Image of the DayIn addition to looking heavenward, NASA helps the world see the Earth in ways no one else can. On Nov....The Trifid Nebula, aka M20, is easy to find with a small telescope and a well-known stop in the nebula...The massive C-19 iceberg, which broke from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in May 2002, is the long smooth...NASA's Spirit rover has successfully driven to its first target on Mars, a football-sized rock that scientists have dubbed Adirondack....As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity creeps farther into "Endurance Crater," the dune field on the crater floor appears even...The Grand Canyon is one of North America's most spectacular geologic features. Carved primarily by the Colorado River over the...Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the docked Space Shuttle Discovery and a Soyuz spacecraft are shown...Airglow above Earth's horizon and solar array panels add color to this scene of a portion of the International Space...STS-117 mission specialist Steven Swanson moves through a hatch in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station as the...Framed by Florida greenery, Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B at 10:39 a.m. EDT on the historic Return...Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic, undulating shapes lie within the stellar nursery known as M17, the Omega...Mount Saint Helens exemplifies how Earth's topographic form can change greatly even within our lifetimes. The mountain is one of...No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over...Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way...A fast and powerful wind from a hot young star created this stunning bubble-shaped nebula, poised on the end of...Spectators at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center get a birds-eye-view of Space Shuttle Discovery as it roars...This replica of the 17th century ship Godspeed was under full sail when it cruised past the Statute of Liberty...A cyclone is a low-pressure area of winds that spiral inwards. Although tropical storms most often come to mind, these...Saturn's hazy moon Titan appears to drift above Saturn's ringplane in this view taken only a tenth of a degree...Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the...In the year 1054 A.D., Chinese astronomers were startled by the appearance of a new star that was so bright...This image of northern Chile was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on April 7,...The city of Seoul (originally known as Hanyang) has been the capital of Korea for more than 600 years and...In this artist's conception, observers peer through the dark dust of L1014 to witness the birth of a star. NASA's...Loops of highly charged particles burst from the sun's surface in this image, taken on Dec. 4, 2006. Among the...Astronaut Jim Reilly (on robot arm) joins forces with his colleagues inside the shuttle and station, as well as flight...This majestic view, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, tells an untold story of life and death in the Eagle...The Escondida copper, gold and silver open-pit mine in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen in this image from the Advanced...This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a...On September 8, 1969, a transporter carried the 363-foot-high Apollo 12 Saturn V space vehicle from the Vehicle Assembly Building's...NASA scientists announced today, March 2, 2004, that evidence found by the Opportunity rover suggests water once flowed at its...Scientists recently discovered that polar stratospheric clouds, long known to play an important role in Antarctic ozone destruction, are occurring...In this artist's conception, a possible newfound planet spins through a clearing, detected around the star CoKu Tau 4 by...During its tenure aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 13 passed a major milestone: as of late August 2006, more...Har Nuur, or the Black Lake, is located in western Mongolia's Valley of Lakes, part of a system of closed...A new chapter in space flight began on July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral,...On the verge of spring, the silvery etching of a tree appears across the winter white of western Alaska. Interlaced...The photo shows the "energy flash" when a projectile launched at speeds up to 17,000 miles an hour impacts a...Space Shuttle Discovery's crew witnessed this bright full moon from orbit during a December 1999 mission that included servicing the...The Shuttle Discovery, along with its External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters, begins the long roll towards Launch Pad 39B...
