crater on July 20, 2021, the 148th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25290:
Perseverance Views Dust Devils Swirling Across Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-31 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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On May 18, 2022, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used an artificial intelligence software called AEGIS to select and target the rock seen in close-up here.
PIA25289:
Perseverance's SuperCam Uses AEGIS For the First Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-27 Jupiter Juno
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Citizen scientist Andrea Luck created this animated sequence using raw JunoCam image data from NASA's Juno mission as it completed its 41st close flyby of Jupiter.
PIA25016:
Juno Skims the Cloud Tops of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-17 Mars 3840x2160x3
This graphic shows Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars.
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Venus, Earth and Its Moon, and Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-09 Mars InSight
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This seismogram shows the largest quake ever detected on another planet. Estimated at magnitude 5, this quake was discovered by NASA's InSight lander on May 4, 2022.
PIA25180:
InSight's Seismogram of Big Martian Quake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-09 Mars InSight
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This spectrogram shows the largest quake ever detected on another planet. Estimated at magnitude 5, this quake was discovered by NASA's InSight lander on May 4, 2022.
PIA25044:
InSight's Spectrogram of Big Martian Quake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021. The location, Airfield D, is just east of the Séítah geologic unit.
PIA25213:
Ingenuity at Airfield D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-21 Jupiter Juno
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Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument.
PIA25015:
Juno Captures Moon Shadow on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, eclipsing the Sun.
PIA25179:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Captures a Phobos Solar Eclipse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Video taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows some of the terrain the rover had to negotiate during its drive to the delta at Jezero Crater in April 2022.
PIA25215:
AutoNav Drives Perseverance Forward
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of the parachute that helped deliver NASA's Perseverance Mars rover to the Martian surface was taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on April 6, 2022.
PIA25214:
Perseverance Views Its Parachute
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The expanse of Jezero Crater's river delta is shown in this panorama of 64 stitched-together images taken by the Mastcam-Z system on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on April 11, 2022.
PIA25212:
Jezero Crater's Delta Is Getting Closer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-06 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily identified on NASA's Psyche spacecraft, seen in this December 2021 photograph.
PIA24570:
DSOC Flight Laser Transceiver Integrated with NASA's Psyche Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-06 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in April 2021.
PIA24569:
DSOC's Flight Laser Transceiver
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter were spotted on the surface of the Red Planet in this black-and-white image captured February 26, 2022.
PIA25174:
MRO's HiRISE Spots Perseverance and Ingenuity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will follow the proposed route to Jezero Crater's delta shown in this animation. The delta is one the most important locations the rover will visit as it seeks signs of ancient life on Mars.
PIA25173:
Perseverance's Route to the Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381st Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25171:
Perseverance Looks Back at Wheel Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks out at an expanse of boulders on the landscape in front of a location nicknamed Santa Cruz on Feb. 16, 2022, in this panorama made of 24 images taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z.
PIA25172:
Perseverance Looks Toward Santa Cruz
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-16 Jupiter Juno
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This image, taken by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, shows Jupiter's southern hemisphere during the spacecraft's 39th close flyby of the planet on January 12, 2022.
PIA25014:
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Glimpses Jupiter's Moons Io and Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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Science instruments and other hardware for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will come together in the mission's final phase before launching to Jupiter's icy moon Europa in 2024.
PIA25125:
NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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The propulsion module for NASA's Europa Clipper, the main body of the spacecraft, is nearing completion at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
PIA24900:
Europa Clipper's Propulsion Module
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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The massive high-gain antenna for NASA's Europa Clipper mission is complete. The antenna will be integrated along with other telecommunications hardware into the spacecraft's propulsion module.
PIA24899:
Standing Tall: Europa Clipper's High-Gain Antenna
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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An engineer inspects the radio frequency (RF) panel of NASA's Europa Clipper in a cleanroom at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
PIA24898:
Examining the Radio Frequency Panel of NASA's Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-03 Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians examine and test the first of NASA's Europa Clipper's science instruments to be delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24897:
NASA's Europa Clipper's Ultraviolet Spectrograph Is Delivered
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-22 Jupiter Juno
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This image, taken by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, shows this view of Jupiter in a crescent phase.
PIA25013:
A View of Crescent Jupiter from Juno
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-22 Jupiter Juno
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This look at the complex surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede came from NASA's Juno mission during a close pass by the giant moon in June 2021.
PIA25012:
A Striking Crater on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance snapped this view of a hill called Santa Cruz on April 29, 2021.
PIA25075:
Ch'al-Type Rocks at Santa Cruz
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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This drill is a duplicate of the one aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was used in a test campaign to learn how crumbly rocks respond to the drill.
PIA25050:
Close-Up of a Perseverance-Like Drill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory performed tests on rocks such as this one to understand why the first attempt by the agency's Perseverance rover resulted in a powderized sample.
PIA25049:
Creating a Drill Hole in a Test Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers working with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover set up this test area at JPL to practice drilling into crumbly rocks using a duplicate of the rover's rock-coring drill.
PIA25048:
Testing a Roubion-Like Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-10 Jupiter NuSTAR
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NuSTAR detected high-energy X-rays from the auroras near Jupiter's north and south poles.
PIA25131:
High-Energy X-rays Detected From Jupiter's Auroras
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-01 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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The Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) project – led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California – is planned to perform a robot-controlled lunar surface experiment with imagery in the coming years.
PIA24567:
NASA Integrates Gear Motors for Robotic Arm on Future Lunar Missions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image, taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows the rover successfully expelled the remaining large fragments of cored rock from a sample tube held in its drill.
PIA25073:
Perseverance's Sample Tube Looks Clean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The imagery was collected by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on Jan. 15, 2022.
PIA25072:
Perseverance Expels Rock Fragments
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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An annotated GIF depicts a rotational test of Perseverance's bit carousel in which two of four rock fragments were ejected. The five images that make up the GIF were obtained by the rover's WATSON imager on Jan. 17, 2022.
PIA25071:
Rotating Perseverance's Bit Carousel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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An animated GIF depicts the Martian surface below the Perseverance rover, showing the results of the Jan. 15, 2022, percussive drill test to clear cored-rock fragments from one of the rover's sample tubes.
PIA25070:
Before and After Perseverance Sample Tube Shake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-10 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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These images and animation represent NASA radar observations of 4660 Nereus on December 10, 2021, before the asteroid's close approach on December 11, when it came within 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) of Earth.
PIA24566:
Radar Observations of Asteroid 4660 Nereus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the cored-rock sample remaining in the sample tube after the drill bit was extracted from Perseverance's bit carousel on January 7, 2022.
PIA25067:
Perseverance's Bit Carousel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Pebble-sized debris can be seen in the bit carousel of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover in this January 7, 2022, image.
PIA25066:
Debris in Perseverance's Bit Carousel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated map shows the locations where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collected its first witness tube and filled its first six samples.
PIA25065:
Mapping Perseverance's First Six Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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This enhanced image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon on Juno's 34th pass close to Jupiter.
PIA25028:
Enhanced Ganymede (Enhanced Image)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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This annotated, high-resolution image of Jupiter's main dust ring was collected by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) navigation camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.
PIA25039:
Perseus and Jupiter's Main Dust Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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This high-resolution image of Jupiter's main dust ring was collected by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) navigation camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.
PIA25038:
Jupiter's Main Dust Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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The left image shows a close-up of a phytoplankton blooming in the southern Gulf of Bothnia, in the Baltic Sea. The right image shows turbulent clouds in Jupiter's atmosphere.
PIA25034:
Jovian Turbulence and Phytoplankton Bloom on Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Earth Landsat
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NASA's Landsat 8 satellite collected this view of phytoplankton blooming in the southern Gulf of Bothnia, in the Baltic Sea, between Sweden and Finland on April 14, 2019.
PIA25033:
Phytoplankton Bloom in the South of Bothnia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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The main image and the inset image were taken by the JunoCam imager about NASA's Juno spacecraft before its closest approach to Jupiter on November 29, 2021, during an encounter with the Jovian moon Io.
PIA25032:
Jupiter With Io and Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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Left to right: A phytoplankton bloom in the Norwegian Sea, and turbulent clouds in Jupiter's atmosphere.
PIA25037:
Vortices on Jupiter and Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-17 Jupiter Juno
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Radio emissions collected during Juno's June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede are presented here, both visually and in sound.
PIA25030:
Audio of Juno's Ganymede Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated image shows the analysis of the rock target called Garde by SHERLOC, one of the instruments on the end of the robotic arm aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA25043:
SHERLOC's View of Garde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Different kinds of carbon-based molecules called organics were viewed within a rock target called Garde by SHERLOC, one of the instruments on the end of the robotic arm aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA25042:
SHERLOC's View of Organics Within Garde Abrasion Patch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These images show a rock target called Dourbes and a map of chemical elements detected within it by PIXL, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA25041:
PIXL's View of Dourbes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This close-up view of a rock target named Dourbes was provided by the WATSON camera on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24940:
WATSON's View of Dourbes in Mars' Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This enhanced-color close-up of a rock target called Cine was captured by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on September 17, 2021.
PIA24936:
SuperCam Views Cine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the journey NASA's Perseverance rover has taken and will take as it heads toward Jezero Crater's delta on Mars.
PIA25027:
Perseverance's Traverse From Séítah to Jezero Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These annotated images show two views of the Séítah geologic unit of Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA25024:
Diversity of Séítah Minerals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These are enhanced-color images of a rocky outcrop, taken by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA25023:
Two Perspectives of Séítah Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Ingenuity sits on a slightly inclined surface with about 6-degree tilt at the center of the frame, just north of the southern ridge of Séítah geologic unit.
PIA25021:
Ingenuity at Airfield J
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Six facsimile sample tubes hang on the sample tube board in this image taken in the offices of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA25026:
Perseverance Sample Tubes: Six Mars Samples and Counting
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z instrument, this video features an enhanced-color composite image that pans across Jezero Crater's delta on Mars.
PIA25022:
Spanning the Delta of Mars' Jezero Crater (video)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This enhanced-color image of Mars' Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on April 18, 2021.
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Perseverance Captures Image of Kodiak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-09 Mars 2020 Rover
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This colorful illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance Rover on Mars, where it landed in February 2021.
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You've Got Perseverance! Illustration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-30 Europa Galileo
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This triptych image shows views of Jupiter's moon Europa as taken by various NASA spacecraft, including Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Galileo.
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Three Views of Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 19, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a ridge that formed when the ground was pushed together, forming a wrinkle.
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The Wrinkled Surface of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Video from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captures a closeup view of the 13th flight of the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, on September 4, 2021.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's Flight 13: Zoomed-In View From Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Video footage from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provides a big-picture perspective of the 13th flight of the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, on September 4, 2021.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th Flight: Wide-Angle Video From Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This sunset on Mars was captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z camera system on November 9, 2021, the 257th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Mastcam-Z's First Martian Sunset
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Asteroid Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART)
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This diagram shows the orbit of binary asteroid Didymos around the Sun.
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The Orbit of Asteroid Didymos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars 2020 Rover
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Updated with new features, the twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover arrives at JPL's Mars Yard garage on October 29, 2021.
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Improved OPTIMISM
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OPTIMISM faces a doorway of JPL's Mars Yard garage shortly after arriving there on October 29, 2021.
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OPTIMISM Ready for Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars 2020 Rover
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On October 29, 2021, a heavy-duty vehicle transports the Perseverance rover's engineering model, called OPTIMISM, from a test lab to the Mars Yard garage at JPL.
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Heavy-Duty OPTIMISM
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-17 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineering models of the Curiosity Mars rover (foreground) and the Perseverance Mars rover share space in the garage at JPL's Mars Yard.
PIA24525:
Twin Rover Twins
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-28 Europa Juno
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NASA's Juno spacecraft made a distant encounter with Jupiter's moon Europa on its 37th close pass by Jupiter. This image from the spacecraft's JunoCam was taken at a distance of about 51,000 miles (82,000 kilometers).
PIA24970:
Europa Coming Closer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This video shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Auto-Nav technology to drive 574 feet (175 meters) on September 12, 2021, the 200th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Perseverance's Sol 200 Auto-Nav Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-18 Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries two commercial-grade microphones, including this one on its chassis.
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Perseverance's Body Microphone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-18 Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries two commercial-grade microphones, including this one on its mast. The mast microphone is part of the SuperCam instrument.
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Perseverance's Mast Microphone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-18 Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover indicates the location of its two microphones.
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Illustration: Perseverance's Microphones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image indicates the location of several prominent geologic features visible in a mosaic composed of 84 pictures taken by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Perseverance Rover's View of South Séítah
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Becquerel Crater, including a large layered deposit. Becquerel Crater is located in Arabia Terra and is 165km (102 miles) in diameter.
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Becquerel Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Stitched together from multiple images, this mosaic of the Jezero Crater's river delta was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on April 17, 2021.
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The Scarps of Jezero Crater's Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image indicates the locations of NASA's Perseverance rover, as well as the Kodiak butte and several prominent steep banks known as escarpments, or scarps, along the delta of Jezero Crater.
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Jezero Crater's Kodiak and Scarps
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The escarpment the science team refers to as Scarp a, is seen in this image captured by Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on April 17, 2021.
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Jezero Crater's Scarp A
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The white speck is NASA's Perseverance rover in the South Séítah area of Mars' Jezero Crater. The image was taken by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera.
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HiRISE Spots Perseverance in South Séítah
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed Rochette, on September 10, 2021. Two holes can be seen where the rover used its robotic arm to drill rock core samples.
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Perseverance's Selfie at Rochette
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic image (composed of multiple individual images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover) shows a rock outcrop in the area nicknamed Citadelle on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater.
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Malamaire View of Citadelle Area
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed Rochette, from which NASA's Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples.
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Rochette After Perseverance Sampling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its PIXL instrument to analyze the Bellegarde abrasion target, revealing salt minerals.
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PIXL Image of Salts in Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its WATSON camera took take eight images of a rock abraded by a tool on the rover's robotic arm. The images were taken on August 27, 2021.
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WATSON's View of Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These abrasion targets, nicknamed Guillaumes and Bellegarde, are from the first and second rocks drilled by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These images were taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z camera system.
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Side-by-Side Abrasion Patches for Guillaumes and Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its abrasion tool to grind down the rock surface at this target, nicknamed Bellegarde, on August 29, 2021.
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Abrasion Patch Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover took this image of the Martian rock nicknamed Rochette on Aug. 27, 2021, shortly after it abraded a circular patch known as Bellegarde.
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Abrasion Patch on Rochette
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 4, 2021, confirmed that the rover had retained a rock core in the sample tube held in the drill at the end of its robotic arm.
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Confirmation of Montdenier Sample in Perseverance's Drill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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On Aug. 27, 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover captured this image of the science-instrument-laden turret at the end of its robotic arm getting close to the rock nicknamed Rochette.
PIA24831:
Perseverance Gets to Know Rochette
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