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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-11-05 Earth 1440x960x3
The image shows the decline of moisture in the air over the Amazon rainforest.
PIA23425:
New Study Shows Atmosphere in the Amazon Drying Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-12-05 Asteroid 535x398x3
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1 imager aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
PIA23554:
Asteroid Bennu Particles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-12-05 Asteroid 2532x1417x3
This animation illustrates the modeled trajectories of particles that were ejected from Bennu's surface on Jan. 19, 2019.
PIA23555:
Bennu Particles (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-12-10 Mars 960x540x3
In this illustration, Mars holds near-surface water ice that would be easily accessible for astronauts to dig up. The water ice was identified as part of a map using data from NASA orbiters.
PIA23515:
Water Ice Marked on Mars Globe (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-15 Earth 1920x1080x3
A seafloor vent spews mineral-rich water into the ocean and serves as an energy hub for living creatures.
PIA23686:
White Smoker Ocean Vents
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-16 Mars 2500x2569x3
This illustration shows an astronaut on Mars, as viewed through the window of a spacecraft.
PIA23900:
NASA Astronaut Stands on Mars (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-28 Mars 1600x900x3
This illustration shows NASA astronauts on Mars.
PIA24031:
NASA Astronauts on Mars (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-28 Mars 1920x1080x3
This illustration shows NASA astronauts working on the surface of Mars. A helicopter similar to the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is airborne at left.
PIA24032:
NASA Astronauts on Mars With Helicopter (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-08-18 Asteroid 1841x1033x3
This illustration shows asteroid 2020 QG's trajectory bending during its close approach to Earth. The asteroid is the closest known non-impacting asteroid ever detected.
PIA24037:
Asteroid 2020 QG Zips Around the Earth (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-08-18 Asteroid ZTF
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The circled streak in the center of this image is asteroid 2020 QG, which came closer to Earth than any other non-impacting asteroid on record.
PIA24038:
Asteroid 2020 QG as Seen Through ZTF Telescope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-02 Earth AVIRIS-NG
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These images show concentrations of methane in a natural gas plume relative to background air measured by AVIRIS-NG, overlaid on true-color land surface images.
PIA24019:
NASA Instrument Tracks Power Plant Methane Emissions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-15 Earth UAVSAR
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A NASA aircraft equipped with Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) flew above California fires on Sept. 3 and 10 to examine the ground below.
PIA24102:
NASA's UAVSAR Flights Observe California Fires
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-23 Earth 8000x5955x3
The OASIS project seeks to study fresh water aquifers in the desert as well as ice sheets in places like Greenland. This illustration shows what a satellite with a proposed radar instrument for the mission could look like.
PIA23790:
OASIS Study Project (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-20 Mars 3840x2160x3
This illustration shows Jezero Crater as it may have looked billions of years go on Mars, when it was a lake. An inlet and outlet are also visible on either side of the lake.
PIA24172:
Ancient Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-27 Jupiter 1185x1973x3
The lightning phenomenon known as a sprite depicted at Jupiter in this illustration. Jupiter's hydrogen-rich atmosphere would likely make them appear blue. In Earth's upper atmosphere, the presence of nitrogen gives them a reddish color.
PIA23990:
Jovian Sprite (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Earth 1024x768x3
The rocks seen here along the shoreline of Lake Salda in Turkey were formed over time by microbes that trap minerals and sediments in the water. NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission will search for signs of ancient life on the Martian surface.
PIA24374:
Lake Salda Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Earth 1024x768x3
The eastern shore of Lake Salda in Turkey is a good analog for what an ancient lake may have looked like at Jezero Carter on Mars.
PIA24375:
Lake Salda Beach
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars 4029x3567x3
This annotated image shows landing ellipses for five NASA missions to Mars.
PIA24377:
Mars Probe Landing Ellipses
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network
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These images of asteroid Apophis were recorded by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
PIA24168:
Radar Observations of Asteroid 99942 Apophis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-05 Asteroid Deep Space Network
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On March 21, 2021, the large asteroid 2001 FO32 made a close approach with our planet, passing at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) — or 5 1/4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
PIA24561:
Goldstone Radar Observations of Asteroid 2001 FO32
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 Earth WATSON
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During 2019 field tests near Greenland's Summit Station,the WATSON instrument is put through its paces to seek out signs of life, or biosignatures, 360 feet (110 meters) down a borehole.
PIA24169:
WATSON's Field Test in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 Earth WATSON
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The tether attached to the top of WATSON and the drill also acts as the power cable and data feed. Care must be taken to ensure a tight connection between the tether and instrument, else the instrument could be lost in the ice.
PIA24170:
Preparing WATSON for Borehole Descent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 Earth WATSON
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WATSON produced this fluorescence map of a borehole in Greenland's ice. The left panel shows nebulous blobs of biosignatures, and the right panel shows a colorized version, grouping together similar organic chemicals.
PIA24140:
Fluorescence Map of a Greenland Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-13 Earth UAVSAR
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The UAVSAR instrument, managed by JPL, detected several potential oil slicks off of Huntington Beach, California, during flights on October 6, 2021.
PIA23782:
UAVSAR Oil Slicks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-28 Mars 1600x900x3
NASA's Mars missions, clockwise from top left: Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, InSight lander, Odyssey orbiter, MAVEN orbiter, Curiosity rover, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA24838:
NASA's Mars Missions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-13 Earth UAVSAR
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JPL researchers Cathleen Jones and Yunling Lou stand with the flight crew in front of the airplane used to fly the UAVSAR instrument on October 6, 2021.
PIA24901:
UAVSAR Flight Crew
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-28 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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Jupiter's banded appearance is created by the cloud-forming weather layer. This composite image shows views of Jupiter in infrared and visible light taken by the Gemini North telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA24818:
Jupiter's Bands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-13 Earth UAVSAR
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An oil slick from naturally occurring oil seeps off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. The Marine Oil Spill Thickness (MOST) project can detect the thickest oil in a slick.
PIA23699:
Natural Oil Seepage Off California Coast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-15 Asteroid 1440x830x3
This animation shows asteroid 2022 EB5's predicted orbit around the Sun before impacting into the Earth's atmosphere on March 11, 2022.
PIA24568:
Animation of Asteroid 2022 EB5's Orbit Before Hitting Earth's Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-17 Mars 3840x2160x3
This graphic shows Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars.
PIA25285:
Venus, Earth and Its Moon, and Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-10 Earth 4456x5324x3
Changes in elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1985 to 2021 are shown.
PIA24990:
The Antarctic Ice Sheet's Changing Height
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-19 Earth UAVSAR
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NASA's UAVSAR airborne radar instrument imaged Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano during three flyovers on Dec. 7, 8, and 10. This image captures lava flow thickness, which is one measure of the size of an eruption.
PIA25526:
Airborne NASA Radar Maps Mauna Loa Lava Changes in Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-17 Earth 3300x2550x3
This graphic shows rising sea levels (in blue) from data recorded by a series of five satellites starting in 1993. The solid red line shows the trajectory of rise from 1993 to 2022. By 2040, sea levels could be 3.66 inches (9.3 cm) higher than today.
PIA25775:
30 Years of Sea Level Rise
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-24 Earth 1440x1570x3
This visualization shows sea surface height measurements of the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia. The data was collected on Jan. 21, 2023, by seven satellites currently in operation.
PIA25773:
Sea Level Visualization of Gulf Stream
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-15 Earth 1440x700x3
A February 2023 study by JPL researchers estimated that annual methane emissions in the Los Angeles Basin fell by about 7%, or 33 million pounds (15 million kilograms).
PIA25863:
Declining Methane Emissions in the Los Angeles Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-15 Earth 1440x700x3
A March 2023 study by JPL researchers compared methane emissions in 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, to emissions measured in 2016-17. It found large reductions in overall emission rates.
PIA25864:
Declining Methane Emissions at California Oil Fields and Refineries
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-23 Uranus Very Large Array
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NASA scientists have made the first observation of a polar cyclone on Uranus.
PIA25951:
Uranus Cyclone With Color Added
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-27 Earth InSAR
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Mapping vertical land motion across the New York City area, researchers found the land sinking by about 0.06 inches (1.6 millimeters) per year on average. They also detected modest uplift in Queens and Brooklyn.
PIA25527:
Map of New York City Subsidence and Uplift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-27 Earth InSAR
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The team pinpointed hot spots: runway 13/31 at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, is subsiding at a rate of about 0.15 inches per year; part of Newtown Creek, a Superfund site in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is rising unevenly by about 0.06 inches per year.
PIA25528:
Hot Spots of Subsidence, Uplift in New York City
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars 2221x1288x3
The blue areas on this map of Mars are regions where NASA missions have detected subsurface water ice. Scientists can use the map to decide where the first astronauts to set foot on the Red Planet should land.
PIA26045:
SWIM Map Shows Subsurface Water Ice on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars 2852x1169x3
These Mars global maps show the likely distribution of water ice buried within the upper 3 feet (1 meter) of the planet's surface and represent the latest data from the SWIM project.
PIA26046:
Distribution of Buried Ice on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-04-26 Earth 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) acquired these images of the Earth using its visible and infrared cameras as it left the Earth.
PIA00558:
2001 Mars Odyssey Images Earth (Visible and Infrared)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-05-01 Earth 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took this portrait of the Earth and its companion Moon. It was taken at a distance of 3,563,735 kilometers (more than 2 million miles) on April 19, 2001 as the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft left the Earth.
PIA00559:
The Earth and Moon As Seen by 2001 Mars Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image, taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows flow features on the northern flank of Olympus Mons.
PIA11894:
Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a single frame from a computer animation, which begins with a view of Mars created with images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in which color is used to emphasize the Martian topographic, andesite, and basalt compositional differences.
PIA03219:
Still From Odyssey Clip 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a single frame from a computer animation, which begins with a global view of the planet Mars created from images by NASA's Mars Odyssey. Color is used to emphasize the Martian topographic, andesite, and basalt compositional differences.
PIA03220:
Still From Odyssey Clip 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a single frame from a computer animation, which begins with a global view of the planet Mars compiled with images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03221:
Still From Odyssey Clip 3
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons.
PIA25479:
Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This thermal infrared image was acquired by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on October 30, 2001, as the spacecraft orbited Mars on its ninth revolution around the planet.
PIA03459:
First THEMIS Image of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The circular feature seen in blue is the extremely cold martian south polar carbon dioxide ice cap as seen by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03461:
First THEMIS Infrared and Visible Images of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This global map of Mars, based on data from NASA's Mars Odyssey, shows estimates for amounts of high-energy-particle cosmic radiation reaching the surface, a serious health concern for any future human exploration of the planet.
PIA03479:
Estimated Radiation on Mars, Hits per Cell Nucleus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This global map of Mars, based on data from NASA's Mars Odyssey, shows the estimated radiation dosages from cosmic rays reaching the surface, a serious health concern for any future human exploration of the planet.
PIA03480:
Estimated Radiation Dosage on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This visible-light image, taken by the thermal emission imaging system's camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows the highly fractured, faulted and deformed Acheron Fossae region of Mars.
PIA03481:
Acheron Fossae in Visible Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This nighttime thermal infrared image, taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows differences in temperature that are due to differences in the abundance of rocks, sand and dust on the surface.
PIA03482:
Channel at Night in Thermal Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This 300-kilometer (186-mile) long daytime infrared image of Terra Sirenum, taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, displays a wide variety of geologic features. The mottled floor and rim of Koval'skiy Crater is seen at the left (north) of the image.
PIA03483:
Daytime Infrared, Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This is the first high-resolution color infrared image taken of Mars. The image was constructed using three of the ten infrared filters on the thermal emission imaging system of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03484:
Color Infrared, Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This nighttime infrared image, taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, captures a massively disrupted region on Mars called Hydaspis Chaos, which is located near the equator at two degrees north, 29 degrees west.
PIA03485:
Hydaspis Chaos in Nighttime Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft during its first week of mapping, soil enriched in hydrogen is indicated by the deep blue colors, which show a low intensity of epithermal neutrons.
PIA03486:
Global Neutron View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The deep blue colors on this map of the south pole of Mars from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft show where a low intensity of epithermal neutrons is found.
PIA03487:
South Pole Neutron View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft produced this high-energy neutron detector map of neutrons in Mars' southern hemisphere. The blue region around the south pole indicates a high content of hydrogen in the upper 2 to 3 meters (7 to 10 feet) of the surface.
PIA03488:
Southern Hemisphere Neutron Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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A high content of hydrogen in Mars' southern polar region is apparent in this global map of high-energy neutrons measured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03489:
Global Map, High-Energy Neutrons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Located 1200 kilometers (about 745 miles) south of the giant shield volcano Arsia Mons, this infrared temperature image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the flow margin of a young lava flow from Arsia that covers a much older flow.
PIA04085:
IR view of lava flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-04-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a sinuous valley network channel with sharp bends cutting across the cratered highlands of the southern hemisphere of Mars.
PIA03756:
Nirgal Vallis (Released 27 March 2002)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This scene shows gullies superposed on the inner walls of four large craters. Most of these gullies, imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, appear to emanate from one or two specific layers along the inner crater's entire circumference.
PIA03757:
Gullied Craters 41°S
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These layered deposits are located on the floor of a large canyon called Ganges Chasma which is a part of the Valles Marineris in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03758:
Layered Deposits on the floor of Ganges Chasma
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a spectacular landslide along a portion of the southern wall of Ganges Chasma within Valles Marineris. Landslides have very characteristic morphologies on Earth, which they also display on Mars.
PIA03759:
Ganges Chasma Landslide
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This image, captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows that this portion of the rim of Henry Crater has numerous dark streaks located on the slopes of the inner crater wall.
PIA03760:
Rim of Henry Crater
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This lunar-like scene, imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, occurs along the southeastern rim of the Isidis Planitia basin, an ancient impact crater some 1200 km across.
PIA03761:
Isidis Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image, taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows a cratered highland region called Arabia Terra. The center right side of the image shows a branch of the valley network Naktong Vallis cutting into the eastern rim of an unnamed crater.
PIA03762:
Naktong Valles
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Olympus Mons, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, stands 26 km above the surrounding plains, which is three times taller than Mt. Everest, and is the tallest volcano in the solar system.
PIA03763:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the cratered highlands of Terra Sirenum in Mars' southern hemisphere. Near the center of the image running from left to right one can see long parallel to semi-parallel troughs called graben.
PIA03764:
Gorgonum Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captures two channels (Nirgal Vallis is the smaller sinuous channel on the left and Uzboi Vallis is the larger channel located in the lower right) and Luki Crater located in the upper right.
PIA03765:
Uzboi Vallis, Nirgal Vallis, and Luki Crater
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a Martian geologic deposit known as the Medusae Fossae Formation (the raised plateau in the upper two-thirds of the image), a soft, easily eroded deposit that extends for nearly 1,000 km along the equator of Mars.
PIA03766:
Medusae Fossae Formation
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This scene from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the contrasting morphologies of the relatively rough highland terrain (in the lower portion of the image) and the relatively smooth materials (at top) of the southern rim of the Isidis Planitia basin.
PIA03767:
Southern rim of Isidis Planitia basin
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The so-called 'Face on Mars' can be seen slightly above center and to the right in this NASA Mars Odyssey image. This 3-km long knob was first imaged by NASA's Viking spacecraft in the 1970's and to some resembled a face carved into the rocks of Mars.
PIA03768:
The So-Called "Face on Mars"
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The eastern floor of Holden Crater, which is located in region of the southern hemisphere called Noachis Terra and is 154 km in diameter, is seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03769:
Eastern Floor of Holden Crater
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Remarkable variations in the erosion of the Medusae Fossae Formation are shown in this scene from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. In this region, the surface has been eroded by the wind into a series of linear ridges called yardangs.
PIA03770:
Medusae Fossae Formation
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows the intersection of Holden Crater with Uzboi Valles. This region of Mars contains a number of features that could be related to liquid water on the surface in the Martian past.
PIA03771:
Holden Crater/Uzboi Valles
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Bosporus Planum, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, is located in a region of smooth plains that appear to have formed from lava flows.
PIA03772:
Bosporus Planum
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White Rock' is the unofficial name for this unusual landform which was first observed during NASA's Mariner 9 mission in the early 1970's and is now shown here in an image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03773:
White Rock
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a portion of a volcano called Alba Patera. This region has many unique valley features that at first glance look much like the patterns formed by rivers and tributaries on Earth, but are actually quite discontinuous.
PIA03774:
Alba Patera
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Splotchy water ice clouds obscure the surface in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, however, most of Mars was in a relatively clear period when this image was acquired.
PIA03775:
A Cloudy Day on Mars
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The Cerberus feature, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey, is a dark region at the southeastern edge of the huge Elysium Mons volcanic complex that was visible to early astronomers because it was a distinctive dark spot on a large bright region of Mars.
PIA03776:
Cerberus
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a region in northern Arabia Terra where knobby or 'scabby' plains units that mantle and modify a pre-existing cratered surface dominate the unusual landscape.
PIA03782:
Knobby Terrain in Northern Arabia Terra
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Noctis Labyrinthus, a large valley system at the western end of the Valles Marineris canyon system notable for a pattern of intersecting valleys, which give it a maze-like appearance when viewed from above.
PIA03783:
Noctis Labyrinthus
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image covers a tract of plateau territory called Ophir Planum. The most obvious features in this scene are the fractures (ranging from 1 to 5 km wide) running from the upper left to lower right.
PIA03784:
Crustal Fractures of Ophir Planum
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This region of Terra Meridiani, imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey, shows an old, heavily degraded channel that appears to terminate abruptly at the rim of a 10 km diameter crater, suggesting that the impact crater was created after the channel was formed.
PIA03785:
Cratered terrain in Terra Meridiani
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is from the region of Syrtis Major, which is dominated by a low-relief shield volcano and believed to be an area of vigorous aeolian activity with strong winds in the east-west direction.
PIA03786:
Syrtis Major
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This image by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a region of northern Tempe Terra. Patchy water-ice clouds cover portions of the low-lying canyon at the top (north) of this image.
PIA03787:
Clouds in the Northern Tempe Terra
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The eastern rim of this unnamed crater in Southern Arabia Terra, imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey, is very degraded, indicating that it's an ancient crater that's been subjected to erosion and bombardment from impactors such as asteroids and comets.
PIA03788:
Degraded Crater Rim
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Cerberus, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, is a dark region on Mars that has shrunk down from a continuous length of about 1000 km to roughly three discontinuous spots a few 100 kms in length in less than 20 years.
PIA03789:
Cerberus Wind Streaks
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At the top right of this NASA Mars Odyssey image, the rim of the caldera of Pavonis Mons, one of four exceptionally large volcanoes in the Tharsis region, is barely visible with steep cliffs formed by the collapse of a portion of the volcano's summit.
PIA03790:
Pavonis Mons
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft displays dust devil tracks on the surface of Mars. Most of the lighter portions of the image likely have a thin veneer of dust settled on the surface.
PIA03791:
Dust Devil Tracks
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Kasei Valles is one of the largest outflow channels on Mars. This NASA Mars Odyssey image is of the northern branch of Kasei Valles and shows the channel floor and northern channel wall.
PIA03792:
Kasei Valles
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image is of the ridged plains of Lunae Planum in the northern hemisphere of Mars. Wrinkle ridges, a very common landform on Mars, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon, are found mostly along the eastern side of the image.
PIA03793:
Wrinkle Ridges and Young Fresh Crater
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The rugged, arcuate rim of the 90 km crater Reuyl dominates this NASA Mars Odyssey image. Reuyl crater is at the southern edge of a region known to be blanketed in thick dust based on its high albedo (brightness) and low thermal inertia values.
PIA03794:
Reuyl Crater Dust Avalanches
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Splotchy water ice clouds obscure the northern lowland plains in the region where NASA's Viking 2 spacecraft landed in this image by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03795:
Water Ice Clouds over the Northern Plains
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This image by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Utopia Planitia, a large plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It is believed that this basin is the result of a large impact.
PIA03796:
Utopia Planitia
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a close-up view of the ridged plains in Hesperia Planum, a classic locality for Martian surfaces that formed in the 'middle ages' of the planet's history.
PIA03797:
Hesperia Planum
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Although the largest volcanoes on Mars (and in the solar system) are located in the geologically young Tharsis region, there are many Martian volcanoes that display equally interesting features, such as Hadriaca Patera in this NASA Mars Odyssey image.
PIA03798:
Hadriaca Patera
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