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While NASA's InSight spacecraft landed on Mars, thrusters on the bottom of the spacecraft churned up the soil...
This image shows the first time that the four spikes of the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander thermal and electrical...
Rover Soil Experiments Near Yogi
AS17-137-20989 (12 Dec. 1972) --- A close-up view of the much-publicized orange soil which the Apollo 17 crewmen...
At Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP mission...
The sun sets behind Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, where NASA Soil Moisture Active...
NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP satellite is transported across Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to...
In the Astrotech payload processing facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians secure a...
This image, created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL, shows the Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP mission,...
Surface soil moisture in the Southeastern United States as retrieved from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)...
S71-43052 (August 1971) --- A close-up view of a container full of green-colored lunar soil in the Non-Sterile...
Light-toned soil deposits might be widely distributed on the flanks and valley floors of the Columbia Hills region...
The mission science team assessed the bright particles in this scooped pit to be native Martian material rather than...
Surveyor 5 image of the footpad resting in the lunar soil. The trench at right was formed by the footpad sliding...
This graphic shows results of the first analysis of Martian soil by the CheMin experiment on NASA Curiosity rover....
This image shows two shallow, circular holes - one above and one below - that meet in the middle to form an...
AS11-40-5880 (20 July 1969) --- A close-up view of an astronaut's boot and bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed...
AS17-137-20990 (12 Dec. 1972) --- A view of the area at Station 4 (Shorty Crater) showing the now highly-publicized...
Rover Soil Experiments Near Casper & Shaggy
Mars Particle and Terrestrial Soil, Compared Microscopically
SOIL UNLOAD FOR THE SIMULATED PLANETARY BODY FIELD IN THE WEST TEST AREA. AREA TO BE USED FOR TESTING OF THE MIGHTY...
NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft is lowered onto the Delta II payload attach structure in the Astrotech...
The microwave radiometer on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite was designed and built at NASA's...
NASA's InSight spacecraft took a color-calibrated image of its robotic arm using its Instrument Deployment Camera on...