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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This evenly layered rock photographed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover on Aug. 7, 2014, shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit not far from where flowing water entered a lake.
PIA19074:
Sedimentary Signs of a Martian Lakebed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-08 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This diagram depicts a vertical cross section through geological layers deposited by rivers, deltas and lakes. Deposits from a series of successive deltas build out increasingly high in elevation as they migrate toward the center of the basin.
PIA19073:
Multiple Deltas Built Out Over Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image shows inclined beds characteristic of delta deposits where a stream entered a lake, but at a higher elevation and farther south than other delta deposits north of Mount Sharp.
PIA19072:
Sol 696 (July 22, 2014), Left
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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On March 25, 2014, view from the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks southward at the Kimberley waypoint. Multiple sandstone beds show systematic inclination to the south suggesting progressive build-out of delta sediments.
PIA19069:
Bedding Pattern Interpreted as Martian Delta Deposition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. This false color image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Hebes Chasma.
PIA18975:
Hebes Chasma - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
 Canada France Hawaii Telescope
IRAC
Very Large Array (VLA)
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A new feature in the evolution of galaxies has been captured in this image of galactic interactions. The two galaxies seen here -- NGC 3226 at the top, NGC 3227 at the bottom.
PIA18902:
A Flood of Gas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-10 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This diagram illustrates two similar star systems, HD 95086 and HR 8799. Evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has pointed to the presence of two dust belts in each system.
PIA18900:
Sibling Star Systems? Dust Structures Suggest So
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars MAVEN
 Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer
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These eight graphs present data from the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer on NASA's MAVEN orbiter identifying ions of different metals added to the Martian atmosphere shortly after comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring sped close to Mars.
PIA18858:
Ions of Eight Metals from Comet Dust Detected in Mars Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-06 CIBER
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Observations from NASA's Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, have shown a surprising surplus of infrared light filling the spaces between galaxies.
PIA18850:
Measuring the Tip of Cosmic Icebergs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-06 CIBER
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These images from the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, show large patches of the sky at two different infrared wavelengths (1.1 microns and 1.6 microns) after all known galaxies have been subtracted out and the images smoothed.
PIA18849:
Matching Patterns of Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-25 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an example of a type of geometrically distinctive feature that researchers are using Curiosity to examine at a mudstone outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp.
PIA18610:
Resistant Features in 'Pahrump Hills' Outcrop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-25 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the first sample-collection hole drilled in Mount Sharp, the layered mountain that is the science destination of the rover's extended mission.
PIA18609:
First Sampling Hole in Mount Sharp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-19 Hubble Space Telescope
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This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's WFPC2, shows a galaxy known as NGC 6872 in the constellation of Pavo (The Peacock). Its unusual shape is caused by its interactions with the smaller galaxy that can be seen just above NGC 6872.
PIA17808:
Hubble Feathers the Peacock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This false-color scene from the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014.
PIA18605:
Rover Tracks in Northward View Along West Rim of Endeavour, False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This scene from the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014.
PIA18604:
Rover Tracks in Northward View Along West Rim of Endeavour
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-04 Earth UAVSAR
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NASA's UAVSAR studies ground deformation after a magnitude 6.0 South Napa earthquake on August 24, 2014.
PIA18801:
NASA's UAVSAR Studies Ground Deformation from Napa California Quake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a landslide deposit within a complex crater (note the ejecta to the top and bottom of the image). There is a smaller complex crater on the ejecta to the north of the larger crater.
PIA18690:
Landslide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Crossing Paths
PIA18689:
Crossing Paths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Mercury MESSENGER
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What a Scan!
PIA18559:
What a Scan!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-07 NEOWISE
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NASA's NEOWISE mission detected comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring on July 28, 2014, less than three months before this comet's close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19.
PIA18593:
NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring a Second Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-06 Mercury MESSENGER
 MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
PIA18556:
One a Penny, Two a Penny, Bright, Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-04 Mercury MESSENGER
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Out of the Basin. These images from NASA MESSENGER's MASCS (top) and MDIS (bottom) are of Rembrandt, Mercury's second largest impact basin.
PIA18639:
Out of the Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-28 Earth 752x564x3
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory make a rocket nozzle using a new 3-D printing technique that allows for multiple metallic properties in the same object.
PIA18570:
Laser Printing of Gradient Metals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-18 Mercury MESSENGER
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You Can Crater on Me. This is a composite image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18583:
You Can Crater on Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Waters, Waters Everywhere. Image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18582:
Waters, Waters Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-16 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 ChemCam
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A Martian target rock called 'Nova,' shown here, displayed an increasing concentration of aluminum as a series of laser shots from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover penetrated through dust on the rock's surface.
PIA18388:
Curiosity's ChemCam Examines Mars Rock Target 'Nova'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-14 Mercury MESSENGER
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Peak-a-boo Eminescu. Images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
PIA18580:
Peak-a-boo Eminescu
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows more north polar dunes. If you compare multiple dune images, you will see that the dunes can take different forms and cover different amounts of the plains.
PIA18505:
More Polar Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-09 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Scientists used the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to examine a Martian rock 'shell' about one inch across, embedded in bedrock and with a hollow interior.
PIA18396:
Martian Rock and Dust Filling Studied with Laser and Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-29 Earth LDSD
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The first 'flown' test vehicle of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project relaxes aboard the recovery vessel Kahana.
PIA18519:
First Seconds of LDSD Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Web of Fire
PIA18529:
Web of Fire
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-23 Mercury MESSENGER
 MASCS
Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Bright and Dark
PIA18527:
Bright and Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The largest crater associated with a March 2012 impact on Mars has many smaller craters around it, revealed in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18384:
Large, Fresh Crater Surrounded by Smaller Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys' trailing side shows two terrains that tell a story of a rough past. To the north (up, in image) is older, rougher terrain, while to the south is new material dubbed 'smooth plains' by scientists. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17164:
Tethys' Terrains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-15 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This May 12, 2014, view from NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover shows the rock target 'Windjana' and its immediate surroundings after inspection of the site by the rover by drilling and other activities.
PIA18092:
Mars Rock 'Windjana' After Examination
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-01 Ganymede 3300x2550x3
This artist's concept of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, illustrates the 'club sandwich' model of its interior oceans. Scientists suspect Ganymede has a massive ocean under an icy crust.
PIA18005:
Possible "Moonwich" of Ice and Oceans on Ganymede (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-29 Earth Aqua
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NASA's Aqua spacecraft passed over central and southern United States on April 27-29, 2014 capturing this false-color infrared image of the slow-moving low-pressure system that spawned the strong supercell thunderstorms.
PIA18047:
NASA Satellite Spots Severe Weather Outbreak in South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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A false-color self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken by the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) shows effects of recent winds removing much of the dust from the solar arrays.
PIA18080:
Self-Portrait by Freshly Cleaned Opportunity Mars Rover, False Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (138.9 MB)     JPEG (4.265 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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A self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken by the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) in late March 2014 shows effects of recent winds removing much of the dust from the rover's solar arrays.
PIA18079:
Self-Portrait by Freshly Cleaned Opportunity Mars Rover in March 2014
Full Resolution:     TIFF (138.9 MB)     JPEG (3.583 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-16 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) on April 11, 2014, to record this stereo scene of a butte called 'Mount Remarkable' and surrounding outcrops. You need 3-D glasses to view this image.
PIA18084:
Stereo View of 'Mount Remarkable' and Surrounding Outcrops at Mars Rover's Waypoint
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-16 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) on April 11, 2014, to record this scene of a butte called 'Mount Remarkable' and surrounding outcrops at a waypoint called 'the Kimberley' inside Gale Crater.
PIA18083:
'Mount Remarkable' and Surrounding Outcrops at Mars Rover's Waypoint
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-14 Hubble Space Telescope
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Known as IRAS 20324+4057 ('The Tadpole'), taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, shows a bright blue tadpole as it appears to swim through the inky blackness of space.
PIA18168:
The Tadpole and the Wriggler
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-10 Exoplanet 4200x2363x3
Researchers have detected the first 'exomoon' candidate -- a moon orbiting a planet that lies outside our solar system. Using a technique called 'microlensing,' they observed what could be either a moon and a planet -- or a planet and a star.
PIA17998:
Moon or Planet? The 'Exomoon Hunt' Continues (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-20 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This mosaic reveals a panorama of the Milky Way from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This picture covers only about three percent of the sky, but includes more than half of the galaxy's stars and the majority of its star formation activity.
PIA17996:
GLIMPSE the Galaxy All the Way Around
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Multiple channels dissect the northwestern flank of Hecates Tholus in this image as seen by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA18101:
Hecates Tholus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-07 Kepler
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On March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable worlds.
PIA14446:
Kepler Team Marks Five Years in Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Multiple channels dissect the northern flank of Ceraunius Tholus in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA18066:
Ceraunius Tholus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spies an impact crater located in northern Sinus Meridiani has formed along the boundary of two different terrain units.
PIA18110:
A Crater Straddling Two Terrain Units
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Multiple overlapping lobes of ejecta are visible in this image of an unnamed crater in Chryse Planitia as seen by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA18065:
Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-27 Kepler
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This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars. The planet's 66-day orbit is tilted 2.5 degrees with respect to the plane of the binary stars' orbit.
PIA17848:
Star System Bonanza (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The multiple channels seen in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft dissect the northwestern margin of Alba Mons. The channels are called Rubicon Valles.
PIA18025:
Rubicon Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a dune field in a large crater near Mawrth Vallis; some of the dunes appear to be in 'V' formation.
PIA17981:
Dunes Flying in Formation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-05 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Sochi Olympic Park Coastal Cluster, the circular area on the shoreline in the bottom center of the image, which was built for Olympic indoor sports.
PIA17970:
Sochi, Russia Winter Olympic Sites (Coastal Cluster)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-14 RoboSimian
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Known as 'Clyde,' RoboSimian is an an ape-like robot designed and built at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Ca. The robot is four-footed but can also stand on two feet. It has four general-purpose limbs and hands capable of mobility and manipulation.
PIA17302:
Ladies And Gentlemen, Boot Your Robots! Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This illustration depicts a concept for the possible extent of an ancient lake inside Gale Crater. The base map combines image data from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and color information from Viking Orbiter imagery.
PIA17596:
Possible Extent of Ancient Lake in Gale Crater, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This graph shows a spectrum recorded by the Chemistry and Camera instrument (ChemCam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover; it is is typical of Martian volcanic (basalt) material.
PIA17593:
ChemCam Spectrum from Martian Rock Target 'Ithaca'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-26 Hubble Space Telescope
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Warping occurs naturally in nature in a phenomenon called strong gravitational lensing as shown in this image simulated from original images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA17559:
Warped Galaxies Quiz
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-09 Comet Hubble Space Telescope
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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the sunward plunging comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact despite some predictions that the fragile icy nucleus might disintegrate as the sun warms it.
PIA18153:
NASA's Hubble Sees Comet ISON Intact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Multiple channels dissect the rim of this unnamed crater in Noachis Terra as seen by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA17425:
Rim Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-27 Mercury MESSENGER
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Mercury, a Planetary Punching Bag
PIA17419:
Mercury, a Planetary Punching Bag
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small crater in within the much larger Pollack Crater containing light-toned material.
PIA17639:
Small Crater within Pollack Crater Containing Light-Toned Material
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-14 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera (Navcam) to record this image of the northern end of 'Solander Point,' a raised section of the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
PIA17088:
Northern Tip of 'Solander Point' on Endeavour Crater Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-26 Mercury MESSENGER
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The View from Down Under
PIA17394:
The View from Down Under
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-22 Earth MESSENGER
 MDIS - Wide Angle
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Looking Back at Us
PIA17388:
Looking Back at Us
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-11 RoboSimian
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This photograph shows RoboSimian, a disaster-relief and -mitigation robot, under construction in a lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
PIA17301:
RoboSimian Under Construction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows multiple craters on Mars resembling a baby bug following the larger mama bug.
PIA17310:
THEMIS Art #109
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-03 RoboSimian
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This artist's concept depicts RoboSimian, a disaster-relief and -mitigation robot, grasping the rung of a ladder. RoboSimian is an ape-like robot designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
PIA17300:
RoboSimian to the Rescue
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Navcam (MSL)
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This image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows Curiosity at the 'Rocknest' site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand.
PIA16919:
Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rock Nest, Raw Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Navcam (MSL)
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This image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows Curiosity at the 'Rocknest' site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand.
PIA16918:
Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rock Nest, White-Balanced
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This graphic depicts the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter measuring the temperature of a cross section of the Martian atmosphere as the orbiter passes above the south polar region.
PIA17263:
Scanning Martian Atmospheric Temperatures (Graphic)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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A stereo pair of images from taken from Mars orbit were used to generate a digital elevation model that is the basis for this simulated perspective view of 'Cape York,' 'Botany Bay,' and 'Solander Point' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
PIA17076:
Perspective View of 'Botany Bay' and Surroundings, With Vertical Exaggeration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a striking example of what is called a hierarchical bubble structure, in which one giant bubble, carved into the dust of space by massive stars, has triggered the formation of smaller bubbles.
PIA17017:
Bubbles Within Bubbles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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Ligeia Mare, shown here in a false color image from NASA's Cassini mission, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane.
PIA17031:
Vast Ligeia Mare in False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-13 Earth Aqua
 MODIS
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The quick dry-out of vegetation in Southern California this year is depicted in this pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's Aqua spacecraft.
PIA17053:
MODIS Satellite See Double Jeopardy for Socal Fire Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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When boulders roll down a dusty Martian slope, they can leave long, dotted tracks behind on the slope surface as seen in this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA17870:
Watch for Falling Rocks!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-19 Hubble Space Telescope
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Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula's upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA16008:
Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-03 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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IRAC
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The tip of the 'wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA's Great Observatories. The SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy.
PIA16884:
Taken Under the 'Wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-22 Mercury MESSENGER
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Aksakov Askew
PIA16902:
Aksakov Askew
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-14 Mercury MESSENGER
 Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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A Tribute to MESSENGER: Video
PIA16893:
A Tribute to MESSENGER: Video Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-12 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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A sampling pit exposing clay-bearing lake sediments, deposited in a basaltic basin in southern Australia -- a modern terrestrial analog to the 'Yellowknife Bay' area that NASA's Curiosity rover is exploring.
PIA16831:
An Earth Analog to Mars' Yellowknife Bay
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This illustration schematically shows where the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected flood channels that had been buried by lava flows in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars.
PIA16767:
Visualization of Buried Marte Vallis Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-28 Mercury MESSENGER
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Love's Secret Domain
PIA16862:
Love's Secret Domain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-04 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This head-on view shows the tip of the drill bit on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The view merges two exposures taken by the remote micro-imager in the rover's ChemCam instrument at different focus settings.
PIA16719:
Drill Bit Tip on Mars Rover Curiosity, Head-on View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-04 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The shape of the tip of the bit in the drill of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is apparent in this view recorded by the remote micro-imager in the rover's ChemCam instrument on Mars. Jan. 29, 2012; the bit is about 0.6 inch (1.6 centimeters) wide.
PIA16718:
Drill Bit Tip on Mars Rover Curiosity, Side View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-01-10 ESO Very Large Telescope
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Spitzer Space Telescope
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This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is 522,000 light-years across, making it about five times the size of the Milky Way.
PIA16613:
Dwarf Galaxy Spotted
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-31 Mercury MESSENGER
 MASCS
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Spectral Fireworks
PIA16668:
Spectral Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (MSL)
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This graph compares the elemental composition of typical soils at three landing regions on Mars: Gusev Crater, from Spirit; Meridiani Planum, from Opportunity; and now Gale Crater, where NASA's newest Curiosity rover is currently investigating.
PIA16572:
Inspecting Soils Across Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-30 Mercury MESSENGER
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Cosmic Rays Liberate Neutrons
PIA16524:
Cosmic Rays Liberate Neutrons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-16 Mercury MESSENGER
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Are We Human or Are We Dancers?
PIA16538:
Are We Human or Are We Dancers?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-10-01 Mercury MESSENGER
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Petit Petipa
PIA16415:
Petit Petipa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Multiple channels in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey dissect this region on the margin of Terra Sabaea on Mars.
PIA15946:
Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This 360-degree vertical projection was assembled from images taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exporation Rover Opportunity shows terrain surrounding the position where the rover spent its 3,000th Martian day.
PIA16125:
Opportunity's Surroundings on 3,000th Sol, Vertical Projection
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This 360-degree polar projection was assembled from images taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exporation Rover Opportunity shows terrain surrounding the position where the rover spent its 3,000th Martian day.
PIA16124:
Opportunity's Surroundings on 3,000th Sol, Polar Projection
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This 360-degree stereo panorama assembled from images taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exporation Rover Opportunity shows terrain surrounding the position where the rover spent its 3,000th Martian day working on Mars (July 2, 2012).
PIA16123:
Opportunity's Surroundings on 3,000th Sol, in 3-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This 3D 360-degree panorama assembled from images taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exporation Rover Opportunity. The Sol 3000 site is near the northern tip of the Cape York segment of the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
PIA16122:
Opportunity's Surroundings on 3,000th Sol
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This engineering drawing shows the five devices that make up the turret at the end of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover. These include: the drill for acquiring powdered samples from interiors of rocks.
PIA16145:
Tools at Curiosity's 'Fingertips'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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After a rocket-powered descent stage, also known as the sky crane, delivered NASA's Curiosity rover to Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT), 2012, it flew away and fell to the surface.
PIA16143:
Dissecting the Scene of Sky Crane Crash
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-22 Mercury MESSENGER
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Inside a Crater
PIA16387:
Inside a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-31 Vesta Dawn
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These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta'sFloronia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere, demonstrate a special analytical technique, which results in shadowed areas of Vesta's surface becoming illuminated.
PIA15896:
Revealing Shadows 7
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-12 Vesta Dawn
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These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Gegania quadrangle, just south of Vesta's equator. Rubria is the crater with dark and bright material above Divalia Fossa and Occia is the crater with bright and dark material below.
PIA15845:
Rubria Crater, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images
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