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On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area...
The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. The low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region, which scientists have studied to better understand the processes playing out in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
This image, taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, shows the reddish-brown waters of the Betsiboka River Delta...
The waters of the Betsiboka River Delta, as seen from the International Space Station, are a vibrant orange. From left to right, the river branches off into many pathways, looking almost like the roots of a tree.
Maricela Lizcano poses inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility.
Maricela Lizcano stands inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility. She is wearing a teal jacket and behind her there are mathematical equations on the wall.
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B...
A large amount of water cascades over the edges of the gray mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Droplets of water also spray up through the air, creating a mist.
An engineer prepares a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration that's headed...
An engineer in white protective gear, a blue mask, and glasses works on a small rover. The rover is small enough to fit on a black tabletop. The rover has a flat top and four gear-like wheels.
A storm is pictured in the Arabian Sea less than 700 miles off the coast of Oman as the International...
A storm, seen as massive, swirling white clouds dominates this image of Earth from the International Space Station. Peeking out from underneath the clouds and at the storm's edges is the deep blue of the Arabian Sea. In the background (top of image) is the curve of Earth, bordered by the darkness of space.
Former flight test instructor and current NASA test pilot Nils Larson reunited with former student and current astronaut Victor Glover...
Nils Larson, X59 pilot and Astronaut Victor Glover walking side-by-side.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, second from right, NASA associate administrator Bob Cabana, far right, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy...
A group of 17 people sit and stand in a circle in a meeting area in an office. There are rocket models and space-themed imagery decorating the space. Everyone looks toward NASA administrator Bill Nelson, second from right, as he speaks.
On October 14, 2023, the Moon aligned with the Sun and Earth to produce an annular solar eclipse. The spectacle...
A full disc image of Earth in which North and South America are visible. The Moon casts a dark brown shadow in the top left quadrant.
The Moon passes in front of the Sun during the annular solar eclipse in this photograph taken by Expedition 70...
The Sun appears as a white disc in the darkness of space. The Moon begins to pass in front of it on the left, making it look like there's a circular portion of the Sun missing.
The north coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on the Pacific Ocean is pictured from the International...
The north coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on the Pacific Ocean is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above. The land is brown, with some smaller bodies of water. The northern coastline is scalloped. A few streaks of clouds stretch across land and water, but the sky is mostly cloudless.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023,...
In the distance, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches with the Psyche spacecraft onboard. They are gray and almost blend in with the sky. A bright blaze extends from the bottom of the rocket and clouds of smoke roll just above the trees. Palm trees on the right take up the majority of the foreground.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal...
In the foreground, a plant with several small white and yellow flowers is in focus near a grassy hill. In the distance, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and Psyche spacecraft roll out of a large rectangular building with "SpaceX" and an American flag on the side.
It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the...
A bright spiral galaxy fills the frame from the lower-right to the upper-left. The galaxy is tilted toward us and holds bright blue-white stars and reddish-brown dust lanes that showcase its spiral nature.
“I think the experience of putting yourself in an uncomfortable environment and coming at the other end with lessons learned...
Alfonso Davila, a Hispanic person, stands in front of a building that is softly out of focus. He wears a black shirt with rolled up sleeves.
This feature looks a bit like a bear's face. What is it really? There's a hill with a V-shaped collapse...
A geographical feature on Mars looks like the face of a bear in this black and white image acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Astronaut Raja Chari is ready for taco night as he shows off a taco made with fresh chile peppers.
Astronaut Raja Chari is ready for taco night
Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is carried to a medical tent shortly after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin...
Astronaut Frank Rubio gives the camera a thumbs up as he is carried by four men, including NASA astronaut Joe Acaba (front left). Rubio wears a white spacesuit with blue accents and several mission patches. He rests against the propped-up top portion of a stretcher and has a dark blue blanket on his lap.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958, to perform civilian research related to space...
From left to right, Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Dr. T. Keith Glennan smile as they have a discussion. Dryden and Eisenhower hold cylindrical objects in their hands; Glennan looks down at their hands. They are all wearing suits.
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24,...
View from above of a desert landscape with brush. The red and white striped parachute that slowed the descent of the Sample Return Capsule is on the ground near the upper left and the black capsule is near the center of the image.
At 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida, carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members to the International Space Station.
The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Irregular galaxy of many tiny stars clumped together, surrounded in diffuse light with a bubble of blue gas in its bright center. It is surrounded by mostly small, faint objects with a few bright stars above and left of it and a string of galaxies nearby.
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama...
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand during the late 1950s.
In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto...
A NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 18, 2023.
Gateway's International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023.
Gateway's International Habitat (I-Hab) module, provided by ESA, is one of two of the space station's habitation modules in addition to HALO. Astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for lunar surface missions inside I-Hab and HALO.
The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission spoke at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Crew are seen after arriving at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023.
The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy...
A crowd of oval-shaped elliptical galaxies gather around the largest galaxy in the center. They are surrounded by more distant stars and galaxies, that have many shapes and sizes but all are smaller, on a dark background.
A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Aug....
Students watch a sounding rocket launch at sunrise.
Two ospreys perch in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s...
Two ospreys are perched in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 7, 2023.
On August 8, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of dense plumes of...
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of fires in the Northwest Territories on August 8, 2023.
While wearing clean room suits, the Artemis II crew members check out their Orion crew module inside the Neil Armstrong...
Artemis II crew members inspect their Orion crew module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Aug. 7, 2023. From left are: Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.
This artist’s concept from July 11, 1969, depicts the Apollo 11 lunar module (LM) Eagle landing on the surface of...
TRW Incorporated's artist concept depicting the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) descending to the surface of the moon.
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander gathered images of itself for this selfie from June 5 through July 12, 2008, with its...
Phoenix Lander Self Portrait on Mars, Vertical Projection
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08 contains the most strongly magnified...
A black background is scattered with hundreds of small galaxies of different shapes, ranging in color from white to yellow to red. Just a bit above the center, there is a bright source of light, a star, with 8 bright diffraction spikes extending out.
NASAs Moonikin Campos inside the OCSS
Engineer Kristopher Sherrill observes a development model rover during a test for NASAs CADRE technology demonstration in JPLs Mars Yard in June.
The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
A spherical cluster of stars with a bright core, and stars spread out to the edges gradually giving way to an empty, dark background. A few stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes appear larger and stand out in front.
United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi captured this image of the city lights of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Tigris River...
The city lights of Baghdad, Iraq, split by the Tigris River, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Middle Eastern nation.
On April 28, 2023, the Crew-7 members (from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA...
NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 in training at SpaceX facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before their mission to the International Space Station.
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, seen here in an image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)...
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve image acquired December 30, 2010.