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Icy Particle Spray
Icy Particle Spray

This movie made from images obtained by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft shows an active end of the nucleus of comet…

Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts from Space
Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts from Space

Seen here is the Hayabusa spacecraft's special spatula, as observed by a scanning electron microscope.

To the Rescue
To the Rescue

This unique, close-up view of the X-38 under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of the lifting-body…

Fountain
Fountain

Originally released May 30, 2007, this image is centered on a small cone on the side of one of Mars'…

Doing Time
Doing Time

The DC-8 pilots on NASA's IceBridge mission point out the narrow Antarctic time zones on the navigation map. IceBridge, a…

Ghostly Spokes in the Rings
Ghostly Spokes in the Rings

Scientists first saw these somewhat wedge-shaped, transient clouds of tiny particles known as "spokes" in images from NASA's Voyager spacecraft.…

Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctic Coast
Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctic Coast

The Getz Ice Shelf extended several miles into the ocean from the Getz glacier as it emptied into the ocean…

Tattooed Mars
Tattooed Mars

Originally released Aug. 1, 2007, this image is of Mars' Russell Crater dune field, which is covered seasonally by carbon…

Cupola
Cupola

"The 'Cupola', attached to the nadir side of the space station, gives a panoramic view of our beautiful planet," said…

Reflecting Merope
Reflecting Merope

In the well known Pleiades star cluster, starlight is slowly destroying this wandering cloud of gas and dust. The star…