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Carbonate Sand Dunes in the Shallow Waters of Tarpum Bay
Carbonate Sand Dunes in the Shallow Waters of Tarpum Bay

In this May 12, 2002, ASTER image the features that look like folded material are carbonate sand dunes in the…

Olduvai Gorge, East Africa
Olduvai Gorge, East Africa

Three striking and important areas of Tanzania in eastern Africa are shown in this color-coded shaded relief image from the…

Sunspots Through California Haze
Sunspots Through California Haze

Haze from the fires in Southern California make sun spots more visible in this photo from NASA's Dryden Flight Research…

A View From Above
A View From Above

Backdropped by a colorful Earth, this full view of the International Space Station was photographed from the Space Shuttle Discovery…

A Merger of Mighty Rivers
A Merger of Mighty Rivers

The Ohio River becomes a tributary of the Mississippi River directly south of Cairo, Illinois, a small city on the…

Iridescent Glory of Nearby Planetary Nebula
Iridescent Glory of Nearby Planetary Nebula

This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The…

Atlantis Crew Heads to the Pad
Atlantis Crew Heads to the Pad

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the STS-122 mission crew members stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building, eager to…

Saturn’s Strange Hexagon
Saturn’s Strange Hexagon

This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini clearly shows a bizarre…

Extreme Planets
Extreme Planets

This artist's concept depicts the pulsar planet system discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan in 1992. Wolszczan used the Arecibo radio telescope…

Chaotic Beauty
Chaotic Beauty

Located 1,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, a reflection nebula called NGC 1333 epitomizes the beautiful chaos…