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September 23, 2020

OASIS Study Project (Illustration)

September 23, 2020

OASIS Study Project (Illustration)

The OASIS project seeks to study fresh water aquifers in the desert as well as ice sheets in places like Greenland. This illustration shows what a satellite with a proposed radar instrument for the mission could look like.
September 23, 2020

Cyclones of Color at Jupiter's North Pole

September 23, 2020

Cyclones of Color at Jupiter's North Pole

Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASAs Juno mission.
September 18, 2020

Enceladus in the Infrared

September 18, 2020

Enceladus in the Infrared

New composite images made from NASAs Cassini spacecraft data are the most detailed global infrared views ever produced of Saturns moon Enceladus.
September 15, 2020

Tao-Rusyr Volcano, Kuril Islands

September 15, 2020

Tao-Rusyr Volcano, Kuril Islands

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Kuril Islands, a volcanic archipelago, stretching 1300 km from Hokkaido, Japan to Kamchatka, Russia.
September 15, 2020

NASA's UAVSAR Flights Observe California Fires

September 15, 2020

NASA's UAVSAR Flights Observe California Fires

A NASA aircraft equipped with Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) flew above California fires on Sept. 3 and 10 to examine the ground below.
September 14, 2020

NASA's AIRS Instrument Monitors Carbon Monoxide From California Wildfires

September 14, 2020

NASA's AIRS Instrument Monitors Carbon Monoxide From California Wildfires

This visualization shows a three-day average of carbon monoxide concentrations, from Sept. 6 to14, in the atmosphere over California due to wildfires. Higher concentrations of the gas appear as red and orange regions.
September 14, 2020

Perseverance Twin Raises Its Mast

September 14, 2020

Perseverance Twin Raises Its Mast

The full-scale engineering model of NASAs Perseverance rover raises its head, or remote sensing mast, at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
September 14, 2020

Perseverance Twin Drives Into the Mars Yard

September 14, 2020

Perseverance Twin Drives Into the Mars Yard

The full-scale engineering model of NASAs Perseverance rover has put some dirt on its wheels at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
September 9, 2020

Asteroid Bennu's Particle Ejection Events (Animation)

September 9, 2020

Asteroid Bennu's Particle Ejection Events (Animation)

Using data collected by NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission, this animation shows the trajectories of rock particles after being ejected from asteroid (101955) Bennus surface.
September 8, 2020

NASA's ECOSTRESS Takes Surface Temperature Around California Fires

September 8, 2020

NASA's ECOSTRESS Takes Surface Temperature Around California Fires

On Sept. 6, NASAs ECOSTRESS imaged active fires across California, including the El Dorado fire near Yucaipa and the Valley fire in Japatul Valley in the southern part of the state.
September 4, 2020

Test Rover Moves to Mars Yard

September 4, 2020

Test Rover Moves to Mars Yard

Technicians move an engineering version of the Perseverance Mars rover into to its new home in the Mars Yard, part of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
September 4, 2020

Perseverance Test Rover's First Drive

September 4, 2020

Perseverance Test Rover's First Drive

Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASAs Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agencys Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
September 2, 2020

NASA Instrument Tracks Power Plant Methane Emissions

September 2, 2020

NASA Instrument Tracks Power Plant Methane Emissions

These three images show concentrations of methane in a natural gas plume relative to background air measured by AVIRIS-NG, overlaid on true-color land surface images.
September 1, 2020

ASTER Gets a Birdseye View of the Carmel and River Fire Burn Areas

September 1, 2020

ASTER Gets a Birdseye View of the Carmel and River Fire Burn Areas

Captured by the ASTER instrument aboard NASAs Terra satellite, this false-color map shows the burn area of the River and Carmel fires in Monterey County, California.
August 27, 2020

NASA's ECOSTRESS Sees Fire-Induced Tornado From Space

August 27, 2020

NASA's ECOSTRESS Sees Fire-Induced Tornado From Space

This ECOSTRESS has imaged a temperature profile of an area surrounding a fire-induced tornado in Loyalton, California.
August 19, 2020

Death Valley Heats Up

August 19, 2020

Death Valley Heats Up

This ECOSTRESS temperature map shows the land surface temperatures around Death Valley in Californias Mojave Desert on Aug. 16, 2020. during a heat wave.
August 19, 2020

Los Angeles Heat Wave

August 19, 2020

Los Angeles Heat Wave

This ECOSTRESS temperature map shows the land surface temperatures throughout Los Angeles County on Aug. 14, 2020, during a heat wave.
August 18, 2020

Asteroid 2020 QG as Seen Through ZTF Telescope

August 18, 2020

Asteroid 2020 QG as Seen Through ZTF Telescope

The circled streak in the center of this image is asteroid 2020 QG, which came closer to Earth than any other non-impacting asteroid on record.
August 18, 2020

Asteroid 2020 QG Zips Around the Earth (Illustration)

August 18, 2020

Asteroid 2020 QG Zips Around the Earth (Illustration)

This illustration shows asteroid 2020 QGs trajectory bending during its close approach to Earth. The asteroid is the closest known non-impacting asteroid ever detected.
August 17, 2020

Lake Fitri, Chad

August 17, 2020

Lake Fitri, Chad

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows Lake Fitri, located in the center of Chad. It is fed by seasonal rainfall, so its area can triple in wet years. In extreme drought years, the lake may dry out completely.
August 7, 2020

ARIA Damage Map: Beirut Explosion Aftermath

August 7, 2020

ARIA Damage Map: Beirut Explosion Aftermath

NASAs ARIA team, in collaboration with the Earth Observatory of Singapore, used satellite data to map the extent of likely damage following a massive explosion in Beirut.
August 3, 2020

ECOSTRESS Spies Apple Fire's Smoke Plume

August 3, 2020

ECOSTRESS Spies Apple Fire's Smoke Plume

This ECOSTRESS observation shows the burn area and smoke plume created by the Apple fire that was raging in Southern California on Aug. 1, 2020.
August 3, 2020

ECOSTRESS Gauges the Apple Fire's Temperature From Space

August 3, 2020

ECOSTRESS Gauges the Apple Fire's Temperature From Space

This ECOSTRESS temperature map shows the dry vegetation surrounding the Apple fire that was raging in Southern California on Aug. 1, 2020.
August 3, 2020

Curiosity Captures a Spaghetti Western Landscape on Mars

August 3, 2020

Curiosity Captures a Spaghetti Western Landscape on Mars

This wide panorama was taken by NASAs Curiosity Mars rover on Dec. 19, 2019. On the righthand foreground is Western Butte. The ridge with a crusty cap in the background is the Greenheugh pediment.
August 3, 2020

A Dramatic View of Mars' Mount Sharp

August 3, 2020

A Dramatic View of Mars' Mount Sharp

The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASAs Curiosity Mars rover used its telephoto lens to capture Mount Sharp in the morning illumination on Oct. 13, 2019.
July 30, 2020

Nishinoshima Volcano, Japan

July 30, 2020

Nishinoshima Volcano, Japan

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows an ash and steam plume emanating from the central crater of Nishinoshima, a small volcanic island located about 1000 km south of Tokyo, Japan.
July 28, 2020

SHERLOC Cal Target

July 28, 2020

SHERLOC Cal Target

This calibration target will help fine-tune settings for SHERLOC, one of the instruments carried aboard NASAs Perseverance Mars rover. The target carries the first spacesuit materials sent to Mars as well as a fragment of a Martian meteorite.
July 27, 2020

AIRS Captures Hurricane Douglas

July 27, 2020

AIRS Captures Hurricane Douglas

NASAs AIRS instrument captured this image of Hurricane Douglas at 1:53 a.m. local time on July 26, 2020, as the storm swept towards the Hawaiian Islands.
July 27, 2020

AIRS Captures Tropical Storm Hanna

July 27, 2020

AIRS Captures Tropical Storm Hanna

NASAs AIRS instrument captured this image of Tropical Storm Hanna at 1:35 a.m. local time on July 26, 2020, as the storm swept over southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.
July 16, 2020

Mount Whaleback Iron Ore Mine, Australia

July 16, 2020

Mount Whaleback Iron Ore Mine, Australia

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Mount Whaleback open pit iron ore mine, located 6 km west of the town of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
July 15, 2020

Map of Regions Around Mars' Jezero Crater

July 15, 2020

Map of Regions Around Mars' Jezero Crater

This map shows regions in and around Mars Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASAs Perseverance rover. The green circle represents the rovers landing ellipse, or the area where it will be landing within the crater.
July 14, 2020

A Mars Rover and a Mars Flyer (Artist's Concept)

July 14, 2020

A Mars Rover and a Mars Flyer (Artist's Concept)

When NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts its first test flight on the Red Planet, the agencys Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will be close by, as seen in this artists concept.

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