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Every time we send a spacecraft to Mars, our increasing technological capabilities bring us better and better data. THEMIS is designed as the follow-on to TES, a similar instrument on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. THEMIS will provide 30 times the resolution of TES, down to a much finer scale. The Earth-orbiting Landsat spacecraft shows the Verde Valley, Arizona region at a resolution of 3 km (like TES) and at 100 m (like THEMIS).
Topics: Slideshow: 01 - 2001 Mars Odyssey Slides, What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What --...
Source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/gallery/slideshows/show01/s01-15.html
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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov PHOTO CAPTION PIA-03459 October 31, 2001 This thermal infrared image was acquired by Mars Odyssey's thermal emission imaging system on October 30, 2001, as the spacecraft orbited Mars on its ninth revolution around the planet. The image was taken as part of the calibration and testing process of...
Topics: What -- 2001 Mars Odyssey, What -- Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), What -- Mars, What --...
Source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/gallery/calibration/01oct31.html
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Five years after leaving Florida for Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is still orbiting the red planet, collecting scientific data and relaying communications from NASA's two Mars rovers to Earth. Images such as this spectacular, color view of sun-bathed, layered escarpments and wind-scalloped, basalt dunes in the solar system's largest canyon continue to beckon space explorers and guide the way for future missions. Basaltic dunes are common on Mars but rare on Earth. Rounded knobs and...
Topics: Latest Images, What -- Mars, What -- Earth, What -- Sun, What -- Thermal Emission Imaging System...
Source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/gallery/latestimages/20060407.html
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This artist's rendering shows a view of NASA's Mars 2003 Rover as it sets off roam the surface of the red planet. The rover is scheduled for launch in June 2003 and will arrive in January 2004, shielded in its landing by an airbag shell. The airbag/lander structure, which has no scientific instruments of its own, is shown to the right in this image, behind the rover. The rover will carry five scientific instruments and rock abrading device. The Panoramic Camera and the Miniature Thermal...
Topics: Spacecraft, What -- Mars 2, What -- Rock Abrasion Tool, What -- Panoramic Camera, What -- Miniature...
Source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/spacecraft/2003rover.html
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Nov 6, 2010
11/10
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Participatory exploration is the active involvement of individuals as contributors and collaborators throughout NASA's research, science and discovery activities. Summary: NASA invited people from around the world to choose a destination in the mission traverse plan for the 2010 Desert Research and Technologies Studies (Desert RATS) analog field test. Description: Two GigaPan panoramic images of the Arizona desert test site were published for the public to view online and vote on a location for...
Topics: What -- Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS), Where -- Arizona
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/477877main_2010-31A_full.jpg
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan
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The Grand Canyon is one of North America's most spectacular geologic features. Carved primarily by the Colorado River over the past six million years, the canyon sports vertical drops of 5,000 feet and spans a 277-mile-long stretch of Arizona desert. The strata along the steep walls of the canyon form a record of geologic time from the Paleozoic Era (250 million years ago) to the Precambrian (1.7 billion years ago).The above view was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, Where --...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1842
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan
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The Grand Canyon is one of North America's most spectacular geologic features. Carved primarily by the Colorado River over the past six million years, the canyon sports vertical drops of 5,000 feet and spans a 277-mile-long stretch of Arizona desert. The strata along the steep walls of the canyon form a record of geologic time from the Paleozoic Era (250 million years ago) to the Precambrian (1.7 billion years ago).The above view was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, Where --...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=15776
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Jun 26, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team
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The Grand Canyon is one of North America's most spectacular geologic features. Carved primarily by the Colorado River over the past six million years, the canyon sports vertical drops of 5,000 feet and spans a 277-mile-long stretch of Arizona desert. The strata along the steep walls of the canyon form a record of geologic time from the Paleozoic Era (250 million years ago) to the Precambrian (1.7 billion years ago). The above view was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1573
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Dec 8, 2009
12/09
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NASA
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This is the first contiguous, uniform 360-degree color panorama taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) over the course of sols 8, 9, and 10 (Martian days). 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. At left is a lander petal and a metallic mast which is a portion of the low-gain antenna. On the horizon the double "Twin Peaks" are visible, about 1-2 kilometers...
Topics: Planet-Mars, Viking-Pathfinder-Sojourner, What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, What -- Mars, What --...
Source: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000461.html
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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This 360 degree "monster" panorama was taken by the deployed Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. All three petals, the perimeter of the deflated airbags, deployed rover Sojourner, forward and backward ramps and prominent surface features are visible. The IMP stands 1.8 meters over the Martian surface. The curvature and misalignment of several sections are due to image parallax. Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with highly focused...
Topics: What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, What -- Mars, What -- Discovery, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00662
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA
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This photomosaic was taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) camera on July 4, 1997 between 4:00-4:30 p.m. PDT. The foreground is dominated by the lander, newly renamed the Sagan Memorial Station after the late Dr. Carl Sagan. All three petals have been fully deployed. Upon one of the petals is the Sojourner microrover in its stowed position. The metallic cylinders at either end of Sojourner are the rover deployment ramps. Visible at the rear end (right) of the rover is the Alpha Proton...
Topics: What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, What -- Mars, What -- Spectrometer, What -- Ares Launch...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00622
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA
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This is a "geometrically improved" version of the 360- degree panorama heretofore known as the "Gallery Pan", the first contiguous, uniform panorama taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (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. The IMP is a stereo imaging system that, in its fully deployed configuration, stands...
Topics: What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, What -- Mars, What -- STEREO, What -- Spectrometer, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01005
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA
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This 360-degree panorama was taken in stereo by the deployed Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. 3D glasses (red left lens, blue right lens) are necessary to help identify surface detail. All three petals, the perimeter of the deflated airbags, deployed rover Sojourner, forward and backward ramps and prominent surface features are visible, including the double Twin Peaks at the horizon. Sojourner would later investigate the rock Barnacle Bill just to its left in this image, and the...
Topics: What -- STEREO B, What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, What -- Mars, What -- STEREO, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00782
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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The Grand Canyon is one of North America's most spectacular geologic features. Carved primarily by the Colorado River over the past six million years, the canyon sports vertical drops of 5,000 feet and spans a 445-kilometer-long stretch of Arizona desert. The strata along the steep walls of the canyon form a record of geologic time from the Paleozoic Era (250 million years ago) to the Precambrian (1.7 billion years ago). The above view was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02668
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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Saturn's clouds and hazes at three different levels in the atmosphere are depicted in the image on the right, as observed by the visual infrared mapping spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft. In the image, red represents the deepest clouds yet found on Saturn. They are at an altitude where pressure is nearly double Earth's sea-level air pressure. The spectrometer saw these clouds using a 5.1 micron wavelength. Brightness levels in the original image were inverted to show cloud as bright...
Topics: What -- Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), What -- Spectrometer, What -- Cassini,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03559
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Image Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]) *Acknowledgment:* Roger Lynds (KPNO/NOAO)
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*Description*: What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example of a galaxy collision in NGC 6745. A large spiral galaxy, with its nucleus still intact, peers at the smaller passing galaxy (nearly out of the field of view at lower right), while a bright blue beak and bright whitish-blue top feathers show the distinct path taken during the smaller galaxy's journey. These galaxies did not merely interact gravitationally as they passed one another, they...
Topics: NGC 6745, What -- Sun, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Wide Field Planetary Camera 2,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/34/image/a/
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Sep 21, 2009
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*Credit for ground-based image:* WIYN/NOAO/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]/NSF, T. Rector (University of Alaska, Anchorage), Z. Levay and L. Frattare (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) *Credit for Hubble image:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], A.V. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley), P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), et al. [...
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*Description*: The image at left represents a small region of NGC 2403, a galaxy located 11 million light-years from Earth. The photo was taken two months before a massive star exploded. The image pinpoints the location of the stellar blast, known as supernova 2004dj, within a cluster of massive, generally blue (but some red) stars called Sandage 96. The cluster's total mass is estimated at about 24,000 times the mass of the Sun. The stars in this cluster are so far away that their light blends...
Topics: SN 2004dj, NGC 2403, What -- Earth, What -- Sun, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/23/image/b/
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Mar 25, 2010
03/10
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Spring has sprung on Mars, bringing with it the disappearance of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) that covers the north polar sand dunes. In spring, the sublimation of the ice (going directly from ice to gas) causes a host of uniquely Martian phenomena. In this image streaks of dark basaltic sand have been carried from below the ice layer to form fan-shaped deposits on top of the seasonal ice. The similarity in the directions of the fans suggests that they formed at the same time, when the wind...
Topics: What -- Mars, What -- Polar, Where -- Arizona
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image-feature_1620.html
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org ], J. Blakeslee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University)
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*Description*: Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys was not looking at any particular target. The camera was taking a picture of a typical patch of sky, while Hubble's infrared camera was viewing a target in an adjacent galaxy-rich region. The jumble of galaxies in this image, taken in September 2003, includes a yellow spiral...
Topics: J033238-275653, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/21/image/a/
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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*Image Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]) *Acknowledgment:* G.R. Meurer and T.M. Heckman (JHU), C. Leitherer, J. Harris and D. Calzetti (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]), and M. Sirianni (JHU)
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*Description*: Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as "starburst" galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are perfecting a technique to determine the history of starburst activity in galaxies by using the colors of star clusters. Measuring the clusters' colors yields information about stellar temperatures. Since young stars are blue, and older stars redder, the colors can be...
Topics: NGC 3310, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- TRACE, What -- Wide Field Planetary Camera...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/26/image/a/
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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This is a collection of the most detailed images of deep-level clouds obtained by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft. Images were obtained at 5.1 micron wavelength, inverted photographically to show clouds as bright. Donut-shaped clouds are seen near the north pole (upper panel). A planetary wave pattern dominates the cloud structures just south of the equator (upper part of middle panel), with many swirls of clouds connected to discrete cloud "...
Topics: What -- Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), What -- Spectrometer, What -- Cassini,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03560
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
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*Description*: This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans. The orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the...
Topics: Crab Nebula, NGC 1952, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Very Large Telescope, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/37/image/a/
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], CXC, JPL-Caltech, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State Univ.), R. Gehrz (Univ. Minn.), and STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]
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*Description*: This composite image of the Crab Nebula uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in light blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical images are in green and dark blue, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image is in red. The size of the X-ray image is smaller than the others because the outwardly streaming higher-energy electrons emitting X-ray light radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower-energy electrons emitting...
Topics: Crab Nebula, NGC 1952, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/37/image/b/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Credits:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://spacetelescope.org/ ], and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]) *Acknowledgment:* C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University) and L. Bianchi (Johns Hopkins University and Osservatorio Astronomico, Torinese, Italy)
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*Description*: Resembling curling flames from a campfire, this magnificent nebula in a neighboring galaxy is giving astronomers new insight into the fierce birth of stars as it may have more commonly happened in the early universe. The glowing gas cloud, called Hubble-V, has a diameter of about 200 light-years. A faint tail of nebulosity trailing off the top of the image sits opposite a dense cluster of bright stars at the bottom of the irregularly shaped nebula. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's...
Topics: NGC 6822, Hubble-V, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun, What -- Constellation, What...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/39/image/a/
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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In this time of year when Mars is most likely to be covered by global dust storms, NASA's Spirit rover has been experiencing relative calm. In fact, the martian winds have been quite beneficial, clearing dust from the rover's solar panels and increasing the solar energy available for driving to new places and conducting scientific experiments. Another thing the martian wind has done is send hundreds of dust devils spinning across the surface of the planet. From Spirit's high perch approximately...
Topics: What -- Mars, What -- Spirit, What -- Crater, What -- Viking, What -- Navigation Camera (NC), Where...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04185
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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In this time of year when Mars is most likely to be covered by global dust storms, NASA's Spirit rover has been experiencing relative calm. In fact, the martian winds have been quite beneficial, clearing dust from the rover's solar panels and increasing the solar energy available for driving to new places and conducting scientific experiments. Another thing the martian wind has done is send hundreds of dust devils spinning across the surface of the planet. From Spirit's high perch approximately...
Topics: What -- Mars, What -- Spirit, What -- Crater, What -- Viking, What -- Navigation Camera (NC), What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04188
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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In this time of year when Mars is most likely to be covered by global dust storms, NASA's Spirit rover has been experiencing relative calm. In fact, the martian winds have been quite beneficial, clearing dust from the rover's solar panels and increasing the solar energy available for driving to new places and conducting scientific experiments. Another thing the martian wind has done is send hundreds of dust devils spinning across the surface of the planet. From Spirit's high perch approximately...
Topics: What -- Mars, What -- Spirit, What -- Crater, What -- Viking, What -- Navigation Camera (NC), Where...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04187
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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 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/MSSS
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This recent Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows mesas and smaller buttes that occur on the Elysium Plains, approximately 300 kilometers (~185 miles) south of the Cerberus region in the Martian eastern hemisphere. Like the world-famous Monument Valley located in the Navajo Nation on the border of Arizona and Utah, this "Martian Monument Valley" consists of a series of mesas and buttes that have formed by erosion of layered bedrock. The uneroded rock forms a...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- Surveyor, Where -- Arizona, Where -- Utah,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02046
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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*Image Credit:* The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]/STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ])
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*Description*: This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The dance is a slow, graceful minuet, occurring over a time span of hundreds of millions of years. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) provides a striking improvement in resolution over previous ground-based imaging. In particular, this image reveals complex details...
Topics: Hickson Compact Group 87, HCG 87, What -- Camera 2, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1999/31/image/a/
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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This scene in a region of Mars named Terra Cimmeria shows a variety of ancient and recent geologic processes. In the upper portion of the image, a twisting ridge of raised ground may outline the location of a subsurface thrust fault. This type of fault results in the compression and crumpling of a planet's surface. This crumpling of the planet's surface has squeezed two originally circular craters on the ridge into oval-shaped craters. Valleys are also present throughout the image, suggesting...
Topics: What -- Mars, What -- Terra, What -- High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08051
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This scene in a region of Mars named Terra Cimmeria shows a variety of ancient and recent geologic processes. In the upper portion of the image, a twisting ridge of raised ground may outline the location of a subsurface thrust fault. This type of fault results in the compression and crumpling of a planet's surface. This crumpling of the planet's surface has squeezed two originally circular craters on the ridge into oval-shaped craters. Valleys are also present throughout the image, suggesting...
Topics: Calibration, What -- Mars, What -- Terra, What -- High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment...
Source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/calibration/Release_AEB_000002_0050_Red.html
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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New images provided by the visual infrared mapping spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft reveal a diverse array of clouds in the depths of Saturn. This new view on the right side shows clouds at an altitude where pressure is nearly 2 bar. A bar is a unit of atmospheric pressure equivalent to Earth's sea-level atmospheric pressure. These clouds are about 30 kilometers (19 miles) underneath the clouds usually observed on Saturn. This is distinctly different from the typical view of Saturn in...
Topics: What -- Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), What -- Spectrometer, What -- Cassini,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03557
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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New images provided by the visual infrared mapping spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft reveal a diverse array of clouds in the depths of Saturn. This new view on the right side shows clouds at an altitude where pressure is nearly 2-bar. (A bar is a unit of atmospheric pressure equivalent to Earth's sea-level atmospheric pressure.) These clouds are about 30 kilometers (19 miles) underneath the clouds usually observed on Saturn. This is distinctly different from the typical view of Saturn in...
Topics: What -- Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), What -- Spectrometer, What -- Cassini,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03558
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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 29, 2009
10/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,Scientific Visualization Studio
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RODEO AND CHEDISKI FIRES IN ARIZONA - On June 21, 2002, the Rodeo and Chediski Fires in east-central Arizona were still two separate fires. This true-color scene from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus aboard the Landsat 7 satellite shows the massive quantities of smoke streaming northward from the fires, which are burning about 100 miles east-northeast of Phoenix. The smaller Chediski Fire is on the right, and the Rodeo Fire is on the left. Over the weekend of June 22, the two fires merged into...
Topics: Natural hazards, Earth Science, Biosphere, Ecological Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Location, Arizona,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?2491
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Oct 29, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, Jeff Schmaltz, Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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Twenty miles north of Tucson, Arizona, the Aspen Fire rages through the Coronado National Forest. This time series shows the growth of the Aspen fire over the weekend of June 19-24, 2003. Note: This time series shows the growth of the Aspen, Arizona fire over the weekend of June 19-24, 2003. Data Collected: 2003/06/19 to 2003/06/24. Animator: Cindy Starr (GST). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Aqua/MODIS, Terra/MODIS.
Topics: Aspen Fire, Atmospheric science, Forestry, Natural hazards, Tucson, Earth Science, Biosphere,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?2774
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Oct 29, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, Jeff Schmaltz, Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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Twenty miles north of Tucson, Arizona, the Aspen Fire rages through the Coronado National Forest. This time series shows the growth of the Aspen fire over the weekend of June 19-24, 2003. The view is offset to show the extent of the smoke plumes. Note: This time series shows the growth of the Aspen fire in Arizona over the weekend of June 19-24, 2003. The view is offset to show the extent of the smoke plumes. Data Collected: 2003/06/19 to 2003/06/24. Animator: Cindy Starr (GST)....
Topics: Aspen Fire, Atmospheric science, Forestry, Natural hazards, Tucson, Earth Science, Biosphere,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?2773
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Oct 13, 2009
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These clouds from Sol 15 have a new look. As water ice clouds cover the sky, the sky takes on a more bluish cast. This is because small particles (perhaps a tenth the size of the martian dust, or one-thousandth the thickness of a human hair) are bright in blue light, but almost invisible in red light. Thus, scientists expect that the ice particles in the clouds are very small. The clouds were imaged by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP). Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery...
Topics: What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, What -- Mars, What -- Discovery, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00915
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Originally released Aug. 1, 2007, this Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image shows an ridge in Mars' Terra Meridiani that is most likely a former streambed, now exposed in inverted relief. The stream that formed this ridge must have been ancient as the ridge is buried by brighter rocks, which are themselves very old, having been thickly deposited and then heavily eroded. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed in the same region of Mars, and the rocks it has examined are likely part of a...
Topics: What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER), What -- Terra, What -- Opportunity, What -- Mars, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/503569main_PIA13614_full.jpg
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Oct 29, 2009
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Data was taken from Terra/MODIS instrument to view one of the largest wild fires in the state of Arizona which started on June 18, 2002. Note: Zoom into the Arizona Wild Fires on June 20, 2002. Data Collected: 20-Jun-02. Animator: Greg Rhodes (NASA), Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Terra/MODIS, Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation.
Topics: Natural hazards, Earth Science, Biosphere, Ecological Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Location, Arizona,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?2476
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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Many prominent rocks near the Sagan Memorial Station are featured in this image, taken in stereo by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail. Shark, Half-Dome, Pumpkin, Flat Top and Frog are at center. Little Flat Top is at right. The horizon in the distance is one to two kilometers away. Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,...
Topics: What -- STEREO B, What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, What -- Mars, What -- Discovery, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00681
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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One of Sojourner's two front cameras took this image of the Sagan Memorial Station on Sol 6. The lander and its deployed rear ramp are at upper left, while several large rocks appear at center. Sojourner was near the large rock Yogi when this image was taken. Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, developed and manages the Mars Pathfinder mission for NASA's Office of Space...
Topics: What -- Mars, What -- Discovery, What -- Imager for Mars Pathfinder, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00673
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Aug 27, 2009
08/09
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
Topic: Where -- Arizona
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Aug 27, 2009
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
Topic: Where -- Arizona
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Aug 27, 2009
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
Topic: Where -- Arizona
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Aug 27, 2009
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
Topic: Where -- Arizona
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Aug 27, 2009
08/09
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
Topic: Where -- Arizona
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Aug 27, 2009
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
Topic: Where -- Arizona
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Aug 27, 2009
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AFTER DEDICATION IMAGES OF SOLAR PROJECT AT SCHUCHULI ARIZONA
Topic: Where -- Arizona