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The back of the rover is seen in the bottom right of the image with tracks leading off into the distance. The tracks look like dark, deep trenches in the loose regolith. They wind back and forth and disappear into the horizon.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope (NASA)Oct. 29, 2024
Artist impression of the Chandra Telescope is in orbit around Earth.
Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster (NASA)Oct. 28, 2024
NASA's digital Europa Clipper poster is available at: https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/173/europa-clipper-journey-to-an-ocean-world-poster/
Europa Trek: NASA Offers a New Guided Tour of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon (NASA)Oct. 23, 2024
This image shows two lines of tracks left by the rover as it traversed a section of Mars. The tracks twist away into the distance, disappearing over a ridge. In the light, the image appears to have a yellowish tint with a dusty dissolve over the distance.
Just Keep Roving (NASA)Oct. 17, 2024
Pioneer Venus Orbiter ultraviolet observations of cloud structure in Venus' atmosphere. Credit: NASA
Old Data Yields New Secrets as NASA’s DAVINCI Preps for Venus Trip (NASA)Oct. 17, 2024
This black an white image shows the surface of Mars from above. In the center is a thin mountain ridge shaped somewhat like a feather with the rounded, broader 'top' leaning to the left. A thin line of white is running down the ridge.
Could Life Exist Below Mars Ice? NASA Study Proposes Possibilities (NASA)Oct. 17, 2024
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New Team to Assess NASA’s Mars Sample Return Architecture Proposals (NASA)Oct. 17, 2024
The Falcon Heavy sits in the middle of frame at a distance, clouds of smoke surround the base as the liftoff sequence beings. Behind the launch site, the Atlantic stretches to the horizon under a cloudless sky.
NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter (NASA)Oct. 14, 2024
The NASA insignia is one of the agency's best-known symbols.
Planetary Science Research Programs Town HallOct. 11, 2024
WASP-49 b appears to the left in the foreground as a dark red, cloudy sphere. To the right is a large, bright star. Between them is a small, glowing moon with puffs of smoke around it.
Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter’s Io? (NASA)Oct. 10, 2024
Astrobiology is the study of life's origins and the potential for life in the Universe.
Request for Information (RFI): Development of NASA-DARES 2025: The NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration StrategyOct. 8, 2024
Mars in center frame. The left half of the planet appears as Mars today, with a dry and reddish surface. The right side of the planet is covered in a blue ocean of water. Clouds wrap around the planet.
NASA: New Insights into How Mars Became Uninhabitable (NASA)Oct. 8, 2024
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