Image of the DayAt the NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, the first of the aircraft carrying STS-123 crew members is ready...What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Mars Exploration Rover...In 2002, NASA produced the Blue Marble, the most detailed true-color image of the Earth's surface ever produced. Using data...Somewhat of a different angle showing shuttle Discovery's vertical stabilizer and some of the cargo in the payload bay was...Robert Goddard, a pioneer in rocket development, received patents for a multi-stage rocket and liquid propellants in 1914 and published...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, then known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...Cassini peers around the hazy limb of the frigid moon Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in...How can something as big as a star go undetected? The answer is dust. Stellar nursery DR21 is shrouded in...Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean climbs down the lunar module Intrepid, joining Pete Conrad on the moon, November 19, 1969.A Boeing Delta II rocket, left, fires its engines on Saturday, Nov. 20, sending NASA's Swift satellite into orbit from...Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan....Aviator Charles Lindbergh took this picture of Robert H. Goddard's rocket, as he peered down the launching tower on Sept....Astronaut Piers J. Sellers works on the shuttle's Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System during the mission's first scheduled session...Light-years in length, this cosmic tornado is actually a powerful jet cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 49/50. Though such energetic outflows...As the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover captured this...Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than...The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west...In this September 2000 image, NEAR Shoemaker's then-current 100-kilometer (62-mile) orbit gave it a bird's eye view of the asteroid...There is no permanent human base on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean that lies...This 1992 image is one in a series of remarkable photos documenting the daily lives of two of Kennedy Space...About 1,600 light-years away, in a binary star system fondly known as J0806, two dense white dwarf stars orbit each..."Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The...The Crab Nebula is the shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion. Nearly...On March 29, 2007, the Shiveluch Volcano on the Russian Federation's Kamchatka Peninsula erupted, sending an ash cloud skyward roughly...Was Saturn's moon, Phoebe, once a comet? Images from Cassini, taken when the spacecraft entered the neighborhood of Saturn, indicate...This view inside of the Italian-built Harmony Node 2 was taken soon after its arrival at Kennedy Space Center. The...NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe visits Arlington National Cemetery on February 1, 2005, to lay a wreath honoring the crew of...The first images from NASA's Opportunity rover reveal what scientists are calling a "bizarre, alien landscape" at the landing site,...Over time, natural processes like floods and volcanoes deposit layers of rock on the Earth's surface and to delve through...Since the spring of 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Volcano Observatory has detected increasing volcanic unrest at Augustine Volcano...In the South Pacific, south of Late Island along the Tofua volcanic arc in Tonga, the volcanic island Home Reef...Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams began their mission Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EST, as they...In this 1957 photo, engineers at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (now NASA's Glenn Research Center) check a model of...The Esperanza Fire started on Oct. 26 in the dry brush near Palm Springs, Calif. By the time it was...American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system, on February 18, 1930. Many key questions...On October 1, 2005, El Salvador's Santa Ana Volcano, also known as the Ilamatepec Volcano, erupted for the first time...These shape-shifting galaxies have taken on the form of a giant mask. The icy blue eyes are actually the cores...Shooting like a roman candle into Florida's blue sky from Launch Pad 39B, Space Shuttle Discovery kicked off the Fourth...Natalya Koroleva, daughter of the late Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, head Soviet rocket engineer and designer, poses for a photograph at...Vivid colors belie the arid landscape of northern Chile where the Atacama Desert, one of the world's driest, meets the...
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