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The Butterfly Vent
Butterfly Ejecta
The ejecta pattern around this northern plains crater is termed butterfly for its similarity to butterfly wings, as...
Hot Dog and Butterfly, Nereidum Montes
Butterfly ejecta is the name given when a crater has two lobes of ejecta on opposite sides, with little or no ejecta...
A black swallowtail butterfly enjoys a snack from a blooming lantana plant at Merritt Island National Wildlife...
Thistle blooms provide a midday meal for a gulf fritillary butterfly at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in...
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this...
The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of...
This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Helena crater, which is the crater that resembles the...
Dr. Ashot Sargsyan demonstrates the use of the Butterfly iQ for cardiac imaging.
This image captured by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the same crater as yesterday IR image.
A newly released butterfly sits in a cluster of flowers at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Kennedy kicked...
A butterfly sits in the palm of a visitor’s hand at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Kennedy...
A butterfly perches on a visitor’s finger at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Kennedy kicked off...
ISS021-E-029873 (18 Nov. 2009) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Expedition 21 flight engineer,...
A newly released butterfly sits in a cluster of flowers at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Kennedy kicked...
A visitor transfers a butterfly to a cluster of flowers during one of many butterfly releases held throughout the...
ISS021-E-029871 (18 Nov. 2009) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Expedition 21 flight engineer,...
In this image from NASA Mars Odyssey, eroded mesas and secondary craters dot the landscape in an area of Cydonia...
This Magellan image, which is 50 kilometers (31 miles) in width and 80 kilometers (50 miles) in length, is centered...
A butterfly photographed in the La Selva region of the Costa Rican rain forest as part of NASA's AirSAR 2004...
This VIS image shows a double impact - two meteors hitting simultaneously. The two meteors would have started as a...
This unnamed crater in Utopia Planitia is shaped like a peanut shell, with an indentation in the crater rim at the...