This is an educational video "Earth a Time-Lapse View", produced by the JPL and NASA. Uploaded for an introductory course on Astronomy. ASTR110 section 01, Ancilla College, Donaldson Indiana. Published under the Creative Commons License and in the Public Domain.
Topics: astr110, astronomy, aurora, garthus, JPL, NASA
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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The Galaxy Evolution Explorer's ultraviolet eyes have captured a globular star cluster, called NGC 362, in our own Milky Way galaxy. In this new image, the cluster appears next to stars from a more distant neighboring galaxy, known as the Small Magellanic Cloud. Globular clusters are densely packed bunches of old stars scattered in galaxies throughout the universe. NGC 362, located 30,000 light-years away, can be spotted as the dense collection of mostly yellow-tinted stars surrounding a large...
Topics: What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Explorer, What -- Sun, Where -- Milky Way Galaxy, Where...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09653
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Jenkins (GSFC)
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This false-color mosaic of the central region of the Coma cluster combines infrared and visible-light images to reveal thousands of faint objects (green). Follow-up observations showed that many of these objects, which appear here as faint green smudges, are dwarf galaxies belonging to the cluster. Two large elliptical galaxies, NGC 4889 and NGC 4874, dominate the cluster's center. The mosaic combines visible-light data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (color coded blue) with long- and...
Topics: What -- Visible Light, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-10a
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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15 March 2006 This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows two suites of gullies within a single impact crater in the Terra Cimmeria region. The gullies near the top of the image are located on the northern wall of the crater, while the lower suite resides on a lower bench in the crater's northern wall complex. Gully erosion has cut into the layered rock exposed on the crater wall. Water may have been involved in their formation. <i>Location...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars, What -- Crater, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02919
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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18 October 2005 This picture is a composite of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) daily global images acquired at Ls 306 during a previous Mars year. This month, Mars looks similar, as Ls 306 occurs in mid-October 2005. The picture shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars. Over the course of the month, additional faces of Mars as it appears at this time of year are being posted for MOC Picture of the Day. Ls, solar longitude, is a measure of the time of year on Mars. Mars travels...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars, What -- Sun
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03045
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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19 July 2005 This picture is a composite of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) daily global images acquired at Ls 249 during a previous Mars year. This month, Mars looks similar, as Ls 249 occurs in mid-July 2005. The picture shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars. Over the course of the month, additional faces of Mars as it appears at this time of year are being posted for MOC Picture of the Day. Ls, solar longitude, is a measure of the time of year on Mars. Mars travels 360...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars, What -- Sun
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04109
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Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/NIMA
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Mount Meru is an active volcano located just 70 kilometers(44 miles)west of Mount Kilimanjaro. It reaches 4,566 meters (14,978 feet) in height but has lost much of its bulk due to an eastward volcanic blast sometime in its distant past, perhaps similar to the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington State in 1980. Mount Meru most recently had a minor eruption about a century ago. The several small cones and craters seen in the vicinity probably reflect numerous episodes of volcanic...
Topics: What -- Crater, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03357
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate filaments that are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Where -- Large...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04609
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/P. Garnavich (Notre Dame)
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Heat generated from a gamma-ray burst has been detected for the first time by a team of astronomers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Peter Garnavich. Spitzer looked at "GRB 050525a" (named by the date it was discovered, May 25, 2005) with all three of its detectors May 27, just two days after the burst was identified by Swift, another NASA satellite designed to study GRB from gamma-ray wavelengths to visible light. The light from gamma-ray burst afterglows fades quickly, so...
Topics: What -- Swift, What -- Visible Light, What -- FAST
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=sig05-007
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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TOPEX/Poseidon, NASA JPL
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This image of the Pacific Ocean was produced using sea surface height measurements taken by the U.S./French TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite. The image shows sea surface height relative to normal ocean conditions on Oct. 23, 1997 as the warm water associated with El Niño (in white) spreads northward along the entire coast of North America from the equator all the way to Alaska. The warm water pool associated with the El Niño has returned to the volume it was in mid-September after dropping to a...
Topics: What -- TOPEX/Poseidon, Where -- Pacific Ocean, Where -- Alaska, Where -- United States of America,...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=578
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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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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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Atlas Image mosaic, covering 14.8' x 20.0' on the sky, of the Trifid Nebula, aka Messier 20 and NGC 6514. The Trifid is only about 1.5 degrees northwest on the sky of the larger Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) in the constellation Sagittarius, and is at a distance from us of 1.68 kpc (or 5477 light years), near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. It gets its name from its optical appearance, from three dark dust lanes that divide it. Like the Lagoon, much of the optical emission is dominated by the...
Topics: What -- Atlas, What -- Constellation, What -- Sagittarius, Where -- Milky Way Galaxy
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA04220&orgid=10
Chandra Space Telescope Collection
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Jan 5, 2010
01/10
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/JHU/D.Strickland; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA/The Hubble Heritage Team; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of AZ/C. Engelbracht
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Color code: Energy (X-ray: Blue; Optical: Green & Orange; Infrared: Red)
Topic: Where -- M82
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/m82/index.html
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/NIMA
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This image shows the area around the January 26, 2001, earthquake in western India, the deadliest in the country's history with some 20,000 fatalities. The epicenter of the magnitude 7.6 earthquake was just to the left of the center of the image. The Gulf of Kachchh (or Kutch) is the black area running from the lower left corner towards the center of the image. The city of Bhuj is in the yellow-toned area among the brown hills left of the image center and is the historical capital of the...
Topics: What -- Indus, What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- SRTM, What -- Space Shuttle...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1629
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (SSC/Caltech)
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This dazzling infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy. In visible-light pictures, this region cannot be seen at all because dust lying between Earth and the galactic center blocks our view. In this false-color picture, old and cool stars are blue, while dust features lit up by blazing hot, massive stars are shown in a reddish hue. Both bright and dark filamentary clouds can be seen,...
Topics: What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Visible Light, What...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-02a
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Keller (SSC)
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This animation starts with an image of a larger but lower resolution image of the Carina Nebula from the Midcourse Space Experiment, which did an infrared survey of the sky while in operation from 1996-97. The image shows the dying star Eta Carinae as the bright spot near the center of the image. As the movie rotates and zooms in, the area that Spitzer studied in detail comes into focus. The "pillars" in the Spitzer image are being sculpted by ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds...
Topics: What -- Carina, What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), What -- Sun
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-12v2
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Mar 16, 2013
03/13
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Cassini Mission Team, NASA JPL
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Jupiter’s bright Equatorial Zone swirls with dark patches, dubbed “hot spots” for their infrared glow. These holes in the ammonia clouds at the top of the atmosphere allow a glimpse into Jupiter's darker, hotter layers below. In 1995 NASA’s Galileo spacecraft dropped a probe directly into a hot spot, taking the first and only in situ measurements of Jupiter’s atmosphere. Now, movies recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal that hot spots are not just local weather phenomena, but...
Topics: Jupiter's, Hot, Spots, NASA
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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12 September 2005 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) entered Mars orbit on 12 September 1997. Today, we celebrate the MGS's 8th anniversary! The 8 Earth years that MGS has been in orbit span portions of 5 martian years. One of the critical science activities that the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) has been engaged in for the past 8 years has been to document daily changes in the martian weather. Each day that MOC is operating, the red and blue wide angle cameras are used to build up a daily global map....
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05079
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Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Rhea Occults Saturn The slim crescent of the moon Rhea glides silently onto the featureless, golden face of Saturn in this mesmerizing color movie. In an interplay of contrast and shadow, the moon goes dark against the planet, and then its crescent suddenly brightens as it slips in front of Saturn's night side. This view looks down onto the unlit side of Saturn's rings, which cast soft, linear shadows onto the planet's northern hemisphere. The movie was created using 60 images taken using red,...
Topics: What -- Rhea, What -- Saturn, What -- Moon, What -- Cassini, What -- Huygens Probe, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07806
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Nov 3, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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27 July 2006 This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows the inverted, eroded remains of a channel -- now standing as a complex ridge that runs across the middle of this scene -- in dust-mantled terrain west of Sinus Meridiani, Mars. The original channel might have been carved by running water, but too little detail remains today to provide any certainty as to whether water was the culprit. <i>Location near</i>: 5.6N, 7.6W...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08647
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows the faint blue glow of charged atoms being emitted from the engine. The ion propulsion engine is the first non-chemical propulsion to be used as the primary means of propelling a spacecraft. Though the thrust of the ion propulsion is about the same as the downward pressure of a single sheet of paper, by the end of the mission, the ion engine...
Topics: What -- ion engine, What -- Deep Space 1, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA04247&orgid=10
Chandra Space Telescope Collection
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Jan 5, 2010
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Colorado/Linsky et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/ASU/J.Hester & P.Scowen; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC/N.Flagey & A.Noriega-Crespo
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Different Views of the Eagle Nebula (M16). MPEG The Eagle Nebula (aka, the "Pillars of Creation") looks very different when viewed through three of NASA's orbiting observatories. The infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the famous Hubble Space Telescope image show the gas and dust of this star-forming region. The X-ray image from Chandra allows astronomers to peer through the obscuring material, and shows that the Eagle Nebula may be past its prime in terms of making...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m16/animations.html
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/MSSS
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The largest number of gullies on Mars occur on the walls of southern hemisphere craters. During southern winter, many of the gullied walls are in shadow. It has been known for many years from images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor that frost forms on these shadowed slopes and that differences in the amount or nature of the frost deposits highlight the gully floors and deposits. Such differences may occur because the materials are of different particle sizes or...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Context Camera, What -- Mars,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01931
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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NASA JPL
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This is a false-color radar image of Central Africa, showing the Virunga Volcano chain along the borders of Rwanda, Zaire and Uganda. This area is home to the endangered mountain gorillas. <br/><br/> This C- and L-band image was acquired on April 12, 1994, on orbit 58 of space shuttle Endeavour by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR). The area is centered at about 1.75 degrees south latitude and 29.5 degrees east longitude. The...
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Endeavour, What -- Spaceborne Imaging Radar, Where --...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=539
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona) & S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), N.A. Sharp (NOAO/AURA/NSF)
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The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (which also includes the Big Dipper), this galaxy is easily visible through binoculars or a small telescope. M81 is located at a distance of 12 million light-years. The main image is a composite mosaic obtained with the multiband imaging photometer and the infrared array camera. Thermal infrared emission at 24 microns...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Ursa Major, What -- Visible Light,...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2003-06d
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Kashlinsky (GSFC)
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The top panel is an image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of stars and galaxies in the constellation Draco, covering about 50 by 100 million light-years (6 to 12 arcminutes). This is an infrared image showing wavelengths of 3.6 microns, below what the human eye can detect. The bottom panel is the resulting image after all the stars, galaxies and artifacts were masked out. The remaining background has been enhanced to reveal a glow that is not attributed to galaxies or stars. This might be...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Draco
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-22a
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL
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This image of Lovea, Cambodia, was acquired by NASA's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR). Lovea, the roughly circular feature in the middle-right of the image, rises some 5 meters (16.4 feet) above the surrounding terrain. Lovea is larger than many of the other mound sites with a diameter of greater than 300 meters (984.3 feet). However, it is one of a number highlighted by the radar imagery. The present-day village of Lovea does not occupy all of the elevated area. However, at the...
Topics: What -- Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, What -- Radar Imager, What -- AirSAR, What -- Spirit,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03868
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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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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This image shows atmospheric water vapor in Earth's upper troposphere, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) above the surface, as measured by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument flying aboard the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. These data collected in early October 1997 indicate the presence of El Nino by showing a shift of humidity from west to east (blue and red areas) along the equatorial Pacific Ocean. El Nino is the term used when the warmest equatorial Pacific Ocean water is...
Topics: What -- Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, What -- Microwave Limb Sounder, Where -- Pacific...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA01052&orgid=10
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Oct 29, 2009
10/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, and NASA/JPL/MSSS (http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/11/13/)
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This is a Great Zoom into the so-called Distributary Fan on Mars. It is located just northeast of Holden Crater. As seen from Martian orbit by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) flying on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, this dramatic visualization shows us where liquid water likely flowed across the Martian surface sometime in the planet's past. Note: Great zoom into distributary fan on Mars. Data Collected: MGS/MOC Narrow Angle: 2003/11. Animator: Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC), Marte Newcombe...
Topics: Mars, What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Crater, What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?2880
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Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL
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Quick Time Movie for PIA03554 Enceladus Animation This animation shows the Cassini spacecraft approaching Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It shows the highest resolution images obtained of the moon's surface. This is followed by a depiction of Saturn's magnetic field, which interacts with Enceladus' atmosphere and presumed plume coming from the south pole. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion...
Topics: What -- Enceladus, What -- Cassini, What -- Moon, What -- Huygens Probe, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03554
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Cornell
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This mosaic image, taken by the microscopic imager on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows a portion of the rock outcrop at Meridiani Planum, Mars, dubbed "Guadalupe." Several images, each showing a different part of "Guadalupe" in good focus, were merged to produce this view.
Topics: What -- Microscopic Imager, What -- Imager, What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER), What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05479
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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Hubble: NASA, ESA and Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona) Cassini : NASA/JPL
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The top image is a view from NASA's Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope taken on March 22, 2004. Camera exposures in four filters (blue, blue-green, green and red) were combined to form the Hubble image and render colors similar to what the eye would see through a telescope focused on Saturn. The subtle pastel colors of ammonia-methane clouds trace a variety of atmospheric dynamics. Saturn displays its familiar banded structure, with haze and clouds at various altitudes. Like Jupiter, all...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Saturn, What -- TRACE, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05981
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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. MOC2-426, 19 July 2003 No, this is not a picture of a giant, martian spider web. This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a plethora of polygonal features on the floor of a northern hemisphere impact crater near 65.6N, 327.7W. The picture was acquired during spring, after the seasonal carbon dioxide frost cap had largely migrated through the region. At the time the picture was taken, remnants of seasonal frost remained on the crater rim and on...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, What -- Mars, What -- Crater, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04653
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy NASA/JPL
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Hariharalaya, the ancient 9th Century A.D. capitol of the Khmer in Cambodia, is shown in the upper center portion of this NASA Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) image. The image was acquired during the 1996 PACRIM mission with AIRSAR operating in the TOPSAR mode. At the center of the image is the terraced sandstone temple mountain of the King Indravarman, the Bakong. The smaller enclosed rectangular feature just to the north is Preah Ko. Further to the south are more rectangular...
Topics: What -- Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, What -- AirSAR, What -- Earth, What -- Enterprise, Where...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16239
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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About 50,000 Clementine images were processed to produce the four orthographic views of the Moon. Images PIA00302, PIA00303, PIA00304, and PIA00305 show albedo variations (normalized brightness or reflectivity) of the surface at a wavelength of 750 nm (just longward of visible red). The image projection is centered at 0 degree latitude and 0 degree longitude. The lunar nearside is a contrast between dark and light albedo surfaces that has been fancied as the "Man in the Moon". Lunar...
Topics: What -- Clementine, What -- Moon, What -- Terra
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00302&orgid=10
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Dec 8, 2009
12/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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By spying on a neighboring galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a young, globular-like star cluster -- a type of object unknown in our Milky Way Galaxy. The image, taken by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, is online at http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2001/25 and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc. The camera was designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The double cluster NGC 1850 lies in a neighboring satellite galaxy,...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, What -- Camera 2, What...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA04221&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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The complex terrain of Ariel is viewed in this image, the best Voyager 2 color picture of the Uranian moon. The individual photos used to construct this composite were taken Jan. 24, 1986, from a distance of 170,000 kilometers (105,000 miles. Voyager captured this view of Ariel's southern hemisphere through the green, blue and violet filters of the narrow-angle camera; the resolution is about 3 km (2 mi). Most of the visible surface consists of relatively intensely cratered terrain transected...
Topics: What -- Ariel, What -- Voyager 2, What -- Moon, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00041&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 is a Magellan radar image mosaic of part of Venus, centered at 51 degrees south latitude, 21 degrees east longitude. Each pixel, or picture element, represents 225 meters. The scene is approximately 200 kilometers (124 miles) east to west by 160 kilometers (99 miles) north to south. Running from west to east across the center of the image is part of a 1,200 kilometer (744 miles) long by 20 kilometer (12 mile) wide lava channel in the Lada Terra region of Venus. Numerous streamlined...
Topics: What -- Magellan, What -- Venus, What -- Terra
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00219&orgid=10
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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 Neptune shows the discovery of shadows in Neptune's atmosphere, shadows cast onto a deep cloud band by small elevated clouds. They are the first cloud shadows ever seen by Voyager on any planet. Estimates of the height of these discrete clouds above the underlying cloud bank can be obtained by careful analysis of this data. The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA'S Office of Space Science and Applications.
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Discovery, What -- Voyager, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA02220&orgid=10
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image Courtesy NASA/JPL/NIMA
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large images: stereo pair (2.9 MB JPEG) anaglyph (1.9 MB JPEG) Manicouagan Crater is one of the world’s largest and oldest known impact craters and perhaps the one most readily apparent to astronauts in orbit. The age of the impact is estimated at 214 million years before present. Since then erosion has removed about one kilometer (0.6 miles) of rock from the region and has created a topographic pattern that follows the structural pattern of the crater. A ring depression (prominently...
Topics: What -- Crater, What -- SRTM, What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- Space Shuttle...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16403
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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NASA JPL
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This spaceborne radar image shows a segment of the Rhine River where it forms the border between the Alsace region of northeastern France on the left and the Black Forest region of Germany on the right. The Rhine, one of the largest and most used waterways in central Europe, winds its way through five countries from the Swiss-Austrian Alps to the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. The river valley is densely populated, as seen in this image, which shows the French city of Strasbourg, the light...
Topics: What -- Spaceborne Imaging Radar, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Endeavour, What -- Earth,...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=514
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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NASA JPL
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This biomass map of the Raco, Michigan, area was produced from data acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) onboard space shuttle Endeavour. Biomass is the amount of plant material on an area of Earth's surface. Radar can directly sense the quantity and organizational structure of the woody biomass in the forest. <br/><br/> Science team members at the University of Michigan used the radar data to estimate the standing...
Topics: What -- Spaceborne Imaging Radar, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Endeavour, What -- Earth,...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=530
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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ASTER Instrument Team, MITI, ERSDAC, JAROS, NASA JPL ,
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Thermal-Infrared (TIR) Image (monochrome)This nighttime thermal-infrared image of northern Eritrea and the Red Sea show the generally lower temperature of the land surface as dark tones and the higher sea surface temperatures as bright tones. Temperature variations on land are due to natural composition and, to a lesser extent, topographic slope differences, and to anthropological influences. These differences cannot be measured in the short wavelength region (VNIR and SWIR).(Image area:...
Topics: Where -- Eritrea, Where -- Red Sea
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=52
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team
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On August 25, 2003, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope blasted into the same dark skies it now better understands. In just two years, the observatory's infrared eyes have uncovered a hidden universe teeming with warm stellar embryos, chaotic planet-forming disks, and majestic galaxies, including the delightfully odd galaxy called NGC 4725 shown here. This peculiar galaxy is thought to have only one spiral arm. Most spiral galaxies have two or more arms. Astronomers refer to NGC 4725 as a ringed...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), What -- Constellation, What...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=sig05-011
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/StScI
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In a collaborative effort between NASA's three Great Observatories, astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery by identifying some of the oldest and most distant black holes. This animation fades between images taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope in the field known as the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, or GOODS. In the first picture, observations from Chandra show high-energy emissions believed to trace the presence of...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- TRACE, What --...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2004-10v2
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
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This artist's animation shows first what a fiery hot star and its close-knit planetary companion might look like close up in visible light, then switches to infrared views. In visible light, a star shines brilliantly, overwhelming the little light that is reflected by its planet. In infrared, a star is less blinding, and its planet perks up with a fiery glow. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took advantage of this fact to directly capture the infrared light of two previously...
Topics: What -- Visible Light, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Sun, What -- Jupiter, Where --...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-09v1
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Oct 3, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
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This movie shifts from the well-known visible-light picture of Messier 104 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to infrared views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Messier 104 is commonly known as the Sombrero galaxy because in visible light, it resembles the broad-brimmed Mexican hat. However, in Spitzer's striking infrared view, the galaxy looks more like a "bull's eye." Viewed from Earth, the spiral galaxy is seen nearly edge-on, just six degrees away from its equatorial plane....
Topics: What -- Visible Light, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC),...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-11v1w
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Figer (STScI/RIT)
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The sky is a jewelry box full of sparkling stars in these infrared images. The crown jewels are 14 massive stars on the verge of exploding as supernovae. These hefty stars reside in one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The bluish cluster is inside the white box in the large image, which shows the star-studded region around it. A close-up of the cluster can be seen in the inset photo. These large stars are a tip-off to the mass of the young cluster. Astronomers estimate...
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Scutum, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-03a
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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
