Lunar and Martian Landscapes

High-resolution images showcasing details of the lunar surface and Martian features, including craters, atmospheric observations, and geological formations.

Opportunity Passes 10-Kilometer Mark

Ultraviolet View Shows Jupiter's Stratosphere

This image is from an animation that glides along the shoreline of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The animation is based on overlapping radar images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Something Old, Something New

This MOC image shows neighboring networks of gullies in the northwest wall of a south middle-latitude crater west of Hellas Planitia

Lake Vostok Sat Photo color

Aerial view of the southwestern shoreline of Hickory Hills Lake and Private Road , Land subdivision, Lakes & ponds. Lunenburg Massachusetts 1950 Aerial Mapping

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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded this 360-degree vista, dubbed the 'Seminole' panorama, from partway down the south side of 'Husband Hill' in November 2005. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

This scanning electron microscope (SEM) image revealed some of the ultrastructural features observed on the surface of a number of Acanthamoeba polyphaga protozoa. Note the amorphous nature of the organisms exterior from which the pseudopodia can extend. These pseudopodia allow the amoeba to move and grasp objects in its environment. CDC/Catherine Armbruster Margaret Williams 2009

MOC Looking

During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured this view of the enigmatic moon's north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane. Punga Mare (240 miles, or 390 kilometers, across) is seen just above the center of the mosaic, with Ligeia Mare (300 miles, or 500 kilometers, wide) below center and vast Kraken Mare stretching off 730 miles (1,200 kilometers) to the left of the mosaic. Titan's numerous smaller lakes can be seen around the seas and scattered around the right side of the mosaic. Among the ongoing mysteries about Titan is how these lakes are formed. Another mystery at Titan has been the weather. With its dense atmosphere, Titan has a methane cycle much like Earth's water cycle of evaporation, cloud formation, rainfall, surface runoff into rivers, and collection in lakes and seas. During Titan's southern summer, Cassini observed cloud activity over the south pole (see PIA06

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

Spirit's View of 'Columbia Hills' (vertical)

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

This set of global, color mosaics of Saturn's moon Enceladus was produced from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its first ten years exploring the Saturn system.

The Geodesy Campaign

A88320 U12P MISSION CYBER LOS INTERIOR WALL DAMAGE MIKE BURKE (PROJECT ENGINEER) JAN 28 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/28/1988 DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; LOS INTERIOR WALL DAMAGE; MISSION CYBER; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; U12P MISSION CYBER historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Wind Streak and Crater

The image is an excerpt from an observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing a meteorite impact that excavated this crater on Mars exposed bright ice that had been hidden just beneath the surface at this location.

Eruption of the Santorini crater on March 23, 1866, observed with a long view, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

These images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show one of the large seas and a bounty of smaller lakes on Saturn's moon Titan.

Venus - Multiple-Floored, Irregular Impact Crater

This image, taken NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows distinct bands of alternating tone and brightness within the 'Murray Formation' on Mars. Outcrops like this are common throughout the formation.

Diverse Rock Named Squash

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Opportunity and Its Mother Ship

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

This image shows an updated map of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, generated by NASA's Cassini imaging team. The map incorporates new images taken in 2008, with better image processing techniques.

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

Windows to Meridiani's Water-Soaked Past

Dust Devils at Gusev, Sol 525

Low light level, fish-eye lens view, showing A US Air Force (USAF) B-2 Spirit aircraft approaching a USAF KC-10 Extender aircraft during a nighttime refueling mission. Country: Unknown

Zooming In On Titan

NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this image of the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on May 1, 2010. On April 20, 2010, an explosion destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil platform operating offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

Opportunity's View on Sol 347(Vertical)

Making Tracks on Mars (vertical)

Chocolate Truffle Falling in Powdered Chocolate

The rock in the center of this image was tossed about 3 feet (1 meter) by NASA's InSight spacecraft as it touched down on Mars on November 26, 2018. The rock was later nicknamed Rolling Stones Rock in honor of The Rolling Stones. A little larger than a golf ball, the rock is about 2.2 inches (5.5 centimeters) in diameter and 1 inch (2.4 centimeters) in height. A series of 10 or so divots marks the rock's course after being set in motion by the landing. It's the farthest NASA has seen a rock roll after landing a spacecraft on another planet. Though fitting, Rolling Stones Rock is not an official designation by the International Astronomical Union, which is responsible to approving the names given to geographical and geological features on other planets. This image, which has been cropped, was taken by the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) on InSight's robotic arm. The uncropped image is provided as well.

S70-41982 (June 1970) --- Sequence photo from 16mm motion picture film of test at National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center which seeks to determine mechanism by which Apollo 13 panel was separated from the Service Module. Test used a 1/2 scale model with a honeycomb sandwich panel and was conducted in a vacuum. (First of three photographs in sequence).

Opportunity Traverse Map, Sol 383

Avalanches on North Polar Scarps Caught by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

One of two wind sensors springs out of the mast on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These sensors are part of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA), the rover's set of weather instrumentation. MEDA was provided to NASA by the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) at the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial in Madrid, Spain. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent missions, currently under consideration by NASA in cooperation with ESA (the European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 mission is part of a larger program that includes missions to the Moon

Alcoves in a Xanthe Crater

Hawaii - Kilauea Volcano, Aerial Photograph.

This is the first image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a fisheye wide-angle lens on one of the rover's rear right Hazard-Avoidance cameras.

Light-toned Layered Outcrops in Valles Marineris Walls

Illustration showing the route taken by Captain Scott's sledge party to climb the Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica, during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12. Date: 1912

The highest point visible in this panoramic anaglyph from on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is 'Husband Hill,' named for space shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Cloudscape Aerial View. 3D rendering

Apollo 14 - A Strange String of Moon Craters

(24 Nov.-1 Dec. 1991) --- This photograph, captured from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis, shows sunglint pattern in the western tropical Indian Ocean..

MGS MOC Coverage of Mars Polar Lander Region

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

Do you see what I see This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows polar dunes looking like T-rex, complete with his little arm.

Solar Flare

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the location of an area known as Sotra Facula on Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists believe the Sotra Facula region makes the best case for a cryovolcanic, or ice volcano, region on Titan.

NASA's Terra satellite shows the shape and size of cellular patterns within marine stratocumulus cloud layers can change dramatically with the prevailing meteorological conditions.

This view from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows a portion of the trench informally named 'Snow White,' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Hilly Surroundings (vertical)

The Collector Head Of Viking Lander 1's Surface Sampler

Water shorts disaster 1953. Aerial photo from the left the Dintelpolder, on the right the cage and karolinapolder and an overview of the venture affected by the disaster.

Satellite view of a typhoon, Typhoon Yuri

This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover looks south of the rover's landing site on Mars towards Mount Sharp.

NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) passed over Hurricane Florence as it approached the eastern coast of the United States on Thursday, September 13, 2018. At the time the image was acquired, Florence was a large Category 2 storm and coastal areas were already being hit with tropical-storm-force winds. The MISR instrument, flying onboard NASA's Terra satellite, carries nine cameras that observe Earth at different angles. It takes about seven minutes for all the cameras to observe the same location. This stereo anaglyph shows a 3D view of Florence. You will need red-blue 3D glasses, with the red lens placed over the left eye, to view the effect. The anaglyph shows the high clouds associated with strong thunderstorms in the eyewall of hurricane and individual strong thunderstorms in the outer rain bands. These smaller storms can sometimes spawn tornadoes.

The two hills in the distance in this stereo image from NASA's Mars Pathfinder have been dubbed the 'Twin Peaks.' 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.

MSC 040A Space Shuttle 11ft. W.T. Test of Acoustic Environment (Configuration #5)

Recovery of Mercury Atlas 9 capsule, seen from a helicopter. Gordon Cooper was launched into space on May 15, 1963 aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) spacecraft, the last Mercury mission. He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined 34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds, traveling 546,167 miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum of 7.6 g's.

This image shows a test rover in a near-final turned position on the lander in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's In-Situ Instruments Laboratory, or 'testbed.'

Glass diapositive by Leopold Freund from 1898 showing congenital hip pattern, depicting skeletal structure and hip joints for medical study.

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Opportunity Photographs Her Underbelly

A photograph by Arthur von Hübl from 1916 showing an accommodation setup using a long-distance camera and a scissor removal device, preserved as a glass diapositive.

Thermal image of apartment building

Well at Sauer Place, Belchertown, Mass., close-up view showing location of cracks in concrete seal and underground water channel in back of casing at elevation 618.8, Sep. 7, 1944 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, water wells

In several cities in the Middle East, city lights brighten during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as seen using a new analysis of daily data from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. Dark green pixels are areas where the lights are 50 percent brighter, or more, during Ramadan.

Project 26 - Operation Dominic (Johnston Island/Christmas Island/Maui, Hawaii) Test Activities. Debris that fell on Johnston Island from the first STARFISH launch (19 June 62). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

A790264 U12G HYDRA FRAC MINEBACK BILL VOLLENDORF (Project Engineer) APR 5 79EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/5/1979 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; HYDRA FRAC; HYDRA FRAC MINEBACK; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MARKED; MARKINGS; MINEBACK; MINES, UNDERGROUND; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; PICKAXES; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; TUNNELS BY USAGE; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Atomic & Hydrogen Bomb possible attacks. July 04, 1950.

This animation zooms in on the area on Mars where NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will touchdown on May 25, 2008. The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This frame from an animation of NASA's Curiosity rover shows the complicated suite of operations involved in conducting the rover's first rock sample drilling on Mars and transferring the sample to the rover's scoop for inspection.

Man in the process of walking. Image from thermal imager device. Modified unrecognizable people. Medium infrared spectrum

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Following the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121 on July 4, images from onboard cameras capture very small pieces of external tank foam that were liberated during the ascent phase. Engineers are continuing to conduct analysis of these and other photos.

ISS008-E-18534 (March 2004) --- A close-up view, taken by an Expedition 8 crewmember, shows the Russian BIO-5 Rasteniya-2/Lada-2 (Plants-2) plant growth experiment located in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS).

Radiography mouse CDTA Orleans France

Satellite view showing Agriculture in the Murzuq Desert, Libya in 1987, 2000 and 2005. This before and after image shows circular agricultural plots. The Murzuq Desert is an erg desert, part of the Sahara desert, in southwestern Libya.

NASA's CloudSat first image, of a warm front storm over the Norwegian Sea, was obtained on May 20, 2006.

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