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NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details
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Between Aug. 11 and 12, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on…

Aug 18, 2026
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Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a detailed view of a relatively fresh crater in this image released on June…

Mar 10, 2026
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Mercury’s Strange Hollows
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Enigmatic depressions on the surface have puzzled scientists since the 1970s For decades, scientists have been puzzling over strange hollows…

Oct 17, 2023
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Fresh Craters on the Moon and Earth
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Throughout their histories, both the Moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites and asteroids, which often leave behind dramatic…

Aug 13, 2009
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Blue and White Helicopter with a basket tethered on a cord below it, lifts off with the payload from Crater Island, Utah June 23, 2026.
A man in a wide brimmed hat hits a rock with a hammer up on a hill. Down the hill in the background, a number of researchers stand looking out towards the mountains far off in the background. The ground is sparsely covered with brown and green shrubbery and off in the distance are mountains cutting up into a pale blue sky.
In a wide expansive open arid landscape Dr. Jim Garvin speaks with VADIX team members in a remote area under a pale blue sky with sparge green shrubbery scattered around the ground.
Researchers take measurements of rocks with large orange handheld field spectrometers in a desert landscape.
A Man with short dark hair, wearing oval sunglasses and a large helicopter communications headset looks to his left, camera right, outside a window to a blurry desert landscape.
three researchers make observations of a small granite boulder in an arid landscape.
two men with grey hair wearing hats, stand with their backs to the camera, watching a blue and white helicopter lift off in a dust cloud of its own making out in a sunny desert landscape.
A close up photo of two rocks being held in Dr. Jim Garvins hands from up top a ridgeline, in the background a wide valley of salt flats stretches towards distant blurry mountains.
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