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Global images of Earth from Galileo. In each frame, the continent of Antarctica is visible at the bottom of the globe. South America may be seen in the first frame (top left), the great Pacific Ocean in the second (bottom left), India at the top and Australia to the right in the third (top right), and Africa in the fourth (bottom right). Taken at six-hour intervals on December 11, 1990, at a range of between 2 and 2.7 million kilometers (1.2 to 1.7 million miles). P-37630 < P>These images...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Galileo, What -- Sun, Where -- Pacific Ocean, Where -- Australia, Where --...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=589
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Jun 30, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Image Courtesy www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ SRTM Team NASA/JPL/NIMA
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This image of the world was generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The SRTM Project has recently released a new global data set called SRTM30, where the original one arcsecond of latitude and longitude resolution (about 30 meters, or 98 feet, at the equator) was reduced to 30 arcseconds (about 928 meters, or 3045 feet.) This image was created from that data set and shows the world between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude, covering 80% of the Earth's...
Topics: What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- SRTM
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3741
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Visions of the Future Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that someday, with the help of new generations of innovators and explorers, these visions of the future can become a reality. As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future. Mirror of http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
Topic: JPL
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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This is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk. Because Earth and the Moon are closer to the Sun than Mars, they exhibit phases, just as the Moon, Venus, and Mercury do when viewed from Earth. As seen from Mars by the NASA Mars Global Surveyor on May 8, 2003, at 13:00 GMT (6:00 a.m. PDT), Earth and the Moon appeared in the evening sky. This Earth/Moon image has been specially processed to allow both Earth (with an apparent...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Moon, What -- Sun, What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What --...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16459
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter Feb. 1, 1979, at a range of 20 million miles (32.7 million kilometers). Voyager scientists can now see that different colors in clouds around the Great Red Spot imply that the clouds swirl around the spot at varying altitudes. They also observe apparently regular spacing between the small white spots in the southern hemisphere and similar positioning of dark spots in the northern hemisphere. A major activity will be to understand the form and structure of...
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Jupiter, What -- Voyager, What -- Io, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00235&orgid=10
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL
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Island nations in the South Pacific Ocean experience natural disasters associated with typhoons, and with their proximity to the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire." This radar image shows most of the northern coast of the island of Upolu in the nation of Western Samoa. Disaster managers use digital elevation models (DEMs) generated from radar data to assist in research toward disaster mitigation and management. Geologists also use DEM data of volcanic features, such as the line of...
Topics: What -- AirSAR, What -- Earth, What -- Enterprise, Where -- Pacific Ocean, Where -- Samoa, Where --...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1523
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09/09
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Voyager 2 obtained this color image of Triton at a distance of 4 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) at 1 a.m. PDT on Aug. 22, 1989. The picture was made by combining images taken through the green, clear and violet filters. The smallest features seen are about 74 kilometers (46 miles) across. The south pole of Triton is currently tipped toward the sun and it is summer in the southern hemisphere. The south pole is located about a quarter of the way up from the bottom of the image. The bright...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Sun, What -- Voyager, Where -- Triton, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA02211&orgid=10
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Oct 6, 2009
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
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This illustration shows the relative sizes of the Sun and the Earth by placing them impossibly close together.
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Earth
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=sig07-012
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Jun 29, 2011
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This image of South America was generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ (SRTM). For this broad view the resolution of the data was first reduced to 30 arcseconds (about 928 meters north-south but variable east-west), matching the best previously existing global digital topographic data set called edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html GTOPO30. The data were then resampled to a Mercator projection with approximately square pixels (about one kilometer,...
Topics: What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- SRTM, What -- Space Shuttle Endeavour, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3581
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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NASA JPL
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This radar image provides a high-tech view of Silicon Valley and shows the utility of radar data for mapping land use patterns. This image shows the San Jose metropolitan area in the Santa Clara Valley in central California. The Valley lies between the Santa Cruz Mountains to the southwest (left side of image) and the Diablo Range to the northeast (right side of image). The San Andreas fault is the linear feature along the left side of the image. Dark patches in the Diablo Range are sparsely...
Topics: What -- Spaceborne Imaging Radar, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Endeavour, Where -- The...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1417
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The spacecraft responsible for these images are as follows: the Mercury image was taken by Mariner 10, the Venus image by Magellan, the Earth image by Galileo, the Mars image by Viking, and the Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune images by Voyager.
Topics: What -- Mercury, What -- Venus, What -- Earth, What -- Moon, What -- Mars, What -- Jupiter, What --...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00545&orgid=10
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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NASA JPL
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This spaceborne radar image shows patterns of agricultural development in the southwest coastal area of the Malaysian Peninsula. The city of Muar is at the center of the left edge of the image at the mouth of the Muar River (Sungai Muar). The city is about 150 km (93 miles) southeast of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, and about the same distance northwest of Singapore. The coast at the left side of the image is on the Strait of Malacca, the narrow waterway separating Malaysia and the...
Topics: What -- Spaceborne Imaging Radar, What -- Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, What -- AirSAR, What...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1427
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/NIMA
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On January 26, 2001, the Kachchh region in western India suffered the most deadly earthquake in India's history. Shortly thereafter, geologists traversed the region looking for ground surface disruptions, such as fault breaks, that could provide clues to the tectonic processes here. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) scientists provided stereoscopic images to the geologists, similar to this 3-D view of the terrain northwest of the city of Bhuj. The geologists reported back that the images...
Topics: What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- SRTM, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03308
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Oct 23, 2021
10/21
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Lord Henfield, NASA, JPL, ESA, DLR
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PORTRAITS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM (Educational Material, Astronomy, Planetology, Space Exploration; The PDF Description offers some extra information, data, and facts.) These are printable Portraits of the most significant Objects in the Solar System. Optimal print size is a picture height of circa 70 cm / 27 inch; Maximum print size is circa 80 cm / 30 inch. Prints ought to be done by professional print shops. Make sure that each and every image has the same height; even the image of Saturn. The...
Topics: PORTRAITS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM (Educational Material, Astronomy, Planetology, Space Exploration, The...
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-527, 28 October 2003 This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) picture shows a meteor impact crater in central Syrtis Major. This is a relatively young crater; its ejecta patterns are very well preserved and have not been eroded away by wind or buried by fine sediment. The crater is located near 8.5N, 295.2W. The picture covers an area 3 km (1.9 mi) wide and is illuminated by sunlight from the left/upper left.
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars, What -- Crater
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04815
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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NASA's New Millennium Deep Space 1 spacecraft approaching the comet 19P/Borrelly. With its primary mission to serve as a technology demonstrator--testing ion propulsion and 11 other advanced technologies--successfully completed in September 1999, Deep Space 1 is now headed for a risky, exciting rendezvous with Comet Borrelly. NASA extended the mission, taking advantage of the ion propulsion and other systems to target the daring encounter with the comet in September 2001. Once a sci-fi dream,...
Topics: What -- Deep Space 1, What -- ion engine, What -- Earth
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA04604&orgid=10
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Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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30 September 2006 This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows an example of the extremely odd, seemingly scrambled layered rocks exposed by erosion near the deepest part of the deepest basin on Mars, Hellas. This pattern of eroded, and perhaps deformed layers was once exposed to the martian surface, then buried, and more recently exposed again. The story behind these layers is not really understood; some members of the MOC team have -- for nearly 9 years now -- taken...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08801
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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14 February 2004 Happy St. Valentine's Day from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team! This collection of images acquired over the past 3 Mars years shows some of the heart-shaped features found on Mars by the MGS MOC. * The heart in E04-01788 is a low mesa located near 46.7N, 29.0W, and is about 636 m (2,086 ft) wide. * The heart in R10-03259 is a depression located near 22.7N, 56.6W, and is about 378 m (1,240 ft) wide. * The heart in R09-02121 is a small mesa on a...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars, What -- Crater
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05296
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Dec 8, 2009
12/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This Voyager 2 picture of Oberon is the best the spacecraft acquired of Uranus' outermost moon. The picture was taken shortly after 3:30 a.m. PST on Jan. 24, 1986, from a distance of 660,000 kilometers (410,000 miles). The color was reconstructed from images taken through the narrow-angle camera's violet, clear and green filters. The picture shows features as small as 12 km (7 mi) on the moon's surface. Clearly visible are several large impact craters in Oberon's icy surface surrounded by...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Oberon, What -- Uranus, What -- Moon, What -- Callisto, What -- Crater,...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00034&orgid=10
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
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"The further on the edge, the hotter the intensity," sings Kenny Loggins in "Danger Zone," a song made famous by the movie "Top Gun". The same words ring true for young, cooler stars like our sun that live in the danger zones around scorching hot stars, called O-stars. The closer a young, maverick star happens to be to a super hot O-star, the more likely its burgeoning planets will be blasted into space. This artist's animation illustrates how this process works....
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-08v2
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell
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On May 19th, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view of the Sun sinking below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover’s 489th Martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to stay awake briefly after sending that sol’s data to the Mars Odyssey orbiter just before sunset. This small panorama of the western sky was obtained using Pancam’s 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and...
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Topics: What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER), What -- Spirit, What -- Sun, What -- Crater, What -- Mars,...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17213
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
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This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Evidence for this possible belt was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope when it spotted warm dust around the star, presumably from asteroids smashing together. The view starts from outside the belt, where planets like the one shown here might possibly reside, then moves into to the dusty belt itself. A collision between two asteroids is depicted near the end of the...
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis, What -- Venus,...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-10v1
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Cornell
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Stars in the upper portion of the constellation Orion the Hunter, including the bright shoulder star Betelgeuse and Orion's three-star belt, appear in this image taken from the surface of Mars by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. Spirit imaged stars on March 11, 2004, after it awoke during the martian night for a communication session with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. This image is an eight-second exposure. Longer exposures were also taken. The images tested...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Orion, What -- BETELGEUSE, What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER),...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05546
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Jun 30, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Image courtesy SRTM Team, NASA JPL
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This perspective view shows the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. Europe (Spain) is on the left. Africa (Morocco) is on the right. The Rock of Gibraltar, administered by Great Britain, is the peninsula in the back left. The Strait of Gibraltar is the only natural gap in the topographic barriers that separate the Mediterranean Sea from the world's oceans. The sea is about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) long and covers about 2.5 million...
Topics: What -- Polar, Where -- Atlantic Ocean, Where -- Spain, Where -- Morocco, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3926
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Dec 8, 2009
12/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This is the highest-resolution picture of Titania returned by Voyager 2. The picture is a composite of two images taken Jan. 24, 1986, through the clear filter of Voyager's narrow-angle camera. At the time, the spacecraft was 369,000 kilometers (229,000 miles) from the Uranian moon; the resolution was 13 km (8 mi). Titania is the largest satellite of Uranus, with a diameter of a little more than 1,600 km (1,000 mi). Abundant impact craters of many sizes pockmark the ancient surface. The most...
Topics: What -- Titania, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Moon, What -- Uranus, What -- Crater, What -- Voyager,...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00039&orgid=10
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This high-resolution filtered image of Enceladus was made from several images obtained Aug. 25 by Voyager 2 from a range of 119,000 kilometers (74,000 miles). It shows further surface detail on this Saturnian moon (also viewed in the accompanying release P-23955C/BW, S-2-50, imaged about the same time). Enceladus is seen to resemble Jupiter's Galilean satellite Ganymede, which is, however, about 10 times larger. Faintly visible here in "Saturnshine" is the hemisphere turned away from...
Topics: What -- Enceladus, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Moon, What -- Ganymede, What -- Sun, What -- Voyager,...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA01395&orgid=10
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology
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This image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer in a single orbit exposure of 27 minutes on October 10, 2003. NGC 300 lies 7 million light years from our Milky Way galaxy and is one of a group of galaxies in the constellation Sculptor. NGC 300 is often used as a prototype of a spiral galaxy because in optical images it displays flowing spiral arms and a bright central region of older (and thus redder) stars. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer image taken in...
Topics: What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Explorer, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, Where...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04924
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/NIMA
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This stereoscopic shaded relief image shows Africa's topography as measured by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) in February 2000. Also shown are Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, and other adjacent regions. Previously, much of the topography here was not mapped in detail. Digital elevation data, such as provided by SRTM, are in high demand by scientists studying earthquakes, volcanism, and erosion patterns and for use in mapping and modeling hazards to human habitation. But the...
Topics: What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- SRTM, What -- Atlas, What -- Crater, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04964
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
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This image shows the view from Deep Impact's probe 30 seconds before it was pummeled by comet Tempel 1. The image was taken by the probe's impactor targeting sensor.
Topics: What -- Deep Impact, What -- Impactor
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02129
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
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This artist's concept animation shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet that orbits very close to its fiery hot star. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was recently used to capture spectra, or molecular fingerprints, of two "hot Jupiter" worlds like the one depicted here. This is the first time a spectrum has ever been obtained for an exoplanet, or a planet beyond our solar system. The ground-breaking observations were made with Spitzer's spectrograph, which pries apart infrared light into...
Topics: What -- Jupiter, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Visible Light, What -- Constellation,...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-04v1
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Oct 13, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Cornell
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Mars in Full View (QTVR) This is a medium-resolution version of the first 360-degree panoramic view of the martian surface, taken on Mars by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's panoramic camera. Part of the spacecraft can be seen in the lower corner regions. (A higher-resolution image will be made available once it has been processed.)
Topics: What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER), What -- Panoramic Camera, What -- Mars
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05049
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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The first images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the fourth element of NASA's Great Observatories program.
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2003-06v1
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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A new Hubble Space Telescope image of a celestial object called the Ant Nebula may shed new light on the future demise of our Sun. The image is available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/wfpc . The nebula, imaged on July 20, 1997, and June 30, 1998, by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, was observed by Drs. Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Bruce Balick of the University of Washington in Seattle; and Vincent Icke of Leiden...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun, What -- Camera 2, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA04216&orgid=10
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Aug 26, 2017
08/17
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NASA JPL
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Reference from: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/
Topic: NASA JPL
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/MSSS
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A key aspect of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Extended Mission is the opportunity to turn the spacecraft and point the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) at specific features of interest. A chance to point the spacecraft comes about ten times a week. Throughout the Primary Mission (March 1999 - January 2001), nearly all MGS operations were conducted with the spacecraft pointing "nadir"--that is, straight down. In this orientation, opportunities to hit a specific small feature of interest were...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Opportunity, What -- Mars,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03225
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/NRL/GSFC
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NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the Sun. For the first time, scientists will be able to see structures in the Sun's atmosphere in three dimensions. The new view will greatly aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics and thereby improve space weather forecasting. The EUVI imager is sensitive to wavelengths of light in the extreme ultraviolet portion of the spectrum. EUVI bands at wavelengths of 304,...
Topics: What -- Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory, What -- STEREO, What -- Sun, What -- Imager, What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09328
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Dec 8, 2009
12/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This image of Saturn's moon Mimas was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 and shows the heavily and uniformly cratered surface of the satellite. The photograph, taken at a range of 208,000 kilometers (129,000 miles), shows features as small as about five kilometers (three miles). Topography is best seen along the terminator where it is enhanced by the low sun angle. The apparent crater density decrease toward the left of the picture is not real and results from a change in sun angle. A...
Topics: What -- Moon, What -- Mimas, What -- Voyager 1, What -- Sun, What -- Crater, What -- Voyager, Where...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA02267&orgid=10
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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This animation shows the location of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna," in relation to the rest of the solar system. Starting at the inner solar system, which includes the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars (all in yellow), the view pulls away through the asteroid belt and the orbits of the outer planets beyond (green). Pluto and the distant Kuiper Belt objects are seen next until finally Sedna comes into view. As the field widens the full orbit of Sedna...
Topics: What -- Sedna, What -- Mercury, What -- Venus, What -- Earth, What -- Mars, What -- Pluto, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05565
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to capture this spectacular, jagged mini-landscape on a rock called "GongGong." Measuring only 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) across, this surface records two of the most important and violent forces in the history of Mars -- volcanoes and wind. GongGong formed billions of years ago in a seething, stirring mass of molten rock. It captured bubbles of gases that were trapped at great depth but had separated from the main body...
Topics: What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER), What -- Spirit, What -- Microscopic Imager, What -- Imager,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02157
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Cornell
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This approximate true-color image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights a feature called "Burns Cliff" within the impact crater known as "Endurance." Scientists are eager to explore this layered ridge for clues to the red planet's past. The only problem is its location: Burns Cliff is a vertical drop, which poses an interesting challenge for rover planners. Burns Cliff was named after the late scientist Roger Burns, who was one of...
Topics: What -- Panoramic Camera, What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER), What -- Opportunity, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05869
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC
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GALEX ultraviolet images suggest the M83 has unusual pockets of star formation separated by large distances from the spiral arms in the main disk of the galaxy.
Topics: What -- GALEX, Where -- M83
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07903
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Nov 3, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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A serene orb of ice is set against the gentle pastel clouds of giant Saturn. Rhea transits the face of the gas giant, whose darkened rings and their planet-hugging shadows appear near upper right. Rhea is the second largest of Saturn's moons at 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 3 degrees above the ring plane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The view...
Topics: What -- Saturn, What -- Rhea, What -- Cassini, What -- Huygens Probe, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08366
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Dec 8, 2009
12/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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The southern hemisphere of Umbriel displays heavy cratering in this Voyager 2 image, taken Jan. 24, 1986, from a distance of 557,000 kilometers (346,000 miles). This frame, taken through the clear-filter of Voyager's narrow-angle camera, is the most detailed image of Umbriel, with a resolution of about 10 km (6 mi). Umbriel is the darkest of Uranus' larger moons and the one that appears to have experienced the lowest level of geological activity. It has a diameter of about 1,200 km (750 mi) and...
Topics: What -- Umbriel, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Uranus, What -- Crater, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00040&orgid=10
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Nov 23, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Edited footage compilation of the Phoenix Mars Lander team in JPL¯_¯_¯_s Mission Support Area during Entry, Descent & Landing. Tense faces give way to cheering and applause as the spacecraft sends confirmation of its safe landing. Camera: Scott Hulme/ John Beck. Master: DVCProLP. Audio: 1: Mono mix 2: Mono mix.
Topics: What -- Phoenix Mars Lander, What -- Mars
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Dec 8, 2009
12/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This image of Phobos, the inner and larger of the two moons of Mars, was taken by the Mars Global Surveyor on August 19, 1998. The minimum distance between the spacecraft and Phobos was 1,080 kilometers (671 miles). Phobos was observed by both the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) and Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES). This image is one of the highest resolution images (4 meters or 13 feet per picture element or pixel) ever obtained of the Martian satellite. The image shows several new features of...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Thermal Emission Spectrometer...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA01336&orgid=10
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Nov 23, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Highlights of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter assembly and testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Ball Aerospace, and Lockheed Martin Space Sciences. Master: DVCProHD. Audio 1: Mono mix 2: Mono mix.
Topics: What -- Mars, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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NASA JPL
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This view of the Earth shows a wonderfully unique but physically impossible view of the southern hemisphere and Antarctica. While a spacecraft could find itself directly over the Earth's pole, roughly half of the image should be in darkness! This view was created by mosaicing together several images taken by Galileo over a 24 hour period and projecting them as they would be seen from above the pole. The continents of South America, Africa, and Australia are respectively seen at the middle left,...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Galileo, What -- Polar, Where -- Australia, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=590
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Saturn's biggest and brightest moons are visible in this portrait by Cassini. Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) is Saturn's largest moon and appears at the lower left. Note that some details in the moon's smoggy atmosphere are visible here. Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is the planet's second largest moon and is seen above center. Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) has the brightest surface in the solar system, reflecting nearly all of the sunlight that...
Topics: What -- Cassini, What -- Titan, What -- Moon, What -- Rhea, What -- Enceladus, What -- Saturn, What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06604
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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NASA JPL
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This spaceborne radar image shows archeological sites, the environment that gave rise to them, and modern developments that threaten them in the region around Petra, Jordan, a World Heritage Site. The bright line across the center of the image (running right to left or north to south) is a geological boundary between the limestone highlands (purple area) of Jebal Shara (the biblical Mount Sier) and deeply eroded sandstone steppes (green and orange area). For thousands of years, springs that...
Topics: What -- Spaceborne Imaging Radar, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Endeavour, What -- Earth,...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1426
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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Many impact craters -- the record of the collision of cosmic debris -- are shown in this Voyager 1 mosaic of Saturn's moon Dione. The largest crater is less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) in diameter and shows a well-developed central peak. Bright rays represent material ejected from other impact craters. Sinuous valleys probably formed by faults break the moon's icy crust. Images in this mosaic were taken from a range of 162,000 kilometers (100,600 miles) on Nov. 12, 1980. The Voyager Project...
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Moon, What -- Dione, What -- Crater, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00028&orgid=10
