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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3900x2860x3
Two prototypes for a NASA mission concept called SWIM are arranged beside a much smaller nonfunctioning model representing the final envisioned size of the robot: about 5 inches (12 centimeters) long.
PIA26425:
NASA's SWIM Prototypes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3024x4032x3
A model of the final envisioned SWIM robot, right, sits beside a capsule holding an ocean-composition sensor. The sensor was tested on an Alaskan glacier in July 2023.
PIA26424:
Model of NASA's SWIM Robot on Glacial Ice in Alaska
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3840x2160x3
A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water's surface during a pool test at Caltech in September, 2024.
PIA26423:
NASA's SWIM Robot Casts Reflection During Pool Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-29 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system reaches out from a lander on the Moon and scoops up regolith (broken rock and dust).
PIA26347:
NASA's COLDArm Operating on the Moon (Animation)
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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 2024-10-23 NISAR
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A container holding NISAR's radar antenna reflector is loaded into NASA's C-130 cargo plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California, on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26419:
NISAR Radar Antenna Reflector Loaded for Return to India
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft approaching Jupiter and its icy moon Europa.
PIA26445:
Europa Clipper Approaches Its Target (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the gas giant's ice-covered moon Europa.
PIA26444:
Europa Clipper Explores an Icy Ocean World (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft performing a close flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
PIA26443:
Europa Clipper Zooms Over Its Target of Study (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-18 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft silhouetted against Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon Europa.
PIA26442:
Europa Clipper Spies Jupiter and Europa (Artist's Concept)
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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 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft carries a suite of nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses its telecommunications system.
PIA26439:
Europa Clipper: Equipped for Discovery (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA26437:
Europa Clipper Launch Ascent Timeline
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth, using the gravity of each planet as a slingshot to boost the spacecraft's speed.
PIA26435:
Europa Clipper's Trajectory to Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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Jupiter's moon Europa is smaller than Earth's moon yet may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
PIA26434:
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-10 Europa Europa Clipper
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With its solar arrays and antennas fully extended, the Europa Clipper spacecraft stretches out larger than a basketball court.
PIA26433:
Europa Clipper: NASA's Largest Planetary Spacecraft (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists believe that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
PIA26438:
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is tasked with up-close study of Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa.
PIA26436:
Europa Clipper's Elliptical Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts the long, looping path NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will take to reach the Jupiter system.
PIA26432:
Europa Clipper's Looping Journey to Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-09 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit at Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon Europa.
PIA26431:
Europa Clipper in the Shadow of Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's NEO Surveyor in deep space. The black-paneled angular structure in the belly of the spacecraft is the instrument enclosure that is being built at JPL.
PIA26388:
NASA's NEO Surveyor in Deep Space (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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A technician operates articulating equipment to rotate NEO Surveyor's aluminum optical bench in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on July 17, 2024.
PIA26387:
NEO Surveyor's Telescope Optical Bench Under Construction at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-28 NEO Surveyor
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A mirror that was later installed inside the telescope for NASA's NEO Surveyor shows a reflection of principal optical engineer Brian Monacelli during an inspection of the mirror's surface.
PIA26386:
NEO Surveyor's Mirrors Undergo Inspection at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.
PIA26068:
Europa Clipper Artist's Concept
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after engineers and technicians tested and stowed the spacecraft's giant solar arrays.
PIA26067:
Europa Clipper Solar Arrays Stowed for Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Europa Europa Clipper
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NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
PIA26066:
Testing Europa Clipper's Solar Arrays
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-26 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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Three small rovers bound for the Moon are arrayed in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Jan. 26, 2024.
PIA26346:
CADRE Rovers, Hardware in JPL Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-16 Carbon Mapper Coalition
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This artist's concept depicts one of the Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager satellites, the first of which launched on Aug. 16, 2024. Tanager-1 will use imaging spectrometer technology developed at JPL to measure greenhouse gas point-source emissions.
PIA26411:
Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager Satellite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 NEO Surveyor
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At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on June 7, 2024, clean room technicians use a crane to lift the lid of the Medium Articulating Transportation System (MATS) that will be used for the components for NASA's NEO Surveyor mission.
PIA26382:
Lifting the Lid: NEO Surveyor's Medium Articulating Assembly Dolly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 NEO Surveyor
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A truck arrives at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 3, 2024, to deliver the Medium Articulating Transportation System (MATS), which will be used during the construction and transportation of components for NASA's NEO Surveyor mission.
PIA26381:
NEO Surveyor's Transportation System Arrives at JPL's High Bay 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, engineers and technicians pose with the agency's Farside Seismic Suite while the payload is readied for testing.
PIA26342:
FSS team
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, technician Nik Schwarz prepares the agency's Farside Seismic Suite (FSS) for testing.
PIA26341:
Getting Farside Seismic Suite Ready for Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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Seen here in November 2023, Farside Seismic Suite's inner cube houses the NASA payload's battery and two seismometers. The gold, puck-shaped device holds the Short Period sensor, while the silver enclosure contains the Very Broadband seismometer.
PIA26300:
Farside Seismic Suite's Cube Within a Cube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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NASA's Farside Seismic Suite undergoes work in a JPL clean room in March, 2024. The instrument's two seismometers are packaged in a cube-within-a-cube structure. The shiny blanket is an outer insulating layer; the single solar panel provides power.
PIA26299:
Farside Seismic Suite Before Testing at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-29 Farside Seismic Suite (FSS)
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JPL engineers and technicians prepare NASA's Farside Seismic Suite for testing in simulated lunar gravity. The payload will gather the agency's first-ever seismic measurements from the far side of the Moon.
PIA26298:
Farside Seismic Suite Prepared for Testing in JPL Clean Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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One of the two shoebox-size CubeSats that make up NASA's PREFIRE mission sits on a table at Blue Canyon Technologies. The company built the satellite bus and integrated the JPL-provided thermal infrared spectrometer instrument.
PIA26186:
PREFIRE CubeSat Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
 Roman Coronagraph
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This graphic shows a test of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument. At left, starlight leaks into the field of view when fixed components are used. The middle and right images show more starlight being removed as moveable components are engaged.
PIA26279:
Roman Coronagraph Digging the Dark Hole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
 Roman Coronagraph
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Team members at JPL said farewell to the Roman Coronagraph Instrument on May 17, 2024, by signing their names to a flag on the outside of the shipping container that carried the instrument to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
PIA26278:
Coronagraph Team Signs Flag Farewell
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
 Roman Coronagraph
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At JPL on May 17, 2024, members of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument team use a crane to lift the top portion of the shipping container that the instrument was stored in for its journey to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
PIA26277:
Coronagraph Prepared for Shipping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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This artist's concept depicts one of two PREFIRE CubeSats in orbit around Earth. The NASA mission will measure the amount of far-infrared radiation the planet's polar regions shed to space.
PIA26185:
PREFIRE CubeSat in Earth Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-13 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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This animated artist's concept depicts three small rovers – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration headed for the Moon – driving together on the lunar surface.
PIA26296:
CADRE Rovers Explore the Moon Together (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-01 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
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One of three small rovers bound for the Moon took an autonomous test drive in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in December 2023.
PIA26297:
NASA's CADRE Rover Takes an Autonomous Drive
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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 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.
PIA26064:
Europa Clipper Prepares for Test in Space Simulator
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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 2024-03-08 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 2024-03-07 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 2024-03-07 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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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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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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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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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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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 2024-02-20 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 2024-01-31 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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The Roman Coronagraph was peppered with radio waves to test its response to stray electrical signals. The test was performed inside a chamber lined with foam padding that absorbs the radio waves to prevent them from bouncing off the walls.
PIA26273:
Roman Coronagraph Undergoes Electromagnetic Interference Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
 Roman Coronagraph
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JPL scientist Vanessa Bailey stands behind the Nancy Grace Roman Coronagraph, which has been undergoing testing at JPL. The Coronagraph is designed to block starlight and allow scientists to see the faint light from planets outside our solar system.
PIA26272:
Roman Coronagraph on View in a JPL Clean Room
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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 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
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Engineer Matthew Cameron-Hooper performs a checkout on some systems of the Europa Lander landing gear testbed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on May 27, 2022.
PIA26200:
System Checkouts on Testbed for Europa Lander Landing Gear
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
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Engineers test the mechanical landing system for the proposed Europa Lander project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept. 15, 2022.
PIA26199:
Testing a Landing Gear for Potential Future Landing on Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Europa Europa Lander
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare flight-like landing gear in the Europa Lander landing gear testbed in summer 2022.
PIA26198:
Engineers Prepare Europa Lander Landing Gear for Test
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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.
PIA26163:
Testing the Deployer System for NASA's CADRE Project
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Moon Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm)
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Engineers and technicians prepare NASA's COLDArm robotic arm system for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in November 2023.
PIA26162:
NASA's COLDArm in Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-18 Psyche
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This image shows an annotated screenshot from the first ultra-HD video streamed from deep space via a laser. NASA's DSOC experiment aboard the Psyche spacecraft sent the 15-second video back to Earth on Dec. 11, 2023.
PIA26146:
Explaining the First Ultra-HD Video Sent From Deep Space via Laser
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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 2023-11-30 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 2023-11-22 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 2023-11-16 Psyche
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The downlink laser signal for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration is detected at the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,
PIA26142:
Confirmation of DSOC 'First Light' at JPL's Table Mountain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-15 Europa Europa Lander
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On Aug. 17 and 18, 2023, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tested the landing system for a proposed future mission that would touch down on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
PIA26010:
Testing Hardware for Potential Future Landing on Europa
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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 2023-11-14 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 2023-11-09 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 2023-11-09 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.
PIA25787:
SPHEREx Telescope at JPL
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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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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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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 2023-10-27 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 2023-10-27 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 2023-10-26 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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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 2023-10-24 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 2023-10-24 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 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 2023-10-04 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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Shown here is an identical copy of the DSOC, superconducting nanowire single-photon detector that is coupled to the 200-inch (5.1-meter) Hale Telescope located at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California.
PIA26141:
DSOC's Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-04 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
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Shown here is a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA25840:
DSOC's Downlink Detector Prototype
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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Methane is contained in a glowing cylinder during a September 2023 test conducted by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California of a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer.
PIA26097:
Imaging Spectrometer Methane Test Setup
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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The data captured here is one of the outputs of a September 2023 test conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory of a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer instrument, which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space.
PIA26096:
Imaging Spectrometer Instrument's Data Shows Methane Intensity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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A technician slides the imaging spectrometer into a thermal vacuum test chamber at JPL in July 2023. Engineers use the chamber to subject the spectrometer to the extreme temperatures it will encounter in the vacuum of space.
PIA26098:
Imaging Spectrometer Inside Thermal Vacuum Chamber
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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This spectral fingerprint of methane was produced from data taken during a test of the imaging spectrometer at JPL. The instrument measures hundreds of wavelengths of light reflected by Earth's surface and absorbed by gases in the atmosphere.
PIA26095:
Methane Signal From Carbon Mapper Instrument Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL. The instrument will be part of an effort led by the nonprofit Carbon Mapper organization to collect data on greenhouse gas point-source emissions.
PIA26094:
Imaging Spectrometer Vacuum Chamber Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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Engineers prepare the imaging spectrometer – part of an effort led by the nonprofit Carbon Mapper to monitor greenhouse gas emissions – for vibration testing at JPL.
PIA26093:
Imaging Spectrometer Vibration Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-14 Carbon Mapper
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The imaging spectrometer sits at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in August 2023, before shipment to Planet Labs PBC in San Francisco. The instrument will be integrated into a Tanager satellite over the next several months.
PIA26092:
Imaging Spectrometer Fully Integrated
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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 2023-09-01 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 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 2023-08-28 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 2023-08-28 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 2023-08-24 Carbon Mapper Coalition
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in April 2023 examine the imaging spectrometer that will ride aboard the first of two satellites to be launched by the Carbon Mapper Coalition.
PIA25869:
JPL Engineers Work on Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
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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 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 2023-08-15 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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