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March 12, 2019

Opportunity Legacy Pan (False Color)

March 12, 2019

Opportunity Legacy Pan (False Color)

This is the last panorama NASAs Opportunity rover acquired before the solar-powered rover succumbed to a global Martian dust storm on June 10, 2018.
March 12, 2019

Opportunity's Last Message

March 12, 2019

Opportunity's Last Message

Taken on June 10, 2018 (the 5,111th Martian day, or sol, of the mission) this noisy, incomplete image was the last data NASAs Opportunity rover sent back from Mars.
March 11, 2019

Criss-Crossing Lunar Transit

March 11, 2019

Criss-Crossing Lunar Transit

NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a long lunar transit on Mar. 6, 2019.
March 4, 2019

Colorful Mawrth Vallis

March 4, 2019

Colorful Mawrth Vallis

This image acquired on February 7, 2019 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Mawrth Vallis, a place on Mars that has fascinated scientists because of the clays and other hydrated minerals detected from orbit.
February 21, 2019

Potrillo Volcanic Field, New Mexico

February 21, 2019

Potrillo Volcanic Field, New Mexico

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Potrillo volcanic field, located on the Rio Grande Rift in southern New Mexico.
February 20, 2019

A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra

February 20, 2019

A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra

This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a recent impact in Noachis Terra in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars.
February 19, 2019

Spring 2019 Eclipse Season Arrives

February 19, 2019

Spring 2019 Eclipse Season Arrives

NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory is in another eclipse season as of Feb. 6, 2019. This image shows the Earth briefly blocking SDOs view of the Sun.
February 7, 2019

Luxor, Egypt

February 7, 2019

Luxor, Egypt

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows Luxor, a city in Upper Egypt, along the Nile. It is the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Waset, known to the Greeks as Thebes.
February 6, 2019

NASA's ASTER Shows Brazilian City After Dam Disaster

February 6, 2019

NASA's ASTER Shows Brazilian City After Dam Disaster

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the after image, acquired Feb. 1, 2019, of a dam burst at a Brazilian iron ore mine.
February 5, 2019

Wind Flow

February 5, 2019

Wind Flow

This image acquired on December 5, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows ripples in the sand which tell us which way the wind was moving and how it was diverted around these rock formations.
January 31, 2019

AIRS Captures Polar Vortex

January 31, 2019

AIRS Captures Polar Vortex

NASAs Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captures a polar vortex moving from Central Canada into the U.S. Midwest from January 20 through January 29, 2019.
January 23, 2019

October Revolution Island, Russia

January 23, 2019

October Revolution Island, Russia

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows Severnaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It was first charted in 1930.
January 9, 2019

There's Something Odd Here

January 9, 2019

There's Something Odd Here

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Noachis Terra to the northeast of Argyre Planitia.
January 8, 2019

Boeing Plant, Everett WA

January 8, 2019

Boeing Plant, Everett WA

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the largest building in the world located at the Boeing factory in Everett, Washington.
January 7, 2019

K2-138 System Diagram

January 7, 2019

K2-138 System Diagram

This diagram image shows the estimated radii of the six planets in the planetary system K2-128, as well as their distance from the parent star.
December 21, 2018

ASTER Global Mosaic

December 21, 2018

ASTER Global Mosaic

This mosaic was created from thumbnail browse images of data from NASAs Terra spacecraft.
December 20, 2018

CAL Ground Test Bed

December 20, 2018

CAL Ground Test Bed

This image shows NASA Cold Atom Laboratorys physicist David Aveline working in the CAL test bed, which is a replica of the CAL facility that stays on Earth.
December 19, 2018

SEIS Deployed on Mars

December 19, 2018

SEIS Deployed on Mars

NASAs InSight lander placed its seismometer on Mars on Dec. 19, 2018. This was the first time a spacecraft robotically placed a seismometer onto the surface of another planet.
December 18, 2018

Measuring the Workspace

December 18, 2018

Measuring the Workspace

Engineers measure their test landers workspace -- the terrain where scientists want to set InSights instruments -- at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
December 18, 2018

Marsforming for InSight

December 18, 2018

Marsforming for InSight

Engineers in Pasadena, California, sculpt a gravel-like material to mimic the terrain in front of NASAs InSight lander on Mars.
December 12, 2018

Earth-based Observation of Jupiter

December 12, 2018

Earth-based Observation of Jupiter

This Earth-based observation of Jupiter and the South Tropical Disturbance approaching the Great Red Spot was captured by NASAs Juno spacecraft.
December 10, 2018

Voyager 2 and the Scale of the Solar System (Artist Concept)

December 10, 2018

Voyager 2 and the Scale of the Solar System (Artist Concept)

This artists concept puts solar system distances -- and the travels of NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft -- in perspective.
December 7, 2018

MarCO-B (Wall-E) approaches Mars

December 7, 2018

MarCO-B (Wall-E) approaches Mars

MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took these images as it approached Mars, just before NASAs InSight spacecraft landed on the planet.
December 6, 2018

Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt

December 6, 2018

Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt

Colorful swirling clouds in Jupiters North Equatorial Belt practically fill this image from NASAs Juno spacecraft.
December 6, 2018

Partial View of Insight's Robotic Arm and Deck

December 6, 2018

Partial View of Insight's Robotic Arm and Deck

This image shows a partial view of the deck of NASAs InSight lander, where it stands on the Martian plains Elysium Planitia.
December 5, 2018

Reappearing Coronal Hole

December 5, 2018

Reappearing Coronal Hole

NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a long-lasting coronal hole has again rotated around to face the Earth (Nov. 28-30, 2018).
December 4, 2018

St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

December 4, 2018

St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows Saint Croix, a district of the U.S. Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean Sea.
December 3, 2018

NASA's ASTER Captures Lava Flow, Ash from Guatemala Volcano

December 3, 2018

NASA's ASTER Captures Lava Flow, Ash from Guatemala Volcano

NASAs Terra spacecraft obtained this ASTER image of Guatemalas Fuego volcano on Nov. 24, 2018, following a recent eruption.
November 27, 2018

The Changing Ice Cap of Mars

November 27, 2018

The Changing Ice Cap of Mars

This image acquired on August 20, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows remnants of a deposit, composed of dry ice layered together with dust and water ice, that form the south polar residual cap.
November 26, 2018

IDC Camera First Image

November 26, 2018

IDC Camera First Image

The Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) on NASAs InSight lander took this image of the Martian surface on Nov. 26, 2018.
November 25, 2018

Test Raw Image of Robotic Arm in InSight Testbed

November 25, 2018

Test Raw Image of Robotic Arm in InSight Testbed

This test image from an engineering model of NASAs InSight lander shows part of the landers robotic arm.
November 21, 2018

Planetary Interiors

November 21, 2018

Planetary Interiors

An artists impression shows the major interior layers of Earth, Mars and the Moon.

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