Venus Express

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GRAIL

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Stardust

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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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James Webb Space Telescope

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New Horizons at Pluto and Charon

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Venus Express

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Opportunity panorama: "Burns Cliff," sols 287-294 (simulated)

In this version of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's "Burns Cliff" panorama, a synthetic view of the rover was dropped in to the image. Opportunity scrambled slowly across the steeply sloped wall of Endurance Crater to reach Burns Cliff, a vertical pile of finely layered rocks that was irresistible to the rover sceintists. From this precarious position it captured a 7-color panorama from sols 287 to 294 (November 13 to 20, 2004). The bulging appearance of the wall is due to Opportunity's very clos

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Opportunity at Victoria crater

This image superimposes an artist's concept of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity atop a promontory on the rim of Victoria crater.

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Juno [DEPRECATED]

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Chang'e 1

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LCROSS Nearing Impact

LCROSS observes the impact of its booster into a lunar pole, just before it also augers in for lunar science.

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GRAIL A separates from its second stage rocket

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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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Galileo and probe

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Chang'e 1

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Chang'e 1

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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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Galileo and probe

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Simulation of Spirit on the flank of Husband Hill

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