This schlieren image dramatically displays the shock wave of a supersonic jet flying over the Mojave Desert.
A T-38C from the Air Force Test Pilot School served as a target for NASA’s schlieren imaging system.
NASA is using a 21st century version of schlieren imagery, invented by a German physicist in 1864, to visualize supersonic…
Looking like a crooked frown, SDO captured this image of a solar filament stretching across the lower half of the…
Engineers are preparing to test the parachute system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in…
A filament on the sun as seen by the Hinode on Oct. 19, 2013.
A modified C-140 JetStar was flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center from 1964 to 1989 on a variety of…
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft took this image of Gaue crater, the large crater on the bottom, on Ceres.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image that shows a mountain ridge, near lower left, that lies in the center of…
NASA's Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers).
