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November 18, 2020

Geometry of the Blue Ring Nebula (Animation)

November 18, 2020

Geometry of the Blue Ring Nebula (Animation)

The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of debris. The base of one cone is moving toward Earth. Both bases are outlined in magenta, revealing shockwaves created as the debris races through space.
November 18, 2020

The Blue Ring Nebula

November 18, 2020

The Blue Ring Nebula

The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of gas ejected into space by a stellar merger. As the gas cools, it forms hydrogen molecules that collide with particles in interstellar space, causing them to radiate far-ultraviolet light.
November 17, 2020

Crater Dunes

November 17, 2020

Crater Dunes

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a dune field on the floor of an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
November 16, 2020

Sirenum Fossae

November 16, 2020

Sirenum Fossae

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Sirenum Fossae.
November 13, 2020

A Flight Director's Focus

November 13, 2020

A Flight Director's Focus

Flight Director Matt Smith studies the data during the second post-launch trajectory correction maneuver during Perseverances cruise to Mars.
November 13, 2020

Propulsion Lead Checks the Tanks

November 13, 2020

Propulsion Lead Checks the Tanks

Propulsion Lead Rebekah Lam participates in Perseverances second trajectory correction maneuver at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
November 13, 2020

All Systems Go for Planned Course Correction

November 13, 2020

All Systems Go for Planned Course Correction

Matt Smith, flight director for the second Mars 2020 mission trajectory correction maneuver (TCM-2), studying the screens at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
November 13, 2020

Celebrating a Good Day in Space

November 13, 2020

Celebrating a Good Day in Space

The Mars 2020 navigation team celebrates Perseverances nominal, or successful, trajectory correction maneuver in the Mission Support Area at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
November 13, 2020

Maneuvers While Masked

November 13, 2020

Maneuvers While Masked

Attitude Control Systems lead Chris Pong donned a dinosaur-themed mask for his participation in the Mars 2020 missions second trajectory correction maneuver at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
November 13, 2020

Briny Plumes on Europa (Illustration)

November 13, 2020

Briny Plumes on Europa (Illustration)

This illustration of Jupiters icy moon Europa depicts a cryovolcanic eruption in which brine from within the icy shell could blast into space. A new model proposing this process may also shed light on plumes on other icy bodies.
November 13, 2020

Sirenum Fossae

November 13, 2020

Sirenum Fossae

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Sirenum Fossae.
November 13, 2020

MEDA's Wind Sensor Springs Out

November 13, 2020

MEDA's Wind Sensor Springs Out

One of two wind sensors springs out of the mast on NASAs Perseverance Mars rover. These sensors are part of Perseverances weather instrumentation, called MEDA.
November 13, 2020

Perseverance Rover's SkyCam

November 13, 2020

Perseverance Rover's SkyCam

SkyCam is a sky-facing camera aboard NASAs Perseverance Mars rover. As part of MEDA, the rovers set of weather instruments, SkyCam will take images and video of clouds passing in the Martian sky.
November 12, 2020

Sirenum Fossae

November 12, 2020

Sirenum Fossae

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows linear depressions, part of Sirenum Fossae.
November 12, 2020

Curiosity's Selfie at the Mary Anning location on Mars

November 12, 2020

Curiosity's Selfie at the Mary Anning location on Mars

NASAs Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed Mary Anning after a 19th century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region.
November 11, 2020

Channel

November 11, 2020

Channel

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows an unnamed channel located on the northern boundary of Terra Sirenum near Lucus Planum.
November 10, 2020

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

November 10, 2020

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) along the Blue Nile River is well under way near the Ethiopia-Sudan border.
November 10, 2020

Mars 2020 Showing Some Inflight Heat

November 10, 2020

Mars 2020 Showing Some Inflight Heat

An electrical cable can be seen snaking its way along insulation material in this in-flight image of the interior of the Mars 2020 spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet.
November 10, 2020

Russell Crater Dunes

November 10, 2020

Russell Crater Dunes

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows complex dune forms on the floor of Russell Crater.
November 9, 2020

Dao Vallis

November 9, 2020

Dao Vallis

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a small portion of Dao Vallis. Located south of Hadriacus Mons (a volcano), this channel is approximately 1200km (750 miles) long.
November 9, 2020

Night on Europa (Illustration)

November 9, 2020

Night on Europa (Illustration)

This illustration of Jupiters moon Europa shows how the icy surface may glow on its nightside, the side facing away from the Sun. Variations in the glow and the color of the glow itself could reveal information about the composition of ice on Europas su
November 6, 2020

Mangala and Memnonia Fossae

November 6, 2020

Mangala and Memnonia Fossae

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows several linear depressions called graben. Graben are formed due to extensional tectonic stresses, creating linear faults that allow subsidence of blocks of material between paired faults.
November 5, 2020

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Spacecraft Team and Fairing

November 5, 2020

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Spacecraft Team and Fairing

Technicians and engineers working on the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite pose in front of the spacecraft in its protective nosecone, or payload fairing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
November 5, 2020

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Encapsulated

November 5, 2020

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Encapsulated

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is encapsulated in a protective nosecone, or payload fairing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fairing will sit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the satellite into Earth orbit.
November 5, 2020

Osuga Valles

November 5, 2020

Osuga Valles

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Osuga Valles. Osuga Valles is a complex set of channels located near Eos Chasma.
November 4, 2020

Matara Crater Dunes

November 4, 2020

Matara Crater Dunes

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows the floor of Matara Crater. A large sand sheet with surface dune forms dominates the floor of this crater located in Noachis Terra.
November 3, 2020

Mangala Valles

November 3, 2020

Mangala Valles

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Mangala Valles. Mangala Valles is a complex channel more than 900km long (560 miles).
November 2, 2020

Chaos

November 2, 2020

Chaos

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a region, south of Eos Chasma, where the mesas have eroded down into small hills, as well as large, steep sided mesas.
October 30, 2020

Channel

October 30, 2020

Channel

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a section of an unnamed channel in Arabia Terra. This channel empties into Madler Crater.
October 29, 2020

Rabe Crater Dunes

October 29, 2020

Rabe Crater Dunes

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows dunes located on the complex floor of Rabe Crater.
October 28, 2020

Sea of Galilee, Israel

October 28, 2020

Sea of Galilee, Israel

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Sea of Galilee (or Sea of Kinneret) in northern Israel, the lowest freshwater lake on Earth.
October 28, 2020

ECOSTRESS Drought Stress Comparison

October 28, 2020

ECOSTRESS Drought Stress Comparison

NASAs ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged the Western United States drought on Oct. 16, 2020, and compared the same area to an image from ECOSTRESS taken a year earlier on Oct. 16, 2019.

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