Image of the DayAs seen through windows on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery, the payload bay is featured in this...The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this 2-millisecond exposure of Jupiter at 04:41:04 UTC on Jan. 24,...On February 19, 2000, Space Shuttle Endeavour passed over the highly active and dangerous volcanic zone of the Andes in...Water leaves its mark on the land, cutting channels and canyons where rivers flowed and leaving depressions where lakes once...Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden...Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene A. Cernan makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the early part...This artist's concept illustrates one possible answer to the puzzle of the "giant galactic blobs." These blobs (red), first identified...NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured this dramatic image of mountains on Jupiter's moon Io in February 2000. The image was taken...This 1961 prototype of an inflatable space station concept with a solar power system collector was 24 feet in diameter...In the distance stand the east hills, which are closest to the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in comparison to other...Named for its resemblance to a coiling spiral seen face on, the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a challenging stargazing...In this, her second venture into space, STS-31 mission specialist Kathryn Sullivan posed for this photograph as she prepared for...Nine days before it entered orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this exquisite natural color view of Saturn's rings. The images...NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, center in white, and other NASA managers give a thumbs up to the crew of the...The opening drag chute slowed Endeavour as it landed on runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Endeavour crew,...This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Rosette Nebula, a pretty star-forming region more than 5,000 light-years..."Ever try to shoot a slow-flying duck while standing rigidly on a fast rotating platform, and with a gun that...Illuminated by the lights on Runway 33, Atlantis approaches touchdown, concluding mission STS-115. Aboard are Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Christopher...Few sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its...At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams from International Space Station (ISS) Expedition...Saturn's largest moon, Titan, peaks out from under the planet's rings of ice. This view looks toward Titan (5,150 kilometers,...Twins Zane (foreground) and Paxton Gunn gaze at the Ambassador of Exploration Award presented by NASA to veteran journalist Walter...This view of the International Space Station over a blue and white Earth was taken shortly after the Space Shuttle...Backdropped by a sunset, the Canadarm2/Space Station Remote Manipulator System is operated by a crewmember performing mission duties from the...This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image was acquired on May 20, 2000, and shows an area...On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim...A shuttle model is magnetically suspended in the transparent hexagonal test section of the MIT/NASA Langley 6-inch Magnetic Suspension/Balance System...Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with volcanoes that erupt massive volumes of silicate lava,...Coccolithophores are a group of phytoplankton that are identifiable from space. These microscopic plants armor themselves with external plates of...Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan, based on the...Looking more like an alien landscape than an Earthly landscape, the Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona is North...This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) thermal-infrared composite image, the first high spatial resolution multi-spectral thermal infrared...In a view from 1965, the full moon is out dazzled by the lights of the launch gantries on Missile...A detail of the Eagle Nebula shows a portion of a pillar of gas and dust in this photo from...The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the...In this stunning vista recorded with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop...This image of the western part of the city of Pasadena, Calif. - home to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory -...This natural-color satellite image shows the meeting place of Earth's second largest and second smallest continents: Africa and Europe. It's...An artist's concept shows the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter going into orbit around the Red Planet. Set to launch this August...This spectacular image shows Saturn's moons Prometheus (at right) and Pandora (at left), with their flock of icy ring particles...
