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Venus globe animation. The surface elevations are color-coded so that the highest appear red, while the lowest appear blue. (345K) Movie: NASA

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This movie shows a computer model of the Earth-orbit-crossing asteroid 4179, Toutatis. The asteroid's dimensions are approximately 4.5 by 2.4 by 1.9 kilometers. The model, derived from seventeen Goldstone radar images and one Arecibo radar image obtained in 1992, has a surface resolution of eighty-four meters. (530K) Movie: NASA

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images of the asteroid Vesta are providing astronomers with a glimpse of the oldest terrain ever seen in the solar system and a peek into a broken-off section of the "mini-planet" that exposes its interior. (80K) Movie: Ray Villard

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This animation of the Sun steps through a series of observations of a set of active region loops observed on the limb. Each line is formed at a different temperature. All the images were observed simultaneously. (186K) Movie: NASA

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Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) movie showing flare and shock wave running across solar disk. (212K) Image: SOHO (a NASA/ESA cooperative project)

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