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Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma

The eye of Hurricane Irma is clearly visible from the International Space Station as it orbited over the Category 5…

GJ 176: A Sun-like Star More than a Billion Years Old
GJ 176: A Sun-like Star More than a Billion Years Old

A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton suggests X-rays emitted by a planet’s host…

This Week in NASA History: STS-8 Lands at Edwards Air Force Base – Sept. 5, 1983
This Week in NASA History: STS-8 Lands at Edwards Air Force Base – Sept. 5, 1983

This week in 1983, space shuttle Challenger and STS-8 landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a successful…

Smoke Obscures Much of the Pacific Northwest
Smoke Obscures Much of the Pacific Northwest

The Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at the smoke obscuring much of…

Expedition 53 Qualification Exams
Expedition 53 Qualification Exams

Expedition 53 crew members: Joe Acaba of NASA, left, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, center, and Mark Vande Hei of NASA…

Smoke and Fires Light Up Pacific Northwest
Smoke and Fires Light Up Pacific Northwest

Hot, dry conditions in the summertime make wildfires likely to plague the Pacific Northwest and California.

Prospecting from Orbit
Prospecting from Orbit

The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Mixtures of Sulfates in Melas Chasma
Mixtures of Sulfates in Melas Chasma

In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, layering within the light-toned sulfate deposit is the result of different states…

Opposing Dunes, Opposing Winds
Opposing Dunes, Opposing Winds

On the west (left) side of this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, fairly textbook-looking barchan sand dunes sit atop…

Exploring the Sandy Province of Herschel Crater
Exploring the Sandy Province of Herschel Crater

This view shows the downwind stretches of a sand sheet in central part of the much larger Herschel Crater.