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South Africa, Namibia Diamond Deposits

This radar image covers a portion of the Richtersveld National Park and Orange River top of image in the Northern...

South Africa, Namibia Diamond Deposits close-up

This radar image shows a close up view of a portion of the Richtersveld National Park and Orange River top of image...

Upper Surface of Icy Layers Covering Mars South Polar Region

This map shows the topography of the south polar region of Mars. The elevation of the terrain is shown by colors,...

Why Do Raindrop Sizes Matter In Storms: Animation

This is a conceptual animation showing how the size and distribution of raindrops varies within a storm. The...

Wobbly Planet Orbital Schematic Illustration

This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars....

Coronet: A Star-Formation Neighbor

This composite image shows the Coronet in X-rays from Chandra and infrared from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope orange,...

NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought

Surface relative humidity anomalies in percent, during July 2011 compared to the average surface relative humidity...

Edge-on View of Near-Earth Asteroids

NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA WISE mission, illustrates the differences between orbits of a typical...

Dead Star Rumbles

This Spitzer Space Telescope composite shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A white ball and surrounding clouds of...

Caloris Basin - in Color!

This false-color image of Mercury captured by NASA MESSENGER spacecraft shows the great Caloris impact basin,...

Weird Warm Spot on Exoplanet

This frame from an animation based on NASA Spitzer Space Telescope data illustrates an unexpected warm spot on the...

A Year in the Life of an Infrared Echo

These images from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, taken one year apart, show the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A yellow...

Exploring the Wetlands of Titan

Cassini peers through the murky orange haze of Titan to spy what are believed to be bodies of liquid hydrocarbons,...

Star System Bonanza Illustration

This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars....

This image is from data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft...

Colors Reveal What Lies Beneath

On Mercury, NASA MESSENGER shows the smooth floor of Titian is a brighter orange color than the surrounding area,...

Saturn Hot Plasma Explosions

This frame from an animation based on data obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft shows how the explosions of hot...

Winter Coming

False-color images from NASA Cassini spacecraft show the development of a hood of high-altitude haze, which appears...

Lunar Samples - Apollo 17

S72-56362 (27 Dec. 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt (facing camera), Apollo 17 lunar module...

NASA’s X-59 Against an Orange Sky

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on a ramp during engine run tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...

ARC-1979-AC79-7118

JUPITER'S FAINT RING SYSTEM IS SHOWN HERE AS TWO ORANGE LINES PROTRUDE FROM THE LEFT TOWARD JUPITER'S LIMB. THIS...

Neptune in False Color

In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the atmosphere are blue, while those at higher...

Large Brown Oval

This large brown oval, photographed on Mar. 2, 1979 by NASA Voyager 1. Features of this sort are not rare on Jupiter...

Map of Exoplanets Found in Our Galaxy Artist Concept

Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light-years from Earth,...