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Footage of MAVEN's science instruments, including the magnetometers built by NASA GSFC; the IUVS instrument built by...
Footage of MAVEN's science instruments. This editor's resource version contains extended shots of each instrument...
This conceptual animation shows the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) and the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR)...
The Diviner Instrument prior to shipment. Diviner is one of seven instruments aboard NASA LRO Mission.
Instrumentation in Full Scale Tunnel
Images from Phoenix MECA Instruments
Images from Phoenix MECA Instruments
The Meteorology Instrument on Viking Lander 1 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00392
The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) will fly on the next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission...
ICESat-2 big send off event for the ATLAS laser instrument at the Goddard Recreation Center
ICESat-2 big send off event for the ATLAS laser instrument at the Goddard Recreation Center
ICESat-2 big send off event for the ATLAS laser instrument at the Goddard Recreation Center
This frame from an animation shows a zoom into the Mars Descent Imager MARDI instrument onboard NASA Phoenix Mars...
Some say the science instrument on NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission resembles the Star Wars robot...
Less than two months before launch, team members conduct their final checks of NASA Aquarius instrument at...
NASA Dawn instrumentation poster, part of the Dawn Mission Art series. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19374
This photo shows the cockpit instrument panel of the M2-F3 Lifting Body.
Martian Soil Delivery to Analytical Instrument on Phoenix
Temperature Profile from Pathfinder Atmospheric Structure Instrument
Airbag and ASI/MET Instrument in 360-degree Panorama
This computer-generated image depicts the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno...
This illustration of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft shows the location of the onboard science instruments that are...
Aleksandra Bogunovic (left) and Veronica Otero (right) look on while Pete Steigner (in the middle) adds a flow tube...
Aleksandra Bogunovic reaches across the instrument to affix the corners of a Multi-Layer Insulation blanket to the...