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    NASA's Most Mind-blowing Instagram Pictures

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration release 1,000 INCREDIBLE new photos of the surface of Mars. Plus the first ever flower has been grown in space!

    1. A crater on Mars

      1. Check out this amazing crater on the surface of Mars!

      The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been sending back amazing photos since 2005! But this month it's outdone itself - sending back over 1,000 images of the planet for us to oggle over. This particular crater is the Hesperia Planum. Photo credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    2. Surface of Mars

      2. This looks more like a lush fabric carpet than the surface of a planet!

      The reason we've been able to get more pictures than usual from Mars is due to a direct connection with the orbiter. This one of the Gullies in Dunes, has been dubbed Kolhar and really blew us away. Photo credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    3. Space plant

      3. Space flowers grown by Scott Kelly.

      Astronaught Scott Kelly is broadening the scope of space exploration! After growing a lettuce in space last year, he's now turned his green fingers to somewhat prettier plants. The talented space gardener is now growing orange Zinnias and is even planning tomatoes in 2018. How cool is that?! "Some of my space flowers are on the rebound. No longer looking sad! #YearInSpace" Picture: StationCDRKelly

    4. space flower

      4. A flower blooming in space.

      The beautiful flower is blooming aboard the International Space Station: "First ever flower grown in space makes it's debut!" #SpaceFlower #Zinnia #YearInSpace" Picture: Instagram

    5. Titan the moon

      5. Saturn's largest moon Titan turns a ghostly green!

      "This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission's ''T-114'' flyby on Nov. 13, 2015. A view at visible wavelengths would show only Titan's hazy atmosphere. The near-infrared wavelengths in this image allow Cassini's vision to penetrate the haze and reveal the moon's surface." Picture: NASA

    6. Pluto NASA

      6. Spectacular pictures of Pluto reveal the planet's secrets.

      Scientists have been left astonished after Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft captures dramatic landscape of towering ice mountains, rolling plains, and icebergs floating in frozen lakes. Twitter: NASA

    7. Mars

      7. Will there be life on Mars? NASA announces brand new discovery.

      There could potentially be life on Mars if new research by NASA is anything to go by. Scientists at the space centre revealed today they've found evidence of flowing water which runs down the canyons and crater walls over the summer months, supporting theories that the red planet could be home to living organisms. Forget the moon! Man could be visiting Mars next!

    8. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      8. Earth as seen from the moon on July 20th, 1969 from Apollo 11.

      Picture: Instagram

    9. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      9. A NASA Telescope shows the constellation Antilia which is 110 million light-years away from Earth.

      Picture: Instagram

    10. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      10. Earth, as seen from a NASA satellite September 7th this year.

      Picture: Instagram

    11. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      11. The moon as seen from the International Space Station!

      Picture: Instagram

    12. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      12. NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the NuSTAR, finds its first 10 supermassive black holes.

      Picture: Instagram

    13. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      13. LRO’s LROC Wide Angle Camera shows the moon 'as never seen before'.

      Picture: Instagram

    14. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      14. NASA-funded lunar research has found water locked in mineral grains on the moon.

      Picture: Instagram

    15. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      15. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Ready for Launch!

      Picture: Instagram

    16. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      16. We have lift off! The LADEE rockets towards the moon after launching in Virginia, USA.

      Picture: Instagram

    17. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      17. Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy, Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin.

      Picture: Instagram

    18. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      18. As Expedition 36 leaves, flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca Parmitano and Karen Nyberg stay.

      Picture: Instagram

    19. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      19. The International Space Station’s Expedition 36 Crew's rescue helicopters get ready for landing.

      Picture: Instagram

    20. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      20. The Expedition 36 crew lands in an area outside of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

      Picture: Instagram

    21. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      21. Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA is carried to the medical tent.

      Picture: Instagram

    22. NASA's Amazing Instagram Pictures

      22. Sea surface heights in the Pacific Ocean from NASA's Jason-2 satellite.

      Picture: Instagram

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