View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew -- astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E.…
This frame from the microscopic imager on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows spherules up to about 5 millimeters (one-fifth…
With smoke from the Lake Arrowhead, CA area fires streaming in the background, NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft headed out on…
With the Autonomous Module Scanner pod slung under its left wing, NASA's Predator B unmanned aircraft, the Ikhana, headed out…
NASA Ames engineer Ted Hildum checked out the thermal-infrared scanner computer before it was loaded on NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft.
NASA Dryden's Ikhana ground crewmen Gus Carreno and James Smith loaded the thermal-infrared imaging scanner pallet into the Ikhana's underwing…
NASA Ames engineers Sally Buechel and Ted Hildum prepared to load the Autonomous Modular Scanner into the Ikhana unmanned aircraft's…
The opposition effect, a brightness surge that is visible on Saturn's rings when the sun is directly behind the spacecraft,…
Cassini captures the first high-resolution glimpse of the bright trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Iapetus in September 2007.
Ikhana's AMS wildfire imaging components include (from left) the data system, scan head and enclosures for the data disks, GPS…