Image of the DayThis image shows a polygonal pattern in the ground near NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, similar in appearance to icy ground...NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday, May 25, 2008, to begin three months of...The Phoenix Mars Lander, which launched in August 2007, is the first project in NASA's Mars Scout missions. The mission's...The robotic arm, a vital instrument on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, will dig into the icy soil and bring samples...This artist's rendering shows a possible fate for the Phoenix Mars Lander. As winter envelopes the Red Planet, the lander...For many years scientists have known that our sun gives off powerful explosions, known as flares, that contain millions of...This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of...In high bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, a crane lowers space shuttle Discovery toward...The Nardo Ring is a striking visual feature from space, and astronauts have photographed it several times. The Ring is...Saturn was 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) away when the Hubble Space Telescope took this ultraviolet image of the...Galaxies don't normally look like NGC 3256, this current picture of which shows two galaxies that are slowly colliding. Quite...Near Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawler-transporter moves away after carrying space shuttle Discovery...Grady McCoy stands in the Langley Research Center's 16 foot transonic tunnel, as light reflects off the fan blades in...Using the unique orbit of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and a depth-perceiving trick called parallax, astronomers have determined the distance...NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander was lowered into a thermal vacuum chamber at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, in December 2006...Mesas in the Nilosyrtis Mensae region of Mars appear in enhanced color in this image from the High Resolution Imaging...For three days, employees Kennedy Space Center and other NASA centers, along with those from the Department of Defense, participated...One of a series, this image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of...This 1997 montage of planetary images was taken by spacecraft managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Included are (from top...In the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the Orbiter Transport System gets ready to roll in under...The Uvs Nuur Basin sits on the northern edge of the Central Asian steppes, bounded on all sides by mountains....Once a medieval fortress, Scotland's Edinburgh is nicknamed "Athens of the North." Today, the city preserves landmarks from centuries past,...A DC-8 casts its shadow over the Bering Sea, as it flies over the sea's icy surface in this image...Outside the ground is frozen, quite possibly covered in snow and ice, and yet, stroll through a supermarket in North...NASA's mission has always been to explore, to discover and to understand the world in which we live from the...A giant arachnid sprawls across the arid landscape of western Australia's Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, surprising satellite sensors...Rhea transits like a serene orb of ice set against the gentle pastel clouds of gas giant Saturn. Rhea is...Young stars, like toddlers, want to start showing their independence. This Spitzer view shows a stellar version of the "terrible...This artist's concept depicts the ring of debris that may orbit Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea. The suggested disk of solid...Astronauts Edward H. White II (left) and James A. McDivitt inside the Gemini IV spacecraft wait for liftoff. The objective...Revealing the stunning and intricate treasures that reside within the nearby, intense star-forming region known as the Great Nebula in...Employees at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are accustomed to seeing a lot of action in the skies overhead....Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of the Circinus Galaxy lies 13 million light-years...Marshall Space Flight Center scientist Ed West assembles the optical system of the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation (SUMI) telescope. SUMI...Food, fuel and shelter: vegetation is one of the most important requirements for human populations around the world. Satellites monitor...I Zwicky 18's youthful appearance, resembling that of galaxies typically found only in the early universe, belies its true age....Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of...A bearded Walter Schirra, Apollo 7 commander, gazes out the rendezvous window in front of the commander's station on the...This Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Pancam "super resolution" mosaic of the approximately 6 meter (20 foot) high cliff face of...Space shuttle Endeavour's drag chute unfurls in a kaleidoscope of color as the orbiter landed in darkness on Runway 15...
