These two images illustrate the value of being able to identify different compositions at very small scales.
Observations at large scales, such as panoramas of Martian landscapes, help researchers identify smaller-scale features of special interest for examination…
Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on the design and engineering work done for…
Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on re-using the design and engineering work done…
A close-up view of astronaut Buzz Aldrin's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with the 70mm lunar surface camera during…
One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station used a 50mm lens to record this image…
NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy (left) and Karen Nyberg; along with European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, all Expedition 36 flight…
Fairfax, Va., native David Iosco has been named deputy director of the Office of Procurement at NASA's Marshall Space Flight…
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, both Expedition 36 flight engineers, attired in their Extravehicular…
This color-coded topography map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the giant asteroid Vesta in an equirectangular projection at 32 pixels…