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January 15, 2020

ARIA Maps Damage of Western Puerto Rico After Quakes

January 15, 2020

ARIA Maps Damage of Western Puerto Rico After Quakes

NASAs ARIA team mapped damage in southwestern Puerto Rico following a 6.4-magnitude quake and hundreds of aftershocks. Guanica, west of the city of Ponce, was particularly hard-hit.
January 8, 2020

Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Mexico

January 8, 2020

Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Mexico

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, in the northern Mexican state of Cohuilla.
January 6, 2020

TOI 700 Artists' Illustration

January 6, 2020

TOI 700 Artists' Illustration

This illustration shows TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.
December 19, 2019

Perseus Molecular Cloud

December 19, 2019

Perseus Molecular Cloud

NASAs Spitzer Space telescope shows a collection of gas and dust over 500 light-years across, the Perseus Molecular Cloud, hosts an abundance of young stars.
December 18, 2019

Mars 2020 Rover Is Roving

December 18, 2019

Mars 2020 Rover Is Roving

In a clean room at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASAs Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019.
December 16, 2019

Mars 2020 Makes Tracks for the Red Planet in the Mars Yard

December 16, 2019

Mars 2020 Makes Tracks for the Red Planet in the Mars Yard

An engineering model of NASAs Mars 2020 rover makes tracks during a driving test in the Mars Yard, at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
December 16, 2019

Mississippi River

December 16, 2019

Mississippi River

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows that the Mississippi River continually evolves and changes course over time.
December 12, 2019

Cyclones Larger on Jupiter

December 12, 2019

Cyclones Larger on Jupiter

The JIRAM image was obtained during the 23rd science pass of the Juno spacecraft over Jupiter, on November 4, 2019.
December 6, 2019

Ascraeus Mons

December 6, 2019

Ascraeus Mons

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of the complex caldera at the summit of Ascraeus Mons.
November 26, 2019

Anti-Atlas Mtns., Morocco

November 26, 2019

Anti-Atlas Mtns., Morocco

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about 80 million years ago.
November 25, 2019

Preparing Pioneer 4 for the Moon

November 25, 2019

Preparing Pioneer 4 for the Moon

This image from March 2, 1959 shows engineers from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory checking NASAs Pioneer 4 spacecraft.
November 20, 2019

Sentinel-6A in Its Clean Room

November 20, 2019

Sentinel-6A in Its Clean Room

The Sentinel-6A spacecraft sits in its clean room in Germanys IABG space test center, being prepared for a scheduled launch in November 2020 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
November 20, 2019

Apollo 12 Graphic Novel

November 20, 2019

Apollo 12 Graphic Novel

A graphic novel chronicling the historic flight of Apollo 12 is available for download from NASA.
November 18, 2019

First Global Geologic Map of Titan

November 18, 2019

First Global Geologic Map of Titan

The first global geologic map of Titan is based on radar and visible-light images from NASAs Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
November 15, 2019

Researching Outback Stromatolites

November 15, 2019

Researching Outback Stromatolites

Scientists from NASAs Mars 2020 and ESAs ExoMars projects study stromatolites, the oldest confirmed fossilized lifeforms on Earth, in the Pilbara region of North West Australia.
November 14, 2019

Sichuan Basin, China

November 14, 2019

Sichuan Basin, China

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Sichuan Basin, in the northeast Sichuan province of China, surrounded by mountains on all sides and drained by the Yangtzee River.
November 12, 2019

Jezero Crater Minerals

November 12, 2019

Jezero Crater Minerals

Color has been added to highlight minerals in this image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASAs Mars 2020 mission. The green color represents minerals called carbonates, which are especially good at preserving fossilized life on Earth.
November 5, 2019

NASA Terra Satellite Sees Amazon Fires in Peru

November 5, 2019

NASA Terra Satellite Sees Amazon Fires in Peru

This satellite image, taken by NASAs Earth-observing Terra satellite on Aug. 18, 2019, shows the ECOSTRESS study area in the Amazon Basin and smoke from active fires in the rainforest.
November 5, 2019

Drought-Stressed Forest Fueled Amazon Fires

November 5, 2019

Drought-Stressed Forest Fueled Amazon Fires

NASAs ECOSTRESS sensor measured the stress levels of plants when it passed over the Peruvian Amazon rainforest on Aug. 7, 2019.
November 5, 2019

New Study Shows Atmosphere in the Amazon Drying Out

November 5, 2019

New Study Shows Atmosphere in the Amazon Drying Out

The image shows the decline of moisture in the air over the Amazon rainforest.
November 4, 2019

ASTER Sees Kincade Fire Damage From Space

November 4, 2019

ASTER Sees Kincade Fire Damage From Space

A large burn scar can be seen from space where the Kincade Fire has burned through Sonoma County, California. The image was taken on Nov. 3, 2019, by the ASTER instrument aboard NASAs Terra satellite.
October 31, 2019

Okata, Japan

October 31, 2019

Okata, Japan

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows Okata, a small village of about 3,000 residents in northwest Japan.
October 21, 2019

A Martian Game Board

October 21, 2019

A Martian Game Board

This image, acquired on July 16, 2019 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the polar region, in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, is still blanketed by seasonal carbon dioxide frost (dry ice).
October 21, 2019

Lanzarote, Spanish Canary Islands

October 21, 2019

Lanzarote, Spanish Canary Islands

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows Los Volcanes Natural Park on Lanzarote in the Spanish Canary Islands. It is serving as a training ground to prepare for the next mission to the Moon and Mars.
October 15, 2019

New ARIA Map Shows Damage from Typhoon Hagibis

October 15, 2019

New ARIA Map Shows Damage from Typhoon Hagibis

NASAs ARIA team, along with the Earth Observatory of Singapore, created this map showing damage from Typhoon Hagibis, which struck southwest of Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2019.
October 9, 2019

Wadi Al Dawasir, Saudi Arabia

October 9, 2019

Wadi Al Dawasir, Saudi Arabia

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Wajid Aquifer in Saudi Arabia.
October 2, 2019

Enceladus Organics on Grains of Ice (Illustration)

October 2, 2019

Enceladus Organics on Grains of Ice (Illustration)

This illustration shows the process of organic compounds making their way onto ice grains emitted in plumes from Saturns moon Enceladus, where they were detected by NASAs Cassini spacecraft.
September 30, 2019

Spitzer Spots Bubbles and Bow Shocks

September 30, 2019

Spitzer Spots Bubbles and Bow Shocks

This infrared image from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and radiation from massive young stars.
September 26, 2019

Moon Shadow

September 26, 2019

Moon Shadow

Jupiters volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from NASAs Juno spacecraft.
September 19, 2019

Mozu Tombs, Japan

September 19, 2019

Mozu Tombs, Japan

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Mozu Tombs, a group of megalithic tombs in Sakai, Japan, in the Osaka Plain.
September 18, 2019

NASA Images Hurricane Dorian's Temperature from Space

September 18, 2019

NASA Images Hurricane Dorian's Temperature from Space

NASAs ECOSTRESS imaged Hurricane Dorians temperature on Sept. 6, 2019 as the storm made landfall in North Carolina. Red colors represent warmer temperatures and purple/blue colors represent cooler temperatures.
September 12, 2019

A Storm of Change

September 12, 2019

A Storm of Change

NASAs Juno spacecraft shows Jupiters iconic Great Red Spot, a storm that has been raging since at least the 1800s.

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