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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…

This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar on July 28, 2025,…

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…

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 scene while looking out across a region filled with boxwork patterns, low ridges that…

NASA's Perseverance took this selfie on May 10, 2025. The small puff of dust left of center and below the…

A dust devil whirled by in the distance as one of the cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the Mars rover…

This video shows SPHEREx's field of view as it scans across one section of sky inside the Large Magellanic Cloud,…

Made with data from the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno, this animation shows the south polar region of Jupiter's moon…

One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill…

A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming its smaller friend in this short video made of images taken at…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.

NASA's InSight Mars lander acquires the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet in a set of images…

This animation captured from NASA's rover driving software depicts the agency's Perseverance during a slippery drive as it ascends toward…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of slippery terrain while ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Nov.…

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills…

This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim…

NASA's Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of the Martian moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on…

NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system reaches out from a lander on the Moon and scoops…

NASA's Perseverance drives first backward then forward as it negotiates some slippery terrain found along a route up to the…

This animation shows how NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will orbit Jupiter and perform 49 flybys of Europa during its prime…

This animation depicts the motion of small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 as it orbits the Sun.

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) captured an infrared image of Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, at 3:47 a.m.…

This series of radar images obtained by the DSN's Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Sept. 16, 2024,…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is on its ascent to the rim of Jezero Crater, and it captured a portion of…

This video shows Martian soil simulant erupting in a plume during a JPL lab experiment that was designed to replicate…

This series of radar images obtained by the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Aug. 18, 2024, shows…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024. A rock nicknamed…

The location of Earth's spin axis moved about 30 feet (10 meters) between 1900 and 2023, as shown in this…

Because close approaches by asteroids the size of 2024 MK are relatively rare, JPL's planetary radar team gathered as much…

The cover for the Autofocus and Context Imager camera on SHERLOC is seen moving in images captured by the rover's…

Imagery captured by a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows the position of a cover on the SHERLOC instrument.…

The purple color in this animated GIF shows auroras on Mars' nightside as detected by the ultraviolet instrument aboard NASA's…

The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA's Curiosity…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured streaks and specks using one of its navigation cameras just as particles from a solar…

Sunspots are seen in images captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z cameras between May 8 and 20,…

This animated artist's concept depicts three small rovers – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration headed for the Moon –…

One of three small rovers bound for the Moon took an autonomous test drive in a clean room at NASA's…

Created using data collected by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno during flybys in December 2023 and February 2024, this…

This animation is an artist's concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter's moon Io, made using data from…

Water depths in Death Valley's temporary lake ranged between about 3 feet (or 1 meter, shown in dark blue) to…

The 21st rock core captured by NASA's Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving…

This animation shows a simulation of the response of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to the Sys-ID process. Sys-ID is a…

Clamped to a shaker table, one of NASA's CADRE rovers gets shaken vigorously during a test in November 2023.

Part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration, three small rovers show off their ability to drive as a team autonomously during…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Deimos, one of the two Martian moons,…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons,…

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this video showing the shadows of its rotor blades turning on Feb. 11, 2024. Engineers…

Engineer Matthew Cameron-Hooper performs a checkout on some systems of the Europa Lander landing gear testbed at NASA's Jet Propulsion…

Engineers test the mechanical landing system for the proposed Europa Lander project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept. 15,…

NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's…

This image shows an annotated screenshot from the first ultra-HD video streamed from deep space via a laser. NASA's DSOC…

This time-lapse video uses an engineering model of one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover to show how…

This animated artist's concept depicts water breaking through the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance rover is now…

This unusual view of the horizon of Mars was captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter using its THEMIS camera, in an…

A dual rotor system for the next generation of Mars helicopters is tested in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA's…

This image shows two perspectives of the 59th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The image on the left was…

This animation shows global sea level data collected by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite from July 26 to…

The maps in the animation show sea levels in the Pacific Ocean during early October of 1997, 2015, and 2023,…

NASA's Perseverance rover captured this Martian dust devil moving east to west at a clip of about 12 mph (19…

Made with data recorded by NASA's Perseverance during a July 15, 2023 autonomous drive, this animation shows how the rover…

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) captured Hurricane Hilary on the morning of Aug. 18, 2023, when it was a Category…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 54th flight on Aug. 3, 2023.

Amid a record heat wave in July, the Phoenix area saw surfaces such as roads and buildings stay hot long…

A model rover drives over a rock during a test for NASA's CADRE project in JPL's Mars Yard in June,…

Engineer Kristopher Sherrill observes a development model rover during a test for NASA's CADRE technology demonstration in JPL's Mars Yard…

This animation shows Kelvin waves moving across the equatorial Pacific Ocean from west to east during March and April, 2023.…

This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls Berea using…

This animation shows the progress of Perseverance Mars Rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as they make their way up the…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take a series of images of drifting clouds just…

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here at the starting point of its 47th flight on Mars. The video was…

This movie is made from images taken by the Mars Perseverance rover's Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera between Sol 13…

NASA's Perseverance took a selfie looking down at one of 10 tubes the rover deposited at the sample depot it…

The AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a series of storms as they dumped record amounts of rain in…

This animation shows the antennas for the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) instrument deploying on the SWOT satellite. The actual antennas…

These images show two observations of NASA's Lunar Flashlight and the private ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 as the two spacecraft,…

This video shows the deployment of the solar arrays that power the SWOT satellite. The arrays deployed over the course…

Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the Martian surface.

Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA's Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first sample tube…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color image of Hogwallow Flats on June 6,…

NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color view of the eroded eastern edge of the…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this rocky hilltop nicknamed Rockytop on July 24, 2022, the…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this image of Bettys Rock on June 23, 2022, the…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its WATSON camera to view the texture of a rock nicknamed Bettys Rock on June…

This GIF shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a…

JunoCam, the color public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this sequence of images during its 46th close pass…

This animation illustrates how the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter's moon Ganymede interacts with and disrupts the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter.

This video and audio show the results of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its SuperCam microphone to record the sounds…

A model Sample Recovery Helicopter drives and positions itself over a sample tube during a test in the Mars Yard…

In this video, images from NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter's Flight 9, which took place on July 5, 2021, have been…

This animation, created in 2012, shows the increasing clarity and detail of measurements of sea height made by successive satellite…

The dusty face of the Eagle Nebula and its surroundings are revealed in this image based on data from NASA's…

These images show changes in the dust accumulation over the course of four days on the rim of the collection…

This animation depicts a flyover of a meteoroid impact crater on Mars that's surrounded by boulder-size chunks of ice. The…

This video includes a seismogram and sonification of the signals recorded by NASA's InSight Mars lander, which detected a giant…

During the 33rd flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a small piece of foreign object debris can be seen attached…