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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This orthographic projection view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a look at Mercury's north polar region. The yellow regions in many of the craters mark locations that show evidence for water ice, as detected by Earth-based radar observations.
PIA19411:
Water Ice on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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One of the most captivating views acquired during NASA's MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby was of the crater Apollodorus surrounded by the radiating troughs of Pantheon Fossae.
PIA19410:
The Architect and His Temple
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft provides a detailed view of the features and structures associated with the peak-ring basin Raditladi.
PIA19409:
A Detailed Look at Raditladi Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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Hokusai crater's rays extend across much of the planet, but its interior is spectacular in its own right. This series of oblique images from NASAs MESSENGER shows the central peaks, beautiful terraces, and frozen sea of impact melt on the crater floor.
PIA19406:
Hokusai Spectacular!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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Gravity Anomalies
PIA19285:
Gravity Anomalies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
PIA19284:
Mercury's Calcium Exosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the large Rustaveli basin on the right portion of the view. Named in 2012 after Shota Rustaveli, a Georgian poet of the 12th century, this basin has a smooth floor and hints of a peak-ring structure.
PIA19283:
Regard Rustaveli
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Mercury MESSENGER
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This series of oblique images captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft highlight the wall and exterior of the beautiful volcanic vent located to the northeast of Rachmaninoff basin and west of Copland crater.
PIA19282:
Hyper Vent-ilating
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Ceres Dawn
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These images, from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR), highlight two regions on Ceres containing bright spots. The top images show a region scientists have labeled '1' while the region labeled '5' is shown in the bottom images.
PIA19316:
Dawn VIR Images of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-13 Ceres Dawn
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This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft during its initial approach to the dwarf planet, prior to being captured into orbit in March 2015.
PIA19063:
Dawn's First Color Map of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-10 Mercury MESSENGER
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Carnegie Rupes makes a dramatic sight in this large image mosaic taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The giant lobate scarp cuts through Duccio crater.
PIA19279:
Carnegie Cuts a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-08 Mercury MESSENGER
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Lessing crater can be seen in the lower left of this image captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. Instead of the typical central peak found in a complex crater on Mercury, Lessing sports a central pit.
PIA19276:
Pits and Scarps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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Disappearing Act
PIA19272:
Disappearing Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-03 Mercury MESSENGER
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This is one of the earliest images of Mercury returned by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. It was taken in January 2008.
PIA19269:
These are the voyages...
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's hollows are among its most distinctive and unusual surface features. In this stunning view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, we see a field of hollows in the western portion of the floor of Zeami impact basin.
PIA19267:
A Field of Hollows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows that Mercury's surface is scarred by abundant tectonic deformation, the vast majority of which is due to the planet's history of cooling and contraction through time.
PIA19263:
Crumpled Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Anatomy of a Fresh Crater
PIA19261:
Anatomy of a Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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Inside and Up Close
PIA19260:
Inside and Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-20 Mercury MESSENGER
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Small graben, narrow linear troughs, have been found associated with small scarps (bottom left, white arrows) on Mercury and the Moon are seen here by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19254:
Small and Young
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image, acquired at 24 m/pixel by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, is the highest resolution that has been obtained for any of Mercury's shadowed polar craters.
PIA19253:
A Shot in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the wall of a volcanic vent located between the Rachmaninoff basin and Copland crater.
PIA19248:
Flute Music
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This view captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows Mercury's north polar region, colored by the maximum biannual surface temperature, which ranges from >400 K (red) to 50 K (purple).
PIA19247:
Hot and Cold
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This high-resolution view from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows hollows on the southwestern peak ring of the Scarlatti basin. The hollows are the irregularly shaped, flat-floored depressions.
PIA19246:
The Young Ones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Images obtained from NASA's MESSENGER have revealed a population of small fault scarps (white arrows) that can be more than an order of magnitude smaller in size than their larger counterparts, like Enterprise Rupes.
PIA19245:
Small Scarp Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER's low-altitude campaign has enabled imaging of Fuller crater (named after American architect Buckminster Fuller) in greater detail than previously possible.
PIA19244:
Fuller Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Enterprise Rupes
PIA19243:
Enterprise Rupes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-13 Mercury MESSENGER
 Gamma-ray Spectrometer (GRS)
X-ray Spectrometer (XRS)
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Maps of magnesium/silicon (left) and thermal neutron absorption (right) across Mercury's surface (red indicates high values, blue low) are shown here by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19242:
Surface Chemistry Maps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Mercury MESSENGER
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The large degraded impact crater near the center is Coleridge. It has been pummeled by later impacts, as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19238:
Wherefore Stopp'st Thou Me?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-09 Mercury MESSENGER
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This view captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows two craters in an area of smooth plains.
PIA19232:
Riddle Me This
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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NASA's MESSENGER reveals that Impact crater floors are commonly flat and relatively smooth, the result of the cooling and solidification of impact melt generated by the impact event itself.
PIA19231:
Melting Point
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-06 Ceres Dawn
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The slim crescent of Ceres smiles back as the dwarf planet awaits the arrival of an emissary from Earth. This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on March 1, 2015.
PIA19312:
Ceres at Dawn - Take Two
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-06 Ceres Dawn
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The slim crescent of Ceres smiles back as the dwarf planet awaits the arrival of an emissary from Earth. This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on March 1, 2015, just a few days before it achieved orbit around the previously unexplored world.
PIA19311:
Ceres at Dawn - Take One
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-04 InSight
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In the weeks after NASA's InSight mission reaches Mars in September 2016, the lander's arm will lift two science instruments off the deck and place them onto the ground.
PIA19144:
Testing for Instrument Deployment by InSight's Robotic Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-04 Mars InSight
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This map shows the single area under continuing evaluation as the InSight mission's Mars landing site, as of a year before the mission's May 2016 launch of flat-lying Elysium Planitia.
PIA19143:
Landing Site for InSight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Portions of this volcanic vent complex to the northeast of Rachmaninoff basin are blanketed in a layer of very fine-grained material thought to be composed of pyroclastic particles as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19230:
Volcanic Snow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Mercury MESSENGER
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Crossed Craters
PIA19224:
Crossed Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of dwarf planet Ceres from about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) away on Feb. 25, 2015. Ceres appears half in shadow because of the current position of the spacecraft relative to the dwarf planet and the sun.
PIA19310:
Ceres in Half Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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Some might see a pancake, and others a sand dollar, in this new image from NASA's Dawn mission. Astronomers are puzzling over a mysterious large circular feature located south of the equator and slightly to the right of center in this view.
PIA18925:
'Pancake' Feature on Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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The surface of Ceres is covered with craters of many shapes and sizes, as seen in this frame from an animation of a map of the dwarf planet's surface as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 19, 2015.
PIA18924:
Cratered Surface of Ceres in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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The surface of Ceres is covered with craters of many shapes and sizes, as seen in this new mosaic of the dwarf planet comprised of images taken by NASA's Dawn mission on Feb. 19, 2015 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers).
PIA18923:
Cratered Surface of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn travels through space using a technology called ion propulsion, with ions glowing with blue light are accelerated out of an engine, giving the spacecraft thrust.
PIA18922:
Dawn's Blue Glow (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres, the most massive body in the asteroid belt. Dawn is the first mission to visit a dwarf planet.
PIA18921:
Dawn's Arrival at Dwarf Planet (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-02 Ceres Dawn
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Ceres rotates in this frame from a movie comprised of images taken by NASA's Dawn mission during its approach to the dwarf planet. The images were taken on Feb. 19, 2015, from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers).
PIA18920:
Ceres Awaits Dawn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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The volcanic vent northeast of Rachmaninoff basin is framed perfectly in this image captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19223:
This Space for Vent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER of Caloris basin is an enhanced-color composite overlain on a monochrome mosaic. It is made up of images obtained when both the spacecraft and the Sun were overhead, conditions best for discerning variat in albedo.
PIA19216:
All About That Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-25 Ceres Dawn
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This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft of dwarf planet Ceres on Feb. 19 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). It shows that the brightest spot on Ceres has a dimmer companion, which apparently lies in the same basin.
PIA19185:
Bright Spot on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-25 Ceres Dawn
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained these uncropped images of dwarf planet Ceres on Feb. 19, 2015, from a distance of about 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). The images show the full range of different crater shapes that can be found at Ceres' surface.
PIA19184:
Views of Ceres on Approach, Uncropped
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-25 Ceres Dawn
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These images of dwarf planet Ceres, processed to enhance clarity, were taken on Feb. 19, 2015, from a distance of about 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers), by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn observed Ceres completing one full rotation, lasting about nine hours
PIA19183:
Views of Ceres on Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-23 Mercury MESSENGER
 Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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This mosaic from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft of the mighty Caloris basin, Mercury's youngest large impact basin. Caloris has been filled by volcanic plains that are distinctive in color from the surrounding terrain.
PIA19213:
The Mighty Caloris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-20 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft features a color view of the peak-ringed crater Aksakov. The inner ring of Aksakov is superimposed by another crater.
PIA19212:
Hollow? Is It Me You're Looking For?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a lava channel, which lies just to the east of the largest volcano in the solar system: Olympus Mons.
PIA19299:
Lava Flow Near the Base of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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Punctuated Equilibrium
PIA19206:
Punctuated Equilibrium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-17 Ceres Dawn
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These two views of Ceres were acquired by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) as the dwarf planet rotated. The images have been magnified from their original size.
PIA19056:
Dawn Approaches: Two Faces of Ceres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft features a color view of the southern pole of Mercury. About midway down the image, the edge of the large Chao Meng-Fu crater,
PIA19204:
The Color Out of Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-13 Mercury MESSENGER
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The region with fewer impact craters in the bottom-right corner of this image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is a small portion of the peak ring of an ancient basin over 200 km in diameter.
PIA19203:
Smooth Slopes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-12 Ceres Dawn
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In this image, dwarf planet Ceres is seen on Feb. 4, 2015, from a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers). NASA's Dawn spacecraft is due to arrive at Ceres on March 6, 2015.
PIA19181:
Ceres, Seen by Dawn on Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-11 Mercury MESSENGER
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On Mercury, craters larger than approximately 10-12 km display a complex morphology, with slump terraces and central peaks, as compared to smaller bowl-shaped craters as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19202:
Big Boulders
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-09 Mercury MESSENGER
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The exterior of this unnamed crater on Mercury is in shadow, while the inner wall and terraces bask in the sunshine. Terraces form just after the crater has been excavated, when oversteepened slopes slump back down as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA19196:
Sunlit Terraces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-06 Ceres Dawn
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This still from an animation showcases a series of images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.
PIA19180:
Animation of Ceres Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-06 Mercury MESSENGER
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Young Terraces
PIA19195:
Young Terraces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-05 Ceres Dawn
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This still from an animation showcases a series of images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.
PIA19174:
Animation of Ceres Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-05 Ceres Dawn
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This image is one several images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.
PIA19179:
Ceres on Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Ceres Dawn
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This is a frame from an animation showcasing a series of images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.
PIA19182:
Animation of Ceres on Approach Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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In this image from NASA's MESSENGER, Mercury's horizon cuts a striking edge against the stark blackness of space. On the right, sunlight harshly brings the landscape into relief while on the left, the surface is shrouded in the darkness of night.
PIA19192:
On the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-02 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury's surface shown here by NASA's MESSENGER is located within a 73-km-diameter crater; the mounds are part of a larger central peak structure of the hosting crater.
PIA19187:
Peaks and Hollows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Whale of a Crater
PIA19035:
A Whale of a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-27 Spitzer Space Telescope
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'Yellow balls' -- which are several hundred to thousands times the size of our solar system -- are pictured here in the center of this image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA18908:
Finding 'Yellowballs' in our Milky Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-27 Ceres Dawn
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This image depicts the dwarf planet Ceres, as seen from the Dawn spacecraft. It was taken 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on January 25, 2015, is part of a series of views representing the best look so far at the dwarf planet.
PIA19173:
Ceres Sharper Than Ever (Zoomed Out View)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-27 Ceres Dawn
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This image, taken 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on January 25, 2015 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, is part of a series of views representing the best look so far at the dwarf planet.
PIA19172:
Ceres Sharper Than Ever
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-27 Ceres Dawn
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This frame from an animation of the dwarf planet Ceres was made by combining images taken by the Dawn spacecraft on January 25, 2015. These images of Ceres, and they represent the highest-resolution views to date of the dwarf planet.
PIA19171:
Ceres Sharper Than Ever (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-23 Mercury MESSENGER
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the fine texture on the inner wall of an unnamed impact basin 100 km (62 mi.) in diameter, situated immediately west of the larger Dali basin.
PIA19026:
The Rolling Hills of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-22 Vesta Dawn
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This image shows Cornelia Crater on the large asteroid Vesta. On the right is an inset image showing an example of curved gullies, indicated by the short white arrows, and a fan-shaped deposit, indicated by long white arrows.
PIA19170:
Gully and Fan-Shaped Deposit on Vesta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-21 Mercury MESSENGER
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The cliff-like feature crossing this image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft from top to bottom is one of Mercury's famed lobate scarps, and is called Pourquoi-Pas Rupes.
PIA19025:
Pourquoi Pas?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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Situated high in Mercury's southern hemisphere, NASA's MESSENGER sees Han Kan, a 50-km-diameter impact crater with a well preserved central peak and a smooth floor that is likely solidified impact melt.
PIA19024:
The Horses of Han Kan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-19 Ceres Dawn
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In this image, taken January 13, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures the dwarf planet Ceres in both visible and infrared light. The infrared image, right, serves as a temperature map of Ceres, where white is warmer and red is colder.
PIA19169:
Ceres From Dawn, Visible and Infrared Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-19 Ceres Dawn
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This frame from an animation comes from NASA's Dawn spacecraft as it observed Ceres for an hour on Jan. 13, 2015, from a distance of 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers).
PIA19168:
Animation of Ceres Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-19 Ceres Dawn
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This processed image, taken Jan. 13, 2015, shows the dwarf planet Ceres as seen from the Dawn spacecraft. The image hints at craters on the surface of Ceres. Dawn's framing camera took this image at 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers) from Ceres.
PIA19167:
Ceres From Dawn, Processed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-19 Ceres Dawn
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This is a raw image, taken Jan. 13, 2015, showing the dwarf planet Ceres as seen from the Dawn spacecraft on its approach. Dawn's framing camera took this image at 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers) from Ceres.
PIA19166:
Ceres From Dawn, Raw
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Hollow Dali
PIA19023:
Hollow Dali
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Alver is the Centerfold
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Alver is the Centerfold
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-12 Mercury MESSENGER
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The Sun Also Rises
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The Sun Also Rises
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-09 Mercury MESSENGER
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Volcanism in Navoi
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Volcanism in Navoi
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-07 Mercury MESSENGER
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Inside Angkor Vallis
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Inside Angkor Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-05 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Change of Perspective
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A Change of Perspective
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-29 Mercury MESSENGER
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2014 in MESSENGER Images
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2014 in MESSENGER Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-24 Mercury MESSENGER
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He (or She) Who Shall Be Named
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He (or She) Who Shall Be Named
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Name This Crater!
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Name This Crater!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-19 Mercury MESSENGER
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The Gazelle
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The Gazelle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-17 Comet Rosetta
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This graphic depicts the position of the Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission, and a nearby cliff photographed by the lander, in the context of topographic modeling of the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's nucleus.
PIA19097:
Philae Lander's Setting on Comet, with Cliff-Image Inset
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-17 Comet Rosetta
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This graphic depicts the position of the Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission in the context of topographic modeling of the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's nucleus.
PIA19096:
Philae Lander's Setting on Comet's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-17 Comet Rosetta
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From the location where it came to rest after bounces, the Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission captured this view of a cliff on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The feature is called 'Perihelion Cliff'.
PIA19095:
Philae Lander's View of 'Perihelion Cliff' on Comet Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-17 Comet Rosetta
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The Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission captured this view during its first bounce after hitting the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 12, 2014, with blurring as a result of the lander's own motion. The image from
PIA19094:
Comet Lander's View During First Bounce
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-17 Comet Rosetta
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This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft shows the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it appeared at in the early morning, Universal Coordinated Time, of Dec. 17, 2014 (evening of Dec. 16, PST).
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December 2014 View of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-17 Comet Rosetta
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This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft shows the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it appeared at 5 a.m. UTC on Dec. 17, 2014 (9 p.m. PST on Dec. 16).
PIA19092:
December 2014 View of Rosetta's Destination Comet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-17 Mercury MESSENGER
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Couperin le Grand
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Couperin le Grand
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-15 Mercury MESSENGER
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Sinan Wave
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Sinan Wave
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-12 Mercury MESSENGER
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Off the Edge
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Off the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Details of hilly terrain within a large Martian canyon are shown on a geological map based on observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Geological Mapping of Hills in Martian Canyon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animation simulates a flyover of a portion of a Martian canyon detailed in a geological map produced by the U.S. Geological Survey and based on observations by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19085:
Simulated Flyover of Mars Canyon Map (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-10 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Crackin' Good Time
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A Crackin' Good Time
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