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April 20, 2018

Lobo Vallis

April 20, 2018

Lobo Vallis

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a small portion of Lobo Vallis near where it recombines with Kasei Valles and empties into Chryse Planitia.
April 19, 2018

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Spotted

April 19, 2018

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Spotted

This image of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on April 1, 2018.
April 19, 2018

MarCO and Dispenser

April 19, 2018

MarCO and Dispenser

One of NASAs MarCO CubeSats inside a cleanroom at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, before being placed into its deployment box.
April 19, 2018

Preparing MarCO

April 19, 2018

Preparing MarCO

Joel Steinkraus, MarCO lead mechanical engineer from JPL, makes an adjustment on the CubeSat prior to integration in a deployment box as seen inside the cleanroom lab at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Monday, March 12, 2018.
April 19, 2018

Sacra Fossae

April 19, 2018

Sacra Fossae

Located on the western margin of Lunae Planum, Sacra Fossae is a group of linear depressions. The right angle turns and uniform width seen in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate that these channels were formed by faulting.
April 18, 2018

Osuga Valles

April 18, 2018

Osuga Valles

Osuga Valles is a complex set of channels located near Eos Chasma. This image was captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
April 17, 2018

NASA's ECOSTRESS Investigation Arrives at Launch Site

April 17, 2018

NASA's ECOSTRESS Investigation Arrives at Launch Site

NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) arrives at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch to the space station this summer.
April 17, 2018

NASA's ECOSTRESS Investigation Arrives at Launch Site

April 17, 2018

NASA's ECOSTRESS Investigation Arrives at Launch Site

NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) is inspected after arrival at Kennedy Space Center.
April 17, 2018

NASA's ECOSTRESS Investigation Being Installed on the International Space Station (Artist's Concept)

April 17, 2018

NASA's ECOSTRESS Investigation Being Installed on the International Space Station (Artist's Concept)

This artist's concept shows NASA's ECOSTRESS which will be installed on International Space Station's Japanese Experiment Module - External Facility (JEM-EF) site 10.
April 17, 2018

Bonestell Crater

April 17, 2018

Bonestell Crater

Bonestell Crater is a relatively young crater located in Acidalia Planitia. The grooved surface of the ejecta blanket is evident in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
April 16, 2018

Three Coronal Holes

April 16, 2018

Three Coronal Holes

For much of this week the sun featured three substantial coronal holes observed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory April 3-6, 2018. These are areas of open magnetic field from which high speed solar wind rushes out into space.
April 16, 2018

Arabia Terra Crater

April 16, 2018

Arabia Terra Crater

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows several craters. The interior of the central one has retained much of the original topography, including the central peak.
April 13, 2018

Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package

April 13, 2018

Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package

This image from a series of images is from a single observation of a star by the ASTERIA spacecraft.
April 13, 2018

Loktak Lake, India

April 13, 2018

Loktak Lake, India

Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northeast India, and is famous for the floating 'phudmis,' masses of vegetation, soil and organic material. This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft was acquired March 19, 2018.
April 13, 2018

Landslide

April 13, 2018

Landslide

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is located in an unnamed crater within Tyrrhena Terra. The 'mitten' shaped feature extends from the crater rim (bottom of frame) onto the crater floor.
April 12, 2018

Turkish Fault Reveals Seismic Steadiness

April 12, 2018

Turkish Fault Reveals Seismic Steadiness

This image shows strain rates on the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey along the east-to-west sequence of earthquakes since 1939. Tectonic strain builds up along this fault -- one of the worlds most deadly earthquake zones -- at a remarkably steady rate.
April 12, 2018

Olympica Fossae

April 12, 2018

Olympica Fossae

Olympica Fossae is a complex channel located on the volcanic plains between Alba Mons and Olympus Mons. The sinuosity of the large channel in the middle of this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey indicates that this is a channel created by liquid flow.
April 11, 2018

Lyot Crater

April 11, 2018

Lyot Crater

Lyot Crater is a large, complex crater in the northern lowlands of Vastitas Borealis. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is located along the southern rim of the crater and shows part of the dune fields located on the floor of the crater.
April 10, 2018

Wind + Gravity

April 10, 2018

Wind + Gravity

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is located in Medusae Fossae. Along the cliffside several dark streaks are visible.
April 9, 2018

Wavelength Comparisons

April 9, 2018

Wavelength Comparisons

With no active regions currently on the face of the sun, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed a bristling active region showing numerous arches of bright, magnetic field lines blossoming out and towering above it beginning to rotate into view.
April 9, 2018

Cutaway of SEIS (Artist's Concept)

April 9, 2018

Cutaway of SEIS (Artist's Concept)

This artist's rendering shows a cutaway of the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument, or SEIS, which will fly as part of NASA's Mars InSight lander.
April 9, 2018

Inner Channel

April 9, 2018

Inner Channel

This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is located along the northern margin of Terra Sirenum. This unnamed channel contains a small channel within a larger channel.
April 9, 2018

Dione on the Edge

April 9, 2018

Dione on the Edge

Saturn's moon Dione drifts before the planet's rings, seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft almost edge on. For all their immense width, the rings are relatively paper-thin.
April 6, 2018

Getting Ready for Launch

April 6, 2018

Getting Ready for Launch

NASA's InSight to Mars undergoes final preparations at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California, ahead of its launch, expected as early as May 5, 2018.
April 6, 2018

Intricate Clouds of Jupiter

April 6, 2018

Intricate Clouds of Jupiter

Intricate cloud patterns in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter are seen in this view taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft on April 1, 2018.
April 6, 2018

Bahram Vallis

April 6, 2018

Bahram Vallis

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a section of Bahram Vallis. Bahram Vallis is located on the northeastern margin of Lunae Planum.
April 5, 2018

Polar Winds

April 5, 2018

Polar Winds

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows 'streamers' of clouds created by katabatic winds at the north polar cap.
April 4, 2018

Small Craters

April 4, 2018

Small Craters

This field of small dark craters captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is located in southern Elysium Planitia. The dark appearance against the surrounding lava flows suggests that the craters post-date the lava flows.
April 3, 2018

Avernus Colles

April 3, 2018

Avernus Colles

The arcuate fractures and broken up surface shown in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is called Avernus Colles. This unique surface has developed on the southeast margin of Elysium Plainitia.
April 2, 2018

Wavelength Comparisons

April 2, 2018

Wavelength Comparisons

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ran together three sequences of the sun taken in three different extreme ultraviolet wavelengths to show how different features appearing in one sequence are difficult to see in the others (Mar. 20-21, 2018).
April 2, 2018

Gullies of Matara Crater

April 2, 2018

Gullies of Matara Crater

Gullies on Martian sand dunes, like these in Matara Crater, have been very active, with many flows in the last ten years. In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter frost in and around two gullies are seen.
April 2, 2018

Formations in Context (or, what is it?)

April 2, 2018

Formations in Context (or, what is it?)

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a close-up of a trough, along with channels draining into the depression. On the floor of the trough is some grooved material typically seen in middle latitude regions where there has been glacial flow

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