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Happy Anniversary, Opportunity
Eight years into her three-month mission, the robotic geologist Opportunity offers this view...
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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012
Dunes in Kaiser Crater
In October of 2011, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this striking view of dunes within...
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Uploaded on Jan 12, 2012
Dione Eclipse
A closeup of Saturn's ice moon Dione, captured earlier today by the robotic spacecraft...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011
The Fountains of Life?
Before Cassini arrived at the Saturn system, the little, icy moon Enceladus...
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Uploaded on Oct 19, 2011
May I Have This Dance?
[See the animation here.] Yesterday, the Cassini spacecraft tracked Saturn’s icy moon Rhea as...
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Uploaded on Oct 5, 2011
Yardangs Seen on Mars!
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these striking yardangs, ridges that the Martian wind...
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Uploaded on Oct 3, 2011
Unexplained "Hollows" on Mercury
The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER, now orbiting the first planet, has found odd features on its...
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Uploaded on Sep 29, 2011
Virgin Territory
The robotic geologist Opportunity recently rolled into a huge Martian crater called Endeavour....
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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011
Strike a Pose
Doing its best to get on the cover of a sci-fi novel, Saturn’s icy moon Dione poses in front of...
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Uploaded on Sep 20, 2011
Secrets in the Labyrinth of Night
The criss-crossing spiderweb of canyons on Mars called Noctis Labyrinthus (the “labyrinth...
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Uploaded on Sep 19, 2011
The Mercury Mosaics
The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER is the first in human history to see and map nearly the...
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Uploaded on Sep 14, 2011
The Ice Pits of Mars
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this intriguing glimpse of pits (and they are pits,...
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Uploaded on Sep 12, 2011
We Have Separation!
Stills from a sometimes-shaky live video feed, showing successful separation of the twin GRAIL...
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Uploaded on Sep 10, 2011
Rocket's Red Glare
Flame shooting hundreds of feet from NASA's new five-segment solid rocket motor during a ground...
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Uploaded on Sep 8, 2011
T +22 Seconds
Flame shooting hundreds of feet from NASA's new five-segment solid rocket motor during a ground...
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Uploaded on Sep 8, 2011
Long-Distance Weather Report
Every day, a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures a view of the...
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Uploaded on Sep 6, 2011
Shattered World
Saturn’s moon Hyperion, as seen this week by the robotic spacecraft Cassini. Hyperion, just 255...
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Uploaded on Aug 29, 2011
Entrance to the Martian Underworld
When Mars explorers spotted an unusual dark patch in a crater on the slopes of a volcano,...
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Uploaded on Aug 19, 2011
