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This is a three-dimensional perspective view of Missoula, Montana, created by combining two spaceborne radar images...
This image shows an updated map of Saturn icy moon Enceladus, generated by NASA Cassini imaging team. The map...
This is a three-dimensional perspective view of Owens Valley, near the town of Bishop, California that was created...
This image illustrates the principals of a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, which the...
This view of Cilix impact crater on Europa was created in 2013 using 3-D stereo images taken by NASA Galileo...
S93-33258 (15 Mar 1993) --- An optical schematic diagram of one of the four channels of the Wide Field\Planetary...
These images from NASA Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta Marcia quadrangle, in Vesta northern hemisphere,...
These images from NASA Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta Marcia quadrangle, in Vesta northern hemisphere,...
These images from NASA Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta Oppia quadrangle, in Vesta northern hemisphere,...
This image is one of two frames showing NASA Spirit driving backward as next technique for attempting to extricate...
Image of Surveyor 1 shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper...
These images from NASA Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid VestaFloronia quadrangle, in Vesta northern hemisphere,...
These images from NASA Dawn spacecraft, located in Vesta Caparronia quadrangle, in Vesta northern hemisphere,...
This is a three-dimensional perspective view of Saline Valley, about 30 km 19 miles east of the town of...
These images from NASA Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta Caparronia quadrangle, in Vesta northern...
These images from NASA Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta Floronia quadrangle, in Vesta northern hemisphere,...
This montage of Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images of the surface of Titan shows four examples of how a...
STS062-04-005 (4-18 March 1994) --- Astronaut Marsha S. Ivins has her hands full with a thermal imaging project on...
A close-up image of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. The hole...
This radar image of the Midland/Odessa region of West Texas, demonstrates an experimental technique, called ScanSAR,...
LII is a technique for measuring soot concentration. This image was taken with an ordinary 35-mm camera, these...
The Navy's USS Anchorage is used to test Orion recovery tools and techniques in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of...
NASA and Navy personnel on board the Salvor used the ship's crane to test recovery techniques on Sept. 15, 2014,...
Presented here are side-by-side comparisons of a traditional Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) view and one...