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This image presents Jupiter's moon Ganymede as seen by the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1996.
Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede (NASA Goddard)July 26, 2021
A light-colored “paver stone,” like the ones seen in this mosaic image, will be the likely target for first sampling by the Perseverance rover. This image was taken July 8, 2021, in the “Cratered Floor Fractured Rough” geologic unit at Jezero Crater.
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First Sample (NASA)July 21, 2021
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this close-up of a rock target nicknamed “Foux” using its WATSON camera on the end of the rover’s robotic arm. The image was taken July 11, 2021, the 139th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins to Search for Signs of Past Life on Mars (NASA)July 20, 2021
Illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
NASA to Brief Early Science from Perseverance Mars RoverJuly 18, 2021
NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Patches of Rock Record Erased, Revealing CluesJuly 9, 2021
This photo was taken on March 19, 2017, by the Mars Hand Lens Imager camera on the arm of NASA's Curiosity rover. The image helped mission team members inspect the condition of Curiosity’s six wheels.
First You See It, Then You Don’t: Scientists Closer to Explaining Mars Methane Mystery (NASA JPL)July 1, 2021
Professor Natalie Batalha is the director of the Astrobiology program at UC Santa Cruz and a PI for an Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR) award with the NASA Astrobiology Program.
Natalie Batalha named as the UC Santa Cruz Presidential ChairJune 30, 2021
The planets and moons of our solar system, some seen in this illustration, are extroardinarily diverse. A few show signs of potential habitability.
NASA’s Search for Life: Astrobiology in the Solar System and BeyondJune 25, 2021
This annotated image of Jezero Crater depicts the routes for Perseverance’s first science campaign (yellow hash marks) as well as its second (light-yellow hash marks).
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars (NASA)June 9, 2021
This photo shows 18 of Roman's detectors mounted in an engineering test unit of the mission's focal plane array.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-quality Heat-vision ‘Eyes’ (NASA Goddard)June 9, 2021
This image of Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon.
See the First Images NASA’s Juno Took As It Sailed by Ganymede (NASA)June 9, 2021
This illustration shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departing asteroid Bennu to begin its two-year journey back to Earth.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Celebrates Perfect Departure Maneuver from Asteroid Bennu (NASA Goddard)June 3, 2021