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Description A scientist produced this map of land subsidence (sinking) in Mexico City using data from the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic…
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view of a region filled with low ridges called boxwork formations between…
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its right navigation camera — one of two on the rover’s mast, or head…
An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows…
Description Staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California watch the agency’s Artemis II mission unfold soon after launch…
Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Network’s radio frequency antennas indicate signal acquisition from NASA’s Artemis II mission…
Description The acquisition of the radio frequency signal from the Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon by NASA’s Deep…
Description Blanca Renteria, Artemis Deep Space Network (DSN) operations chief, monitors data at the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s…
Description Staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California watch the launch of the agency’s Artemis II mission to…
Description A container of “lucky peanuts” sits above workstations within the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Description The Artemis II mission patch appears in the center screen of the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet…
Description This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington’s Mount Rainier. The image is…
Description This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington’s Mount St. Helens. The image…
Description This pair of images shows stars observed by the SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat) space telescope simultaneously in the…
Description With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing,…
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations — low ridges…
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations — the low ridges seen here with hollows in…
Description These images were part of the first successful use of a new technology called Mars Global Localization, developed at NASA’s…
Description Using its navigation cameras, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the five stereo pairs of images that make up this…
Description These observations by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) show…
Description This animation of NASA’s Perseverance was created with the Caspian visualization tool using data acquired during an 807-foot (246-meter) drive on…
Description This animation shows Perseverance’s point of view during drive of 807 feet (246 meters) along the rim of Jezero…
Description This annotated image from NASA’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image depicts the AI-planned…
Description The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing satellite’s L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument captured this image of the…
Description Advanced analysis of decades-old data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft identifies ammonia-bearing compounds discovered on the surface of Jupiter’s moon…
Description This graph shows the rise in global mean sea level from 1993 to 2025 based on data from a…
Description This artist’s concept depicts a cutaway view showing Europa’s ice shell. It contains a shallow layer of small imperfections…
Description This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark…
Description NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield — and the planet Uranus — on Nov. 5, 2025,…
Captured on Aug. 21, 2025, this image from NISAR's L-band radar shows Maine's Mount Desert Island.
On Aug. 23, 2025, NISAR imaged land adjacent to northeastern North Dakota's Forest River.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of its robotic arm during sunset on Sept. 16, 2025.
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility transmitting its 3-kilowatt laser beacon to the agency's…
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL's Table Mountain Facility beams its laser beacon to the…
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA JPL's Table Mountain Facility, beams its laser beacon to…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama under exceptionally clear conditions of Gale Crater's northern rim on Aug. 25, 2025.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a mountain nearly 57 miles (91 kilometers) away and outside of Gale…
Dark rocky outcrops can be seen within Peace Vallis in a set of 10 images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover…
On Sept. 10, 2025, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the Sun.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover generated this mineral map showing the presence of two minerals on the surface of a rock…
This graph displays data collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from targets in a rock formation nicknamed Bright Angel.
After arriving at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in May 2025, the instrument…
Technicians and engineers inspect NASA's NEO Surveyor's instrument enclosure at the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in Logan, Utah, after it…
The instrument enclosure for NASA's NEO Surveyor on May 22, 2025, is seen in a clean room at the Space…
Asteroid 1997 QK1 is shown to be an elongated, peanut-shaped near-Earth object in this series of 28 radar images obtained…
A cutaway view of Mars reveals debris from ancient impacts scattered through the planet's mantle. A meteoroid impact sends seismic…
Scientists believe giant impacts occurred on Mars 4.5 billion years ago, injecting debris from the impact deep into the planet's…
Engineer Emmanuel Decrossas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory makes an adjustment to part of a NASA telecommunications payload called User…
This illustration depicts the interior of dwarf planet Ceres. Carbon dioxide and methane are among the molecules carrying chemical energy…
NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 180 million miles (290 kilometers) away in July…
NISAR team members at JPL, along with colleagues at ISRO facilities in India, deployed the satellite's radar antenna reflector.
The NISAR satellite uses a radar antenna reflector that's 39 feet (12 meters) in diameter to gather information about Earth's…
The SWOT satellite caught the leading edge of the tsunami wave that rolled through the Pacific Ocean on July 30,…
Captured at a location called Falbreen, on May 26, 2025, 96 images were stitched together to create this 360-degree view.
This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar on July 28, 2025,…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Remote Micro Imager, part of its ChemCam instrument, to view this wind-eroded rock shaped…
Curiosity viewed this rock shaped like a piece of coral on July 24, 2025. The rover has found many rocks…
This view of tracks trailing behind NASA's Curiosity was captured while the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter.
Europa Clipper's radar instrument received echoes of its very-high-frequency radar signals that bounced off Mars and were processed to develop…
Shown here is an annotated composite image of the interiors of the 33 tubes NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has used…
NASA's Europa Clipper captured this infrared image of the heat radiation from Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos on…
The NISAR satellite was encapsulated in its fairing at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 18, 2025, in preparation…
A short-lived heat wave that hit the Los Angeles area the week of July 7, 2025, was the first of…
The graininess and horizontal lines seen in this JunoCam image show evidence that the camera aboard NASA's Juno mission suffered…
This close-up view of the JPL logo, bolted to the chassis of NASA's Perseverance, was acquired on June 28, 2025.
Data from NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument aboard the International Space Station shows Paris was one of many European cities hit by…
NISAR will track wetland flooding to study how these carbon-rich ecosystems are reacting to climate change. It will generate images…
This close-up view of a plate on NASA's Perseverance rover commemorating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and paying tribute…
This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission's first public data…
This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025, by the…
These two radargrams from the SHARAD instrument on NASA's MRO reveal how the spacecraft's new very large roll maneuver produces…
This animation depicts NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter performing a 120-degree roll that increases the strength of its radar signal by…
This video captures a test of Perseverance's Gaseous Dust Removal Tool (gDRT) in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion…
Perseverance's gold-colored abrading bit takes center stage in this image of the rover's drill taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on…
This close-up view of an abrasion showing distinctive tool marks created by the Perseverance's abrading bit was acquired on June…
Before drilling into the rocky outcrop nicknamed Kenmore, Perseverance abraded the rock to determine whether it was worthy of drilling.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view after arriving at a region crisscrossed by hardened low ridges called boxwork…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed this low ridge, which looks a bit like a crumbling curb, on May 16. Scientists…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this scene while looking out across a region filled with boxwork patterns, low ridges that…
NISAR made the two-day trip from the ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment (ISITE) in Bengaluru. It arrived on May…
NASA, along with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility to create a powerful web-based tool…
Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, located in northwest Ohio along the shores of Lake Erie.
NASA's Perseverance took this selfie on May 10, 2025. The small puff of dust left of center and below the…
One of the navigation cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the rover's tracks coming from an area called Witch Hazel Hill,…
NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27…
A dust devil whirled by in the distance as one of the cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the Mars rover…
NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now traveling through interstellar space at around 35,000 mph (56,000 kph). This…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mackinac Island, Michigan, a small island off the northern coast of Lake Huron.
This picture of Mars is a colorized composite of several images captured by Europa Clipper's thermal imager.
This picture of Mars is a composite of several images captured by Europa Clipper's thermal imager on March 1, 2025.
Infrared image showing a dense field of teal stars with faint, cloudy regions of interstellar dust, captured by NASA's SPHEREx…
This video shows SPHEREx's field of view as it scans across one section of sky inside the Large Magellanic Cloud,…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Hutt Lagoon, an elongate lake, located in a dune swale adjacent to the coast of the…
JunoCam captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the…
Made with data from the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno, this animation shows the south polar region of Jupiter's moon…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back down at the floor of Gale Crater from its location on…
This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18,…
Artist's concept of a young, newly discovered planet, exposed to observation by a warped debris disk.
Engineers from JPL and NASA Johnson set up a test of the xEMU boot inside CITADEL. The chamber offers unique…
