The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of valleys west of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, so named…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Profile
Surrounded by the blackness of space, this profile view of the space shuttle Atlantis was photographed…
Honoring Apollo 13’s Fred Haise
At a 1 p.m. ceremony on Dec 2, 2009, Administrator Charles Bolden presented NASA's Ambassador of…
King of All He Surveys
Sitting majestically atop a utility pole at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bald eagle…
Homecoming for Atlantis
The drag chute unfurled as space shuttle Atlantis landed on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing…
Touch Down!
Streams of smoke trail from the main landing gear tires as space shuttle Atlantis touches down…
The Way Home
Seen over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Algerian coast, the space shuttle Atlantis is featured in…
Thin Blue Line
The thin line of Earth's atmosphere and the setting sun are featured in this image photographed…
The Brightness of the Sun
The bright sun greets the International Space Station in this Nov. 22 image, taken from the…
A Different View
On flight day four of the STS-129 mission, a member of the crew photographed the aft…