OSD Annual Service Awards: Performance Awards: AFDRSB - Yarrington: Thomas E. Deans, William C. Phaup; Bill Phaup - VDOS: Henry H. Chambers, James M. Curro, Savior J. Giuliana, Stacy L. Hunt; Charles Poupard - 16 Foot: James K. Geiger, Gregory T. Shanks; Tommy Smith - TCOS: William C. Alexander; Mike Taylor - UTOS: Nicholas A. Kepics, Marion C. Martin; COSB - Bob Graham: Vincent W. Foretich, Brickey J. Hughes, David W. Pierpont; Lois Breen - WCS: James A. A.en, C. Diane Griffin, Arizona White;...
Topic: Where -- Arizona
OSD Annual Service Awards: Performance Awards: AFDRSB - Yarrington: Thomas E. Deans, William C. Phaup; Bill Phaup - VDOS: Henry H. Chambers, James M. Curro, Savior J. Giuliana, Stacy L. Hunt; Charles Poupard - 16 Foot: James K. Geiger, Gregory T. Shanks; Tommy Smith - TCOS: William C. Alexander; Mike Taylor - UTOS: Nicholas A. Kepics, Marion C. Martin; COSB - Bob Graham: Vincent W. Foretich, Brickey J. Hughes, David W. Pierpont; Lois Breen - WCS: James A. A.en, C. Diane Griffin, Arizona White;...
Topic: Where -- Arizona
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NASA researchers test techniques for lunar exploration in the Arizona desert.
Topics: Videos on NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, the plan to return to the moon, explore Mars and...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/drats_2007.html
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These color-enhanced views of Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars, were taken on Feb. 21, 2009, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Deimos is about 7.5 miles in diameter. Deimos has a smooth surface due to a blanket of fragmental rock or regolith, except for the most recent impact craters. It is a dark, reddish object, very similar to Mars' other moon, Phobos. These Deimos images combine HiRISE exposures in...
Topics: Mars' Moon Deimos, What -- High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), What -- Mars, What...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1302.html
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Jupiter's moon Europa has a crust made up of blocks, which are thought to have broken apart and 'rafted' into new positions, as shown in the image on the left. These features are the best geologic evidence to date that Europa may have had a subsurface ocean at some time in its past. Combined with the geologic data, the presence of a magnetic field leads scientists to believe an ocean is most likely present at Europa today. In this false color image, reddish-brown areas represent non-ice...
Topics: Europa, What -- Moon, What -- Europa, What -- Crater, What -- Galileo, Where -- Arizona
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1339.html
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Splatter of colors Seen high up from outer space Pretty like a rainbow Natalie, age 8, Illinois ASTER image of Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona.
Topics: girl scout poetry, What -- ASTER, Where -- Illinois, Where -- Arizona
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/multimedia/imagegallery/if_poetry_4.html
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PAPAGO INDIAN VILLAGE OF SIL NAKYA ARIZONA REFRIGERATOR
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PAPAGO INDIAN VILLAGE OF SIL NAKYA ARIZONA REFRIGERATOR
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PHOTOVOLTAIC POWERED INSECT SURVEY TRAPS NEAR COLLEGE STATION & NAVASOTA TEXAS - PHOTOVOLTAIC POWERED DUST STORM WARNING SIGN ON INTERSTATE 10 NEAR CASA GRANDE ARIZONA
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PHOTOVOLTAIC POWERED INSECT SURVEY TRAPS NEAR COLLEGE STATION & NAVASOTA TEXAS - PHOTOVOLTAIC POWERED DUST STORM WARNING SIGN ON INTERSTATE 10 NEAR CASA GRANDE ARIZONA
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DRAWING OF PAPAGO INDIAN VILLAGE IN ARIZONA
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PHOTOVOLTAIC PROJECT AT THE SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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DRAWING OF SCHUCHULI ARIZONA VILLAGE SIGN
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PHOTOVOLTAIC PROJECT IN SCHUCHULI ARIZONA DEDICATION
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PHOTOVOLTAIC PROJECT IN SCHUCHULI ARIZONA DEDICATION
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
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Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into Uranus' atmosphere to see clear and hazy layers created by a mixture of gases. Using infrared filters, Hubble captured detailed features of three layers of Uranus' atmosphere. Hubble's images are different from the ones taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew by Uranus 10 years ago. Those images - not taken in infrared light - showed a greenish-blue disk with very little detail. The infrared image allows astronomers to probe the structure of...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST),...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2105
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Evidence from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft indicates that the grain sizes in Saturn's rings grade from smaller to larger, related to distance from Saturn. Those data (right) are shown next to a corresponding picture of the rings taken by Cassini's narrow angle camera. Saturn's rings are thought to be made up of boulder-size snowballs. By looking at the rings with the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, the size of the ice crystals, or grains, on...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Visual and Infrared Mapping...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2703
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Jupiter casts a baleful eye toward the moon Ganymede in this enhanced-contrast image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Jupiter's "eye', the Great Red Spot, was captured just before disappearing around the eastern edge of the planet. The furrowed eyebrow above and to the left of the spot is a turbulent wake region caused by westward flow that has been deflected to the north and around the Red Spot. The smallest features visible are about 240 kilometers (150 miles) across. Within the band...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Jupiter, What -- Moon, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2156
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This set of images were created during the Cassini spacecraft's Phoebe flyby on June 11, 2004. The images show the location and distribution of water-ice, ferric iron, carbon dioxide and an unidentified material on the tiny moon of Saturn. The first image was taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera and is shown for comparison purposes only. The other images were taken by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini. The infrared image of Phoebe obtained at a distance of about...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Cassini, What -- Moon, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2563
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The Hubble telescope has captured snapshots of Saturn with its rings nearly edge-on to our view. In the top image, the rings are barely visible. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is casting a shadow on the planet. Four moons - Mimas, Tethys, Janus, and Enceladus - are clustered around the edge of Saturn's rings on the right. Two other moons - Pandora and Prometheus - appear in front of the ring plane. The rings are casting a shadow on Saturn because the Sun was above the ring plane. The bottom...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Saturn, What -- Moon, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=1864
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This is a close-up of the sunset on Sol 24 as seen by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder. The red sky in the background and the blue around the Sun are approximately as they would appear to the human eye. The color of the Sun itself is not correct -- the Sun was overexposed in each of the 3 color images that were used to make this picture. The true color of the Sun itself may be near white or slightly bluish. Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder,...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2101
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This 8-image mosaic was acquired during the late afternoon (near 5pm LST, note the long shadows) on Sol 2 as part of the predeploy "insurance panorama" and shows the newly deployed rover sitting on the Martian surface. This color image was generated from images acquired at 530,600, and 750 nm. The insurance panorama was designed as "insurance" against camera failure upon deployment. Had the camera failed, the losslessly-compressed, multispectral insurance panorama would have...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Earth, What -- Mars, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2118
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Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the southern hemisphere. Using near-infrared colors--some three times deeper in the red visible to the human eye--these images reveal the surface with unusual clarity. The left image shows a variety of surface features at a wavelength of 2.0 microns. The darker areas are possibly regions of relatively...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Titan, What -- Cassini, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2683
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The landing site was selected in a smooth mare area primarily for reasons of mission safety. This is an Earth-based telescopic view. The arrow points to the landing site in the southern portion of Mare Tranquillitatis. The two large craters near the middle of the lower margin of the photograph are Theophilus and Cyrillus. The rim of Theophilus Crater truncates (cuts across) the rim of Cyrillus Crater, indicating that Theophilus is the younger crater. Ejecta from Theophilus may be present in the...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Earth, What -- Crater, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=805
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet. The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel according to readings from spectrometers on the rover. Only a small fraction of the meteorites fallen on Earth are similarly metal-rich. Others are rockier. As an example, the meteorite that blasted the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona is similar in composition. "This is a huge surprise,...
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Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER),...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=3643
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This high-resolution infrared image was taken during the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan on Oct. 26, 2004. These images were obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument and show a bright, circular feature (8.5 degrees latitude, minus 143.5 degrees longitude) with two elongated wings extending westwards. Scientists think this feature might be a volcano. The resolution in the image varies from 2.6 kilometers (1.6 miles) per pixel to 1.8 kilometers (1.1...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Cassini, What -- Titan, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4603
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This image set was taken at a distance of 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from Titan and shows two views of an area riddled by mountain ranges that were probably produced by tectonic forces. Near the bottom of the right image, a band of bright clouds is seen. These clouds are probably produced when gaseous methane in Titan's atmosphere cools and condenses into methane fog as Titan's winds drive air over the mountains. It was once thought that these recurring clouds were produced by volcanic...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Titan, What -- Visual and...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4683
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This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows "Victoria crater," an impact crater at Meridiani Planum, near the equator of Mars. The crater is approximately 800 meters (half a mile) in diameter. It has a distinctive scalloped shape to its rim, caused by erosion and downhill movement of crater wall material. Layered sedimentary rocks are exposed along the inner wall of the crater, and boulders that have fallen from the crater...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- High Resolution Imaging...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4743
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This composite of Galileo spacecraft images of Jupiter's icy moon Callisto combines data from two orbits showing several types of impact craters. North is to the top of the picture; the Sun illuminates the surface from the east. The global image on the right shows one of the largest impact structures on Callisto, the Asgard multiring structure located near 300N latitude, 1420W longitude. The Asgard structure is approximately 1700 kilometers across and consists of a bright central zone...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Galileo, What -- Moon, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=833
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This feature on Jupiter's moon Europa was seen as a dark, diffuse circular patch on a previous Galileo global image of Europa's leading hemisphere. The bulls-eye pattern appears to be a 140-kilometer-wide impact scar (about the size of the island of Hawai'i) that formed as the surface fractured minutes after a mountain-sized asteroid or comet slammed into the satellite. This approximately 214-kilometer-wide picture is the product of three images that have been processed in false color to...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Moon, What -- Europa, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=837
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 1, 2000, shows details of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and other features that were not visible in images taken earlier, when Cassini was farther from Jupiter. The picture is a color composite, with enhanced contrast, taken from a distance of 28.6 million kilometers (17.8 million miles). It has a resolution of 170 kilometers (106 miles) per pixel. Jupiter's closest large moon, Io, is visible at left. The edges of the Red Spot are cloudier with...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Cassini, What -- Jupiter,...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2157
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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. This image shows a close-up of the largest crater on Phobos, Stickney, 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter. Individual boulders are visible on the near rim of the crater, and are presumed to be ejecta blocks from the impact that formed Stickney. Some of these boulders are enormous - more than 50 meters (160 feet) across. Also crossing at and near the rim of Stickney are...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2106
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Using visible light, astronomers for the first time this century have detected clouds in the northern hemisphere of Uranus. The newest images, taken July 31 and Aug. 1, 1997 with NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, show banded structure and multiple clouds. Using these images, Dr. Heidi Hammel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and colleagues Wes Lockwood (Lowell Observatory) and Kathy Rages (NASA Ames Research Center) plan to measure the wind speeds in the...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Visible Light, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2104
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On January 15, 2001, 17 days after it passed its closest approach to Jupiter, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looked back to see the giant planet as a thinning crescent. This image is a color mosaic from that day, shot from a distance of 18.3 million kilometers (11.4 million miles). The smallest visible features are roughly 110 kilometers (70 miles) across. The solar phase angle, the angle from the spacecraft to the planet to the Sun, is 120 degrees. A crescent Io, innermost of Jupiter's four large...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Jupiter, What -- Cassini,...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2184
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars' south pole in this artist's concept illustration. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since October 24, 2001. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Mars Odyssey mission for the NASA Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Investigators at Arizona State University in Tempe, the University of Arizona in Tucson, and NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, operate the science instruments. The gamma-ray spectrometer was provided by the...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Mars, What -- Spectrometer,...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2202
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What would our Milky Way galaxy look like if we could travel outside it and snap a picture? It might look a lot like a new image by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of a spiral galaxy called NGC 7331 - a virtual twin of our Milky Way. The picture shows our twin as never before. Its swirling arms spin outward from a central bulge of light, which is outlined by a ring of actively forming stars. "Being inside our galaxy makes it difficult to see what's going on in the center," said Dr....
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2625
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At first glance, Jupiter looks like it has a mild case of the measles. Five spots - one colored white, one blue, and three black are scattered across the upper half of the planet. Closer inspection by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals that these spots are actually a rare alignment of three of Jupiter's largest moons - Io, Ganymede, and Callisto - across the planet's face. In this image, the telltale signatures of this alignment are the shadows [the three black circles] cast by the moons....
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Jupiter, What -- Hubble Space...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=3083
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This is a more recent 'geometrically improved, color enhanced' version of the 360-degree 'Gallery Pan', the first contiguous, uniform panorama taken by the Imager for Mars (IMP) over the course of Sols 8, 9, and 10. Different regions were imaged at different times over the three Martian days to acquire consistent lighting and shadow conditions for all areas of the panorama. In this version of the panorama, much of the discontinuity that was due to parallax has been corrected, particularly along...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Imager, What -- Mars, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=402
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A bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn near 78 degrees north latitude has been spied by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image is one of the first clear images ever taken of the north polar region as seen from a unique polar perspective. Originally discovered and last observed by a spacecraft during NASA's Voyager flybys of the early 1980's, the new views of this polar hexagon taken in late 2006 prove that this is an...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Saturn, What -- Visual and...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4803
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This enhanced-color view shows gullies in an unnamed crater in the Terra Sirenum region of Mars. It is a sub-image from a larger view imaged by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Oct. 3, 2006. This scene is about 254 meters (about 830 feet) wide. The upper and left regions of this scene are in shadow, yet color variations are still apparent. The high signal to noise ratio of the HiRISE camera allows for colors to be...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Crater, What -- Terra, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4725
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This view shows a full-resolution portion of the first image of Mars taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The spacecraft, launched Aug. 12, 2005, began orbiting Mars on March 10, 2006. The image is of an area in Mars' mid-latitude southern highlands. HiRISE took this first test image from orbit on March 24, 2006, from an altitude of 2,489 kilometers (1,547 miles), achieving a resolution of 2.49 meters (98 inches) per...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Mars, What -- High Resolution...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4324
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False-color image of gully channels in a crater in the southern highlands of Mars, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The gullies emanating from the rocky cliffs near the crater's rim (upper left) show meandering and braided patterns typical of water-carved channels. North is approximately up and illumination is from the left; scale, 26 centimeters per pixel. A link to the full HiRISE image that includes this view is...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Crater, What -- Mars, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=5663
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This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane. This perspective is unusual because the Earth is slightly above Saturn's rings and the Sun is below them. Normally we see the rings fully illuminated by the Sun. The Hubble telescope photograph reveals three bright ring features [moving from the outer to the inner rings]: the F Ring, the Cassini Division, and the C Ring. The low concentration of material in these rings allows light from the Sun to shine...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Sun, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=1865
