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Completion of the thermal blanket patterns for the Aquarius bipod after routing the flight harness from the SAC-D...
Clouds in Saturn atmosphere create an intricate pattern reminiscent of whipped cream swirling in coffee in this...
The texture/pattern on the floor of this unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea indicates that volitiles make up a portion...
The Lake Palanskoye in northern Kamchatka was formed when a large landslide disrupted the drainage pattern, forming...
The Mast Camera Mastcam on NASA Mars rover Curiosity showed researchers interesting color and patterns in this...
River drainage patterns provide clues to the rock types and erosional processes involved in landscape evolution.
As it passed over Antarctica on December 16, 2004, NASA Terra satellite captured this image showing a wavy pattern...
Titan bears a distinct east-west banded pattern in this Cassini spacecraft image taken in the ultraviolet
This MOC image shows a bowl-shaped crater on the martian northern plains with a mysterious radiant pattern of zones...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of rhythmic rock layers with a repetitive pattern in their spacing...
NASA MARCI acquires a global view of the red planet and its weather patterns every day. This image was taken on Nov....
This Mars Global Surveyor MGS Mars Orbiter Camera MOC image shows a complex pattern of intersecting and overlapping...
Socorro, Mexico was captured by NASA Terra satellite in 2000 showing cloud swirls, like delicate lace, forming...
This image from NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a region of the south pole where the surface has developed...
This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from the Gordii Dorsum region of Mars shows a large area...
NASA Terra satellite shows the shape and size of cellular patterns within marine stratocumulus cloud layers can...
This graph shows about one-fourth of a Martian year pattern atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars, as measured...
Basalt cliffs along the northwest edge of the Meseta de Somuncura plateau near Sierra Colorada, Argentina show an...
In this artist impression, a pair of stars peeks out from a tilted disk twirling around them, allowing astronomers...
The ejecta pattern around this northern plains crater is termed butterfly for its similarity to butterfly wings, as...
This radar image of the Washington, D.C. area demonstrates the capability of imaging radar as a useful tool for...
Australia capital city, Canberra, is shown in the center of this spaceborne radar image. Images like this can help...
This old crater in Terra Sabaea has patterned floor material that is indicative of having a volitile component. At...
This illustration depicts synthetic aperature radar patterns of seismic deformations associated with a model...