On April 15, 2002, STS-110 Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa works at the Remote Manipulator System controls…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Space Station View of Mount Etna Erupting
The Expedition 50 crew aboard the International Space Station had a nighttime view from orbit of…
Photographer Carla Thomas on a Supersonic Flight
“Armstrong Flight Research Center chief pilot Nils Larson and I were flying supersonic runs to note…
Mackenzie River in Canada’s Northwest Territories
This view, acquired on Nov. 7, 2016, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8,…
Dublin at Night
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA shared this nighttime image of Dublin on March 17,…
Annie Easley, Computer Scientist and Mathematician
Annie Easley at NASA Glenn Research Center. In 1955, Easley began her career at NASA, then…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Ghostly ‘Lights Out’ Inspection
The technicians who are inspecting the telescope and its expansive golden mirrors look like ghostly wraiths…
Traffic-free and Sky-high
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of cloud…
Hubble Hones In on a Hypergiant’s Home
The super star cluster Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, hosts…