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Opportunity’s First Dip Into Victoria Crater
Opportunity’s First Dip Into Victoria Crater

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered Victoria Crater on the rover's 1,291st Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 11, 2007). The…

Skylab Spacewalker
Skylab Spacewalker

Skylab 3 astronaut Owen Garriott spacewalks near the Apollo Telescope Mount on the space station in 1973. He had just…

President Bush Watches Discovery Liftoff
President Bush Watches Discovery Liftoff

President George W. Bush watches the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery in the Oval Office's Private Dining Room Tuesday,…

Spirit Rises to the Challenge
Spirit Rises to the Challenge

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) played Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" late Thursday night, as they watched…

Mission STS-122 Begins
Mission STS-122 Begins

Against the blue of the Atlantic Ocean, space shuttle Atlantis with its crew of seven rises majestically from Launch Pad…

Los Angeles: Wrapped Color as Height
Los Angeles: Wrapped Color as Height

Looking more like the map of another planet than a view of this world, this topographic radar image of Los…

Candy Stripes
Candy Stripes

This enhanced false color view is a departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color…

Sun Storm!
Sun Storm!

The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft has imaged many erupting filaments lifting off the active solar surface and blasting enormous bubbles of…

Smokin’ Hot Galaxy
Smokin’ Hot Galaxy

This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a galaxy that appears to be sizzling hot, with huge plumes…

Evaporating Planet
Evaporating Planet

Planet HD 209458b is evaporating. It is so close to its parent star that its heated atmosphere is simply expanding…