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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 2006-10-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Multiple faint, streamer-like objects can be seen in this high resolution Cassini spacecraft view of the F ring's bright core. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08292:
A Compelling Case
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-10 Earth Jason-1
Altimeter
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In September 2006, NASA's Jason-1 satellite data indicated that El Niño had returned to the tropical Pacific Ocean, although it was relatively weak.
PIA01939:
Jason Satellite Observes Mild El Nino in 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Opportunity at Crater's 'Cape Verde' (Red Filter)
PIA08817:
Opportunity at Crater's 'Cape Verde' (Red Filter)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Opportunity at Crater's 'Cape Verde'
PIA08816:
Opportunity at Crater's 'Cape Verde'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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The Opportunity Rover at 'Victoria Crater'
PIA08812:
The Opportunity Rover at 'Victoria Crater'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This true-color image taken on Sept. 28, 2006 from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows Victoria crater, looking southeast from Duck Bay towards the dramatic promontory called Cabo Frio.
PIA08807:
Layers of 'Cabo Frio' in 'Victoria Crater'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This false-color image taken on Sept. 28, 2006 from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows Victoria crater, looking southeast from Duck Bay towards the dramatic promontory called Cabo Frio.
PIA08806:
Layers of 'Cabo Frio' in 'Victoria Crater' (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This anaglyph from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is of 'Victoria crater' is looking southeast from 'Duck Bay' towards the dramatic promontory called 'Cabo Frio.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA08804:
Layers of 'Cabo Frio' in 'Victoria Crater' (Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows gullies on the southern rim of this unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria on Mars.
PIA08819:
Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a martian landscape of many different surface textures, including grooves, chaos, and impact craters of different states of erosion.
PIA08818:
Multiple Textures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows interesting patterns in regions around major troughs. Both polar caps of Mars are composed of multiple layers of ice.
PIA08803:
Ice Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-31 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This splendid view showcases Saturn's moon Dione's tortured complex of bright cliffs. At lower right is the feature called Cassandra, exhibiting linear rays extending in multiple directionsas captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 24, 2006.
PIA08256:
Incredible Cliffs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down onto the unlit side of Saturn's ringplane. It nicely shows a near-arm/far-arm brightness asymmetry in the B ring.
PIA08253:
Saturn Shine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Spirit Discovers New Class of Igneous Rocks
PIA08698:
Spirit Discovers New Class of Igneous Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image is from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey. THEMIS ART IMAGE #68 Multiple craters on Mars look like bugs. Is that an ant at the bottom and a bumble-bee at the top?
PIA08537:
THEMIS ART #68
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image illustrates the recent escape of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from dangerous, loose material on the vast plains leading to the rover's next long-term target, 'Victoria Crater' during the rover's drive May-June, 2006.
PIA08532:
Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Four Wheels) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image illustrates the recent escape of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from dangerous, loose material on the vast plains leading to the rover's next long-term target, 'Victoria Crater' during the rover's drive May-June, 2006.
PIA08531:
Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Left Front Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image illustrates the recent escape of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from dangerous, loose material on the vast plains leading to the rover's next long-term target, 'Victoria Crater' during the rover's drive May-June, 2006.
PIA08530:
Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Right Front Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-30 Earth Jason-1
Altimeter
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In early 2006, a weak La Niña event kept the temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator a little cooler than normal based on data from NASA's Jason satellite.
PIA08501:
Pacific Climate Calm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This panoramic view was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 27, 2006, as it continued to traverse from Erebus Crater toward Victoria Crater, the rover navigated along exposures of bedrock between large, wind-blown ripples.
PIA08467:
Cobbles in Troughs Between Meridiani Ripples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This view was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on April 27, 2006, as it continued to traverse from Erebus Crater toward Victoria Crater, the rover navigated along exposures of bedrock between large, wind-blown ripples.
PIA08466:
Cobbles in Troughs Between Meridiani Ripples (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-10 Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Spitzer Space Telescope
MIPS
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This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming along a trail of debris left during its multiple trips around the sun.
PIA08452:
A Million Comet Pieces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
Radar Mapper
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This frame from a movie shows how data from two different instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft can be combined to give an integrated view of Titan's surface.
PIA07785:
Comparing Notes on Titan -- Radar & Imaging Science Subsystem Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The complex and dynamic atmosphere of Titan displays multiple haze layers near the north pole in this view from NASA's Cassini, which also provides an excellent look at the detached stratospheric haze layer that surrounds the moon at lower latitudes.
PIA08167:
Shifting Northern Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Sample of Mid-latitude Southern Highlands
PIA08050:
Sample of Mid-latitude Southern Highlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Staring toward the outer edge of Saturn's main rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots Pandora and tiny Atlas. Several clumps are visible in the narrow F ring, as well as multiple dusty strands flanking the F ring core.
PIA08145:
Small Moons on the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This collection images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. provides context for understanding the location and scale of propeller-shaped features observed within Saturn's A ring.
PIA07792:
Locating the Propellers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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These figures show four propeller-shaped structures discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in close-up images of Saturn's A ring.
PIA07790:
Four Propellers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This composite of 24 images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows multiple layers in Titan's stratospheric haze. The most prominent layer is located about 500 kilometers (300 miles) above the surface and is seen at all latitudes, encircling the moon.
PIA08137:
Haze Layers on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-09 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This view shows excess heat radiation from cracks near the moon's south pole. These warm fissures are the source of plumes of dust and gas seen by multiple instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Enceladus on July 14, 2005.
PIA07794:
Searching for Warmth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-09 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This view shows excess heat radiation from cracks near the moon's south pole. These warm fissures are the source of plumes of dust and gas seen by multiple instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Enceladus on July 14, 2005.
PIA07793:
Searching for Warmth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This specially processed composite view reveals a tremendous amount of structure in the northern polar atmosphere of Titan. Images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 18, 2006.
PIA08127:
The Air Up There
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an area adjacent to Mar's south polar residual cap that hosts several intricate fracture networks.
PIA02167:
South Polar Landforms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has Mimas and Pandora on its side as it gazes across the ringplane at distant Tethys. The two smaller moons were on the side of the rings closer to Cassini when this image was taken.
PIA07661:
Choosing Sides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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The multiple trends of yardangs in this image indicate that the winds in the Elysium region on Mars have changed direction several times as seen by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03283:
Elysium Winds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS)
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Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the Christmas Tree cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a joint effort between Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer instrument.
PIA03244:
Stellar Snowflake Cluster
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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In a rare moment, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this enduring portrait of a near-alignment of four of Saturn's restless moons. Timing is critical when trying to capture a view of multiple bodies, like this one.
PIA07644:
When Moons Align
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a movie shows a quick succession of multiple products of Titan's surface from NASA's Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe.
PIA06435:
Huygens Landing Site (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-24 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters at Carthage Linea in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 11, 2005.
PIA07638:
At Carthage Linea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
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This majestic false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows 'mountains' where stars are born. These towering pillars of cool gas and dust are illuminated at their tips with light from warm embryonic stars.
PIA03096:
Towering Infernos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place. This image shows more than half of Titan's Saturn-facing hemisphere at moderate resolution.
PIA07755:
Naming New Lands - September Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, NASA's Cassini spacecraft repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place.
PIA07754:
Naming New Lands - October Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place. These combined images were taken on Sept. 7, 2005.
PIA07753:
Naming New Lands - September Flyby (annotated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place. These combined images were taken on Oct. 28, 2005.
PIA07752:
Naming New Lands - October Flyby (annotated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-02 Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2
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Eerie, dramatic pictures from NASA's Hubble telescope show newborn stars emerging from 'eggs' -- dense, compact pockets of interstellar gas called evaporating gaseous globules or EGGs.
PIA12108:
Embryonic Stars Emerge from Interstellar "Eggs"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-28 Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows two opposing bubbles being formed in opposite directions by the powerful outflows from massive groups of forming stars. The baby stars can be seen as specks of yellow where the two bubbles overlap.
PIA03544:
Black Widow Nebula Hiding in the Dust
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-21 Earth QuikScat
SeaWinds Scatterometer
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The eye of Hurricane Wilma, a menacing Category 4 storm, approaches the northeastern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in this October 21, 2005, image from NASA's QuikScat satellite, depicting relative wind speeds and direction.
PIA03056:
Wilma's Winds Whip Mexico's Yucatan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-21 Earth Jason-1
Altimeter
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This sea surface height map of the Gulf of Mexico and the northwestern Caribbean Sea, with the Florida peninsula on the upper right, is based on altimeter data from three satellites including NASA's Jason-1.
PIA03055:
Wilma's Trek Through Warm Caribbean/Gulf Waters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to prove that the closer the view of the myriad worlds constituting the Saturn system, the more interesting and varied the views become.
PIA07748:
In the Groove
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.
PIA07747:
Dione in Full View - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct.11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.
PIA07746:
Dione in Full View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This high-resolution mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that Hyperion truly has a surface different from any other in the Saturn system. The images were taken during Cassini's close flyby of Hyperion on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07741:
Hyperion's Unusual Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-26 Earth Jason-1
Altimeter
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Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential (TCHP) field in the Gulf of Mexico during September 22, 2005. The path of Hurricane Rita is indicated with circles spaced every 3 hours with their size and color representing intensity seen by NASA's Jason satellite.
PIA06342:
NASA Data Helps Track Heat Potential Fueling Rita
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-22 Earth Jason-1
Altimeter
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This sea surface height map of the Gulf of Mexico, with the Florida peninsula on the right and the Texas-Mexico Gulf Coast on the left, is based on altimeter data from four satellites including NASA's Topex/Poseidon and Jason.
PIA06427:
Rita Roars Through a Warm Gulf (September 22, 2005)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-21 Earth Jason-1
Altimeter
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This sea surface height map of the Gulf of Mexico, with the Florida peninsula on the right and the Texas-Mexico Gulf Coast on the left, is based on altimeter data from four satellites including NASA's Topex/Poseidon and Jason.
PIA06428:
Rita Roars Through a Warm Gulf (September 21, 2005)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft turns its gaze toward Saturn's outer A ring to find the moon Pan coasting behind one of the thin ringlets with which it shares the Encke Gap.
PIA07574:
Ring Study Subjects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-12 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) launched at 7:43 a.m. EDT atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug. 12, 2005.
PIA04144:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Multipurpose Mission Successfully Launched
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's turbulent atmosphere is reminiscent of a Van Gogh painting in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. However, unlike the famous impressionist painter, Cassini records the world precisely as it appears to the spacecraft's cameras.
PIA07563:
Impressions from Cassini
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-02 Earth MESSENGER
MDIS - Wide Angle
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NASA's MESSENGER's Earth flyby on Aug. 2, 2005, not only adjusted the spacecraft's path to Mercury - the gravity assist maneuver allowed the spacecraft team to test several MESSENGER science instruments by observing its home planet.
PIA10122:
Twins Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft approached the intriguing ice world of Enceladus for its extremely close flyby on July 14, 2005, the spacecraft obtained images in several wavelengths that were used to create this false-color composite view.
PIA06249:
Enceladus In False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-13 Cygnus W. M. Keck Observatory
Keck I Telescope
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This frame from an artist's animation shows the clockwork-like orbits of a triple-star system called HD 188753, which was discovered to harbor a gas giant, or 'hot Jupiter,' planet.
PIA03521:
Circus Family of Stars (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the caldera rim and floor of Arsia Mons. The arcuate fractures along the rim indicate multiple periods of activity, both eruptions and collapse after eruptions.
PIA03950:
Arsia Mons Caldera Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Three very different worlds crowd the frame in this unique view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which although partly overexposed, provides a splendid look at several major targets of interest for the mission.
PIA07518:
One View, Multiple Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This false color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows craters and a channel margin, in the region of southern Acidalia Planitia where Tiu and Ares Valles empty into the planitia. This image was collected during the northern spring season.
PIA03931:
Acidalia Planitia Channel Margin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a region with craters of different ages located at the margin of Acidalia Planitia, taken during Mars' northern spring season.
PIA07990:
Cratered Acidalia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the eastern flank of Elysium Mons volcano, taken during Mars' northern spring season.
PIA07989:
Elysium Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the surface outside of Meridiani to the northeast, taken during Mars' northern spring season.
PIA07987:
More Meridiani
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Radio Science Subsystem
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NASA's Cassini instruments provide complementary information about the structure of Saturn's rings. Narrow and wide angle cameras provide images in the visible region of the electromagnetic, spectrum much like a digital camera does.
PIA07874:
Multiple Eyes of Cassini
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows one portion of the surface in the Meridiani region, taken during Mars' northern spring season.
PIA07974:
Meridiani
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a channel at the end of the Marwrth Valles, taken during Mars' northern spring season.
PIA07973:
Downstream in Mawrth Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an old channel floor and surrounding highlands located in the lower reach of Mawrth Valles on Mars.
PIA07957:
Mawrth Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the interior of Moreux Crater on Mars. The crater peak is at the right edge of the image. Many dunes and a dunefield are also evident.
PIA07956:
Moreux Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the floor of Antoniadi Crater, taken during Mars' northern spring season.
PIA07955:
Antoniadi Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a mesa and surrounding debris apron located in the Deuteronilus Mensae region, taken during Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07954:
Deuteronilus Mensae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the floor of Candor Chasma in central Valles Marineris, taken during Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07953:
Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a canyon wall located in Hebes Chasma, taken during Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07952:
Hebes Chasma Wall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the central ridge in Coprates Chasma, taken during Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07933:
Coprates Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a location in of Aureum Chaos, taken during Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07932:
Aureum Chaos: Another View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the Aureum Chaos taken during Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07931:
Auream Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the wind eroded deposit in Pollack Crater called 'White Rock,' taken during Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07921:
White Rock in False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the region on Mars where Ares Vallis enters Iani Chaos.
PIA07920:
Ares Vallis/Iani Chaos Border
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a portion of the Iani Chaos region that was collected during the Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07919:
Continuing Through Iani Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a portion of the Iani Chaos region that was collected during the Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07918:
Iani Chaos - Another View In False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This false-color image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a portion of the Iani Chaos region that was collected during the Mars' southern fall season.
PIA07917:
Iani Chaos in False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
Radar Mapper
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This three-panel image shows one of Titan's most prominent impact craters in an infrared-wavelength image, radar image and in the false-color image. The Cassini radar imaged this crater during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's third flyby of Titan.
PIA07868:
Titan Crater in Three Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the Kasei Vallis complex on Mars which contains two main channels that run east-west across Tempe Terra and empty into Chryse Planitia.
PIA07914:
Islands in Kasei Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer
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During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, NASA's Cassini spacecraft came within 1,025 kilometers (637 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy atmosphere is brimming with complex hydrocarbons.
PIA07865:
Titan's Upper Atmosphere: A "Factory" of Hydrocarbons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-13 Earth Terra
MISR
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As it passed over Antarctica on December 16, 2004, NASA's Terra satellite captured this image showing a wavy pattern in a field of white.
PIA04377:
Waves on White: Ice or Clouds?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-31 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the region east of Alba Patera on Mars featuring the complex relations that can occur in regions of multiple structural events. There are fractures and graben in this area that intersect at multiple angles.
PIA07812:
Compounded Fractures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-23 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This artist's concept represents the 'Follow the Water' theme of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.
PIA07241:
Examining Mars at Many Levels (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-16 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The finest details on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus are revealed in this 30-meter per-pixel, enhanced-color image taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft closest-ever encounter with Enceladus on March 9, 2005.
PIA06211:
Cracked Face of Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-14 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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The topography of the island nation of Sri Lanka is well shown in this color-coded shaded relief map generated with digital elevation data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA06670:
Sri Lanka, Colored Height
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Abraded Target on Rock
PIA07261:
Abraded Target on Rock "Champagne" in Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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Brushed Target on Rock
PIA07260:
Brushed Target on Rock "Champagne" in Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-12 Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS)
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The Trifid Nebula is a giant star-forming cloud of gas and dust located 5,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, seen here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA07226:
Stellar 'Incubators' Seen Cooking up Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows landslides on Mars along a steep channel wall. The formation of the crater may have initially weakened an area of the surface prior to channel formation.
PIA07283:
Channel Wall Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Coprates Chasma on Mars, part of Valles Marineris with multiple large landslides.
PIA07201:
Coprates Chasma Landslides in IR
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-10 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken Dec. 3, 2004, shows light rocks and dark rocks along the rim of 'Endurance Crater' on Mars. The pictured rock, 'Tipuna,' lies just under the dividing line, in the dark section.
PIA07101:
Tantalizing 'Tipuna'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-11 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this view from the base of 'Burns Cliff' during the rover's 280th martian day (Nov. 6, 2004). This cliff in the inner wall of 'Endurance Crater' displays multiple layers of bedrock.
PIA07039:
At Base of 'Burns Cliff'
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