When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the crew brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which…
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Astronaut Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor Examines Her Eyes in Space
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor examines her eye with a Fundoscope aboard the International Space Station with remote…
Soyuz MS-16 Spacecraft Docked to the Space Station
Pictured is the Soyuz MS-16 crew ship, currently docked to the International Space Station’s Poisk module. …
Hubble Shoots the Moon
This image from 1991 shows Earth’s Moon, with its dark basaltic mare, clearly visible in great…
PIA24126: Aldan, Siberia, Russia
Target: Earth Mission: Terra Instrument: ASTER Image Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team…
NASA Has Eyes on the Universe
Humanity has “eyes” that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe…
PIA23790: OASIS Study Project (Illustration)
Target: Earth Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Click here for original story, PIA23790: OASIS Study…
PIA23808: Cyclones of Color at Jupiter's North Pole
Target: Jupiter Mission: Juno Instrument: JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Gerald Eichstädt …
Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole
Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme…
Ellen Ochoa Shakes Hands with First Humanoid Robot to Head to Station
Then-NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director Ellen Ochoa poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 (R2)…