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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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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.
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,…
NASA's Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera…
At one of the Mount Vernon, Alabama, fires, firefighters used AVIRIS-3 maps to determine where to establish fire breaks beyond…
As firefighters worked to prevent a wildfire near Perdido, Alabama, they saw in an infrared fire map from NASA's AVIRIS-3…
NASA's AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer was used to map a wildfire near Castleberry, Alabama, on March 19, 2025. Within minutes,…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed Ubajara on April 30, 2023.
Sealing the Green Gardens sample, collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, presented an engineering challenge. The sample was finally sealed…
One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill…
This mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance on Dec. 25, 2024, at…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Heard, a remote volcanic island located in the southern Indian Ocean. It is an Australian Territory.
A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming its smaller friend in this short video made of images taken at…
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries a calibration target consisting of five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Runnymede meadow, a short drive from Windsor, England, west of London, near the Thames.
This graph shows global mean sea level (in blue) since 1993 as measured by a series of five satellites. The…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina, with almost 1 million people.
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Taal Volcano in the Philippines, about 50 km south of Manila. It is the second most…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nevada's only lithium-producing site, in Clayton Valley, Nevada.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.
Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) analyzed vertical land motion along the…
Captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 4, 2021, this impact crater was found in…
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used data from an airborne radar to measure the movement of the slow-moving landslides…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the continuing eruption of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, on January 18.
A massive hotspot can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated image taken by…
Images of Io captured in 2024 by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno show significant and visible surface changes near…
The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this series of images as it approached the giant planet and swung…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mayotte, a volcanic island in the Comoros archipelago between the eastern coast of Africa and the…
Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using…
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Barra Island Eoligarry Airport, located in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, U.K.
This pair of images shows the Martian surface captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera…
Data from the SWOT satellite was used to calculate average water levels for lakes and reservoirs in the Ohio River…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its right Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama on Nov. 26, 2024, the…
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.…
This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
This map shows the location of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 10, 2024, in which it reached Lookout…
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed Rio Chiquito on…
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills…
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater…
This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene showing the slippery terrain that's made its climb up to the rim of…
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim…
A map of infrared radiance in Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io.
The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft collected this visible wavelength image of Io's night side while the…
The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft made this observation on Dec. 30, 2023, of a thermal emission…
The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft observed an unprecedented glow from active lava at the base of…
