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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.
PIA26307:
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.
PIA26366:
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.
PIA26367:
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.
PIA26308:
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.
PIA26309:
Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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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.
PIA26365:
Perseverance's PIXL Instrument Examines 'Thunderbolt Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-03 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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This sunset photo shows NASA's Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14), the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California.
PIA26150:
The Goldstone Solar System Radar at Sunset
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-03 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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These seven radar observations by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar shows the mile-wide asteroid 2011 UL21 during its June 27 close approach with Earth from about 4 million miles away.
PIA26384:
Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Binary Asteroid 2011 UL21
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-03 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Because close approaches by asteroids the size of 2024 MK are relatively rare, JPL's planetary radar team gathered as much information about the near-Earth object as possible.
PIA26383:
Detailed Planetary Radar Observations of Asteroid 2024 MK
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-02 Earth ECOSTRESS
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NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19 recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns in minutes to seconds, as indicated in the legend above.
PIA25529:
NASA's ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the small island of Handa, off Scotland's northwest coast.
PIA26391:
Handa Island, Scotland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its 23 years of operation around the Red Planet.
PIA26361:
Odyssey's Accomplishments at Its 100,000th Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this single image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, on March 11, 2024.
PIA26305:
Odyssey's THEMIS Views Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of NASA's Perseverance rover gathering data on the Walhalla Glades abrasion was taken in the Bright Angel region of Jezero Crater by one of the rover's front hazard avoidance cameras on June 14, 2024.
PIA26320:
Perseverance's Abrasion Patch at 'Walhalla Glades'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The cover for the Autofocus and Context Imager camera on SHERLOC is seen moving in images captured by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on May 11, 2024.
PIA26338:
Moving the Lens Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Imagery captured by a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows the position of a cover on the SHERLOC instrument. The cover became stuck in January but the rover team has found a way to address the issue for continued operation.
PIA26339:
Checking the Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-21 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows an eruption that began on March 2, 2024 at Fernandina Volcano, Galapagos.
PIA26326:
Fernandina Volcano, Galapagos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the ancient Neretva Vallis river channel when it captured this view of an area of scientific interest named Bright Angel with one of its navigation cameras on June 6, 2024.
PIA26336:
Perseverance Views 'Bright Angel'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance captured this mosaic looking downstream of the dune-filled Neretva Vallis river channel on May 17, 2024. The channel fed Jezero Crater with fresh water billions of years ago.
PIA26335:
Perseverance's View of Neretva Vallis River Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows Perseverance's path between Jan. 21 and June 11, 2024. White dots indicate where the rover stopped after completing a traverse beside Neretva Vallis river channel. The pale blue line indicates the rover's route inside the channel.
PIA26334:
Perseverance's Path to 'Bright Angel' in Mars' Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Stitched together from 18 images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover, this mosaic shows a boulder field on Mount Washburn on May 27, 2024. The rover's science team nicknamed the rock Atoko Point.
PIA26333:
Standing Out on Mars' 'Mount Washburn'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars MAVEN
 Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS)
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The purple color in this animated GIF shows auroras on Mars' nightside as detected by the ultraviolet instrument aboard NASA's MAVEN orbiter between May 14 and 20, 2024. The brighter the purple, the more auroras were present.
PIA26304:
MAVEN Detects Auroras During Solar Storm in 2024
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
PIA26303:
Curiosity Sees Specks Caused By 2024 Solar Storm While Recording a Wind Gust on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured streaks and specks using one of its navigation cameras just as particles from a solar storm arrived on the Martian surface. These artifacts are caused by energetic particles hitting the camera's image detector.
PIA26302:
Curiosity Sees Streaks and Specks During 2024 Solar Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Sol (our sun) Mars 2020 Rover
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Sunspots are seen in images captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z cameras between May 8 and 20, 2024. These flares would send charged particles toward Mars, where several NASA spacecraft were able to study them.
PIA26301:
Perseverance Views Sunspots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Salin-de-Giraud, a major center of salt production on the right bank of the Rhone River in southern France.
PIA26325:
Salin-de-Giraud, France
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-21 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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One of the two shoebox-size CubeSats that make up NASA's PREFIRE mission sits on a table at Blue Canyon Technologies. The company built the satellite bus and integrated the JPL-provided thermal infrared spectrometer instrument.
PIA26186:
PREFIRE CubeSat Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-15 Earth Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE)
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This artist's concept depicts one of two PREFIRE CubeSats in orbit around Earth. The NASA mission will measure the amount of far-infrared radiation the planet's polar regions shed to space.
PIA26185:
PREFIRE CubeSat in Earth Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-05-07 Earth SWOT
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Flooding from monsoon rains covers a wide region of northeast Bangladesh in this Oct. 8, 2023, image showing data from SWOT. The U.S.-French satellite is the first to provide water surface elevation information over entire regions at high resolution.
PIA26343:
SWOT Captures Flooding in Bangladesh
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-30 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site east of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
PIA26290:
Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a field of sand dunes in the Martian springtime while the seasonal carbon dioxide frost is sublimating into the air.
PIA26330:
Defrosting Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 14, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively fresh crater with gullies.
PIA26329:
Gullies in the Depths of Hellas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 9, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain of two distinct ages. The slopes and hilltops here are made up of rough rocky outcrop, while the valley floors are filled with smooth materials with fewer craters.
PIA26328:
Sediment Ponds in Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 18, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows bright materials, likely to be sediments rich in the hydrated sulfates, covered by a thin deposit of dark material, perhaps sand.
PIA26327:
Hydrated Sulfates in Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-26 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia and home to over half the country's population of about 3 million people.
PIA26289:
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-26 Earth 1440x810x3
A NASA-led study combined stream-gauge measurements with computer models of 3 million river segments to create a global picture of how much water Earth's rivers hold. It estimated that the Amazon basin contains about 38% of the world's river water.
PIA26119:
Global Accounting of Earth's River Storage and Flow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-18 Jupiter Juno
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This composite shows views of Jupiter's northern polar cyclones in three different wavelengths of light – microwave, visible, and ultraviolet – as captured by NASA's Juno mission.
PIA26295:
NASA's Juno Catches 3 Waves of Jupiter's Polar Cyclones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-17 Mars Mars Helicopter
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The Ingenuity team celebrates during their final shift working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26319:
Ingenuity Team's Final Shift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-17 Mars Mars Helicopter
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson celebrates with Perseverance rover deputy project manager Steve Lee during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26317:
Ingenuity Fist Bump
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-17 Mars Mars Helicopter
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Teddy Tzanetos, project manager for NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, addresses members of the team during their final shift at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26316:
Ingenuity Project Manager Says Goodbye
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-17 Mars Mars Helicopter
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson and project manager Teddy Tzanetos react during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26315:
Ingenuity Team Lead All Smiles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-16 Mars Mars Helicopter
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Engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity together monitored a transmission from the history-making helicopter in a JPL control room on April 16, 2024.
PIA26318:
Mars Helicopter Team Witnesses Final Downlink
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-15 Earth SWOT
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Water depths in Death Valley's temporary lake ranged between about 3 feet (or 1 meter, shown in dark blue) to less than 1.5 feet (0.5 meters, light yellow) from February through early March.
PIA26184:
SWOT Death Valley Lake Depth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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The 21st rock core captured by NASA's Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The sample was cored from Bunsen Peak on March 12, 2024.
PIA26314:
Perseverance Cores 'Bunsen Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's CacheCam captured this image of the rover's latest cored sample – taken from an intriguing rock called Bunsen Peak – on March 12, 2024.
PIA26313:
Perseverance's 'Bunsen Peak' Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic shows a rock called Bunsen Peak where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover extracted its 21st rock core and abraded a circular patch to investigate the rock's composition.
PIA26312:
Perseverance's View of 'Bunsen Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This map shows the locations of NASA's Perseverance rover (white star) and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (cyan star) on Dec. 19, 2023.
PIA26311:
Rover, Helicopter Locations in Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This animation shows a simulation of the response of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to the Sys-ID process. Sys-ID is a method for understanding the behavior of a system by studying how specific inputs impact the motion of the vehicle.
PIA26240:
Animation of Mars Helicopter Flight Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this selfie using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 3, 2024. The selfie is made up of 36 individual images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26310:
Curiosity Takes a Navcam Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 1, 2024. The panorama is made up of 10 images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26247:
Curiosity Looks Back Down the Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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After arriving at Gediz Vallis channel, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using one of its black-and-white navigation cameras on Feb. 3, 2024.
PIA26246:
Curiosity Arrives at Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The steep path NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took to reach Gediz Vallis channel is indicated in yellow in this visualization made with orbital data.
PIA26241:
Curiosity's Route to Gediz Vallis Channel (Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the March 16, 2024, volcanic eruption in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula.
PIA26288:
March 2024 Iceland Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows some of the tallest star dunes (or pyramid dunes), over 100 meters high, located in the Erg Chebbi sand sea in southeast Morocco.
PIA26287:
Star Dunes, Morocco
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows secondary impact craters around 20 kilometers from the primary impact.
PIA26324:
Searching for Distant Secondary Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 17, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows many craters in the mid-latitudes of Mars are partially filled with deposits that have been interpreted to be ice-rich.
PIA26323:
A Song of Ice and Tectonics
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 15, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows multiple dark spots corresponding to numerous new craters.
PIA26322:
Mars Atmosphere Fights Back!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 30, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 13-meter (43 feet) diameter crater in Arcadia Planitia where ice was exposed both in the crater interior and ejecta.
PIA26321:
Mars Mysteries: Unveiling the Icy Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-21 Earth TOPEX/Poseidon
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This graph shows global mean sea level (in blue) since 1993. The solid red line indicates the trajectory of this increase, which more than doubled over the past three decades. The dotted red line projects future sea level rise.
PIA26183:
2023 Sea Level Rise Update
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-21 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the small town of Orce in the heart of the high plateau of Grenada in southern Spain.
PIA26286:
Orce, Spain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Mercury Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in front of the Sun on Oct. 28, 2023.
PIA26250:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-05 Earth SWOT
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This image shows SWOT satellite data for water surface height in part of Mendocino County, Northern California, on Jan. 15, 2024, before several atmospheric rivers arrived, and on Feb. 4, after the first storms.
PIA26182:
California Coastal Flooding Captured in SWOT Data
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover appears as a dark speck in this image captured from directly overhead by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO.
PIA26245:
HiRISE Spots Curiosity Driving Toward Upper Gediz Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Smith Island, located in the Gulf of California, just off the eastern shore of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
PIA26284:
Smith Island, Gulf of California
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this video showing the shadows of its rotor blades turning on Feb. 11, 2024. Engineers planned the video to get more information about damage that was sustained during the helicopter's 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024
PIA26244:
Ingenuity's Navcam Reveals a Missing Rotor Blade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took these images of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and one of its rotor blades on Feb. 24, 2024.
PIA26238:
SuperCam's RMI Spots Ingenuity's Broken Rotor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This natural-color mosaic showing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at Valinor Hills was acquired by the agency's Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 21, 2024. The helicopter sits just left of center, a speck-like figure amid a field of sand ripples.
PIA26237:
Ingenuity at 'Valinor Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-26 Asteroid Deep Space Network (DSN)
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The day before asteroid 2008 OS7 made its close approach with Earth on Feb. 2, 2024, this series of images was captured by the powerful 230-foot (70-meter) Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna near Barstow, California.
PIA26149:
NASA's Planetary Radar Images Slow-Spinning Asteroid 2008 OS7
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-15 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows volcanic activity near the town of Grindavik, Iceland on January 14, 2024.
PIA26283:
Grindavik, Iceland Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-02-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at its final airfield on Feb. 4, 2024. The helicopter damaged its rotor blades during landing on its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024.
PIA26236:
Perseverance Spots Ingenuity at Its Final Airfield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 21, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively large (280-meter diameter) circular structure that is most likely a relaxed impact crater.
PIA23700:
An Impact Structure in Brain Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 26, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain north of Elysium Planitia and Athabasca Valles.
PIA23427:
Dark Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 23, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater located in Acidalia Planitia. It is in an area of elongated mounds and hosts a variety of gully forms on its interior slopes.
PIA23145:
Gullies in Acidalia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 27, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ridges in Aeolis Planum which tell a story of ancient rivers and a Mars very different to that of today.
PIA22822:
Flowing Rivers on Ancient Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-29 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Rupganj, Bangladesh, one of the top 3 fastest growing cities in the world between 2000 and 2020. The population increased from 76,000 to 482,000.
PIA26282:
Rupganj, Bangladesh
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-25 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
PIA26243:
Ingenuity Spots the Shadow of Its Damaged Rotor Blade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-25 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this view of sand ripples during its 70th flight, on Dec. 22, 2023. The smooth terrain proved difficult for the helicopter's navigation system to track, resulting in a rough landing.
PIA26242:
Ingenuity's View of Sand Ripples During Flight 70
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Earth Landsat
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Zachariae Isstrom, a glacier in northeast Greenland, retreated significantly between 1999 and 2022. A recent study found that it lost 176 billion tons (160 billion metric tons) of ice from 1985 to 2022.
PIA26118:
Retreat of Greenland's Zachariae Isstrom Glacier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-17 Earth Landsat
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Jakobshavn Isbrae, a glacier on Greenland's western coast, retreated significantly between 1985 and 2022, losing about 97 billion tons (88 billion metric tons) of ice.
PIA26117:
Retreat of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-11 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Rinjani Caldera in Indonesia.
PIA26281:
Rinjani Caldera, Indonesia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's shadow is visible on the surface in these images taken by the front Hazcam.
PIA26209:
Curiosity's Hazcams Capture a Day on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Lyot Crater, including a large field of sand dunes on the crater floor.
PIA26270:
Lyot Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the central part of Tithonium Chasma.
PIA26269:
Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Shalbatana Vallis.
PIA26268:
Shalbatana Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Ismeniae Fossae.
PIA26267:
Ismeniae Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-25 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Cerberus Fossae.
PIA26266:
Cerberus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region of wind etched materials near the margin of Lucus Planum.
PIA26265:
Wind Erosion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Olympica Fossae, a complex channel located on the volcanic plains between Alba Mons and Olympus Mons.
PIA26264:
Olympica Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This image shows a test flight of a full-scale prototype of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA26233:
First Controlled Flight of Mars Helicopter Prototype
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Candor Chasma, one of the largest canyons that make up Valles Marineris.
PIA26263:
Eastern Candor Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 14, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows large, streamlined features and grooves that have been carved by enormous water volumes into the floor of Granicus.
PIA25990:
Fluvial Landforms in Granicus Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 3, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows multiple processes, which may have occurred billions of years apart, reflected in this HiRISE image of Aeolis Planum.
PIA25989:
Curving Ridges in Aeolis Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 28, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a fan of sedimentary rock on the southeast area of Gale Crater's floor.
PIA25988:
A Sedimentary Fan in Southeast Gale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 23, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the northern lowlands of Mars stippled with mounds in this location.
PIA25987:
Muddy Mounds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Shalbatana Vallis.
PIA26262:
Shalbatana Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater in Utopia Planitia, with an indentation in the crater rim at the middle of the crater.
PIA26261:
Utopia Planitia Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Bahram Vallis.
PIA26260:
Bahram Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-14 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, after Hurricane Hilary (August, 2023) dropped a year's worth of rain in a single day.
PIA26197:
Badwater, Death Valley
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed crater in southern Acidalia Planitia.
PIA26259:
Acidalia Planitia Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a section of Naktong Vallis.
PIA26258:
Naktong Vallis
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