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This image covers part of the Athabasca Valles flood lava plain, the youngest large lava flow on the surface of Mars...
This close-up view of the intensively cultivated Nile River flood plain near Cairo presents a sharp color contrast...
Mercury northern region is dominated by expansive smooth plains, created by huge amounts of volcanic material...
STS040-614-061 (5-14 June 1991) --- Albuquerque, New Mexico is perched on the edge of the Rio Grande floodplain,...
SL2-05-397 (22 June 1973) --- New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain (31.0N, 91.0W) can...
SL2-81-189 (22 June 1973) --- The well defined meanderings of the Mississippi River, just to the south of St. Louis,...
ISS005-E-10000 (18 August 2002) --- This is the first of two images recently released by the Earth Sciences and...
The margin of Olympus Mons consists of a cliff-like edge where elevation changes very quickly over a very small...
SL2-81-194 (22 June 1973) --- This view of southern Illinois and Western Kentucky (37.0N, 88.5W), with the winding...
This image shows the northern terminus of an outflow channel located in the volcanic terrains of Amenthes Planum....
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft contains interesting examples of crosscutting, sinuous...
ISS018-E-043947 (26 March 2009) --- Etosha Pan in Namibia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 18...
Cumulative total freshwater losses in the United States from 2002 to 2015 (in inches) observed by NASA's Gravity...
The sinuous ridges in this image display strong characteristics of ancient meandering riverbeds that are preserved...
This VIS image shows part of the Tharsis lava plains between Sulci Gordii and Ulysses Fossae. While large volcanoes...
HiRISE images often raise more questions than answers. For example, this image of the northern plains of Arabia...
STS068-S-055 (7 October 1994) --- This is a false-color L-Band image of an area near Glasgow, Missouri, centered at...
Given enough time, impact craters on Mars tend to fill up with different materials. For instance, some craters on...
All this week, the THEMIS Image of the Day is following on the real Mars the path taken by fictional astronaut Mark...
S73-35078 (July-Sept. 1973) --- A nearly vertical view of the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area is seen in this...
On April 30th, this region of Mercury's surface will have a new crater! Traveling at 3.91 kilometers per second...
The drainages in this image are part of Hebrus Valles, an outflow channel system likely formed by catastrophic...
ISS005-E-12804 (6 September 2002) --- Tarbela Dam, Pakistan is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
This image shows a bright, rectangular-looking landform surrounded by a dark floor. How did this feature get here if...