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Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010

A mass ascent of hundreds of hot-air balloons fill the skies at the International Balloon Fiesta.

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010

Amidst the brilliant brightness of colorful balloons, the dark visage of Darth Vader appears.

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010

The nose of an inflatable half-scale model of a NASA F/A-18 in front of the NASA Aeronautics exhibit points skyward…

Close-up of a Meteorite – ‘Oileán Ruaidh’ (False Color)
Close-up of a Meteorite – ‘Oileán Ruaidh’ (False Color)

This is an image of the meteorite that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined in September 2010. Opportunity's…

Spiral Extraordinaire
Spiral Extraordinaire

Scientists have yet to discover what caused the strange spiral structure. Nor do they know why it glows. The glow…

Birth of the Space Age
Birth of the Space Age

History changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite. About…

Visions of Our Solar System
Visions of Our Solar System

Artist Michael Benson, left, talks with Dr. James Green, Director, Planetary Science, NASA Headquarters, in front of images of Mars…

In the Beginning
In the Beginning

NASA's first administrator T. Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Senate's Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee,…

A Galactic Spectacle
A Galactic Spectacle

A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories.

Generating Sparks
Generating Sparks

This image from testing of ChemCam shows a ball of luminous plasma erupting from the surface of an iron pyrite…