The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a "fresh" (on…
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June 4, 1965, Earth Observations From Gemini IV
This photograph of the Florida Straits and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV…
NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Spacewalking
For 50 years, NASA has been "suiting up" for spacewalking. In this Feb. 7, 1984 photograph…
Shadow of Surveyor 1 on the Moon
Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved the…
Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Prepared For Second Flight Test
The second flight test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) will be attempted on Tuesday, June…
Hubble Peers into the Most Crowded Place in the Milky Way
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in…
Parachute Testing for NASA’s InSight Mission
This parachute testing for NASA's InSight mission to Mars was conducted inside the world's largest wind…
View From an F-15D
NASA pilot Jim Less and photographer Jim Ross pull their F-15D #897 aircraft away from a…
Europa’s Jupiter-Facing Hemisphere
This 12-frame mosaic provides the highest resolution view ever obtained of the side of Jupiter's moon…
Coronal Loops Over a Sunspot Group
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images the solar atmosphere in…