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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020, the 2,946th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26552:
Curiosity on the Road to Boxwork Formations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA26553:
HiRISE Views Curiosity During a Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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At one of the Mount Vernon, Alabama, fires, firefighters used AVIRIS-3 maps to determine where to establish fire breaks beyond the northwestern end of the fire.
PIA26499:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Mount Vernon, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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As firefighters worked to prevent a wildfire near Perdido, Alabama, they saw in an infrared fire map from NASA's AVIRIS-3 sensor that showed the fire's hot spot was inside its perimeter.
PIA26498:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Perdido, Alabama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-23 Earth AVIRIS-3
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NASA's AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer was used to map a wildfire near Castleberry, Alabama, on March 19, 2025. Within minutes, the image was transmitted to firefighters on the ground, who used it to contain the blaze.
PIA26497:
AVIRIS-3 Sensor Captures Data on Wildfire Near Castleberry, Alabama
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.223 MB)     JPEG (393 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-17 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed Ubajara on April 30, 2023.
PIA26554:
Curiosity Surveys the 'Ubajara' Sampling Site on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Sealing the Green Gardens sample, collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, presented an engineering challenge. The sample was finally sealed on March 2, 2025.
PIA26529:
'Green Gardens' Sample in Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill on March 10, 2025.
PIA26571:
Perseverance Cores 'Main River'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance on Dec. 25, 2024, at the site where the rover cored a sample dubbed Silver Mountain.
PIA26530:
Christmas at Crater Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-07 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Heard, a remote volcanic island located in the southern Indian Ocean. It is an Australian Territory.
PIA26509:
Heard Volcano, Australia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming its smaller friend in this short video made of images taken at the rim of Jezero Crater by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 25, 2025.
PIA26528:
Perserverance Captures Crater Rim Dust Devil Eating Its Own
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries a calibration target consisting of five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as they degrade.
PIA26520:
Perseverance and SHERLOC's Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-24 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Runnymede meadow, a short drive from Windsor, England, west of London, near the Thames.
PIA26508:
JFK Memorial, Runnymede Meadow, England
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-13 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
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This graph shows global mean sea level (in blue) since 1993 as measured by a series of five satellites. The solid red line indicates the trajectory of this increase. The dotted red line projects future sea level rise.
PIA26189:
Satellite Record of Sea Level Rise From 1993 to 2024
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-11 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina, with almost 1 million people.
PIA26507:
Charleston, SC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-24 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Taal Volcano in the Philippines, about 50 km south of Manila. It is the second most active volcano in the country, with 38 recorded historic eruptions.
PIA26506:
Taal Volcano, Philippines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nevada's only lithium-producing site, in Clayton Valley, Nevada.
PIA26505:
Clayton Valley, NV
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.
PIA26519:
Curiosity Views Twilight Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-10 Earth InSAR
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Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) analyzed vertical land motion along the California coast between 2015 and 2023. They detailed where land is sinking.
PIA25530:
Map of California Subsidence and Uplift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 4, 2021, this impact crater was found in Cerberus Fossae. Scientists matched its appearance on the surface with a quake detected by NASA's InSight lander.
PIA26518:
HiRISE Views Impact Crater Matching InSight's Seismic Data
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-31 Earth UAVSAR
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Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used data from an airborne radar to measure the movement of the slow-moving landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County.
PIA26495:
NASA Radar Looks at Palos Verdes Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the continuing eruption of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, on January 18.
PIA26504:
Halemaumau, Kilauea Hawaii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-27 Jupiter Juno
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this series of images as it approached the giant planet and swung low over its north polar region on Sept. 20, 2024.
PIA25730:
NASA's Juno Mission Captures Close-Ups of Polar Storms on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-06 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mayotte, a volcanic island in the Comoros archipelago between the eastern coast of Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar.
PIA26503:
French Overseas Territory of Mayotte, Indian Ocean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera on Sept. 8, 2022.
PIA26517:
MRO's HiRISE Views Frosty Martian Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-20 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Barra Island Eoligarry Airport, located in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, U.K.
PIA26502:
Barra Airport, Outer Hebrides, U.K.
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This pair of images shows the Martian surface captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera on Nov. 7, 2024, the 4,357th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26516:
MARDI Peeks Under Curiosity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-17 Earth SWOT
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Data from the SWOT satellite was used to calculate average water levels for lakes and reservoirs in the Ohio River Basin from July 2023 to November 2024.
PIA26188:
Ohio Basin Lakes Water Levels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-16 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its right Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama on Nov. 26, 2024, the 4,375th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26477:
Curiosity Surveys 'Texoli'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's InSight Mars lander acquires the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet in a set of images from 2018 to 2024 that were captured by the agency's MRO HiRISE camera.
PIA26515:
HiRISE Studies the Dust on InSight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animation captured from NASA's rover driving software depicts the agency's Perseverance during a slippery drive as it ascends toward the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on Oct. 16, 2024.
PIA26514:
View of Rover Driving Software During a Slippery Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of slippery terrain while ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Nov. 28, 2024.
PIA26513:
Perseverance Navcam Movie of a Slippery Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA26476:
Jezero Crater Elevation Graph
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the location of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 10, 2024, in which it reached Lookout Hill at the top of Jezero Crater's rim.
PIA26512:
Perseverance Reaches 'Lookout Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed Rio Chiquito on Nov. 23, 2024.
PIA26474:
Perseverance Makes Tracks at 'Rio Chiquito'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills on Oct. 22, 2024.
PIA26473:
Perseverance Views 'Pico Turquino Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024.
PIA26511:
Perseverance's View From 'Lookout Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.
PIA26480:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene showing the slippery terrain that's made its climb up to the rim of Jezero Crater challenging.
PIA26479:
Perseverance Views Slippery Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 5, 2024.
PIA26475:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-11 Earth 7831x4404x3
Saltwater intrusion will affect groundwater in about three of every four coastal aquifers around the world by the year 2100, a NASA-DOD study estimates.
PIA26491:
Projections of Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Watersheds by 2100
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-11 Mars 5000x3026x3
NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering, is a more capable proposed follow-on to the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA26375:
NASA's Mars Chopper Concept (Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-11 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This graphic depicts the most likely scenario for the hard landing of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd and final flight on Jan. 18, 2024.
PIA26482:
Ingenuity's Hard Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-29 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Craters of the Moon National Monument, located in southern Idaho in the Snake River Plain.
PIA26501:
Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on Nov. 2, 2024.
PIA26472:
Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama within Gediz Vallis channel on Sept. 21 and 22, 2024.
PIA26410:
Curiosity's View Within Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Scientists think that ancient groundwater formed this weblike pattern of ridges, called boxwork, that were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 10, 2006.
PIA26306:
HiRISE Views Mount Sharp's Boxwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white sulfur stones on Oct. 11, 2024, before leaving Gediz Vallis channel.
PIA26210:
Curiosity Takes a Last Look at Sulfur Stones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Curiosity captured this panorama using its Mastcam while heading west away from Gediz Vallis channel on Nov. 2, 2024. The Mars rover's tracks across the rocky terrain are visible at right.
PIA26471:
Curiosity Makes Rover Tracks While Heading West
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-15 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Eastern Black Sea region on the slopes of the Pontic mountain range, in Turkey.
PIA26450:
Pontic Range, Turkey
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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Perched on the International Space Station, NASA's EMIT can differentiate between types of vegetation to help researchers understand the distribution and traits of plant communities.
PIA26418:
NASA's EMIT Collects Data on Mid-Atlanic Plant Communities
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30, 2024, as part of an effort to map global ecosystem biodiversity.
PIA26417:
NASA's EMIT Scans the Amazon River in Northern Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-11 Uranus Voyager
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The energized particles around Uranus defied scientist's understanding of how magnetic fields work to trap particle radiation.
PIA26069:
Uranus Magnetosphere Mystery Unlocked (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic showing Observation Rock was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover. The location is near an area the Perseverance science team is calling Curtis Ridge.
PIA26481:
NASA's Perseverance Observes 'Observation Rock'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-31 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nyamulagira volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, continuing eruptive activity since July 2024.
PIA26449:
Nyamulagira Volcano, Democratic Republic Congo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-31 Earth SWOT
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A SWOT data visualization shows high water levels on the northern side of Greenland's Dickson Fjord on Sept. 17, 2023. A huge rockslide into the fjord led to a tsunami.
PIA26420:
SWOT Captures Planet-Rumbling Greenland Tsunami
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Tracks shown in this image indicate the slipperiness of the terrain Perseverance has encountered during its climb up the rim of Jezero Crater.
PIA26379:
Tracks Tell Tale of Perseverance's Crater Rim Climb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance drives first backward then forward as it negotiates some slippery terrain found along a route up to the rim of Jezero Crater on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26377:
Perseverance Drives Backward Up Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27, 2024 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero Crater.
PIA26378:
Perseverance's Mid-Climb View of Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-25 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
PIA26448:
Klamath River, OR and CA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-25 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Humboldt, or La Corona, Glacier in the Andes, Venezuela.
PIA26447:
Humboldt Glacier, Venezuela
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-17 Earth 4928x3264x3
These holes, captured on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier in July 2012, are formed by cryoconite – dust particles that melt into the ice over time, eventually forming small pockets of water below the glacier's surface.
PIA26409:
Cryoconite Holes on Matanuska Glacier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Earth Carbon Mapper Coalition
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On Sept. 19, 2024, the imaging spectrometer on the Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager-1 satellite detected this methane plume in Karachi, Pakistan, extending nearly 2½ miles (4 kilometers) from a landfill.
PIA26416:
Tanager-1 First Methane and Carbon Dioxide Plume Detections
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The white material seen within this gully is believed to be dusty water ice in a Martian region called Dao Vallis, captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA26408:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Dao Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges of Martian gullies in a region named Terra Sirenum.
PIA26407:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-09 Earth ASTER
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A data visualization shows the average concentration of PM2.5 particulate pollution in the Los Angeles region from 2000 to 2018, along with the locations of nearly 11,000 warehouses.
PIA26415:
Particulate Pollution and Warehouses in the Los Angeles Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-02 Asteroid ATLAS
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This animation depicts the motion of small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 as it orbits the Sun.
PIA26452:
Asteroid 2024 PT5's Orbit Around the Sun (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-02 Earth SAR
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NASA's OPERA project generated a radar image of Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 26, 2024, at 7:38 p.m. local time, as the storm approached the Florida coast.
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NASA's OPERA Project Generates Radar Image of Hurricane Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-27 Earth Aqua
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NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) captured an infrared image of Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, at 3:47 a.m. local time, nearly five hours after it made landfall on the Florida coast.
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NASA's AIRS Instrument Captures Hurricane Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Araxa mine in southern Brazil which produces more than 80% of the world's Niobium.
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Araxa Mine, Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-25 Earth Carbon Mapper Coalition
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An imaging spectrometer designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory captured its first data over Karachi, Pakistan, on Sept. 19, 2024.
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Tanager-1 First Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-17 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This series of radar images obtained by the DSN's Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Sept. 16, 2024, shows the near-Earth asteroid 2024 ON a day before its close approach with our planet.
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NASA's Planetary Radar Spies (Another) Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is on its ascent to the rim of Jezero Crater, and it captured a portion of the journey with one of its navigation cameras.
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NASA's Perseverance Is Going Up and Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Earth ECOSTRESS
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Data from NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument aboard the International Space Station shows three wildfires burning in the mountains east and southeast of the Los Angeles area on Sept. 10, 2024.
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Southern California Wildfires Captured by NASA's ECOSTRESS
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising.
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Curiosity Views Earth Setting, Phobos Rising
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The terracotta army, was buried nearby.
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Terra Cotta Army, China
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-29 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This series of radar images obtained by the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Aug. 18, 2024, shows the asteroid 2024 JV33 shortly before its close approach with Earth.
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Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This view of the western edge of Mars' Jezero Crater shows the steep crater rim. A blue icon shows Perseverance's general location as of Aug. 14, 2024. The rover began its ascent of the crater rim on Aug. 27, 2024.
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Perseverance's Location at the Base of Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected 42 powderized rock samples with the drill on the end of its robotic arm.
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Curiosity's 42 Drill Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-20 Jupiter Juno
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This view of Jupiter was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's 62nd close flyby of the giant planet on June 13, 2024. Citizen scientist Jackie Branc made the image using raw JunoCam data.
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JunoCam Captures Jupiter on 62nd Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take (in blue) as it climbs the western rim of Jezero Crater.
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Perseverance's Climb to 'Witch Hazel Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This panorama shows the area NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater's rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4, 2024.
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Perseverance Rover's View Up Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view looking back at the Bright Angel area on July 30, 2024.
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Perseverance Looks Back at 'Bright Angel'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-07 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Tofua Island, in the central part of the Tonga Islands group, the summit of a large stratovolcano that contains a 5-km-wide caldera.
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Tofua Island, Tonga Islands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024. A rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.
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Perseverance's Selfie With 'Cheyava Falls'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Cheyava Falls (left) shows the dark hole where NASA's Perseverance took a core sample. A rock nicknamed Steamboat Mountain (right) also shows an abrasion patch. This image was taken by Mastcam-Z on July 23, 2024.
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Mastcam-Z Views the 'Cheyava Falls' Workspace
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance used its Mastcam-Z instrument to view the Cheyava Falls rock sample within the rover's drill bit.
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Mastcam-Z Views 'Leopard Spots' in Perseverance's Drill Bit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region on Mars called Bright Angel. Cheyava Falls was discovered in the area slightly right of center.
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Perseverance Captures 'Bright Angel' in 360 Degrees
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover discovered leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in Mars' Jezero Crater in July 2024.
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Perseverance Finds a Rock With 'Leopard Spots'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-19 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mount Mabu in northern Mozambique, famous for its old-growth rain forest.
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Mount Mabu, Mozambique
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-19 Jupiter Juno
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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet's northern hemisphere, during its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024.
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NASA's Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-19 Earth 1654x1578x3
The location of Earth's spin axis moved about 30 feet (10 meters) between 1900 and 2023, as shown in this animation.
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Meandering Path of Earth's Spin Axis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment exposed along the side of a mound called Fascination Turret.
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Curiosity's Detailed View of 'Fascination Turret'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama from within Gediz Vallis channel on June 19, 2024.
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Curiosity Takes a 360-Degree View of Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA's Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024.
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Curiosity Captures Close-Up of Sulfur Crystals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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While exploring Gediz Vallis channel in May, NASA's Curiosity captured this image (Figure C) of rocks that show a pale color near their edges. When groundwater leaks into rocks along fractures, it causes chemical reactions that change the color.
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Curiosity Views Rocks With 'Halos'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Gediz Vallis channel on March 31. This area was likely formed by large floods of water and debris that piled jumbles of rocks into mounds within the channel.
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Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this close-up image of a rock nicknamed Snow Lake on June 8, 2024. Nine days earlier, the rover had crushed a similar-looking rock and revealed crystalline textures – and elemental sulfur – inside.
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Curiosity Views Rock Made of Sulfur at 'Snow Lake'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These yellow crystals were revealed after NASA's Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May 30. Using an instrument on the rover's arm, scientists later determined these crystals are elemental sulfur.
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Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)
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This image of a rock target nicknamed Thunderbolt Peak was created by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using PIXL, which determines the mineral composition of rocks by zapping them with X-rays.
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Perseverance's PIXL Instrument Examines 'Thunderbolt Peak'
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