The full moon is seen as it rises near the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, March 19, 2011,…
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WISE’s Last Light
On the morning of Feb. 1, 2011, WISE, or the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, took its…
Kennedy Employees Form Human Shuttle
Thousands of NASA Kennedy Space Center employees stand side-by-side to form a full-scale outline of a…
Celebrating Mercury Orbit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, shakes hands with Eric Finnegan, MESSENGER Mission Systems Engineer, right, as…
The X-48C Prototype
A three percent scale model of a blended wing body aircraft design recently was tested in…
Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly
Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly wears a blue wrist band that has a peace symbol, a…
Chasma Boreale, Mars
Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley, cuts deep into Mars' north polar icecap. Its walls rise…
Japan’s Coastline Before and After the Tsunami
These images show the effects of the tsunami on Japan's coastline. The image on the left…
Flooding from Tsunami near Sendai, Japan
NASA’s Terra satellite's first view of northeastern Japan in the wake of a devastating earthquake and…
Endeavour on the Pad
Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Endeavour, attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket…