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The dark features here look like raindrops, but are actually sand dunes in Copernicus Crater. This observation is...
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals underground ice exposed by impact cratering. The impact that dug the crater...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 3-kilometer-wide impact crater with gullies all along the...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Vinogradov, an old, 224-kilometer diameter, heavily degraded...
This field of dunes lies on the floor of an old crater in Noachis Terra, one of the oldest places on Mars, as seen...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows curious bright deposits in Syria Planum, a high elevation...
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this anaglyph image is a close up view of Copernicus crater. 3D glasses...
This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a central peak that is surrounded by a ring-like...
This well-preserved impact crater in Tyrrhena Terra, northeast of Hellas Planitia, is approximately 6 kilometers in...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft was acquired near the Martian winter solstice, when the...
Investigation of exposed clay minerals at thousands of Martian sites by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests a...
This view, taken by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows color variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater with a diameter of approximately 2...
Recent small craters discovered by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter expose buried ice in the middle latitudes of...
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spied a very subtle mare-highlands boundary in Mare Moscoviense on the lunar...
Layers in the lower portion of two neighboring buttes within the Noctis Labyrinthus formation on Mars are visible in...
Melas Chasma is the widest segment of the Valles Marineris canyon, and is an area where NASA Mars Reconnaissance...
A sinuous rille created by a lava flow snakes around the base of a massif in the Prinz-Harbinger region on the Moon...
This is a synthetic perspective view looking south from the Apollo 16 landing area, topography is rendered naturally...
The formation of recurring slope lineae is a fascinating process on Mars. These RSLs show up in the spring and fade...
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows boulders and impact melt line the floor of the 85-km crater Tycho, a...
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sinuous rille winding its way across a much larger rille in the heart of...
Melas Chasma is part of the Valles Marineris canyon system, the largest canyon in the Solar System. This image was...
This observation from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of the floor of a large impact crater in the...