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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-03 LISA Pathfinder
Disturbance Reduction System
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The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft is on its way to space, having successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana Dec. 3, 2015. On board is the state-of-the-art Disturbance Reduction System (DRS), a thruster technology developed at NASA's JPL.
PIA20197:
Disturbance Reduction System Thrusters Stabilize LISA Pathfinder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-08 Earth LDSD
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Sled tests will allow NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Project, or LDSD, to test inflatable and parachute decelerators to slow spacecraft prior to landing.
PIA15798:
NASA Tests Future Mars Landing Technology
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-16 LDSD
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NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project, will test an inflatable decelerator and a parachute at high altitudes and speeds over the Pacific Missile Range this June.
PIA18006:
Preparing for a Supersonic Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-16 LDSD
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In this picture, NASA's saucer-shaped experimental flight vehicle is prepared for a Range Compatibility Test at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kaua'i, Hawaii.
PIA18007:
Hanging Saucer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-16 LDSD
Parachute Deployment Device
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An engineer works on the Parachute Deployment Device of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle in this image taken at the Missile Assembly Building at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kaua'i, Hawaii.
PIA18008:
Prepping the Parachute Deployment Device
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-21 LDSD
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A saucer-shaped vehicle (part of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project) designed to test interplanetary landing devices hangs on a tower in preparation for launch at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.
PIA18011:
Before the Drop: Engineers Ready Supersonic Decelerator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-28 LDSD
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Engineers unload ground support equipment for a June engineering test flight above Kauai, Hawaii. The test flight is part of NASA's LDSD project, which is investigating cutting-edge landing technologies that could fly on future Mars missions.
PIA18015:
LDSD Test Device Arrives in Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-28 LDSD
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The saucer-shaped test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project, packaged in the box shown here, was shipped via plane to the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii on April 17.
PIA18016:
Unloading LDSD Test Device in Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-02 LDSD
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This artist's concept shows the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), designed to test landing technologies for future Mars missions.
PIA18017:
LDSD's Rocket-powered Test Vehicle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-04 Earth LDSD
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Members of the team for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) stand in front of the project's saucer-shaped test vehicle at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.
PIA18019:
LDSD Team in Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-04 Earth LDSD
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This image shows the tower from which the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) will hang before a balloon lifts it to high altitudes.
PIA18450:
Launch Tower for LDSD
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-06 Earth LDSD
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The saucer-shaped test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) will undergo a series of events in the skies above Hawaii, with the ultimate goal of testing future landing technologies for Mars missions.
PIA18451:
Timeline of Events for Planetary Landing Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-29 Earth LDSD
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Hours after its successful engineering flight, the first test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project is lifted aboard the recovery vessel Kahana.
PIA18517:
Test Vehicle Gets a Lift
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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.
PIA18518:
LDSD Saucer Aboard
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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 2014-06-29 Earth LDSD
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Hours after the June 28, 2014, test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator over the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range, two members of the Navy's Explosive Ordinance Disposal swim toward the test vehicle.
PIA18520:
Saturday Afternoon Swim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-29 Earth LDSD
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Hours after the June 28, 2014, test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator over the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range, the saucer-shaped test vehicle is lifted aboard the Kahana recovery vessel.
PIA18521:
Saucer Out of the Drink
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-01 Earth LDSD
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Two members of the Navy's Explosive Ordinance Disposal team perch on the test vehicle used in the first flight of NASA's Low-density Supersonic Decelerator project.
PIA18522:
Mach 4 to Pacific
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Earth LDSD
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NASA's Supersonic Disk Sail Parachute, one of the new technologies being developed as part of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project, floats just below the surface of the Pacific Ocean on June 28, 2014.
PIA18425:
LDSD Chute Beneath the Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Earth LDSD
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Tears are visible in the parachute from NASA's Supersonic Disk Sail Parachute, which did not deploy as expected. The photo was obtained by Navy divers during recovery of the LDSD test vehicle and parachute.
PIA18424:
LDSD Chute
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Earth LDSD
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The main structural body of the second flight test vehicle in NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project is seen during its assembly in a cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA18426:
LDSD Flight Test Vehicle 2 in Cleanroom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Earth LDSD
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Moments into its powered flight, NASA'sLow-density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle captured this image of the balloon which carried it to high altitudes.
PIA18464:
Departing Saucer Snaps Balloon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Earth LDSD
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Divers retrieve the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator off the coast of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.
PIA18465:
Fishing LDSD out of the Water
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Earth LDSD
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The test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is seen here before and after the balloon that helped carry it to near-space was deflated.
PIA18466:
A Balloon's Job Well Done: LDSD in Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-08 Earth LDSD
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This frame from a video clip shows rockets fired by the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project.
PIA18644:
Firing the Saucer Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-05 Earth LDSD
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NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator hangs from a launch tower at U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. The saucer-shaped vehicle will test two devices for landing heavy payloads on Mars.
PIA19342:
LDSD Ready for Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-11 Earth LDSD
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Crews from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility prepare the balloon for flight for the 2014 NASA Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test from the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.
PIA17799:
The Saucer's Ride
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-05 Earth LDSD
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NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator hangs from a launch tower at U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. The saucer-shaped vehicle will test two devices for landing heavy payloads on Mars.
PIA19343:
LDSD on the Launch Tower
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-09 Earth LDSD
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NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle attached to launch tower just prior to take off.
PIA19683:
LDSD Test Vehicle Attached to Launch Tower
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Earth LDSD
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Two members of the U.S. Navy's Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 Explosive Ordnance Detachment work on recovering the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project.
PIA19684:
Saucer Shoal: LDSD Recovery off Kauai
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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 2022-12-23 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 1998-01-08 Lunar Prospector
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This artist's concept of the Lunar Prospector shows the spacecraft in lunar orbit. Instrument masts are fully deployed.
PIA18162:
Lunar Prospector (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-18 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA is scheduled to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, on June 18, 2009.
PIA12072:
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-07 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Diviner
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The Diviner Instrument prior to shipment. Diviner is one of seven instruments aboard NASA's LRO Mission.
PIA12084:
The Diviner Instrument Prior to Shipment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-07 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Diviner
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This image shows final preparations being made for thermal balance testing of the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment at JPL. Diviner is one of seven instruments aboard NASA's LRO Mission.
PIA12085:
Final Preparations for Diviner Thermal Balance Testing at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-07 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Loading the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter into the thermal vacuum chamber at Goddard Space Flight Center. Diviner is one of seven instruments aboard NASA's LRO Mission.
PIA12086:
Loading Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in the Thermal Vacuum Chamber
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-07 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Diviner
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Close-up of the Diviner solar calibration target. Diviner is one of seven instruments aboard NASA's LRO Mission.
PIA12087:
Close-up of Diviner Solar Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-07 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Diviner
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The Diviner instrument following integration to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Diviner is one of seven instruments aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12088:
Diviner Following Integration to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-07 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Diviner
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Diviner undergoing post thermal vacuum range of motion testing. Diviner is one of seven instruments aboard NASA's LRO Mission.
PIA12089:
Diviner Undergoing Post Thermal Vacuum Range of Motion Testing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-24 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Artist's rendering of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO,) above the moon.
PIA18163:
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-12-02 Lunar Trailblazer
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Peering into the Moon's permanently shadowed regions, Lunar Trailblazer will detect signatures of water ice in reflected light, and it will pinpoint the locations of micro-cold traps less than a football field in size.
PIA24161:
Lunar Trailblazer to Support NASA's Artemis Program
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-08 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) is one of two instruments that will be carried aboard NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, launching in 2023.
PIA25252:
Key Lunar Trailblazer Instrument Passes Milestone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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Engineers work on the JPL-developed High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) for NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, in December 2022.
PIA25254:
Engineers Work on Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The side of the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) is seen as the instrument gets unwrapped in a clean room. The JPL-developed imaging spectrometer was later integrated with NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft.
PIA25255:
A Closer View of NASA Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Lunar Trailblazer
High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³)
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The HVM³ instrument sits in a JPL clean room in early December 2022. The instrument was built at JPL then shipped to Lockheed Martin Space in Colorado to be integrated with NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft.
PIA25256:
Lunar Trailblazer's HVM³ Imaging Spectrometer Before Spacecraft Integration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-26 Lunar Trailblazer
Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM)
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Seen here before being shipped from the U.K. to the U.S., the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) is one of two instruments that will be carried by NASA's Lunar Trailblazer.
PIA25831:
Lunar Trailblazer's Thermal Mapper Has Arrived at Lockheed Martin
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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 2023-08-16 Lunar Trailblazer
Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM)
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, shortly after being integrated with its second and final science instrument, the Lunar Thermal Mapper.
PIA25837:
Lunar Trailblazer Spacecraft Nears Completion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-11 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft sits in a clean room in August 2024 after undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado.
PIA26390:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Deploys Its Solar Arrays After Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-29 Lunar Trailblazer
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in lunar orbit about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the surface of the Moon.
PIA26453:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Orbit Around the Moon (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-13 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer approaches the Moon as it enters its science orbit in this artist's concept.
PIA26457:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Moon's Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-13 Lunar Trailblazer
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft gets covered in anti-static wrap before being shipped from Lockheed Martin Space to the agency's Kennedy Space Center, where it arrived on Jan. 29, 2025.
PIA26458:
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Gets Bagged Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-13 Lunar Trailblazer
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Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months. This orbital diagram shows the low-energy transfer trajectory of the NASA mission should it launch on Feb. 26, 2025.
PIA26459:
Lunar Trailblazer's Looping Lunar Voyage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1990-08-10 Magellan
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An artist's concept of the Magellan spacecraft making a radar map of Venus. The spacecraft was commanded to plunge into Venus' atmosphere in 1994 as part of a final experiment to gather atmospheric data.
PIA18175:
Magellan Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-12-23 Mariner
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This image shows two engineers standing with Mariner 1 on May 2, 1962, at JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility.
PIA23310:
Mariner 1 in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-27 Venus Mariner 2
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NASA's Mariner 2 was the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Launched August 27, 1962, on an Atlas-Agena rocket, Mariner 2 passed within about 34,000 kilometers (21,000 miles) of Venus.
PIA04594:
Mariner 2 (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-12 Mars Mariner Mars 1964 (Mariner 4)
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This is an enhanced contrast version of the first Mars photograph released on July 15, 1965. This is man's first close-up photograph of another planet, a photographic representation of digital data radioed from Mars by the Mariner 4 spacecraft.
PIA14032:
First TV Image of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-12 Mars Mariner Mars 1964 (Mariner 4)
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A 'real-time data translator' machine converted Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper.
PIA14033:
First TV Image of Mars (Hand Colored)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-03 Mars 2020 Project
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Three of the six flight wheels that will travel to Mars can be seen attached to NASA's Perseverance rover on March 30, 2020 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA23821:
Wheels Up for Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-03 Mars 2020 Project
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This wheel, and five others just like it, heads to Mars on NASA's Perseverance rover this summer. The image was taken on March 30, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
PIA23822:
Gift Wrapped Mars Wheel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-20 Mars 2020 Project
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Another view of NASA's Perseverance rover attached to a spin table during a test of its mass properties at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.
PIA23826:
Perseverance Rover on Spin Table at Kennedy Space Center
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-20 Mars 2020 Project
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This image of the Perseverance Mars rover was taken at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 7, 2020, during a test of the vehicle's mass properties.
PIA23828:
Inverted Rover at Kennedy Space Center
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-20 Mars 2020 Project
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NASA's Perseverance rover is moved during a test of its mass properties at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.
PIA23829:
Lifting Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-21 Mars 2020 Project
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A technician points a smartphone camera at NASA's Perseverance rover during an inspection at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA23825:
Smartphone Walkdown
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-21 Mars 2020 Project
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Ian Clark walks past mission countdown clocks in the Perseverance offices at JPL. Clark was needed on-Lab to supervise the assembly and cleaning of the sample tubes that will hold Martian sediment and rock.
PIA23830:
Countdown to Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-21 Mars 2020 Project
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Members of NASA's Perseverance rover mission work remotely from home during the coronavirus outbreak.
PIA23881:
Portraits in Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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A field team sets up equipment in the Nevada desert in February 2020 as part of a training session for scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after it lands.
PIA23776:
Perseverance Field Team Sets up in Nevada Desert
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-05-06 Mars 2020 Project
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Two members of a field team set up cameras in the Nevada desert in February 2020, as part of a simulated rover operation designed to train scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA23777:
Cameras in the Nevada Desert
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A member of a Mars 2020 science field team operates a subsurface radar in the Nevada desert in February 2020 as part of a practice exercise.
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Subsurface Radar That Looks Like a Jogging Stroller
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Made from fossilized microbes and sediment, these rounded rocks are stromatolites that were found in a dry lakebed during the Mars 2020 field exercise.
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Stromatolites in the Nevada Desert
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As part of the February 2020 training exercise, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reviewed images and data sent by the Mars 2020 field team in the Nevada desert.
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Scientists Training for Mars Rover Operations
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Michael Tuite and Rachel Kronyak of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory served as part of the desert field team, sending images and data for review by scientists who will work with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
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Science on the Horizon
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The cone-shaped back shell for NASA's Perseverance rover mission is shown in this April 29, 2020, image from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Protecting NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on to of NASA's Perseverance rover was taken in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2020.
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Perseverance Rover Gets in Launch Shape
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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover's descent stage was recently stacked atop the rover at Kennedy Space Center, and the two were placed in their back shell.
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Perseverance from Below
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The spacecraft that will carry NASA's Perseverance rover to Mars is examined prior to an acoustic test in the Environmental Test Facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Mars Mission Sound Check
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This animated GIF shows a test of the mortar system that will be used on Feb. 18, 2021, to deploy the parachute for NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Launching a Mars Parachute
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This animated GIF shows the deployment of the Perseverance rover's remote sensing mast during a cold test in a space simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Perseverance Gets Chilled
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This animated GIF shows a successful test of the parachute that will be used to land NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
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Parachute for Perseverance
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In this June 2017 photo, the supersonic parachute design that will land NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, undergoes testing in a wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley.
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Wind Tunnel Testing Perseverance's Parachute
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The first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V that will carry NASA's Perseverance rover into space is offloaded from an Antonov cargo plane at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 11, 2020.
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Mars Rocket Arrives by Air
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Some of the nearly 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of Perseverance mission flight hardware, test gear and equipment delivered to Kennedy Space Center on May 11, 2020, is unloaded from a NASA Wallops C-130.
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Unloading Mars Gear
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Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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This image shows an engineering model of SHERLOC, one of the instruments onboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
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Mars 2020's SHERLOC Instrument
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Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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In this test image by SHERLOC, an instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, each color represents a different mineral detected on a rock's surface.
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Mineral Map Created During a Test of SHERLOC
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This image shows the wiping down of hardware to limit the number of Earth microbes going to the Red Planet for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
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Cleaning Mars 2020
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Planetary protection engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory clean the tubes that will store Martian rock and sediment samples as part of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
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Swabbing Perseverance Sample Tubes
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In this illustration, NASA's Perseverance rover uses its Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) instrument to analyze a rock on the surface of Mars.
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PIXL Takes Aim at Rocks (Illustration)
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Attached to the Perseverance Mars rover, this aluminum plate commemorates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pays tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world.
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Healthcare Workers to Be Honored on Mars
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In this artist's concept, a two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle speeds the Mars 2020 spacecraft toward the Red Planet. This will be NASA's fifth Mars launch on an Atlas V.
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Rocket to Mars (Artist's Concept)
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Seen from below, NASA's the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover bears a plaque to the right of its middle wheel commemorating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and honoring the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world.
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Perseverance Rover with Commemorative Plate
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission's disk-shaped cruise stage sits atop the back shell, which contains the powered descent stage and Perseverance rover, in this image taken on May 28, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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One Last Earthly Look
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The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator for NASA'S Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is shown during a fit check with the rover at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 16-17, 2020.
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Rover Power Source
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This image shows the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator for NASA'S Mars 2020 Perseverance rover during a fit check at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 16-17, 2020.
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Testing Rover Power Source
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Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida perform a fit check between the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and its Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator on April 16-17, 2020.
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Fitting the Rover's Power Supply
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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover waits to be lifted onto its Atlas V launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
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Lifting Perseverance
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The nose cone containing the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sits atop a motorized payload transporter at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
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Perseverance on the Move
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The nose cone containing NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is maneuvered into place atop its Atlas V rocket. The image was taken at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
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Maneuvering Perseverance
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Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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This graphic shows an illustration of a prototype astronaut suit along with suit samples included in the calibration target belonging to the SHERLOC instrument aboard the Perseverance rover.
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Spacesuit Materials on Perseverance's SHERLOC Calibration Target
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