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The arculate fronts of these apparently converging internal waves off the northeast coast of Somalia (11.5N, 51.5E)...
STS077-744-046 (19-29 May 1996) --- This view shows ship wakes off the coast of Fort Myers, Florida. The Sun glint...
STS083-747-026 (4-8 April 1997) --- Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser along the Nile River, Egypt. The Aswan Dam controls...
HiRISE commonly takes images of recent craters on Mars, which are usually found by the MRO Context Camera where they...
S71-19500 (6 Feb. 1971) --- The Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM) ascent stage lifts off the lunar surface and the...
To predict weather on a planet, we look at Rossby waves, large movement patterns in the atmosphere, like the jet...
This image captured by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the inner rim of an unnamed crater on the western...
This image of the Martian surface was taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) before sunset on July 4, 1997...
This view shows grains of sand where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover was driven into a shallow sand sheet near a large...
This image shows the dissected interior of a crater in the Cydonia region of Mars. The flat-topped buttes and mesas...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows the Curiosity rover currently located on the...
Some of the prominences that float like lazy clouds above the solar surface suddenly erupt and break away from the...
The NASA C-140 JetStar research aircraft (top) is followed by a NASA Learjet equipped with acoustic sensors during...
Chemistry that takes place in the surface material on Mars can explain why particular xenon (Xe) and krypton (Kr)...
ISS013-E-27870 (28 May 2006) --- Considerable sunglint emphasizes features on Lake Erie in this image photographed...
Meteorites hit Mars and create small craters like the one we've imaged here. Usually we spot these new craters in...
The craters seen here in blue were formed by a meteoroid impact on Mars on Sept. 5, 2021. The impact was the first...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
The Context Camera onboard MRO has been discovering new impact sites on Mars, followed up with HiRISE images....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
This meteoroid impact crater on Mars was discovered using the black-and-white Context Camera aboard NASA's Mars...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
NASA’s InSight lander detected seismic waves from a meteoroid and was able to capture the sound of the space rock...
Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this...