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Simulation of Spirit in the Columbia Hills
To create this image, a computer simulation of Spirit was dropped into a Navcam panorama captured on Spirit's sol 438, as it was climbing into the Columbia Hills.
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New Horizons at Pluto and Charon
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LCROSS observes the impact of its booster into a lunar pole, just before it also augers in for lunar science.
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Rollback on the final Delta 2 bearing GRAIL
A Delta 2 rocket, the last one planned to launch from Cape Canaveral and next-to-last planned Delta 2 as of this launch, will send NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft on a mission to orbit the moon. The rocket is in the Heavy configuration with slightly larger solid rocket boosters than a normal Delta 2, for the sixth time. In this time-lapse photo, taken in the late evening of September 7, 2011, The Mobile Service Tower at Complex 17 Pad B rolls back from the rocket.
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Venus Express peers through "infrared windows"
This artist's impression shows Venus Express studying the peculiar atmosphere of Venus with a precision never achieved before. The mission made the first ever use of the so called "infrared windows," which are narrow bands in the atmospheric spectrum, discovered in the 1980s thanks to ground observations. Looking through these "windows", Venus Express is able to gather precious information about the lower layers of the atmosphere and even the surface.
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Opportunity in Endurance Crater
A computer-generated image of Opportunity has been placed in context in an image it captured of Endurance Crater on sol 134 (June 9, 2004).
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The NuSTAR spacecraft in its final configuration. Incoming X-rays enter the optics package in the foreground, and are reflected 10 meters to the detectors at the rear of the spacecraft. The mast connecting the two sections of the spacecraft is collapsible, and will not deploy until NuSTAR is in orbit.
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