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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-03 Braille Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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These composite image frames were taken 914 seconds and 932 seconds after the NASA's Deep Space 1's encounter with the asteroid 9969 Braille. The image on the right was created by combining the two images on the left.
PIA01344:
Composite View of Asteroid Braille from Deep Space 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-03 Braille Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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This image was created from a composite of two images which were taken 914 seconds and 932 seconds after NASA's Deep Space 1's encounter with the asteroid 9969 Braille.
PIA01345:
Enhanced Image of Asteroid Braille from Deep Space 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-08 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained these images of satellite 1989N2 and revealed it to be and irregularly shaped, dark object. The satellite appeared to have several craters. The irregular outline suggests that this moon has remained cold and rigid throughout much
PIA02205:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-09 Earth QuikScat
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This image shows wind speeds and direction in the Pacific Ocean on August 1, 1999, gathered by NASA's Seawinds radar instrument flying onboard NASA's QuikScat satellite.
PIA01346:
Pacific Ocean Surface Winds from QuikScat
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-09 Earth QuikScat
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This image shows wind speeds and direction in the Atlantic Ocean on August 1, 1999, gathered by NASA's Seawinds radar instrument flying onboard NASA's QuikScat satellite.
PIA01347:
Atlantic Ocean Surface Winds from QuikScat
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows cold spots attributed to surface spectral emissivity effects on Mars.
PIA02307:
TES overlayed on MOLA DEM
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-18 Neptune Voyager
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These pictures of Neptune were obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Apr. 26,1989. The picture on the right was taken five hours after that at left, during which time the planet rotated 100 degrees.
PIA02209:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-19 Neptune Voyager
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This contrast enhanced color picture of Neptune was acquired by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 14, 1989. As Voyager 2 approached Neptune, rapidly increasing image resolution is revealed striking new details. Bright, wispy clouds are seen overlying the Great Dar
PIA02210:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this view of Mars taking advantage of the space-based observatory's close approach to Mars, centering on the region known as Tharsis, home of the largest volcanoes in the solar system.
PIA01590:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
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Lingering in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the La Niña phenomenon, with its large volume of chilly water, barely had a pulse June 18, 1999, according to satellite data from NASA's U.S.-French TOPEX/Poseidon mission.
PIA01586:
TOPEX/El Niño Watch - La Niña Barely Has a Pulse, June 18, 1999
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01588:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Global View
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01589:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Pathfinder Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01591:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Elysium
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01592:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
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The North Pacific Ocean ran hot and cold, with abnormally low sea levels and cool waters in the northeastern Pacific contrasting with unusually high sea levels and warm waters in the northwestern Pacific shown by data from NASA's TOPEX/Poseidon satellite.
PIA02403:
TOPEX/El Niño Watch - Pacific Ocean Conditions are Split: Cold in East, Hot in West, July 27, 1999
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Neptune Voyager
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This dramatic view of the crescents of Neptune and Triton was acquired by Voyager 2 approximately 3 days, 6 and one-half hours after its closest approach to Neptune (north is to the right).
PIA02215:
Crescents of Neptune and Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01587:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - 4 Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01594:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01595:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - May, 1992
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01596:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - July, 1994
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01597:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - August, 1994
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01598:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - February, 1995
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01599:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - October, 1995
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA02400:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - October, 1996
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA02401:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - April, 1997
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA02402:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - June, 1999
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01593:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Mars' south polar layered deposits are generally devoid of the large craters and hills seen at the Mars Pathfinder site.
PIA02311:
Mars Polar Lander and Mars Pathfinder Sites Compared
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-25 Earth QuikScat
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The SeaWinds instrument onboard NASA's QuikScat ocean-viewing satellite captured this image of Hurricane Dora in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean on August 10, 1999, as it was blowing at speeds of nearly 40 meters per second (90 miles per hour).
PIA02404:
SeaWinds Radar Clocks Hurricane Dora's Wind Speeds
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This map of Mars was created using images from NASA's Viking orbiters. It shows the original landing zone selected for the Mars Polar Lander. A bright blue ellipse indicates the landing location of the landing site.
PIA02314:
Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site (Flat Map)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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A mosaic of 24 images taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor on a single northern summer day in April, 1999 are stitched together to create a global view of Mars.
PIA02315:
Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site (Global Perspective)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This three-dimensional perspective view of the Martian polar layered terrain was created by combining NASA's Viking images with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter measurements of the height of the surface.
PIA02316:
Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site (Perspective View 1)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This three-dimensional perspective view of the Martian polar layered terrain was created by combining NASA's Viking images with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter measurements of the height of the surface.
PIA02317:
Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site (Perspective View 2)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This three-dimensional perspective view of the Martian polar layered terrain was created by combining NASA's Viking images with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter measurements of the height of the surface.
PIA02318:
Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site (Perspective View 3)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-27 Jupiter Galileo
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Cloud features north of Jupiter's equator, in the region between 3 and 30 degrees north latitude, are shown in approximately true color (left mosaic) and in false color (right mosaic). The images were taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA02097:
Cloud Features North of Jupiter's Equator
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-27 Jupiter Galileo
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The clouds and hazes of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, in the region between 25 degrees south latitude and the pole, are shown in approximately true color (left mosaic) and in false color (right mosaic). The images were taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA02098:
Clouds and Hazes of Jupiter's Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-30 Saturn Voyager
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A view of Saturn's clouds extending from 40` to 60` N latitude shows a ribbon-like wave structure in the south with small convective features marking a westward jet in the north. This image was obtained on November 10, 1980 by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00027:
Saturn -- Ribbon-like Wave Structure in Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-30 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph shows the last face on view of the Great Dark Spot that NASA's Voyager made with its narrow angle camera.
PIA00052:
Neptune Great Dark Spot in High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the equatorial region of Mars where both the Pathfinder and Viking 1 spacecraft landed.
PIA02320:
New Views of Mars from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer Instrument
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-08 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
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The 'Twin Peaks' are modest-size hills to the southwest of the Mars Pathfinder landing site. They were discovered on the first panoramas taken by NASA's IMP camera on the 4th of July, 1997, and identified in Viking Orbiter images taken over 20 years ago.
PIA02405:
Twin Peaks in Super Resolution - Left Eye
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-08 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
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The Twin Peaks are modest-size hills to the southwest of the Mars Pathfinder landing site. They were discovered on the first panoramas taken by NASA's IMP camera on the 4th of July, 1997, and identified in Viking Orbiter images taken over 20 years ago.
PIA02406:
Twin Peaks in Super Resolution - Right Eye
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-08 Earth QuikScat
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NASA's QuikScat satellite instrument kept an eye on an iceberg the size of Rhode Island, the first time this space technology had been used to track a potential threat to international shipping.
PIA02329:
SeaWinds Watches for Breakup of Giant Iceberg
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-10 Mars Mars Climate Orbiter
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This image is the first view of Mars, a dusty rose in the distance, taken by the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) on 7 September 1999 when the spacecraft was approximately 4.5 million kilometers (2.8 million miles) from the planet.
PIA02330:
Mars Climate Orbiter MARCI Approach Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-16 Earth QuikScat
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NASA's SeaWinds radar instrument eyed the center of a massive hurricane, Floyd, as it ripped past Georgia and the Carolinas Wednesday afternoon, September 15, 1999, then marched toward a midnight strike at Cape Fear, North Carolina.
PIA02334:
SeaWinds Radar Stares Into The Eye Of Angry Hurricane Floyd
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Mars Polar Lander landing site noon-time temperatures in January, 1998.
PIA02327:
Mars Polar Lander Landing Site Noon-time Temperatures
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows slab ice and snow flurries in the Mars northern polar night.
PIA02328:
Slab Ice and Snow Flurries in the Mars Northern Polar Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the mapping of Mars' polar cap recession, surface and atmospheric temperatures, and albedo features found within the seasonal cap itself.
PIA02332:
Dark Dry Ice on Southern Cap - Lambert Albedo Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a thermal image of dark dry ice on Mars' southern cap.
PIA02333:
Dark Dry Ice on Southern Cap - Thermal Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows thermal wave phenomena that are caused by the large topographic variety of Mars' surface.
PIA02335:
Thermal Wave Phenomena
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-23 Earth Global Rain Forest Mapping Project (GRFM)
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This is an image of equatorial Africa, centered on the equator at longitude 15degrees east. This image is a mosaic of almost 4,000 separate images obtained in 1996 by NASA's L-band imaging radar onboard the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite.
PIA01348:
Radar Mosaic of Africa
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-27 Jupiter Galileo
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The mosaic of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter from NASA's Galileo orbiter was taken over an 80 second interval beginning at universal time 14 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds, on June 26, 1996.
PIA00829:
Mosaic of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (in the near infrared)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-27 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This radar image shows the area of Death Valley, California and the different surface types in the area. Radar is sensitive to surface roughness with rough areas showing up brighter than smooth areas, which appear dark.
PIA01349:
Color Image of Death Valley, California from SIR-C
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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As NASA's Mariner 10 approached Mercury at nearly seven miles per second on March 29, 1974, its TV camera took this picture from an altitude of 35,000 kilometers (21,700 miles) The picture shows a heavily-cratered surface with many low hills.
PIA02407:
Mercury's Heavily Cratered Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA's Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974. This encounter brought the spacecraft in front of Mercury in the southern hemisphere.
PIA02413:
Hero Rupes Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft was coaxed into a third and final encounter with Mercury in March of 1975. This is one of the highest resolution images of Mercury acquired by the spacecraft.
PIA02416:
High Resolution View of Mercury
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This mosaic, made from over 140 individual TV frames taken about two hours after encounter, shows the planet Mercury as seen by NASA's Mariner 10 as it sped away from the planet on March 29, 1974.
PIA02418:
Outgoing Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-08 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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Cratered terrain very similar to that on the Moon is shown in this TV photo of Mercury taken by NASA's Mariner 10. Numerous small craters and linear grooves radial to the crater can be seen.
PIA02408:
Mercury's Cratered Terrain
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A fresh new crater in the center of an older crater basin is shown in this picture of the surface of Mercury taken March 29, 1974 by NASA's Mariner 10.
PIA02409:
Fresh Crater in Center of Older Crater Basin
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NASA's Mariner 10 took this picture of the densely cratered surface of Mercury when the spacecraft was 18,200 kilometers (8085 miles) from the planet on March 29, 1974.
PIA02410:
Mercury's Densely Cratered Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-08 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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NASA's Mariner 10 took this picture some 2 1/2 hours before it passed Mercury on March 29, 1974. The bright-floored crater is the center of a very large bright area which could be seen in pictures from more than two million miles distant
PIA02411:
Kuiper Crater
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A dark, smooth, relatively uncratered area on Mercury was photographed two hours after NASA's Mariner 10 flew by the planet. The prominent, sharp crater with a central peak is 30 kilometers (19 miles) across.
PIA02412:
Uncratered Area on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-08 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA's Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974. This encounter brought the spacecraft in front of Mercury in the southern hemisphere.
PIA02414:
Similarities to Lunar Highlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-08 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA's Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974. The south pole is located on the right hand edge of Chao Meng Fu crater that has only its rim sticking up into the light.
PIA02415:
Mercury's South Pole
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NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft was coaxed into a third and final encounter with Mercury in March of 1975. This is one of the highest resolution images of Mercury acquired by the spacecraft. The prominent scarp snaking up the image was named Discovery Rupes.
PIA02417:
Discovery Rupes Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 Neptune Voyager
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These three images of Neptune were acquired 90 minutes apart by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on April 3, 1989, from a range of 208 million kilometers (129 million miles). Several atmospheric features (clouds) are visible.
PIA01363:
3 Images of Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 Neptune Voyager
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The bright cirrus-like clouds of Neptune change rapidly, often forming and dissipating over periods of several to tens of hours. In this sequence NASA's Voyager 2 observed cloud evolution in the region around the Great Dark Spot (GDS).
PIA01982:
Neptune's Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune shows three of the features that NASA's Voyager 2 has been photographing during recent weeks. At the north is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance.
PIA02219:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-15 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune shows the discovery of shadows in Neptune's atmosphere, shadows cast onto a deep cloud band by small elevated clouds. They are the first cloud shadows ever seen by NASA's Voyager on any planet.
PIA02220:
Neptune Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-29 Neptune Voyager
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This photo was taken by NASA's Voyager 2's wide-angle camera. Light at methane wavelengths is mostly absorbed in the deeper atmosphere. The bright, white feature is a high-altitude cloud just south of the Great Dark Spot.
PIA02222:
Neptune Clouds on the Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-29 Neptune Voyager
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This bulls-eye view of Neptune's small dark spot (D2) was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera. Banding surrounding the feature indicates unseen strong winds.
PIA02223:
Neptune's Small Dark Spot (D2)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-11-18 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
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Mild La Niña conditions -- with a stormy winter in the Pacific Northwest and a dry winter in the southwestern United States -- will be the likely outcome of sea-surface heights observed by NASA's TOPEX/Poseidon satellite in 1999.
PIA02436:
TOPEX/El Niño Watch - La Niña Conditions Likely to Prevail, October 10, 1999
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Unusually warm ocean temperatures off Asia and cool waters in the eastern and equatorial Pacific signaled La Niña's mild return, according to sea-surface heights observed by the joint NASA-French space agency's TOPEX/Poseidon satellite.
PIA02437:
TOPEX/El Niño Watch - Mild La Niña Conditions Developing, November 12, 1999
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This photograph of Mercury was taken by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft shows smooth plains areas on Mercury that are thought to be volcanic in origin with lava flows filling in heavily cratered areas.
PIA02438:
Heavily Cratered Terrain and Smooth Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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Caloris Basin on Mercury, is one of the largest basins in the solar system, its diameter exceeds 1300 kilometers and is in many ways similar to the great Imbrium basin on the Moon. This image is from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974.
PIA02439:
Caloris Basin
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Updated calibration and subsequent mosaicing led to substantial improvements in NASA's Mariner 10 color image data; the spacecraft launched in 1974.
PIA02440:
Incoming Hemisphere - Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photograph of Saturn on Oct. 18, 1980, 34 million kilometers (21.1 million miles) from the planet.
PIA02225:
Saturn Approach - Full Disk
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The north polar region of Saturn is pictured in great detail in this NASA Voyager 2 image obtained Aug. 25 from a range of 633,000 kilometers (393,000 miles).
PIA02226:
Saturn - North Polar Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 Earth Voyager
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This image of the Earth is one of 60 frames taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 4 billion miles and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane.
PIA02228:
Solar System Portrait - Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-20 Saturn Voyager
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This image of the northern hemisphere of Saturn was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 5, 1980 at a range of 9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) shows a variety of features in Saturn's clouds.
PIA02230:
Northern Hemisphere of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-21 Earth Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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The Earth and Moon were imaged by NASA's Mariner 10, launched on November 3, 1973, from 2.6 million km while completing the first ever Earth-Moon encounter by a spacecraft capable of returning high resolution digital color image data.
PIA02441:
Earth and Moon as Viewed by Mariner 10
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows a crater just north of the Caloris Planitia displays interior and central peaks rising up from a hilly floor.
PIA02419:
Interior Peaks and Hilly Floored Crater
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This crater illustrates the narrow hummocky rim facies, radial ridges, and surrounding extensive field of secondary craters. This image of Mercury was taken by NASA's Mariner 10.
PIA02420:
Terraced Craters
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The craters in this image NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, which launched in 1974, have interior rings of mountains and ejecta deposits which are scarred by deep secondary crater chain groves.
PIA02423:
Crater Chain Groves Inside Larger Craters
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is of the northeastern quadrant of the Caloris basin showig the smooth hills and domes between the inner and outer scarps and the well-developed radial system east of the outer scarp.
PIA02427:
Northeastern Quadrant of the Caloris Basin
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, was taken during the spacecraft's first encounter with Mercury.
PIA02428:
Lineated Terrain
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This photograph of Mercury, taken by NASA's Mariner 10, shows two prominent rayed craters. Bright halos extend as far as 2 crater diameters beyond crater rims. Individual rays extend from halo.
PIA02429:
Prominent Rayed Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-15 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is located about 500 km east of the Caloris basin and shows hummocky plains interpreted as Caloris ejecta in the upper half of the picture and smooth plains in the lower half.
PIA02421:
Hummocky and Smooth Plains
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, includes part of the floor of the Caloris basin showing the ridges and fractures.
PIA02422:
Ridges and Fractures on Floor of Caloris Basin
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows young craters superposed on smooth plains. Larger young craters have central peaks, flat floors, terraced walls, and radial ejecta deposits.
PIA02425:
Young Craters on Smooth Plains
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows that several west-facing lobate scarps occur in the hummocky plains interpreted as Caloris ejecta.
PIA02426:
Lobate Scarps within the Hummocky Plains East of Caloris Basin
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Antoniadi Ridge, over 450 kilometers long, runs along the right side of this acquired image during NASA's Mariner 10's first encounter with Mercury after its launch in 1974.
PIA02430:
Antoniadi Ridge
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows a broadly curved lobate scarp running from left to right in the large crater to the right of center in this image.
PIA02431:
Curved Lobate Scarp on Crater Floor
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows a scarp (upper left corner of the image) about 130 kilometers long cutting two craters (older crater is at extreme left corner, younger is diagonally below).
PIA02432:
Crater Rim Offset 10 Kilometers by Scarp
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows several scarps, which appear to be confined to crater floors. The scarp in the crater at the upper left of the image has been diverted by the central peaks.
PIA02433:
Scarps Confined to Crater Floors
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is a high-resolution picture of a 65-kilometer diameter crater and the scarp transecting its floor.
PIA02434:
Crater Rim Offset 10 kilometers by Scarp-High Resolution
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, features a 140 kilometer diameter crater and its surrounding zone of secondary craters. T
PIA02424:
Large Mercurian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-18 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows plains filling this basin are uniformly brighter and slightly redder than the surrounding cratered terrain.
PIA02443:
Smooth Volcanic Plains
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Intercrater plains and heavily cratered terrain typical of much of Mercury outside the area affected by the formation of the Caloris basin are shown in this image taken during the NASA's Mariner 10's first encounter with Mercury in 1974.
PIA02444:
Intercrater Plains and Heavily Cratered Terrain - First Encounter
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows hilly and lineated terrain and a patch of smooth plains in a large degraded crater.
PIA02445:
Hilly and Lineated Terrain
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One of the most prominent lobate scarps (Discovery Scarp), photographed by NASA's Mariner 10 during it's first encounter with Mercury, is located at the center of this image (extending from the top to near bottom).
PIA02446:
Discovery Scarp
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