This artist's concept depicts the Hayabusa spacecraft (left) and its sample return capsule (right) entering the atmosphere over South Australia.
Michael Winter of NASA's Ames Research Center, principal investigator for the SLIT spectrogratph, installs his instrument in a framework behind…
Project scientist Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA's Ames Research Center and Christina Giannopapa of the Netherlands' Eindhoven…
Scientists flying aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory captured this image of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft June 13,…
Yiannis Karavas and James Breitmeyer, students at the Dexter/Southfield Schools in Brookline, MA, are assisted by instructor and principal investigator…
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft leaves a streak of light behind the clouds is as it re-enters Earth's…
Robert Haberman of the SETI Institute and Jonathan Snively of Utah State University-Logan align their camera in its framework inside…
Geoff McHarg (on floor facing up) and Mike Dearborn of the U.S. Air Force Academy installed their high frame rate…
Yiannis Karavas, a student at the Dexter/Southfield Schools in Brookline, MA, and instructor and principal investigator Ron Dantowitz of the…
Hideyuki Tanno of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kakuda Space Center aligned the twin lenses of his hand-held digital imaging…
