Buoys used to support scientific instruments at sea are seen in the foreground prior to being…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Blue Moon Over Cincinnati
A rare second Full Moon of the month, known as a "Blue Moon," is seen over…
A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble
This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy…
Neil Armstrong Memorial
Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell, left, former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, Sen. John Glenn, third from…
Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues
A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in…
Montage Neptune and Triton
This computer generated montage shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton, Neptune's…
Hurricane Isaac at Night
Early on August 29, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured…
Isaac Churns in the Gulf
This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent…
Kennedy Receives Mariner 2 Model
This 1961 photo shows Dr. William H. Pickering, (center) JPL Director, presenting a Mariner spacecraft model…
Neil Armstrong on the Lunar Surface
As commander of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong took most of the photographs from the historic moonwalk,…