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Martha Williams, who leads the team inventing the Flexible Damage Detection System, stands in a laboratory with a...
Jamie Szafran, from left, Mark Lewis and Curtis Ihlefeld work with the prototype of the Flexible Damage Detection...
Curtis Ihlefeld, left, and Mark Lewis work with the prototype of the Flexible Damage Detection System in a...
Jamie Szafran, from left, Mark Lewis and Curtis Ihlefeld work with the prototype of the Flexible Damage Detection...
The complete prototype Flexible Damage Detection System stands in a laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
The prototype Flexible Damage Detection System stands in a laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The...
First Detection of Magnesium in Mercury Exosphere
Tukufu Zuberi of the History Detectives waits on the analysis of the film. Tthe History Detectives believed a piece...
Movement of Whole Martian Dunes Difficult to Detect or Confirm
Analyzing a piece of the film that the History Detectives believed was from the Echo II Project. PHOTO CREDIT:...
Analyzing a piece of the film that the History Detectives believed was from the Echo II Project. PHOTO CREDIT:...
This graph shows variability in the intensity of the water absorption signal detected at Ceres by the Herschel space...
Debbie Thomas (left) and Tukufu Zuberi of the PBS's series History Detectives during filming at a NASA Goddard Space...
Marjorie Sovinski (left) and Tukufu Zuberi of the PBS's serieres History Detectives during filming at NASA Goddard...
Debbie Thomas cutting the sample to be tested during a visit from the PBS's series History Detectives in NASA...
Debbie Thomas (right) and Tukufu Zuberi of the PBS's series History Detectives during filming at a NASA Goddard...
The name of the instrument is X-Ray Photoelecton Spectrometer (acronymed XPS); the lab is in the Materials...
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (blue line) and locations where the rover's Chemistry...
Detection of dust: global map for July 2003 from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder AIRS on NASA Aqua satellite.
ECOSTRESS, NASA's new Earth-observing mission aboard the International Space Station, detected three wildfires...
The craters seen here in blue were formed by a meteoroid impact on Mars on Sept. 5, 2021. The impact was the first...
The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station REMS on NASA Curiosity Mars rover has detected dozens of whirlwinds, or...
This artist rendering portrays ice-rich layers in the soils of Mars being detected by instruments aboard NASA 2001...
Data graphed here are examples from the Sample Analysis at Mars SAM laboratory detection of Martian organics in a...