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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-17 Mars Mars Express (MEX)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARAD)
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Mars Radar Opens a Planet's Third Dimension
PIA10376:
Mars Radar Opens a Planet's Third Dimension Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-27 HD 189733b Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's impression shows a gas-giant exoplanet transiting across the face of its star. Infrared analysis by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of this type of system provided the breakthrough.
PIA10364:
NASA's Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-27 HD 189733b Hubble Space Telescope
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A team of astronomers has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. The breakthrough was made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA10363:
Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Appreciating Mozart in a New Light
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Appreciating Mozart in a New Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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Exploring the Evolution of the Caloris Basin
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Exploring the Evolution of the Caloris Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Craters in Caloris
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Craters in Caloris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-11 Rho Ophiuchi Spitzer Space Telescope
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Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth.
PIA10182:
Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-11 Rho Ophiuchi Spitzer Space Telescope
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Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA10181:
Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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The Great Caloris Basin on Mercury
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The Great Caloris Basin on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's team continued to study the high-resolution images taken during the Mercury flyby encounter on January 14, 2008, scarps (cliffs) that extend for long distances were discovered.
PIA10194:
Mercury's Long Cliffs
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This image is an unannotated version of NASA's Photojournal Home Page graphic released in October 2007.
PIA10231:
Photojournal Home Page Graphic 2007
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury on Jnuary 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) snapped this image of the crater Matisse.
PIA10190:
MESSENGER Dances by Matisse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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During its flyby of Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft acquired high-resolution images of the planet's surface. This image was obtained on January 14, 2008.
PIA10173:
Mercury's Cratered Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft observed about half of the hemisphere missed by Mariner 10.
PIA10172:
MESSENGER's First Look at Mercury's Previously Unseen Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft approached Mercury for its first flyby, the Narrow Angle Camera, part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument acquired the nine images shown here taken from January 9 to 13, 2008.
PIA10171:
Rendezvous with Mercury Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-12 Mercury MESSENGER
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With just two days until NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's closest pass by Mercury, the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) is acquiring sets of images twice a day.
PIA10168:
MESSENGER Nears Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-29 L1157 Spitzer Space Telescope
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A rare, infrared view of a developing star and its flaring jets taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows us what our own solar system might have looked like billions of years ago.
PIA10119:
Baby Picture of our Solar System Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-28 UX Tau A Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept is of the one-million-year-old star system called UX Tau A, approximately 450 light-years away. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope showed a gap in the dusty planet-forming disk swirling around the system's central sun-like star.
PIA10118:
UX Tau A (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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CRISM Views Phobos and Deimos
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CRISM Views Phobos and Deimos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's icy satellites, Tethys, Mimas, Janus, and Pandora wheel about the colorful giant planet, while the rings shine dimly in scattered sunlight in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 30, 2007.
PIA09776:
Solar System in Miniature
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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This artist's concept takes us on a journey to 55 Cancri, a star with a family of five known planets - the most planets discovered so far around a star besides our own.
PIA10109:
Journey to a Star Rich with Planets (Artist Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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This artist's concept shows four of the five planets that orbit 55 Cancri, a star much like our own. The most recently discovered planet, and the fourth out from the star, looms large in the foreground.
PIA10108:
Plentiful Planetary System (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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This artist's concept illustrates two planetary systems -- 55 Cancri (top) and our own. Blue lines show the orbits of planets, including the dwarf planet Pluto in our solar system.
PIA10107:
Our Solar System's Cousin? (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Io New Horizons
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A global map of Jupiter's moon Io derived from eight images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft, as it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto in late February 2007.
PIA10099:
Changes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
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This is a composite of several images taken in several colors by the New Horizons Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, or MVIC.
PIA10098:
Atmospheric Structure
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-03 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's conception shows a binary-star, or two-star, system, called HD 113766, where astronomers suspect a rocky Earth-like planet is forming around one of the stars.
PIA09931:
Birth of an Earth-like Planet (Artist Xoncept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn sits with its attendants in the icy depths of the outer Solar System in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09732:
Kingdom of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-17 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Two icy moons meet on the sky in a 'mutual event' recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The great brightness of Enceladus is rather obvious in comparison to Dione behind it.
PIA09729:
Enceladus and Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies four large impact basins on the southern hemisphere of icy Tethys. Tethys, like the other airless worlds of the Solar System, wears the record of countless impacts experienced over the eons.
PIA09723:
History on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-05 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This map of the surface of Iapetus, generated from images taken by NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft, illustrates the imaging coverage planned for Cassini's very close flyby of the two-toned moon on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08371:
Eyes on Iapetus!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-29 NGC 1333 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system like the one depicted in this artist's concept, and discovered deep within it enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times.
PIA09967:
Water's Early Journey in a Solar System (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-29 NGC 1333 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This diagram illustrates the earliest journeys of water in a young, forming star system. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to probe a crucial phase of this stellar evolution.
PIA09966:
Steamy Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-24 Helix Nebula Spitzer Space Telescope
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An expanded image of the Helix nebula lends a festive touch to the fourth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA09962:
Spitzer Celebrates Fourth Anniversary with Celestial Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-15 Mira Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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This artist's concept illustrates a star flying through our galaxy at supersonic speeds, leaving a 13-light-year-long trail of glowing material in its wake. The star, named Mira (pronounced my-rah) after the latin word for 'wonderful.'
PIA09960:
A Real Shooting Star (Artist Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-15 Mira Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
 Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
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New ultraviolet images from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows a speeding star that is leaving an enormous trail of 'seeds' for new solar systems. The star, named Mira (pronounced my-rah) after the latin word for 'wonderful.'
PIA09958:
Mira Soars Through the Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-11 HD 189733b Spitzer Space Telescope
 Infrared Spectrograph (IRS)
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This plot of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells astronomers that a toasty gas exoplanet, or a planet beyond our solar system, contains water vapor.
PIA09715:
Exoplanet Forecast: Hot and Wet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Edge of the Olympus Mons
PIA09920:
Edge of the Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Fans of Lava Flows on the Flanks of Olympus Mons
PIA09716:
Fans of Lava Flows on the Flanks of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Large Lava Fan on the Northwestern Flank of Olympus Mons
PIA09714:
Large Lava Fan on the Northwestern Flank of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-14 Io New Horizons
 LORRI
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This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. These were snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year.
PIA09665:
Tvashtar in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-09 HD 149026b Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a 'hot Jupiter' called HD 149026b, is about 3 times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system.
PIA09378:
Blacker than Black (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-09 HD 189733b Spitzer Space Telescope
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Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope were able to create the first-ever map of the surface of a planet beyond our solar system. The planet, a hot and cloudy gas giant is called HD 189733b.
PIA09377:
How to Map a Very Faraway Planet (animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-09 HD 189733b Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image shows the first-ever map of the surface of an exoplanet, or a planet beyond our solar system. Showing temperature variations across the cloudy tops of a gas giant called HD 189733b, the infrared data is taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA09376:
First Map of Alien World (animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Ganymede New Horizons
 LEISA
LORRI
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Ganymede in Visible and Infrared Light
PIA09356:
Ganymede in Visible and Infrared Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
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Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
PIA09352:
Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
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Jupiter's High-Altitude Clouds
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Jupiter's High-Altitude Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Io Galileo
Voyager
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This basemap of Jupiter's moon Io was produced by combining the best images from both NASA's Voyager 1 and Galileo Missions.
PIA09257:
Io in Motion Animation Icon
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 LORRI
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A Brilliant Plume
PIA09250:
A Brilliant Plume
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 LORRI
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Ganymede
PIA09245:
Ganymede
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On Approach: Jupiter and Io
PIA09235:
On Approach: Jupiter and Io Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-29 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's image depicts a faraway solar system like our own except for one big difference. Planets and asteroids circle around not one, but two suns. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that such solar systems may be common in the universe.
PIA09229:
Two Suns Raise Family of Planetary Bodies (Artist Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-29 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have revealed that mature planetary systems -- dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets -- are more frequent around close-knit twin, or binary, stars than single stars like our sun.
PIA09228:
Alien Sunset (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Surely one of the most gorgeous sights the solar system has to offer, Saturn sits enveloped by the full splendor of its stately rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08362:
Blinding Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept, based on spectral observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet that orbits very close to its fiery hot star.
PIA09200:
Exotic Atmospheres (Artist Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas planet, a so-called 'hot Jupiter' called HD 189733b, might be smothered with high clouds.
PIA09197:
Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This diagram illustrates how astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can capture the elusive spectra of hot-Jupiter planets. Spectra are an object's light spread apart into its basic components, or wavelengths.
PIA09196:
How to Pluck a Spectrum from a Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Floor of Ius Chasma
PIA09605:
Floor of Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-26 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This is an artist's concept of a hypothetical 10-million-year-old star system. The bright blur at the center is a star much like our sun. The other orb in the image is a gas-giant planet like Jupiter.
PIA09117:
Gas Giants Form Quickly (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-17 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This anaglyph from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, shows Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System. Constructed of lava flows, many aspects of this titanic volcano remain puzzling. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA09569:
Anaglyph of the Basal Scarp of Olympus Mons Volcano
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Volcanic Vent in the Tharsis Region
PIA09568:
Volcanic Vent in the Tharsis Region
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Dawn cartoon character, part of Dawn's Mission Art series.
PIA19381:
Dawn Cartoon Character
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Artist's graphic of the asteroid belt, part of Dawn's Mission Art series.
PIA19380:
Asteroid Belt
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NASA's Dawn asteroid lithograph of Eros and other asteroids.
PIA19379:
Asteroid Lithograph of Eros and Other Asteroids
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-01 Dawn
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2007-2012 Double-sided Mission Events Calendar, part of the Dawn Mission Art series.
PIA19378:
Dawn 2007-2012 Double-sided Mission Events Calendar
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Artist's rendition, part of the Dawn Mission Art series.
PIA19377:
Hartmann Background
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Artist's rendition of NASA's Dawn spacecraft, part of the Dawn Mission Art series.
PIA19376:
Dawn Spacecraft
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NASA's Dawn mission patch, part of the Dawn Mission Art series.
PIA19375:
Dawn Mission Patch
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NASA's Dawn instrumentation poster, part of the Dawn Mission Art series.
PIA19374:
Dawn Instrumentation Poster
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Vesta science orbits from NASA's Dawn mission, part of the Mission Art series.
PIA19373:
Vesta Science Orbits
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Dawn mission Vesta Logo, part of NASA's Dawn Mission Art series.
PIA19372:
Dawn Mission Vesta Logo
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This graphic from NASA's Dawn shows fields of view of Dawn instruments from Survey orbit (red), High Altitude Mapping Orbit (green), and Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (blue). This image is part of the Mission Art series from NASA's Dawn mission.
PIA19371:
Dawn's Fields of View of Asteroid Vesta
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This artist's lithograph features general information, significant dates, and interesting facts on the back about asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres and is part of the Mission Art series from NASA's Dawn mission.
PIA19370:
Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres Lithograph
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This artist's rendition shows the asteroid Vesta and is part of the Mission Art series from NASA's Dawn mission.
PIA19369:
Artist Rendition of Asteroid Vesta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-01 Vesta Dawn
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A view of one of the images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft from the 2013-2015 Double-sided Mission Events Calendar.
PIA19368:
Dawn 2013-2015 Double-sided Mission Events Calendar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This set of composite images was constructed from the best NASA Cassini radar data and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer data obtained from all the Titan flybys up to the most recent flyby on Oct 25 (T20).
PIA09035:
Infrared and Radar Views of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-06 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Valles Marineris Wall Rock
PIA09391:
Valles Marineris Wall Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows multiple craters on the surface of Mars.
PIA09020:
New Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-27 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS)
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This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what astronomers are referring to as a 'snake' (upper left) and its surrounding stormy environment.
PIA01318:
Where Galactic Snakes Live
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-26 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides this dramatic portrait of Janus against the cloud-streaked backdrop of Saturn.
PIA08296:
Superb Janus
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Tethys has a crater-saturated surface, where older, larger basins have been completely overprinted by newer, smaller impacts. This view was captured in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08291:
Target: Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-12 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept shows a Jupiter-like planet soaking up the scorching rays of its nearby 'sun.' This NASA Spitzer Space Telescope illustration portrays how the planet would appear to infrared eyes, showing temperature variations across its surface.
PIA01938:
Exotic World Blisters Under the Sun (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering NASA's Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world.
PIA08329:
In Saturn's Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-03 Spitzer Space Telescope
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The potential planet-forming disk (or 'protoplanetary disk') of a sun-like star is being violently ripped away by the powerful winds of a nearby hot O-type star in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA01319:
A Star's Close Encounter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb -- and a faint suggestion of our moon -- among the glories of the Saturn system.
PIA08324:
Pale Blue Orb
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NASA's Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb, and a faint suggestion of our moon, among the glories of the Saturn system in this image taken Sept. 15, 2006.
PIA08323:
Pale Blue Orb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows landslide deposits formed when material slumped off the Mutch crater wall.
PIA08709:
Mutch Crater
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Unlike most of the dull grey moons in the Solar System, Hyperion's color is a rosy tan and looks like a spongy potato, as shown is this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08240:
Rosy Tan Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole.
PIA08630:
Lakes on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
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Dramatic Cassini views of Saturn's E ring, like these side-by-side images, reveal for the first time a double-banded structure. The two images were taken five hours apart when NASA's Cassini spacecraft was approximately 1.9 million kilometers from Saturn.
PIA07803:
Double-Banded E Ring
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The brightest body in the solar system, Enceladus, is contrasted here against Titan's smoggy, golden murk as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 5, 2006.
PIA07787:
A Tale of Two Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus continue to gush icy particles into Saturn orbit, making this little moon one of a select group of geologically active bodies in the solar system as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08197:
A Moon's Telltale Tail
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This view of the ringed planet shows its tilt relative to the plane of its orbit around the Sun as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08160:
Viewing Saturn from the Plane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dunes covered and delineated by seasonal frost in the north polar region of Mars.
PIA08069:
Frosty Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-06 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image is a false-color ultraviolet view of Saturn's B ring and A ring, separated by a large gap known as the Cassini Division. The images were processed from data taken by the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08036:
Star-Crossed Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept depicts the pulsar planet system discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan in 1992. Wolszczan used the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to find three planets circling a pulsar called PSR B1257+12.
PIA08042:
Extreme Planets (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-27 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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A small and battered reminder of the solar system's violent youth, the ice moon Mimas hurtles around its gas giant parent, Saturn. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 20, 2006.
PIA08122:
Mimas and the Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-08 R 66 Spitzer Space Telescope
 Infrared Spectrometer (IRS)
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This illustration compares the size of a gargantuan star and its surrounding dusty disk (top) to that of our solar system. Monstrous disks like this one were discovered around two 'hypergiant' stars by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA08006:
Supersized Disk (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-11 G29-38 Spitzer Space Telescope
 Infrared Spectrometer (IRS)
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This artist's concept illustrates a comet being torn to shreds around a dead star, or white dwarf, called G29-38. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a cloud of dust around this white dwarf that may have been generated from comet disruption.
PIA03652:
Comet 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead Star (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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After journeying a bit more than an hour across the Solar System, bright sunlight reflects off the gleaming icy cliffs in the wispy terrain of Dione and is captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's cameras several light seconds later.
PIA07668:
Light Seconds from Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Carina Nebula Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft briefly turned its gaze from Saturn and its rings and moons to marvel at the Carina Nebula, a brilliant region 8,000 light years from our solar system and more than 200 light years across.
PIA07773:
Cassini's Galactic Aspirations
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