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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-12 Mars InSight
 Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC)
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NASA's InSight lander took this series of images on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, capturing the moment when Phobos, one of Mars' moons, crossed in front of the Sun and darkened the ground around the lander.
PIA23049:
InSight's Arm Camera Observes Phobos Eclipse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-07-01 Mars InSight
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On June 28, 2019, NASA's InSight lander used its robotic arm to move the support structure for its digging instrument. This view was captured by the Instrument Deployment Camera.
PIA23309:
Arm Camera: InSight Lifts the Mole's Support Structure
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-23 Mars InSight
 Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC)
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This animation illustrates NASA's InSight lander touching down on Mars, its thrusters setting a rock in motion.
PIA23345:
Rolling Stones Rock (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-13 Earth Landsat
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This illustration depicts synthetic aperature radar patterns of seismic deformations associated with a model earthquake on the San Francisco section of the San Andreas Fault (depicted in yellow).
PIA03032:
New Forecast of San Francisco Earthquake Risk Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-21 Earth RapidScat
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NASA's ISS-RapidScat ocean wind scatterometer viewed Hurricane Ana as it approached Hawaii. From Oct. 13 to Oct. 19, 2014, RapidScat observed Ana seven times. This frame is from a movie containing multiple days of observation.
PIA18834:
Hurricane Ana Viewed by NASA's ISS-RapidScat Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-11-06 Earth RapidScat
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NASA's ISS-RapidScat's antenna, lower right, was pointed at Hurricane Patricia as the powerful storm approached Mexico on Oct. 23, 2015.
PIA20049:
RapidScat and Hurricane Patricia Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-28 Jupiter Juno
 JIRAM
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This animation depicts the invisible forces at work at Jupiter's south pole that keep the five circumpolar cyclones there in position relative to each other and to the polar cyclone.
PIA24968:
Movement at Jupiter's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-28 Jupiter Juno
 JIRAM
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In this animation, forces created by movement toward the south pole of a circumpolar cyclone results in the temporary shift in location by the polar cyclone and the four other circumpolar cyclones.
PIA24969:
Oscillating Cyclones at Jupiter's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Ganymede Juno
 Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE)
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This animation illustrates how the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter's moon Ganymede interacts with and disrupts the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter.
PIA25724:
NASA's Juno Mission Explores the Magnetic Connection Between Jupiter and Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-02 Jupiter Juno
 JIRAM
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As NASA's Juno spacecraft approached Jupiter on Aug. 27, 2016, the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument captured the planet's glow in infrared light.
PIA21036:
Juno Captures Jupiter's Glow in Infrared Light Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-13 Io Juno
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This infrared image of the southern hemisphere of Jupiter's moon Io was derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 16, 2017.
PIA22599:
Jupiter Moon Io in Infrared Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-11 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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This image from NASA's Juno's spacecraft, shows a simulation of a flight into, and then out of, Jupiter's upper atmosphere at the location of the Great Red Spot.
PIA22176:
The Great Red Spot Plunge (animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-23 Jupiter Juno
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This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft is one of two taken 12 minutes apart which neatly captures storm movement in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter.
PIA21982:
Ghost in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-11-30 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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Changing cloud formations across Jupiter's southern hemisphere are captured in this series of images from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
PIA22694:
'Dolphin' in the Jovian Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-12 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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This movie was generated using imagery collected from NASA's Juno spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2018, during Juno's 16th perijove (the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's center).
PIA22906:
Juno Flyby Movie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-31 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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A giant, spiraling storm in Jupiter's southern hemisphere is captured in this animation from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
PIA22943:
Jupiter Storm Tracker
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-08-05 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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In the center of this JunoCam image, small, bright pop-up clouds seen rise above the surrounding features. Clouds like these are thought to be the tops of violent thunderstorms responsible for shallow lighting.
PIA24041:
When Jupiter's Clouds Pop Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-08 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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During the closest approach of this pass, NASA's Juno spacecraft came within approximately 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops.
PIA23807:
A Flight Over Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-18 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in the giant planet's mid-southern latitudes.
PIA25069:
Earth's Ocean and Jupiter's Atmosphere (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-27 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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Citizen scientist Andrea Luck created this animated sequence using raw JunoCam image data from NASA's Juno mission as it completed its 41st close flyby of Jupiter.
PIA25016:
Juno Skims the Cloud Tops of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-14 Jupiter Juno
 JunoCam
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JunoCam, the color public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this sequence of images during its 46th close pass by the giant planet on September 29, 2022.
PIA25723:
Juno Offers a Window Seat for a Jupiter Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-19 Earth GRACE
 K-Band Ranging System
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NASA's GRACE mission has become a key source of knowledge about global ice mass changes. Studies of Greenland using GRACE and other data indicate that between 2000 and 2008 the Greenland ice sheet lost as much as 1,500 gigatons of mass.
PIA12845:
Greenland Gains Some, Loses More Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Earth GRACE
 K-Band Ranging System
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This image is from data taken by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment showing the Amazon basin in South America. The amount of water stored in the Amazon basin varies from month to month. Animations are available at the Photojournal.
PIA13243:
Measuring Water Storage in the Amazon Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.739 MB)     JPEG (51.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-02 Earth GRACE
 K-Band Ranging System
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This frame from an animation based on data from NASA's Grace satellite shows dramatic changes in Greenland's ice mass from 2003 through 2011 revealing how much ice has been lost and gained each year.
PIA13955:
Ice Mass Loss on Greenland, 2003-2011 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-26 Earth GRACE
 K-Band Ranging System
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This frame from NASA's Grace animation illustrates the highs and lows of combined land water storage (includes snow, soil moisture, and surface water) over the continental United States.
PIA14268:
GRACE Land Water Storage Monthly Changes over the United States, 2003 – Early 2013 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-03 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)
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This animation shows the antennas for the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) instrument deploying on the SWOT satellite. The actual antennas deployed over the course of four days after the spacecraft's Dec. 16, 2022 launch.
PIA25596:
SWOT KaRIn Antenna Deployment (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-13 Cygnus W. M. Keck Observatory
 Keck I Telescope
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This frame from an artist's animation shows the view from a hypothetical moon in orbit around the first known planet to reside in a tight-knit triple-star system. HD 188553 Ab is a gas giant planet, about 1.14 times the mass of Jupiter.
PIA03520:
Land of Three Suns (Artist's Concept Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-13 Cygnus W. M. Keck Observatory
 Keck I Telescope
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This frame from an artist's animation shows the clockwork-like orbits of a triple-star system called HD 188753, which was discovered to harbor a gas giant, or 'hot Jupiter,' planet.
PIA03521:
Circus Family of Stars (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-24 NISAR
 L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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The S-band SAR arrived at JPL on March 19. The next day, technicians and engineers moved the S-SAR into the airlock to the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 clean room, to be unpacked over several days in the clean room.
PIA24137:
NISAR S-Band SAR Arrival
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-15 Asteroid Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca
 La Sagra Sky Survey
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This set of images from the La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain, shows the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 shortly after its closest, and safe, approach to Earth.
PIA16738:
Outbound Near-Earth Asteroid, as Seen from Spain Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
 LEISA
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In this frame from a movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds (appearing as bright blue areas) as they form and disperse.
PIA09922:
Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on NASA New Horizons acquired images of the Pluto field three days apart in late September 2006, in order to see Pluto's motion against a dense background of stars.
PIA09234:
New Horizons Sees Pluto Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
 LORRI
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Tvashtar Movie
PIA09357:
Tvashtar Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-14 Io New Horizons
 LORRI
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This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. These were snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year.
PIA09665:
Tvashtar in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
 LORRI
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Shepherd Moons
PIA09921:
Shepherd Moons Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-07 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This frame from an animation of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it raced toward Pluto in July 2014.
PIA11217:
A Moon over Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This frame from a movie, composed of images taken by NASA's New Horizons, shows Pluto as it rotates about its axis. The images were taken May 28-June 3, 2015, from distances ranging from approximately 56 million kilometers to 48.5 million kilometers.
PIA17807:
Faces of Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-03 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This image was created by NASA New Horizons to reveal color surface features of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. It was taken between June 23 and June 29, 2015.
PIA19696:
Pluto and Charon Surfaces in Living Color (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-03 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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What color is Pluto? The answer, revealed in the first maps made from NASA's New Horizons data, turns out to be shades of reddish brown.
PIA19697:
The 'Other' Red Planet (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-08 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This four-frame movie shows NASA's New Horizons' final deep search for hazardous material around Pluto, obtained on July 1, 2015. These data allow a highly sensitive search for any new moons.
PIA19701:
Final Hazard Search Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-28 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This frame from an animation is a dramatic view of the Pluto system is as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft saw it in July 2015.
PIA19873:
Flying Past Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.622 MB)     JPEG (103 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-21 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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Images downloaded from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft (through Sept. 11, 2015) were stitched together and rendered on a sphere to make this flyover 'movie.' This is a frame from the animation.
PIA19951:
Flyover Sputnik Planum Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-05 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This frame from a movie is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015.
PIA20202:
New Horizons' Very Best View of Pluto (movie)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-18 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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In April 2016, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile (145-kilometer) wide Kuiper Belt object (KBO) orbiting more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) from the sun.
PIA20589:
New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-27 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This frame from a movie, which extends across the hemisphere that faced New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NASA probe.
PIA14457:
New Horizons' Best Close-Up of Pluto's Surface (movie) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-08-31 New Horizons
 LORRI
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In July 2016, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observed the Kuiper Belt Object Quaoar, roughly half the size of Pluto. An animated gif is available at the Photojournal.
PIA21024:
New Horizons Spies a Kuiper Belt Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-01 Charon New Horizons
 LORRI
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Images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were used to create a flyover video of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The 'flight' starts with the informally named Mordor (dark) region near Charon's north pole.
PIA19965:
Flying over Charon Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-19 Kuiper Belt Object New Horizons
 LORRI
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This frame from an animation shows a Kuiper Belt object know as 2014 MU69, as seen by NASA's New Horizons.
PIA21865:
Wink of a Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Magnetometer
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NASA's Cassini magnetometer instrument detected an atmosphere around Enceladus during the Feb. 17, 2005, flyby and again during a March 9, 2005, flyby. This audio file is based on the data collected from that instrument.
PIA07869:
Sounds of Enceladus Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.331 MB)     JPEG (808.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-31 Mercury MESSENGER
 Magnetometer
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A Movie of Magnetometer Measurements from the Second Mercury Flyby
PIA11413:
A Movie of Magnetometer Measurements from the Second Mercury Flyby Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-16 Mercury MESSENGER
 Magnetometer (MAG)
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Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
PIA14346:
Movie of Mercury's Magnetic Equator Versus Longitude
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-15 Sol (our sun) Cassini-Huygens
 MIMI
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As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the 'heliosphere' around our solar system. The heliosphere is the region of space under the influence of our sun.
PIA12310:
The Bubble of Our Solar System Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 MIMI
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This image was taken with NASA's Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument's ion and neutral camera, showing Saturn's dynamic 'ring current,' which is an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the magnetic field of the planet.
PIA10095:
Saturn's "Ring Current" Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 MIMI
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This frame from an animation based on data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows how the 'explosions' of hot plasma on the night side (orange and white) periodically inflate Saturn's magnetic field (white lines).
PIA13697:
Saturn's Hot Plasma Explosions Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 MIMI
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This frame from an animation, derived from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows how plasma swirling around Saturn is correlated to bursts of radio waves emanating from the planet.
PIA13698:
Saturn Plasma and Radio Waves, as Seen by Cassini Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-29 Mars Express (MEX)
 Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS)
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This frame from an animation portrays the unfolding of all three booms making up the antenna for the radar instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter.
PIA08000:
Deployment of Mars Express Radar Antenna Sections (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-17 Mars Mars Express (MEX)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MARSIS
Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARAD)
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Mars Radar Opens a Planet's Third Dimension
PIA10376:
Mars Radar Opens a Planet's Third Dimension Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MCS
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This animation shows the evolution of the 2018 Mars global dust storm from late May to September as measured by the Mars Climate Sounder instrument onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA22737:
Mars Climate Sounder Studies 2018 Dust Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-06 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 MCS
Thermal Emission Spectrometer
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This image shows a side-by-side comparison from from NASA two infrared instruments of CO2 ice at the north (left) and south (right) Martian poles over the course of a typical year (two Earth years).
PIA22546:
Growth and Retreat of the CO2 Ice at the Martian Poles Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Phoenix
 MARCI
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This false-color polar map was generated from images obtained by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Mars Color Imager (MARCI). It shows a large local dust storm that researchers were monitoring on May 25, 2008.
PIA10672:
Clear Skies Ahead
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Phoenix
 MARCI
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Scientists were anticipating clear skies when NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander arrives on the north polar plains of the Red Planet Sunday, May 25, 2008.
PIA10788:
Martian Dust Storm on May 18, 2008 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MARCI
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NASA's MARCI acquires a global view of the red planet and its weather patterns every day. This image was taken on Nov. 3, 2008 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA11418:
MRO MARCI Weather Report for the week of 3 November 2008 – 9 November 2008 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MARCI
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This image shows the southern high-latitudes region of Mars from March 19 through April 14, 2009, a period when regional dust storms occurred along the retreating edge of carbon-dioxide frost in the seasonal south polar cap.
PIA11988:
Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009 (Close-up View) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.22 MB)     JPEG (97.49 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MARCI
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the southern high-latitudes region of Mars from Mar. 19-Apr. 14, 2009, a period when regional dust storms occurred along the retreating edge of carbon-dioxide frost in the seasonal south polar cap.
PIA11987:
Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009 Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.223 MB)     JPEG (67.98 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MARCI
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This frame from a movie clip of hundreds of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a global map of Mars with atmospheric changes from Feb. 18, 2017 through March 6, 2017, a period when two regional-scale dust storms appeared.
PIA21484:
Back-to-Back Martian Dust Storms Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.112 MB)     JPEG (997.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MARCI
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a fierce dust storm is kicking up on Mars, with rovers on the surface indicated as icons.
PIA22519:
2018 Giant Dust Storm on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image shows how dust has enveloped the Red Planet. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows views of Valles Marineris chasms (left) and an autumn dust storm in Acidalia (right) and the early spring south polar cap.
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Mars Before and After Dust Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-30 Mars Phoenix
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This frame from an animation shows a zoom into the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) instrument onboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. The Phoenix team will soon attempt to use a microphone on the MARDI instrument to capture sounds of Mars.
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Animation of MARDI Instrument Animation Icon
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This image from an animation shows wind blowing sand underneath NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on a non-driving day for the rover.
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Sand Moving Under Curiosity, One Day to Next
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This set of images shows part of the deployment of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) wind sensors on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, taken by the rover's Navigation Cameras on Feb. 28, 2021.
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Perseverance's Weather Sensors Deployed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from a video shows an engineering test for NASA's Curiosity rover. During the test, the clear dust covers on the Hazard-Avoidance cameras were popped off.
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Popping the Lid off Curiosity's Hazard Cameras Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-01-15 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This set of images from NASA's Curiosity rover shows a patch of rock before and after it was cleaned by Curiosity's Dust Removal Tool (DRT).
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Before and After a Little Dusting Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the rock target 'Cumberland' before and after Curiosity drilled into it to collect a sample for analysis.
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Before-and-After Blink of 'Cumberland' Drilling Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image from an animation shows a patch of sandstone scrubbed with the Dust Removal Tool, a wire-bristle brush, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. This rock target is called 'Windjana,' after a gorge in Western Australia.
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Martian Sandstone Target "Windjana" Before and After Brushing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows mid-summer in the northern hemisphere of Mars, a time of enhanced heating that leads to the release of water vapor into the atmosphere.
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Clouds in North Polar Region Tracked by MOC Over Five Day Period Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
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Late Summer Storms Over the Mars North Polar Region
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
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Mars Global Surveyor: 7 Years in Orbit! Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
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Rotating for Even Sharper Images Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of circular pits, arcuate scarps, troughs, buttes, and mesas on Mars' south polar cap.
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The Changing South Polar Cap of Mars: 1999-2005 Animation Icon
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows pits in Mars' south polar cap are generally circular and in some areas visually resemble a stack of thin slices of Swiss cheese.
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Four Mars Years of South Polar Changes Animation Icon
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a gully on a dune in an unnamed crater in the Hellespontus region of Mars, west of the Hellas Basin.
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New Gullies on Martian Sand Dune
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
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Animated Elevation Model of 'Victoria Crater' Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image indicated NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander landing area on Mars to a topographical map indicating relative elevations in the landing region prior to landing. The elevations could have affected wind patterns at the site.
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Wind-Related Topography in Phoenix's Region of Mars (Animation) Animation Icon
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Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)
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This image shows an orbital view sweeping upward from Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, to the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in the northern polar reaches of Mars.
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Phoenix's Position on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-24 Mars 2020 Rover
 Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
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Engineers lower MOXIE into the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Engineers Lower MOXIE into Perseverance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Mars has two small, asteroid-sized moons named Phobos and Deimos. This frame from an animation shows the point of view of the rover, located near the equator of Mars, as these moons occasionally pass in front of, or 'transit,' the disk of the sun.
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Phobos in Transit Animation Icon
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This image from a video shows the first Martian material collected by the scoop on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The material vibrated inside the scoop after it was lifted from the ground.
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Curiosity's First Scoop of Mars, in Vibration Movie Animation Icon
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A blink pair of images taken before and after NASA's Curiosity performed a 'mini drill' test on a Martian rock shows changes resulting from that activity.
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Before-and-After Blink of Curiosity 'Mini Drill' into Mars Rock Animation Icon
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This frame from a movie clip shows the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passing in front of the smaller Martian moon, Deimos, as observed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
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Two Moons Passing in the Martian Night Animation Icon
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This image from a movie clip shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing in front of the other Martian moon, Deimos, on Aug. 1, from the perspective of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
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Smoothed Movie of Phobos Passing Deimos in Martian Sky Animation Icon
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This frame from an animation shows five versions of observations that NASA's Curiosity made about one hour apart while Mercury was passing in front of the sun on June 3, 2014. Two sunspots, each about the diameter of Earth, also appear.
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Mercury Transit of the Sun, Seen From Mars Animation Icon
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This image from an animiation of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring were taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as the comet passed near the red planet on Oct. 19, 2014.
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Mars Curiosity Rover Views Comet Siding Spring Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame is from sequence of views NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater.
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Sunset Sequence in Mars' Gale Crater (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-10 Sol (our sun) Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This single frame from a sequence of images shows sunspots as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from June 27 to July 8, 2015; the rover was in position to see the opposite side of the sun from the side facing Earth during this period.
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Tracking Sunspots from Mars, Summer 2015 (Animation) Animation Icon
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This single frame from a sequence of six images of an animation shows sunspots as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from April 4 to April 15, 2015. From Mars, the rover was in position to see the opposite side of the sun.
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Tracking Sunspots from Mars, April 2015 (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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A view from the 'Kimberly' formation on Mars taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp, indicating the ancient depression that existed before the larger bulk of the mountain formed.
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Strata at Base of Mount Sharp Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-04 Phobos Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This series of images shows the Martian moon Phobos as it crossed in front of the Sun, as seen by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 (Sol 2359).
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Curiosity Observes Phobos Eclipse: Sol 2359
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-04 Deimos Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This series of images shows the Martian moon Deimos as it crossed in front of the Sun, as seen by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sunday, March 17, 2019 (the 2,350th Martian day, or sol, of the mission).
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Curiosity Observes Deimos Eclipse: Sol 2350
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this set of images before and after it drilled a rock on Saturday, April 6, 2019.
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Curiosity's First Clay Unit Drill Hole
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 32 individual images that make up this panorama of the outcrop nicknamed Mont Mercou. It took a second panorama to create a stereoscopic view. Both panoramas were taken on March 4, 2021.
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Curiosity's 3D View of Mont Mercou
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