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This images, acquired on March 12, 2011 by NASA Terra spacecraft, shows a large smoke plume that appears to be...
The collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the fires that followed produced a noxious smoke...
These images of the surface of the Jovian moon Europa, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, focus on a "region of...
A sequence of full disk Io images was taken prior to Galileo's second encounter with Ganymede. The purpose of these...
This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic...
This image from one of the rear Hazard Cameras, or Hazcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, shows a smoke...
The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted...
Dormant since 1924, the Raikoke Volcano on Russia's Kuril Islands began erupting on June 22, 2019. In this image...
NASA Terra satellite flew directly over Iceland on April 19, 2010, to capture this stereo anaglyph generated from...
NASA image acquired December 4, 2010 After a respite of less than a month, Klyuchevskaya Volcano resumed erupting in...
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder AIRS on NASA Aqua satellite sees sulfur dioxide plume from Iceland Grímsvötn...
ISS004-E-8174 (1 March 2002) --- This image of Columbia's STS-109 launch plume was taken by the Expedition Four crew...
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite detected volcanic sulfur dioxide...
The Tvashtar plume on Io, seen by the Hubble Space Telescope HST and by New Horizons.
This image, taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft, shows a blue-colored volcanic plume consistent with the presence of...
A ghostly view of Enceladus reveals the specter of the moon icy plume of fine particles. Scientists continue to...
In August 2001, NASA Galileo spacecraft has returned imagery of a hot spot on Jupiter moon Io that was the source of...
Voyager 2 took this picture of Io on the evening of July 9, 1979, from a range of 1.2 million kilometers. On the...
STS064-311-031 (10 Sept. 1994) --- Astronaut Mark C. Lee, STS-64 mission specialist, at a Payload General Support...
The Orion spacecraft launch abort system is designed to pull the crew capsule to safety in the event of an emergency...
STS064-311-033 (10 Sept. 1994) --- Half of the crew members share support of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight...
The Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager-1 satellite on Sept. 19, 2024, captured data over Karachi, Pakistan, showing...
Stable, south flowing air over the western Pacific Ocean (26.0N, 131.0E) is disturbed by islands south of Korea,...
On June 14, 2011, NASA Earth Observing-1 EO-1 spacecraft obtained this image showing ash-rich volcanic plume...