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With its C2 coronagraph instrument, NASA's satellite SOHO captured a blossoming coronal mass ejection (CME) as it...
With Saturn terminator as a backdrop, this view of the unlit face of the rings makes it easy to distinguish between...
This image from NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows more north polar dunes. If you compare multiple dune images,...
At the edge of Mars' permanent North Polar cap, we see an exposure of the internal layers, each with a different mix...
Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star...
This set of views illustrates capabilities of the Mast Camera MastCam instrument on NASA Mars Science Laboratory...
This chart depicts the electromagnetic spectrum, highlighting the X-ray portion. NASA NuSTAR and ESA XMM-Newton...
This image is the result of the first observation of a target selected autonomously by NASA Opportunity using newly...
This infrared image, taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft in late June, 1996, of Jupiter Great Red Spot has different...
This is a false-color, three-frequency image of the Oberpfaffenhofen supersite, southwest of Munich in southern...
This scene shows the Murray Ridge portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars, as seen by NASA...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ran together three sequences of the sun taken in three different extreme...
Number 2 in the Top 5 Solar Discoveries is the finding of the 'squashed' heliosphere when Voyager 1 and 2 crossed...
Here we see two different views of the spiral galaxy, Messier 81. On the left is an image taken in blue light, while...
The Arctic and the Antarctic are regions that have a lot of ice and acts as air conditioners for the Earth system....
In this complex crater (about 44-kilometers in diameter), we see bedrock in several locations from different depths...
As you watch the Moon over the course of a month, you'll notice that different features are illuminated by the Sun...
The Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) instrument looks at Jupiter's Great Red Spot, in these views from June...
Pawan from Sharjah: The spectrometers on MER-A and B split the visible light into many colors which identify...
This side-by-side rendering of the Sun at the same time in two different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light...
This July 13, 2015, image of Pluto and Charon is presented in false colors to make differences in surface material...
Wide Field Camera 3 potential observations at different wavelengths. (This animation does not include wavelength...
Wide Field Camera 3 potential observations at different wavelengths. (This animation displays labels for the...
Elias from Sao Paulo: Can you explain how the sounder that is among the instruments of the MRO works? Also, how can...