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A smallish solar filament looks like it collapsed into the sun and set off a minor eruption that hurled plasma into...
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
ISS013-E-14843 (6 May 2006) --- Calcite Quarry, Michigan is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 13...
In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base,...
STS058-76-041 (18 Oct-1 Nov 1993) --- Backdropped against the Peru-Bolivia border and part of the Amazon basin, the...
Tithonium Chasma is a part of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System. If Valles Marineris was...
On Oct. 18, 2014, a sunspot rotated over the left side of the sun, and soon grew to be the largest active region...
Wind is one of the remaining active processes altering the surface of Mars. In regions of long term unidirectional...
The sun shot out a small coronal mass ejection that was also associated with a small flare (Jan. 22, 2018). The...
Dr. Merav Opher talks about the heliopause, the distant region where the solar wind collides with the interstellar...
The linear depressions in this VIS image are graben. Graben are formed from tectonic activity with large blocks of...
Dr. Merav Opher talks about the heliopause, the distant region where the solar wind collides with the interstellar...
AS11-40-5863 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed egressing the...
A minor solar eruption triggered a crackling, white flash that sent an expanding wave of plasma below it over about...
This VIS image shows part of the northern margin of Acheron Fossae. Multiple channels dissect the the higher...
This VIS image shows a portion of Olympica Fossae. In this image several lava channels are visible, and it appears...
Today's VIS image shows part of Tugaske Crater. The northern margin of this crater has been modified from a circular...
A solar prominence gathered itself into a twisting cone, then rose up and broke apart in a delicate dance of plasma...
AS11-40-5880 (20 July 1969) --- A close-up view of an astronaut's boot and bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed...
iss074e0044445 (Jan. 3, 2026) --- Mount Fuji, Japan’s tallest mountain and an active volcano, is surrounded by the...
Several short stalks of cooler, darker plasma spun and twisted as they interacted with each other at the sun's edge...
Today's VIS image shows a small portion of Gigas Sulci. Located in the Tharsis region, these small linear ridges...
S71-40085 (July 1971) --- An enlarged Lunar Orbiter photograph of the Apollo 15 landing area in the Hadley-Apennine...
AS12-46-6726 (19 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, starts down...