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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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The vault, with nadir deck attached, of NASA's Europa Clipper is prepared to be moved to the High Bay 1 clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25493:
NASA's Europa Clipper: Vault and Nadir Deck on the Move
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-22 Asteroid Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
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This illustration depicts NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system.
PIA25329:
NASA's DART at the Didymos System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration depicts the Mars Earth Entry System for the Mars Sample Return campaign. The system would contain the orbiting sample inside a disk-shaped vehicle with a heat shield for safe entry through the Earth's atmosphere.
PIA25336:
Mars Earth Entry System Aeroshell at Entry (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-18 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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Workers in a clean room in Cannes, France, load the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into a container in preparation for shipping the spacecraft to the U.S.
PIA24910:
Packing SWOT For Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-20 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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A container with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is offloaded from an Air Force C-5 airplane on Oct. 16, 2022, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Central California.
PIA25591:
SWOT Arrives at Vandenberg Space Force Base
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-20 Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD)
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This prototype base for SHIELD – a collapsible Mars lander that would enable a spacecraft to intentionally crash land on the Red Planet, absorbing the impact – was tested at JPL on Aug. 12, 2022.
PIA25420:
SHIELD Prototype Attached to Drop Tower
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-20 Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD)
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This drop tower at JPL includes a bow launch system, which can hurl test articles 110 mph into the ground, re-creating the forces they would experience during a Mars landing.
PIA25581:
Bow Launch Drop Tower at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite with solar arrays fully deployed.
PIA25622:
SWOT Satellite With Solar Arrays in Full View (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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On June 27, 2021, teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the March Air Reserve Base, loaded the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into a C-17 airplane.
PIA25624:
SWOT Secured for Transport in C-17 Aircraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-14 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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On June 27, 2021, teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the March Air Reserve Base, loaded the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into a C-17 airplane.
PIA25625:
SWOT Headed to France on C-17 Aircraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers install 2-foot-wide reaction wheels onto the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter is in its assembly, test, and launch operations phase in preparation for a 2024 launch.
PIA25494:
NASA's Europa Clipper Gets Its Reaction Wheels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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All four of the reaction wheels installed onto NASA's Europa Clipper are visible in this photo, which was shot from underneath the main body of the spacecraft while it is being assembled.
PIA25495:
NASA's Europa Clipper Reaction Wheels Installed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians work together to install reaction wheels on the underside of the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is in its assembly, test, and launch operations phase.
PIA25496:
NASA's Europa Clipper: Reaction Wheel Installation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-23 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers install a 2-foot-wide reaction wheel onto the main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA25497:
NASA's Europa Clipper Reaction Wheel in Process
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars 2020 Rover
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The drill bits used by NASA's Perseverance rover are seen before being installed prior to launch. From left, the regolith bit, six bits used for drilling rock cores, and two abrasion bits.
PIA25590:
Perseverance's Drill Bits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars 2020 Rover
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Optimism, a full-scale replica of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, tests a model of Perseverance's regolith bit in a pile of simulated regolith – broken rock and dust – at JPL.
PIA25651:
Testing Perseverance's Regolith Bit Here on Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-09 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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The SWOT water-tracking satellite was encapsulated in its payload fairing on Dec. 8. It will now go atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in preparation for a launch targeting Dec. 15, 2022.
PIA25627:
SWOT Spacecraft Encapsulated in Payload Fairing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-12 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed. The small satellite will take about three months to reach its science orbit to seek out surface water ice in the Moon's South Pole.
PIA25626:
Lunar Flashlight With Solar Arrays Deployed (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-12 Mars Science Helicopter
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A model of NASA's Mars Science Helicopter concept is shown in this photo. This helicopter concept is a more capable proposed follow-on to NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA25661:
Model of Proposed Mars Science Helicopter
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A model Sample Recovery Helicopter drives and positions itself over a sample tube during a test in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA25320:
Sample Recovery Helicopter Model Gets a Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated image points out the various cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover; the list on the right indicates how many images each camera has taken as of December 6, 2022.
PIA25653:
Perseverance's Cameras, Tallies of Their Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA's Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first sample tube on the Martian surface.
PIA25676:
Testing a Sample Drop in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the Martian surface.
PIA25677:
OPTIMISM Sticks the Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This video shows the deployment of the solar arrays that power the SWOT satellite. The arrays deployed over the course of about 10 minutes after the spacecraft's Dec. 16, 2022, launch.
PIA25563:
Deployment of SWOT's Solar Arrays
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Asteroid NEO Surveyor
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NASA's NEO Surveyor is seen in this illustration against an infrared observation of a starfield made by the agency's WISE mission.
PIA25253:
NEO Surveyor in an Infrared Starfield Filled With Asteroids (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-23 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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These images show two observations of NASA's Lunar Flashlight and the private ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 as the two spacecraft, seen as a pair of dots, journey to the Moon.
PIA25257:
NASA's Lunar Flashlight Spotted From Earth on Its Way to the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-12 Moon Lunar Flashlight
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This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight carrying out a trajectory correction maneuver with the Earth and Moon in the background. Powered by the small satellite's four thrusters, the maneuver is needed to reach lunar orbit.
PIA25258:
Lunar Flashlight's Trajectory Correction Maneuver (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-24 Asteroid Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on Dec. 8, 2022, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA25664:
NASA's Psyche: Picking up Launch Prep for 2023
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-03 NISAR
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Engineers and technicians work on the science instrument payload for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission in a JPL clean room.
PIA25771:
Engineers, Technicians Working on NISAR in Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-03 NISAR
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NASA's NISAR Project Manager Phil Barela speaks in a JPL clean room with ISRO Chairman S. Somanath and other officials from NASA, ISRO, and the Indian Embassy about the science instrument payload for the NISAR mission.
PIA25598:
ISRO Chairman Visits NISAR in a Clean Room at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-03 NISAR
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Officials from NASA, ISRO, and the Indian Embassy visit a JPL clean room to view the scientific instrument payload for the NISAR mission.
PIA25599:
NASA, ISRO, Indian Embassy Officials Visit NISAR in Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-02 2400x1353x3
This close-up photograph shows an exquisitely sensitive single Performance-Enhanced Array for Counting Optical Quanta (PEACOQ) detector, which is being developed at JPL to detect single photons at an extremely high rate.
PIA25260:
PEACOQ: New Quantum Detector Could Help Quantum Computers Communicate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-08 NISAR
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The NISAR science instrument payload is unloaded from a cargo plane shortly after arriving in Bengaluru, India, on March 6. At ISRO's U R Rao Satellite Centre, it will be combined with the NISAR satellite body in preparation for launch in 2024.
PIA25570:
NISAR Science Payload Arrives in India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-08 NISAR
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The NISAR science instrument payload sits in a specially designed container in a JPL clean room in late February, 2023. The payload was shipped on March 3 to India, where it will be combined with the satellite body.
PIA25566:
Preparing the NISAR Science Payload for a Trip to India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-08 NISAR
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In a JPL clean room, engineers and technicians move the lid of container into position to lower it over the NISAR science payload. The payload was shipped on March 3, 2023, to India, where it will be combined with the satellite body.
PIA25567:
NISAR Science Payload Gets Packaged for Shipment to India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-08 NISAR
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The NISAR science payload sits in a specially designed shipping container outside a JPL airlock. The payload was shipped on March 3, 2023, to India, where it will be combined with the satellite body.
PIA25568:
NISAR Science Payload Packaged and Ready to Ship to India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-30 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration shows the proposed process for recovering Mars samples gathered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after they are returned to Earth as part of the joint NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return Campaign.
PIA25857:
Mars Samples: Proposed Containment and Transport
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-06 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration shows the Earth Return Orbiter (ERO), one of the flight missions making up the Mars Sample Return campaign to bring martian rock and atmospheric samples back to Earth.
PIA25891:
Artist's concept of the Earth Return Orbiter over Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-06 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration shows the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Return Orbiter (ERO), the biggest spacecraft to ever orbit Mars.
PIA25892:
Earth Return Orbiter Infographic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-06 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration shows the Earth Return Orbiter (ERO), one of the flight missions making up the Mars Sample Return campaign to bring martian rock and atmospheric samples back to Earth.
PIA25893:
Artist's Concept of Earth Return Orbiter Releasing Capsule containing Martian Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-06 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This artist's concept shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European Space Agency's Earth Return Orbiter.
PIA25894:
Artist's concept of the Capture, Containment, and Return System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-20 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This illustration shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European Space Agency's Earth Return Orbiter.
PIA25860:
Illustration of the Capture, Containment, and Return System for Mars Sample Return
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Voyager
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Each of NASA's Voyager probes are equipped with three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), including the one shown here. The RTGs provide power for the spacecraft by converting the heat generated by the decay of plutonium-238 into electricity.
PIA25782:
Voyager's RTG
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-18 Asteroid Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on June 26, 2023, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA25952:
Psyche Ramping up to Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-18 Asteroid Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on June 26, 2023, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA25953:
Home Stretch to Launch for Psyche
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-31 Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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A development motor based on the second-stage solid rocket motor design for NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) undergoes testing March 29, at Northrop Grumman's facility in Elkton, Maryland.
PIA25967:
Mars Ascent Vehicle Second Stage Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineer Kristopher Sherrill observes a development model rover during a test for NASA's CADRE technology demonstration in JPL's Mars Yard in June, 2023.
PIA25665:
CADRE Rover Testing in JPL's Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A pair of plastic prototypes of the CADRE rovers demonstrate driving in formation during a test at JPL in 2022.
PIA25666:
CADRE Rover Prototypes Drive in Formation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A model rover drives over a rock during a test for NASA's CADRE project in JPL's Mars Yard in June, 2023.
PIA25667:
CADRE Mini Rover Drives Over a Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-02 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A CADRE test rover appears to catch the attention of the much larger engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover, called OPTIMISM, at JPL's Mars Yard.
PIA25668:
Test Rovers Big and Small at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Asteroid Psyche
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Technicians begin to retract one of the two solar arrays attached to NASA's Psyche spacecraft. This photo was taken on July 25, 2023.
PIA25954:
NASA's Psyche: Solar Arrays Stowed for Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Asteroid Psyche
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Team members prepare to integrate one of two solar arrays on NASA's Psyche spacecraft inside the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2023.
PIA25955:
Preparing for Psyche's Array Test Deployment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This artist's concept shows Mars Sample Return Earth Entry System. The vehicle would bring curated Martian samples collected by NASA's Perseverance Rover on the final leg of their journey from Mars to Earth.
PIA25986:
Artist's Concept of the Earth Entry System for Mars Sample Return
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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Engineer Abel Dizon explains how drop tests are conducted for a prototype lander being designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Mars Sample Return campaign.
PIA25822:
Testing a Prototype Mars Lander
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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Morgan Montalvo, another JPL engineer, sets guardrails on the floor below the prototype in a test of a scenario where the lander would stub a toe against a rock while touching down on Mars.
PIA25823:
Setting Guardrails for Mars Lander Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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This setup is being used at JPL to test a 16-inch-diameter (40-centimeter-diameter) footpad for a future Mars lander.
PIA25824:
A Full-Size Footpad Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-10 Mars Mars Sample Return (MSR)
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JPL engineer Patrick DeGrosse reviews data from a drop test of a full-size lander footpad with a group of fellow engineers.
PIA25826:
Going Over the Footpad Test Data
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-14 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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The PREFIRE mission will send two CubeSats – shown as an artist's concept against an image of Earth from orbit – into space to study how much heat the planet absorbs and emits from its polar regions, including the Arctic and Antarctica.
PIA25778:
PREFIRE Satellite Illustration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians use a crane to lift a 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna as they prepare to install it on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter is being assembled in preparation for its launch in October 2024.
PIA25956:
Europa Clipper Gets Its High-Gain On
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians install Europa Clipper's high-gain antenna in the main clean room at JPL.
PIA25957:
Europa Clipper's High-Gain Antenna Installed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-15 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft boasts its new 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna, after its Aug. 14, 2023 installation, in High Bay 1 of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA25958:
Powerful Antenna Installed On Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-16 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is shown here during thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) testing at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, in June 2023.
PIA25836:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Gets a Taste of Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-28 Asteroid Psyche
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft with its large solar arrays fully deployed and one of its four Hall-effect thrusters firing (visible via its blue glow) atop the spacecraft's body.
PIA25138:
Psyche Spacecraft en Route to the Asteroid Belt (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-28 Asteroid Psyche
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Psyche undergoes vibration testing at JPL in March 2022 to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the jostling of launch.
PIA25139:
Psyche Undergoes Vibration Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-01 Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft takes a spiral path to the asteroid Psyche, as depicted in this graphic that shows the path from above the plane of the planets, labeled with key milestones of the prime mission.
PIA24930:
Psyche's Mission Plan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-01 Psyche
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This graphic shows the expected timeline of milestones immediately following liftoff for NASA's Psyche spacecraft if Psyche launches at the beginning of its launch period on Oct. 5, 2023.
PIA26101:
Psyche Launch Ascent Timeline
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-01 Psyche
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft will gather science at the asteroid Psyche at four orbit altitudes, as depicted in this graphic. It has been updated to reflect an October 2023 launch.
PIA26102:
Psyche Orbital Operations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-24 Europa Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA's Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL on Oct. 7, 2023. The vault will protect the electronics of the spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter.
PIA25959:
Closing of the Europa Clipper Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-24 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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An engineer prepares a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration – for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in October 2023.
PIA25669:
CADRE Rover Getting Prepped for Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-24 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers prepare a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration – for testing in the thermal vacuum chamber behind them at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in October 2023.
PIA25670:
CADRE Team Preps Flight Model for Thermal Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars 2221x1288x3
The blue areas on this map of Mars are regions where NASA missions have detected subsurface water ice. Scientists can use the map to decide where the first astronauts to set foot on the Red Planet should land.
PIA26045:
SWIM Map Shows Subsurface Water Ice on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars 2852x1169x3
These Mars global maps show the likely distribution of water ice buried within the upper 3 feet (1 meter) of the planet's surface and represent the latest data from the SWIM project.
PIA26046:
Distribution of Buried Ice on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-27 Earth NISAR
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This composite uses data from two Japanese L-band SAR missions to reveal land-cover change in Brazil's Xingu River basin between 1996 and 2007.
PIA26111:
Composite of Brazil's 'Arc of Deforestation' Shows Imagery NISAR Will Produce
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-27 Earth NISAR
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NISAR will track wetland flooding to study how these carbon-rich ecosystems are reacting to climate change. It will generate images like this one from an airborne radar that flew over Peru in 2013.
PIA26112:
Radar Image of Amazonian Flooding Similar to Future NISAR Imagery
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA's SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft's photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light and heat from the Sun and the Earth.
PIA25784:
SPHEREx Outer Photon Shield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Part of one of the protective photon shields for NASA's SPHEREx telescope are shown here being assembled at Applied Aerospace Structures in Stockton, California.
PIA25785:
SPHEREx Photon Shields Assembled
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Amelia Quan, mechanical integration lead for NASA's SPHEREx mission, is seen with a V-groove radiator, a piece of hardware that will help keep the space telescope cold.
PIA25786:
SPHEREx V-Groove Radiator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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The telescope for NASA's SPHEREx mission undergoes testing at JPL. It is tilted on its base so it can see as much of the sky as possible while remaining within the protection of three concentric cones that protect the telescope from light and heat.
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SPHEREx Telescope at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx will use these filters to conduct spectroscopy, a technique that scientists can use to study the composition of an object. Each filter has multiple segments that block all but one specific wavelength of infrared light.
PIA25788:
SPHEREx Detector Filters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-14 NISAR
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The NISAR satellite enters the thermal vacuum chamber at an ISRO facility in Bengaluru on Oct. 19, 2023.
PIA26114:
NISAR Passes Thermal Vacuum Test in Indian Spacecraft Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-14 NISAR
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The NISAR satellite stayed in this ISRO antenna testing facility for 20 days in September as engineers evaluated the performance of its L- and S-band radar antennas.
PIA26115:
NISAR Completes Trial in ISRO's Compact Antenna Test Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-22 Mars Helicopter
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A dual rotor system for the next generation of Mars helicopters is tested in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept.15, 2023.
PIA26079:
Testing Next-Generation Mars Helicopter Rotors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-30 SunRISE
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The six satellites that make up NASA's SunRISE mission are each only about the size of a cereal box, flanked by small solar panels. SmallSats will work together to effectively create a much larger radio antenna in space.
PIA25789:
Completed SunRISE SmallSats Pictured Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-13 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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This artist's concept depicts a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration headed for the Moon – on the lunar surface.
PIA26161:
CADRE Rover on the Moon (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-21 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Engineers tested the system that will lower three small rovers onto the lunar surface when NASA's CADRE technology demonstration arrives at the Moon aboard a lunar lander.
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Testing the Deployer System for NASA's CADRE Project
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-30 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26061:
Europa Clipper With Instruments Aboard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-20 NISAR
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This artist's concept depicts NISAR in orbit over central and Northern California.
PIA26285:
NISAR Satellite in Earth Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration, three small rovers show off their ability to drive as a team autonomously during a test in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in December 2023.
PIA26164:
NASA's CADRE Rovers Take First Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Members of the CADRE assembly, test, launch, and operations team pose with completed hardware in a clean room at JPL in late January, 2024.
PIA26165:
CADRE ATLO Team Presents Completed Rovers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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A CADRE rover is prepared for electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing in a special chamber at JPL in November 2023.
PIA26166:
CADRE Rover Undergoes Electromagnetic Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Clamped to a shaker table, one of NASA's CADRE rovers gets shaken vigorously during a test in November 2023.
PIA26167:
CADRE Rover Gets a Big Shake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Two full-scale development model rovers are tested in JPL's Mars Yard in August 2023 as part of NASA's CADRE tech demo. These tests confirmed the project's hardware and software can work together to accomplish key goals.
PIA26168:
CADRE Test Rovers in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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With its solar panels open, a small rover that is bound for the Moon sits in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 26, 2024.
PIA26169:
Completed CADRE Rover in the Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-07 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Members of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration team pose with two full-scale development model rovers in the Mars Yard at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in January 2024.
PIA26170:
CADRE Team in the Mars Yard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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A commemorative plate mounted on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft features U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's handwritten In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa. It will be affixed with a silicon microchip stenciled with names submitted by the public.
PIA26062:
Europa Clipper's 'Golden Record'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-08 Europa Europa Clipper
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The art on this side of the plate features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by the word water in 103 languages. At center is a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for water.
PIA26063:
Europa Clipper's 'Water Words'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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Europa Clipper is seen in the 85-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024, before the start of thermal vacuum testing. A battery of tests ensures that the NASA spacecraft can withstand the extreme hot, cold, and airless environment of space.
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Europa Clipper Prepares for Test in Space Simulator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen being lifted into the Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024. Thermal vacuum testing, which lasted 16 days, ensures that the spacecraft will withstand the harsh conditions of space.
PIA26065:
Europa Clipper Rolls Into Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-22 Mars Mars Express (MEX)
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The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft is depicted in orbit around Mars in this artist's concept illustration.
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Mars Express, Artist's Concept
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-15 Venus ACRIMSAT
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Observations of the total solar irradiance made with the ACRIM3 instrument on NASA's ACRIMSAT satellite on June 5 and 6, 2012, tracked the effect of the transit of Venus, which lasted about six hours.
PIA15820:
NASA's ACRIMSAT Observes Venus Transit
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