Cornell University's Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope, or FORCAST, is mounted on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared…
Terry Herter, principal investigator for Cornell University's FORCAST instrument, and Cornell research associate Joe Adams check the alignment of the…
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken at 7:00 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT), after NASA's EPOXI mission…
The upper panel of this figure shows small images of the comet, specially filtered to show only carbon dioxide, or…
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken as NASA's EPOXI mission approached the comet at 6:59 a.m. PDT…
Comet Hartley 2 can be seen in glorious detail in this image from NASA's EPOXI mission. It was taken as…
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken at 7:01 a.m. PDT (10:01 a.m. EDT), after NASA's EPOXI mission…
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken as NASA's EPOXI mission approached the comet at 6:58 a.m. PDT…
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery waits on Launch Pad 39A on Nov. 5, 2010 for…
From 220 miles above Earth, the Expedition 25 crew aboard the International Space Station shot this night time image of…