Click through the gallery to see this week’s helping of images not made on planet Earth. And if you need more when you’re done but can’t wait until the next one, here’s the entire collection.
Space Photos of the Week: Charon Has Some Serious Boo-Boos
Space photos of the week, September 27–October 3.
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4722">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona</a>