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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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Let the Science Phase Begin!
PIA14213:
Let the Science Phase Begin!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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New Territory
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New Territory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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Equator to Pole (almost)
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Equator to Pole (almost)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Polar Express
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Polar Express
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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A View of Camoes in Mercury's South Polar Region
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A View of Camoes in Mercury's South Polar Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Prime Real Estate
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Prime Real Estate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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WAC's Changing Footprint
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WAC's Changing Footprint
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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WAC versus NAC
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WAC versus NAC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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Two Kinds of Small Craters
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Two Kinds of Small Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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Hello, Hodgkins!
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Hello, Hodgkins!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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We've Got the NAC of It
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We've Got the NAC of It
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Colorful Limb
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Mercury's Colorful Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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Dark Material on Mercury
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Dark Material on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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Debussy Makes a Good Impression
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Debussy Makes a Good Impression
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-31 Mercury MESSENGER
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Revisiting Boccaccio
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Revisiting Boccaccio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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First Color Image of Mercury from Orbit
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First Color Image of Mercury from Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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First NAC Image Obtained in Mercury Orbit
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First NAC Image Obtained in Mercury Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Simply Beautiful
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Simply Beautiful
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Smooth Plains in Mercury's North
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Smooth Plains in Mercury's North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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From Orbit, Looking toward Mercury's Horizon
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From Orbit, Looking toward Mercury's Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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MESSENGER's Wide-Angle Camera
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MESSENGER's Wide-Angle Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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A First Look at Terrain Near Mercury's North Pole
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A First Look at Terrain Near Mercury's North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Exploring the Rays of Debussy
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Exploring the Rays of Debussy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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First Magnetometer Measurements from Mercury Orbit
PIA14079:
First Magnetometer Measurements from Mercury Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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First Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) Results from Orbit
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First Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) Results from Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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An Annotated Guide to the First Orbital Image
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An Annotated Guide to the First Orbital Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-29 Kuiper Belt 2100x1995x3
These artist's concepts show some of the best known objects found outside Neptune's orbit. Included are Pluto and fellow plutinos, Kuiper Belt Objects, and an Oort Cloud object.
PIA17308:
Transneptunian Object Sizes (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-29 Solar System MESSENGER
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
PIA14076:
First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-10 Vesta Dawn
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This anaglyph shows a 3-D model of the protoplanet Vesta, using scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet might look like. It was created as part of an exercise for NASA's Dawn mission. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA13890:
Anaglyph of Vesta Model
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This image incorporates the best data on dimples and bulges of the protoplanet Vesta from ground-based telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This model of Vesta uses scientists' best guess to date of what the surface might look like.
PIA13770:
Model of Vesta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-10 Vesta Dawn
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This image shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like from the south pole and incorporates the best data on dimples and bulges Vesta from ground-based telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA13769:
Simulated Vesta from the South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-10 Vesta Dawn
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This image shows NASA'S Dawn scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like; it incorporates the best data on dimples and bulges from ground-based telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA13768:
Virtual Vesta Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-08 Voyager
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This artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun. The Voyagers have been in space 33 years.
PIA13892:
Voyagers in the Heliosheath (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-18 Solar System MESSENGER
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A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out.
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A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out.
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Enceladus reflects sunlight brightly while the planet and its rings fill the background in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Enceladus is one of the most reflective bodies in the solar system.
PIA12753:
Bright Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-01 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, shows four galaxies in the Virgo cluster: Messier 59, Messier 60, NGC 4647, and NGC 4638. It also shows the tracks of three asteroids, which appear in this image as trails of green dots.
PIA13456:
Asteroids in Virgo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-01 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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During its one-year mission, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, mapped the entire sky in infrared light. Among the multitudes of astronomical bodies that have been discovered by the NEOWISE portion of the WISE mission are 20 comets.
PIA13457:
Comets WISE -- A Family Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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MESSENGER Explores Mercury - In Color
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MESSENGER Explores Mercury - In Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-06 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This colorful picture is a mosaic of Messier 8, or the Lagoon nebula, taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This nebula is composed of clouds of gas and dust in which new stars are forming.
PIA13453:
WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Revisiting Some of MESSENGER's Early Discoveries and Anticipating More in 2011
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Revisiting Some of MESSENGER's Early Discoveries and Anticipating More in 2011
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-03 Juno
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This artist concept depicts the Juno spacecraft which will launch from Earth in 2011 and will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit.
PIA13746:
Juno Mission to Jupiter (2010 Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Mercury MESSENGER
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MESSENGER Image Compilation from 2010
PIA13735:
MESSENGER Image Compilation from 2010
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-08 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept shows the searing-hot gas planet WASP-12b (orange orb) and its star. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered that the planet has more carbon than oxygen, making it the first carbon-rich planet ever observed.
PIA13691:
Hot, Carbon-Rich Planet (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Vast Expanses of Smooth Plains
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Mercury's Vast Expanses of Smooth Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-22 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Delicate Patterns in Giordano Bruno Ejecta
PIA13685:
Delicate Patterns in Giordano Bruno Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-09 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Caloris Basin, One of the Largest Impact Basins in the Solar System
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Mercury's Caloris Basin, One of the Largest Impact Basins in the Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-04 Hartley 2 EPOXI
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The upper panel of this figure shows small images of comet Hartley 2 taken by NASA's EPOXI mission over time. The lower panel is a graph showing the variation of total brightness, and the variation of the total amount of carbon dioxide, during the time.
PIA13573:
Carbon Dioxide Fluctuations in Comet Hartley 2
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These three pairs of images from NASA's EPOXI mission demonstrate that a dust jet and gaseous carbon dioxide are being released from comet Hartley 2 at the same time, and from the same location on the comet.
PIA13572:
Evidence for a First-of-Its-Kind Comet Jet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-08 Vesta Dawn
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped these images of the asteroid Vesta in preparation for the Dawn spacecraft's visit in 2011. The images show the difference in brightness and color on the asteroid's surface.
PIA13428:
The Faces of Vesta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-08 Vesta Dawn
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Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the potato-shaped asteroid in preparation for the visit by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2011. This is one frame from a movie showing the difference in brightness and color on the asteroid's surface.
PIA13427:
A New Spin on Vesta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-05 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This visitor from deep space, seen here by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is comet Hartley 2, the destination for NASA's EPOXI mission. The comet's tail is seen here as a fuzzy streak to the right of the comet.
PIA13438:
Icy Visitor from Beyond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-04 Asteroid Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This frame from a video demonstrates how NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer surveys asteroids and comets in the solar system. Perspective shown here is looking down from high above Earth's North Pole, a kind of bird's eye view of the solar system.
PIA13435:
Asteroid and Comet Census from WISE
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Capturing the interplay between light and shadow, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn where sunlight reflected off the rings has dimly illuminated what would otherwise be the dark side of the planet.
PIA12734:
Light and Dark Tricks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-28 Mercury MESSENGER
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Long Scarps on Mercury Tell of the Planet's Unique History
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Long Scarps on Mercury Tell of the Planet's Unique History
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-27 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The Lunar South Pole
PIA13523:
The Lunar South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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Young Volcanism on Mercury
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Young Volcanism on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The lake surface appears dark because it is smooth.
PIA13172:
Footprint of Ontario Lacus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image is part of a set of images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft showing a propeller-shaped structure created by a hidden, embedded moon moving through one of Saturn's rings. An animation is available at the Photojournal.
PIA12792:
Propeller Churns the A Ring
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A propeller-shaped structure created by an unseen moon appears dark in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the unilluminated side of Saturn's rings. The propeller is marked with a red arrow in the top left.
PIA12791:
Propeller from Unlit Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A propeller-shaped structure created by an unseen moon is brightly illuminated on the sunlit side of Saturn's rings in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon, which is too small to be seen, is marked with a red arrow.
PIA12790:
Sunlit Propeller
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a propeller-shaped disturbance in one of Saturn's rings created by a moon that is too small to be seen here. The moon is invisible at the center of the image.
PIA12789:
Tracking a Propeller
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-22 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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The highly reflective surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is almost completely illuminated in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image taken at a low phase angle.
PIA12660:
Enceladus at Low Phase
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-14 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer features comet 65/P Gunn. Comets are balls of dust and ice left over from the formation of the solar system. The comet's tail is seen here in red trailing off to the right of the comet's nucleus.
PIA13115:
WISE Catches Comet 65P/Gunn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-20 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The Seagull nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, draws its common name from it resemblance to a gull in flight.
PIA13111:
Seagull Nebula -- Running with the Big Dog
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-20 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image is one of six images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, showing that tight-knit twin, or binary stars might be triggered to form by asymmetrical envelopes.
PIA13149:
Blobs House Twin Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-13 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole nebula, and asteroids that just happened to be cruising by.
PIA13110:
Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a small portion of the northwest quadrant of Hellas Basin, or Hellas Planitia, on southern Mars; Hellas is one of the largest impact craters in the solar system.
PIA13097:
Intra-Crater Structure in NW Hellas Basin, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-03 Juno
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Juno spacecraft, which will launch from Earth in 2011 and arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit.
PIA13087:
Juno Mission to Jupiter (2009 Artist's Concept )
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Ius Chasma is one of several canyons that make up Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the Solar System as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA13077:
Floor of Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-21 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates a hot, Neptune-sized planet called GJ 436b. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence that GJ 436b, orbiting a star beyond our sun lacks methane -- an ingredient common to many planets in our own solar system.
PIA13054:
Exotic Exoplanet (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the first lightning flashes on Saturn. The storm that generated the lightning lasted from January to October 2009, making it the longest-lasting lightning storm known in the solar system.
PIA12575:
First Lightning Flashes on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-14 Hale Telescope
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This image taken with the Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope, shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120 light-years away. The planets' star, called HR8799, is located at the spot marked with an 'X.'
PIA13034:
Portrait of Distant Planets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers the northern edge of the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars; its margin is defined by a massive cliff many kilometers (several miles) tall.
PIA12992:
Collapsing Volcano; Edge of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Relatively dark regions below bright crater walls and streaks on some of the walls are seen in this mosaic of Saturn's moon Mimas, created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its closest flyby of the moon.
PIA12569:
Streaks and Markings on Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic, created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, looks straight at Saturn's moon Mimas' huge Herschel Crater revealing bright-walled craters, with floors and surroundings about 20 percent darker than the steep crater walls.
PIA12568:
Examining Herschel Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-26 C/2008 Q3 (Garradd) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a mosaic of 3 individual WISE frames spanning an area on the sky about 7 times the size of the full Moon in portions of the constellations Bootes and Canes Venatici.
PIA12985:
M3 & Comet Garradd
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-15 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Both ancient and more recent surfaces are exposed in this view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA12589:
Young and Old
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-17 C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Is it a bird, or a plane? No, it's comet Siding Spring streaking across the sky, as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. An animation is available at the Photojournal.
PIA12836:
Ablaze with Infrared Light Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-17 C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Comet Siding Spring appears to streak across the sky like a superhero in this new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by observers in Australia.
PIA12830:
Visitor from Deep Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-11 SDO
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, shown above the Earth as it faces toward the Sun. SDO is designed to study the influence of the Sun on the Earth and the inner solar system by studying the solar atmosphere.
PIA18169:
Solar Dynamics Observatory (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-23 2010 AB78 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The red dot at the center of this image is the first near-Earth asteroid discovered by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE -- an all-sky mapping infrared mission designed to see all sorts of cosmic objects.
PIA12499:
First of Many Asteroid Finds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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Impact craters and basins on Mercury are named for deceased artists, musicians, painters, and authors who have made outstanding contributions to their fields in this image taken by NASA's MESSENGER.
PIA12428:
Honoring Haitian Painter Benoit and American Photographer Lange
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters, as seen in this view captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is one example, from a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin.
PIA12491:
Dune Symmetry Inside Martian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this frame from a movie recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11681:
Northern Aurora in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-20 Cassini-Huygens
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New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the shape of our solar system moving through the local Milky Way galaxy looks like a bubble -- or a rat -- traveling through a boa constrictor's belly.
PIA12375:
Bubble of Our Sun's Influence
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-20 Sol (our sun) Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft created this image of the bubble around our solar system based on emissions of particles known as energetic neutral atoms.
PIA12374:
Particles from the Heliosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Color View of the Solar System's Innermost Planet
PIA12365:
A Color View of the Solar System's Innermost Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 IRAS
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Nearly the entire sky, as seen in infrared wavelengths and projected at one-half degree resolution, is shown in this image, assembled from six months of data from the NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS.
PIA12335:
Infrared Astronomical Satellite's View of the Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Channels associated with impact craters were once thought to be quite rare.
PIA12333:
Channels from Hale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury from Nearly Two Million Miles
PIA12332:
Mercury from Nearly Two Million Miles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-15 Sol (our sun) Cassini-Huygens
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As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the 'heliosphere' around our solar system. The heliosphere is the region of space under the influence of our sun.
PIA12310:
The Bubble of Our Solar System Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Tip of the Crescent
PIA12306:
Tip of the Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down at craters near the north pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Cratered surfaces on solar system moons indicate older terrains, while smooth surfaces are generally younger.
PIA11601:
Smooth and Rough Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-09 Mercury MESSENGER
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Evidence of Volcanism on Mercury: It's the Pits
PIA12284:
Evidence of Volcanism on Mercury: It's the Pits
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It's Just a Phase that Mercury's Going Through
PIA12283:
It's Just a Phase that Mercury's Going Through
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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MESSENGER Sees the Previously Unseen!
PIA12265:
MESSENGER Sees the Previously Unseen!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-22 Mercury MESSENGER
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One Week to Mercury Flyby 3 - A Look at the Planned Imaging Coverage
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One Week to Mercury Flyby 3 - A Look at the Planned Imaging Coverage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This Saturn equinox, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary from Earth, none other than our NASA's faithful robotic explorer, Cassini.
PIA11667:
The Rite of Spring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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On Target for Mercury Flyby 3 - Two Weeks To Go!
PIA12212:
On Target for Mercury Flyby 3 - Two Weeks To Go!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-25 Triton Voyager
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This simulated voyage over the surface of Neptune's large moon Triton was produced using topographic maps derived from images acquired by NASA's Voyager spacecraft during its August 1989 flyby, 20 years ago this week.
PIA12187:
Flight Over Triton Animation Icon
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