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A First Look at Terrain Near Mercury’s North Pole
A First Look at Terrain Near Mercury’s North Pole

This WAC image showing a never-before-imaged area of Mercury’s surface was taken from an altitude of 450 km (280 miles)…

MESSENGER’s Wide-Angle Camera
MESSENGER’s Wide-Angle Camera

The wide-angle camera (WAC) is not a typical color camera. It can image in 11 colors, ranging from 430 to…

First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit

At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first…

First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit

At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first…

Watercolor Canvas
Watercolor Canvas

Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, a part of the Sahara Desert, has a bone-dry climate with scant rainfall, yet does not…

Juno Gets a Taste of Space
Juno Gets a Taste of Space

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is readied for lifting out of a thermal vacuum chamber following testing to simulate the environment of…

Juno Emerges from Thermal-Vac Testing
Juno Emerges from Thermal-Vac Testing

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is raised out of a thermal vacuum chamber following tests that simulated the environment of space over…

Juno Gets Ready to Shake It
Juno Gets Ready to Shake It

NASA’s Juno spacecraft looms above the assembly floor as technicians prepare the Jupiter-bound probe for a round of testing that…

Make a Wish From Space
Make a Wish From Space

In honor of those affected by the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake in Japan, Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev (center),…

Imagining Mars
Imagining Mars

This composite of three artists’ renderings from 1975 was only wish fulfillment for an unnamed JPL artist; however, the landscape…