On Jan. 4, 2004, Spirit--the first of two NASA Mars Exploration Rovers--landed on the Red Planet…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Sparkle
This Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 1275 reveals the fine, thread-like filamentary structures in…
City Lights Redux
A southerly looking night view of the upper two-thirds of the Florida peninsula was recorded by…
City Lights
This striking photograph features two of China’s most populous cities--Beijing and Tianjin--both located in the northern…
Decorating the Sky
This mosaic image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features three nebulae that…
Where Stars Are Born
This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of the starburst galaxy, Messier 82…
Discovery and the Lunar Eclipse
Space shuttle Discovery waits to roll back from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building…
Sotra Facula, Titan
Based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, this image shows an area of Saturn's moon Titan,…