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A dust devil on the Amazonis Planitia of Mars, as captured by the Mars Reconnaissance...

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Uploaded on Mar 7, 2012

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Eight years into her three-month mission, the robotic geologist Opportunity offers this view...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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In October of 2011, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this striking view of dunes within...

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Uploaded on Jan 12, 2012

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A closeup of Saturn's ice moon Dione, captured earlier today by the robotic spacecraft...

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011

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Before Cassini arrived at the Saturn system, the little, icy moon Enceladus...

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Uploaded on Oct 19, 2011

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[See the animation here.] Yesterday, the Cassini spacecraft tracked Saturn’s icy moon Rhea as...

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Uploaded on Oct 5, 2011

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these striking yardangs, ridges that the Martian wind...

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Uploaded on Oct 3, 2011

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The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER, now orbiting the first planet, has found odd features on its...

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The robotic geologist Opportunity recently rolled into a huge Martian crater called Endeavour....

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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011

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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

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The criss-crossing spiderweb of canyons on Mars called Noctis Labyrinthus (the “labyrinth...

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Uploaded on Sep 19, 2011

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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

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this intriguing glimpse of pits (and they are pits,...

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Uploaded on Sep 12, 2011

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Stills from a sometimes-shaky live video feed, showing successful separation of the twin GRAIL...

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Uploaded on Sep 10, 2011

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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

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Flame shooting hundreds of feet from NASA's new five-segment solid rocket motor during a ground...

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Every day, a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures a view of the...

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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

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