Image of the DayNASA's Deep Impact spacecraft launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:47:08 p.m. EST on Jan. 12, 2005....The Sand Hills seen in this simulated natural-color image from NASA's Terra spacecraft cover about a quarter of the state...The Turpan Depression, nestled at the foot of China's Bogda Mountains, is a strange mix of salt lakes and sand...This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows North and South...Shark Bay, Australia as seen by the Expedition 10 crew on the International Space Station. This image shows large solar...In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, this, one of the...This is a false-color image of the star AE Aurigae (bright source of light near the center of image) embedded...A close-up view of the exterior of space shuttle Endeavour's crew cabin, starboard wing and payload bay door was provided...This view out the aft windows on Endeavour's flight deck was one of a series of images recorded by the...In this 1959 image of the Atmospheric Entry Simulator at NASA's Ames Research Center, a large tank containing air under...Located just north of the equator (3.85° North, 154.9° East), this classically shaped atoll is part of the Caroline Islands,...Before the Expedition 10 crew on the International Space Station could get its much needed Christmas supplies, the Progress 15...Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 showed that the planet's internal heat...A maze of long white clouds is interwoven into the uneven field of white that covers the Atlantic Ocean off...This false-color composite of Central Africa from 1994 shows the Virunga volcano chain along the borders of Rwanda, Democratic Republic...This stunning false-color picture shows off the many sides of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, which is made up of...The International Space Station (ISS) is backdropped over Miami, Florida, in this 35mm frame photographed by STS-108 Commander DomInic Gorie...Saturn's northern hemisphere is a serene blue, more befitting of Uranus or Neptune, as seen in this natural color image...Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi traverses along the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station between tasks of the mission's third...A massive dust storm of glacial sediments swept off the coast of Alaska on November 5, 2005. The Moderate Resolution...A star 40 times more massive than our sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In this...How does a space shuttle that landed in California get back to Florida for its next launch? The answer is...This image mosaic, taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows the rover's landing site, the...Trailing columns of fire, space shuttle Endeavour hurtles into the night sky, on the STS-123 mission, which lifted off was...A close-up view of a portion of Space Shuttle Discovery's underside is featured in this image photographed by Astronaut Stephen...An SR-71B from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California slices across sky above the snowy southern Sierra Nevada Mountains...This view of Dione, Saturn's icy moon, highlights its tectonic faults and craters. To create this enhanced-color view, ultraviolet, green...Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken...The photo, taken on January 1, 1963, shows the "energy flash" that occurs when a projectile launched at speeds up...The STS-117 crewmembers and Johnson Space Center's (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (right) are photographed during the STS-117 crew return...With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan's orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze. This...This false-color image of two density waves in Saturn's A ring was made by the Cassini-Huygens Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph instrument....This view of a full moon was photographed by the Expedition 10 crew orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station....The bright sun dissects the airglow above Earth's horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from the...Sliding through Earth's shadow, the Moon turned haunting shades of red and orange during October 27th's widely viewed total lunar...Astronomers have long known that Saturn's rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the...A clear, beautiful and blistery cold night made for perfect viewing of February's lunar eclipse. This image was taken at...Vacuum spheres at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia have been dusted by a light fall of snow in this...NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, left, and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan S. Sharipov will serve as Expedition 10 on the International Space...Cleveland's Glenn Research Center began as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's predecessor)....