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This artist rendering portrays ice-rich layers in the soils of Mars being detected by instruments aboard NASA 2001...
Test engineers clean the ice cloud detection probe in the Icing Research Tunnel in between test runs. Steam is used...
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected widespread deposits of glacial ice in the mid-latitudes of Mars. This...
This diagram shows a possible configuration of ice-rich and dry soil in the upper meter 3 feet of Mars. The ice-rich...
This image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows ice sheets at Mars' south pole. The spacecraft...
Over 500 new impact events have been detected from before-and-after images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has lifted the cosmic veil to see an otherwise hidden newborn star, while detecting the...
This fluorescence map of the inside wall of an ice borehole near Greenland's Summit Station was produced at a depth...
This view from NASA's Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres' Juling Crater,...
Peering into the Moon's permanently shadowed regions, Lunar Trailblazer will detect signatures of water ice in...
This orthographic projection view from NASA MESSENGER spacecraft provides a look at Mercury north polar region. The...
This illustration shows how newly discovered organic compounds — the ingredients of amino acids — were detected by...
The blue areas on this map of Mars show regions where NASA missions have detected subsurface water ice. Scientists...
The Ralph instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft detected water ice on Pluto's surface, picking up on the...
The NACA’s Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory acquired the Grumman S2F-1 Tracker from the Navy in 1955 to study...
These two images show data acquired by the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument while passing over two ground tracks in...
You are staring at one of the unsolved mysteries on Mars. This surface texture of interconnected ridges and troughs,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Hangar A&O on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers conduct a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers help guide the suspended Phoenix...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft makes an auspicious start on its journey to Mars aboard a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers observe the installation of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers secure the Phoenix Mars Lander...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Phoenix Mars lander lifts off from Pad 17A aboard a Delta II 7925 rocket at Cape...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A closeup of the landing radar installed on the Phoenix spacecraft. Testing will...