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Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink

Inside the Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition, or PS-PVD, ceramic powder is introduced into the plasma flame, which vaporizes it and…

Celestial Mountains
Celestial Mountains

The Tien Shan mountain range is one of the largest continuous mountain ranges in the world, extending approximately 1,550 miles…

An Annotated Guide to the First Orbital Image
An Annotated Guide to the First Orbital Image

This historic first orbital image of Mercury was acquired 37 years to the day after Mariner 10's historic first flyby…

First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit

At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first…

MESSENGER’s Wide-Angle Camera
MESSENGER’s Wide-Angle Camera

The wide-angle camera (WAC) is not a typical color camera. It can image in 11 colors, ranging from 430 to…

A First Look at Terrain Near Mercury’s North Pole
A First Look at Terrain Near Mercury’s North Pole

This WAC image showing a never-before-imaged area of Mercury's surface was taken from an altitude of 450 km (280 miles)…

Exploring the Rays of Debussy
Exploring the Rays of Debussy

Bright rays, consisting of impact ejecta and secondary craters, spread across this NAC image and radiate from Debussy crater, located…

First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit

At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first…

Watercolor Canvas
Watercolor Canvas

Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, a part of the Sahara Desert, has a bone-dry climate with scant rainfall, yet does not…

Juno Gets a Taste of Space
Juno Gets a Taste of Space

NASA's Juno spacecraft is readied for lifting out of a thermal vacuum chamber following testing to simulate the environment of…