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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-08 OTS 44 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes on an extraordinarily low-mass brown dwarf called OTS 44 and found a swirling disc of planet-building dust shown in this artist concept.
PIA07336:
'Mini-Me' Solar System (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-07 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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In the dim light of the outer solar system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed back at Saturn's brightest gem - the moon Enceladus.
PIA06579:
Bright Moon in Darkness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-21 Deep Impact
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NASA's Deep Impact awaits launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. on Jan. 12, 2005.
PIA07292:
Deep Impact on Launch Pad
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-18 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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The high speed of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft causes it to appear as a long streak across the sky in the constellation Virgo during the 10-minute exposure time of this photograph taken by Mr. Palomar's 200-inch telescope.
PIA07266:
Deep Impact on Its Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-11 Encke Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the comet Encke riding along its pebbly trail of debris (long diagonal line) between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
PIA07222:
Riding a Trail of Debris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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From its station nearly 1.2 billion kilometers (746 million miles) from Earth, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends holiday greetings to Earth with this lovely color portrait of Saturn and two of its moons.
PIA06164:
Cassini's Holiday Greetings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Bright, young disks can be imaged directly by visible-light telescopes, such as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Older, fainter debris disks can be detected only by infrared telescopes like NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which sense the disks' dim heat.
PIA07099:
The Evolution of a Planet-Forming Disk (Artist's Concept Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently captured these infrared images of six older stars with known planets. The yellow, fuzzy blobs are stars circled by disks of dust, or 'debris disks,' like the one that surrounds our own Sun.
PIA07098:
Is There Anybody Home?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Artist's concept of a distant hypothetical solar system, about the same age as our own.
PIA07097:
A Distant Solar System (Artist's Concept Animation) Animation Icon
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This artist's concept depicts a distant hypothetical solar system, similar in age to our own. Looking inward from the system's outer fringes, a ring of dusty debris can be seen, and within it, planets circling a star the size of our Sun.
PIA07096:
A Distant Solar System (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a relatively young impact crater on the floor of the outflow channel system of Mangala Valles on Mars. The impact ejecta blanket in this case is quite bouldery. Some windblown sediment has partially filled the crater.
PIA07094:
Bouldery Impact Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn hosts its own miniature solar system, with an entourage of more than 30 moons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's A and F rings.
PIA06522:
Atlas, Pandora and Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Oct 8, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows the full length of Valles Marineris on Mars, the largest canyon in the solar system. If this canyon were on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles.
PIA06926:
Valles Marineris Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Oct 7, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows an area on Mars in Candor Chasma. A landslide can be seen on the top slopes. The bottom part of the image shows part of layered deposits that can be found in Candor Chasma.
PIA06924:
Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Oct 6, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows an area on Mars in Candor Chasma. Layered surfaces and wind etched surfaces are present in this area.
PIA06911:
Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Oct 5, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows an area on Mars in Candor Chasma. The imaged area is close to the depression that connects Candor and Melas Chasmas together.
PIA06906:
Layered Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Oct 4, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows an area on Mars in Candor Chasma. The Chasma walls, chaotic canyon floor and slopes of the ridge formation are visible. Wind etched surfaces and gullies are present there.
PIA06904:
Chaotic Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Oct 1, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows an area on Mars in Candor Chasma.Two large landslides are visible (in the center and at the right edge). The northern part of the image shows a large sand filled area.
PIA06903:
Candor Chasma Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-30 3300x2485x3
This image is an unannotated version of NASA's Planetary Photojournal Home Page graphic. This digital collage contains a highly stylized rendition of our solar system and points beyond.
PIA06890:
Planetary Photojournal Home Page Graphic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 30, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows an area on Mars in Candor Chasma. Wind etched surfaces, dunes and layered rock are present in this area. A land slide can be seen on the left-center portion of this image.
PIA06902:
Candor Chasma Landslide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 29, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows a wind etched area on Mars in Candor Chasma.
PIA06901:
Wind Etching in Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 28, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows a layered rock formation on Mars that is located in Candor Chasma.
PIA06889:
Layered Rock in Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 27, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows a part of Candor Chasma on Mars. Wind etched surfaces are dominant on this picture, but gullies and layered rock formations are also present in this area.
PIA06888:
Candor Chasma Plateau
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 24, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows a part of Candor Chasma on Mars. Gullies, layered rock deposits and wind etched surfaces are visible on this area.
PIA06887:
Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 23, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows a hill formation on Mars separating Ophir and Candor Chasmas and an interesting wind etched rock formation in Ophir Chasma.
PIA06876:
Ophir Chasma Etched Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 21, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows the bordering areas between Ophir Chasma and Candor Chasma on Mars. Wind etched surfaces, and dunes are present on the floor of Ophir Chasma.
PIA06875:
Where Ophir Meets Candor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 21, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Candor Chasma's northern rim on Mars. Just below the canyon wall is debris material that once formed part of the canyon wall.
PIA06874:
Candor Chasma's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Sept 20, 2004 shows the hills on Mars found between Ophir Chasma (northern part) and Candor Chasma. Multiple slides, dunes, and wind-eroded surfaces are present in this area.
PIA05959:
Inter-Chasma Hills
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Sept 17, 2004 shows the martian surface of Candor Chasma. Dunes and wind-shaped surfaces are very common in this area.
PIA05958:
Candor Chasma Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Sept 16, 2004 shows the martian surface of Hebes Chasma. This image shows sun shadows, dunes, flow-like features, and layered rocks.
PIA05957:
Hebes Chasma Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Sept 15, 2004 shows the martian surface of Ophir Chasma, layered rock formations and wind etched rocks are present. The southern part of the image contains a dune field.
PIA05956:
Ophir Chasma Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Sept 14, 2004 shows the martian surface of part of Hebes Chasma. This image shows sun shadows, dunes, flow-like features, and layered rocks.
PIA05955:
Hebes Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Sept 13, 2004 shows the martian surface of Ius Chasma. This image shows the central ridge that runs through Ius Chasma.
PIA05954:
Ius Chasma Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Sept 10, 2004 shows the martian surface of Ius Chasma taken during the southern summer season. An old landslide is visible to the right of the image, coming off the northern wall of the canyon.
PIA05953:
Old Landslide In Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-09 Hubble Space Telescope
 Advanced Camera for Surveys
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This detailed view of NGC 6543, the Cat's Eye Nebula, from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope includes intricate structures, including concentric gas shells, jets of high-speed gas, and unusual shock-induced knots of gas.
PIA16009:
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image released on Sept 9, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Valles Marineris on Mars, the largest canyon in the solar system. If this canyon were on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles.
PIA06864:
Ius Chasma In False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 8, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system. If this canyon were on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Seen here is a double landslide.
PIA06863:
Ius Chasma Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 7, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system. If this canyon were on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Seen here is a landslide in Ius Chasma.
PIA06862:
Ius Chasma Debris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on Sept 3, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system. If this canyon were on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Seen here is a landslide in Ius Chasma.
PIA06861:
Ius Chasma Landslide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-31 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on August 31, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Lycus Sulci, a lowlying area of ridges and valleys found to the northwest of Olympus Mons on Mars. Sulci are subparallel furrow and ridges.
PIA06844:
Lycus Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on August 25, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Ares Vallis, one of the larger channels on Mars. It is located near several other large channels that appear to empty into Chryse Planitia.
PIA06830:
Ares Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on August 24, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Acheron Catera, a line of craters found on the flanks of Alba Patera -- a very old volcano on Mars.
PIA06829:
Acheron Catena
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-13 Ganymede Galileo
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This mosaic of Jupiter's moon Ganymede consists of more than 100 images acquired with NASA's Voyager and Galileo spacecrafts, showing irregular lumps beneath the icy surface.
PIA05077:
Lumps Within Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on August 12, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Tartarus Montes. The small hills and ridges in this image are the montes (mountains) of the Tartarus region of Mars.
PIA06821:
The Naming of Things: Tartarus Montes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's brilliant jewel, water-ice-covered Enceladus, is the most reflective body in the solar system. The image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on July 3, 2004.
PIA05422:
Icy Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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These set of images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft were created during the Phoebe flyby on June 11, 2004.
PIA06400:
Phoebe's Mineral Distribution
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
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During its historic close encounter with Phoebe, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a series of high resolution images of the small moon, six of which have been put together to create this mosaic.
PIA06073:
Phoebe Hi-Resolution Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-09 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft is closing in fast on its first target of observation in the Saturn system: the small, mysterious moon Phoebe, only 220 kilometers (137 miles) across.
PIA06062:
Closing in on Phoebe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-27 Spitzer Space Telescope
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In this artist's conception, a possible newfound planet spins through a clearing in a nearby star's dusty, planet-forming disc. This clearing was detected around the star CoKu Tau 4 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA05988:
Out of the Dust, A Planet is Born (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini orbiter continues its observations of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, stealing another early peek at the haze-enshrouded surface.
PIA05392:
Peering Closer at Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on April 21, 2004 shows a large crater on Mars in Memnonia Fossae that contains lobates situated on the mid-left hand side of the image.
PIA05800:
MSIP: Multinational Research in Memnonia Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Three months before its scheduled arrival at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has observed two storms in the act of merging. With diameters close to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), both storms, which appear as spots in the southern hemisphere.
PIA05386:
Merging Saturnian Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-15 Sedna Samuel Oschin Telescope
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This image shows the location of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed 'Sedna,' in relation to the rest of the solar system in 2004.
PIA05565:
Sedna Orbit Animation Animation Icon
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These four panels show the location of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed 'Sedna,' which lies in the farthest reaches of our solar system.
PIA05569:
Sedna Orbit Comparisons
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The artist's rendition shows the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed 'Sedna,' in relation to other bodies in the solar system, including Earth and its Moon; Pluto; and Quaoar, a planetoid beyond Pluto.
PIA05567:
Sedna Size Comparisons (Artist's Concept)
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In this artist's visualization, the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed 'Sedna,' is shown where it resides at the outer edges of the known solar system.
PIA05566:
Artist's Concept of Sedna
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-18 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an image of an unusual comet that experiences frequent outbursts, which produce abrupt changes in brightness.
PIA04943:
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann I
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-18 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has obtained the first infrared images of the dust disc surrounding Fomalhaut, the 18th brightest star in the sky.
PIA04942:
Circumstellar Disk Around Fomalhaut
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
Thermal Emission Imaging System
Visual Imaging Subsystem
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This simulated view shows Mars as it might have appeared during the height of a possible ice age in geologically recent time.
PIA04933:
Mars Ice Age, Simulated
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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An artist's concept illustrates the positions of the Voyager spacecraft in relation to structures formed around our Sun by the solar wind.
PIA04927:
Voyager Approaches Final Frontier (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04807:
Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Bold scarps and extensional features (grabens) record multiple stages of caldera collapse at the summit of Olympus Mons. The wrinkle ridges are contractional feature. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in October 2003.
PIA04786:
The Summit of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows strangest-looking surfaces on Mars occur in northwestern Hellas Planitia informally known as 'taffy-pull' terrain.
PIA04771:
Hellas "Taffy Pull"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the western summit region of Olympus Mons on Mars featuring a lava flow that was cut by the pit walls when the caldera collapse occurred.
PIA04689:
Top of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the lava flows and leveed lava channels on the southeastern flank of Olympus Mons on Mars. These flows have been covered by a thick mantle of dust.
PIA04687:
Southeast Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Mars' two natural satellites, or moons, Phobos and Deimos.
PIA04589:
Phobos Over the Martian Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in the Solar System. The surface is rugged, with many overlapping lava flow structures, all of which are mantled by a thick blanket of dust and wind-scoured sediment.
PIA04583:
Flows on Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater on the floor of the caldera, a large volcanic/collapse crater, of a giant martian volcano, Arsia Mons on Mars.
PIA04581:
Impact on Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-15 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image was used in a contest to rename the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF), now known as the Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA04497:
Help Stamp Out Boring Space Acronyms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-09 Borrelly Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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Artist's concept of NASA's Deep Space 1 Encounter with Comet Borrelly.
PIA04496:
Artist's Concept of Deep Space 1 Encounter with Comet Borrelly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Islands of older high-standing terrain rise above a sea of relatively young, platy lava flows between two of the largest volcanoes in the solar system in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04078:
A Sea of Lava
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-21 Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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This image of a xenon ion engine prototype, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows the faint blue glow of charged atoms being emitted from the engine.
PIA04238:
Deep Space 1's Ion Engine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Like drippings from a candle, these lava flows on the flank of Olympus Mons volcano, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, demonstrate how it became the largest volcano in the solar system.
PIA04063:
Olympus Mons Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-06 Io Galileo
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A field of bright lava flows next to a shield volcano could be a source of recent sulfur volcanism on Io, as detected by instruments aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA03887:
Potential Source of Sulfur Flow on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-11-05 Annefrank Stardust
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False colors emphasize the variations in surface brightness on asteroid Annefrank, as seen in an image taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft during a Nov. 2, 2002 flyby of the asteroid.
PIA02886:
Annefrank Near Closest Approach
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Asteroid Annefrank is seen as irregularly shaped, cratered body in this image taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft during a Nov 2, 2002 flyby of the asteroid.
PIA02885:
Stardust Image of Asteroid Annefrank
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which displays clearly the contrast between bedrock, sand, and dust surfaces, covers a portion of Coprates Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris system of canyons that stretch for thousands of kilometers.
PIA03834:
Coprates Chasma
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The movement pathways of molten rock, or lava, is demonstrated in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of a portion of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar system.
PIA03821:
Southeastern Scarp of Olympus Mons
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows the transition zone between maze-like troughs of Noctis Labyrinthus and the main Valles Marineris canyon system. This huge system of troughs near the equator of Mars was most likely created by tectonic forces.
PIA03813:
Noctis Labyrinthus/Valles Marineris transition
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This image of Tharsis Rise from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a series of linear features called graben, which are associated with crustal extension resulting in up and down blocks of crust that run perpendicular to the direction of the extension.
PIA03810:
Tharsis Rise Graben
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the northern interior wall of Coprates Chasma, one of the major canyons that form Valles Marineris.
PIA03809:
Coprates Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Although the largest volcanoes on Mars (and in the solar system) are located in the geologically young Tharsis region, there are many Martian volcanoes that display equally interesting features, such as Hadriaca Patera in this NASA Mars Odyssey image.
PIA03798:
Hadriaca Patera
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a close-up view of the ridged plains in Hesperia Planum, a classic locality for Martian surfaces that formed in the 'middle ages' of the planet's history.
PIA03797:
Hesperia Planum
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image is of the ridged plains of Lunae Planum in the northern hemisphere of Mars. Wrinkle ridges, a very common landform on Mars, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon, are found mostly along the eastern side of the image.
PIA03793:
Wrinkle Ridges and Young Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-28 Io Galileo
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The Amirani lava flow on Jupiter's moon Io appears to be made up of many individual flows; the newest flows are the brightest spots in this infrared image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA03533:
Amirani Lava Flow on Io
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Scientists pointed NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera at the Tohil region of Jupiter's moon Io to investigate the curious relationship between Io's mountains and its volcanoes.
PIA03527:
Detailed View of Mountain and Craters at Tohil, Io
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At the top right of this NASA Mars Odyssey image, the rim of the caldera of Pavonis Mons, one of four exceptionally large volcanoes in the Tharsis region, is barely visible with steep cliffs formed by the collapse of a portion of the volcano's summit.
PIA03790:
Pavonis Mons
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image covers a tract of plateau territory called Ophir Planum. The most obvious features in this scene are the fractures (ranging from 1 to 5 km wide) running from the upper left to lower right.
PIA03784:
Crustal Fractures of Ophir Planum
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Noctis Labyrinthus, a large valley system at the western end of the Valles Marineris canyon system notable for a pattern of intersecting valleys, which give it a maze-like appearance when viewed from above.
PIA03783:
Noctis Labyrinthus
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Olympus Mons, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, stands 26 km above the surrounding plains, which is three times taller than Mt. Everest, and is the tallest volcano in the solar system.
PIA03763:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-27 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
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Details in radiation belts close to Jupiter are mapped from measurements that NASA's Cassini spacecraft made of radio emission from high-energy electrons moving at nearly the speed of light within the belts.
PIA03478:
Inner Radiation Belts of Jupiter
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The vast magnetosphere of charged particles whirling around Jupiter, normally invisible, can be imaged by a new type of instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft and is seen here.
PIA03476:
Jupiter's Magnetosphere Made Visible
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-29 Callisto Galileo
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The heavily cratered portion of the surface of Jupiter's moon Callisto, seen in this image recorded by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, resembles most of Callisto that's been seen in high resolution.
PIA02593:
Opposite Side of Callisto from Valhalla Impact
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In this view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 2001, the Pele hot spot on Jupiter's moon Io shows a complex pattern of areas glowing in the dark, including areas likely to be fresh overturning of a lava lake's crust.
PIA02596:
Io's Pele Glowing in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03162:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 2000
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03161:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1999
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03160:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1998
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03159:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1997
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03158:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1996
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03156:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn
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