Image of the DayFew sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its...At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams from International Space Station (ISS) Expedition...Saturn's largest moon, Titan, peaks out from under the planet's rings of ice. This view looks toward Titan (5,150 kilometers,...Twins Zane (foreground) and Paxton Gunn gaze at the Ambassador of Exploration Award presented by NASA to veteran journalist Walter...This view of the International Space Station over a blue and white Earth was taken shortly after the Space Shuttle...Backdropped by a sunset, the Canadarm2/Space Station Remote Manipulator System is operated by a crewmember performing mission duties from the...This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image was acquired on May 20, 2000, and shows an area...On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim...A shuttle model is magnetically suspended in the transparent hexagonal test section of the MIT/NASA Langley 6-inch Magnetic Suspension/Balance System...Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with volcanoes that erupt massive volumes of silicate lava,...Coccolithophores are a group of phytoplankton that are identifiable from space. These microscopic plants armor themselves with external plates of...Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan, based on the...Looking more like an alien landscape than an Earthly landscape, the Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona is North...This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) thermal-infrared composite image, the first high spatial resolution multi-spectral thermal infrared...In a view from 1965, the full moon is out dazzled by the lights of the launch gantries on Missile...A detail of the Eagle Nebula shows a portion of a pillar of gas and dust in this photo from...The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the...In this stunning vista recorded with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop...This image of the western part of the city of Pasadena, Calif. - home to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory -...This natural-color satellite image shows the meeting place of Earth's second largest and second smallest continents: Africa and Europe. It's...An artist's concept shows the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter going into orbit around the Red Planet. Set to launch this August...This spectacular image shows Saturn's moons Prometheus (at right) and Pandora (at left), with their flock of icy ring particles...Expedition 10 Flight Engineer Salizhan S. Sharipov holds "Nanosputnik" in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station. This...Anchored to the foot restraint on the Canadarm2, STS-118 mission specialist Dave Williams removed a faulty control moment gyroscope and...Backdropped by space and Earth's horizon, Endeavour's orbital maneuvering system pods and vertical stabilizer are visible in this image taken...New Horizons took this image of the icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter's cloud tops after the spacecraft's closest approach...Rick Mastracchio, STS-118 mission specialist, uses a digital camera to expose a photo of his helmet visor during the mission's...Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, Space Shuttle Endeavour, docked to the Pressurized Mating Adapter on the...Astronaut Rick Mastracchio participates in the mission's first planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction continues on the International...This is one of a series of images of different areas of Space Shuttle Endeavour as it approached the International...NASA mourns the loss of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who rocketed into space in his Faith 7 capsule on May...Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Gemini 5 pilot, sits in the Gemini Static Article 5 spacecraft and prepares to be...Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott sit with their spacecraft hatches open while awaiting the arrival of the recovery...As smoke billows across Launch Pad 39A, Space Shuttle Endeavour climbs into the sky on mission STS-118, the 22nd shuttle...As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft acquired this image showing a...This artist's impression shows how the Arches star cluster appears from deep inside the hub of our Milky Way Galaxy....The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour lit up the sky at sunset as it lifted off on time at 6:36...The STS-118 crew recently took a break from traing to pose for their official portrait. Pictured from the left are...Ripples on the wind create intricate wave patterns in a thick plume of dust over Egypt (right) and Libya (left),...Clouds and sunlight over the Indian Ocean, as seen from Discovery during the STS-96 mission in 1999.
