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Like a ship carving its way through the sea, the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands parted the clouds. The...
Whiffs of cloud dance in Saturn atmosphere, while the dim crescent of Rhea 1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across...
In this episode of The Quiet Crew, you’ll meet Tegan French, a meteorological engineer who helps collect weather...
Flight engineer and photographer William Wynne (pictured) worked with photographer Arthur Laufman to execute a photo...
AS09-23-3561 (3-13 March 1969) --- Near vertical view of the Lubbock area in west Texas as photographed from the...
SL2-05-370 (22 June 1973) --- Gateway to the Atlantic, since ancient times the Strait of Gibraltar (36.5N, 4.5W) is...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its left Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture these drifting noctilucent, or...
STS072-727-059 (11-20 Jan. 1996) --- Plains of the Orange Free State, South Africa are featured in this 70mm frame...
STS072-722-004 (11-20 Jan. 1996) --- Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is featured in this 70mm frame exposed from the...
Piercing through clouds of smog, the Cassini spacecraft has captured the best images ever of Saturn's largest moon,...
The Blue Ring Nebula is thought to be the product of two stars merging into one. The collision of the bodies ejected...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Under evening cloud-filled skies, Space Shuttle Discovery remains on the pad two days...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Under evening cloud-filled skies, Space Shuttle Discovery remains on the pad two days...
SL3-34-336 (July-September 1973) --- A vertical view of a portion of northern California near the Pacific coast as...
STS039-151-193 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- The Strait of Gibraltar, the only outlet for the Mediterranean Sea, was...
NASA's Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter's south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Falcon 9 rocket cuts its way through the clouds over Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape...
NASA's Juno spacecraft carries an instrument called the Microwave Radiometer, which examines Jupiter's atmosphere...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Falcon 9 rocket cuts its way through the clouds over Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Storm clouds roll across the sky above and beyond Space Shuttle Discovery on Launch Pad...
STS059-238-074 (9-20 April 1994) --- The Atlantic Ocean, Straits of Gibraltar, and Alboran Sea (the westernmost...
STS043-151-159 (2-11 August 1991) --- This photograph looks westward over the high plateau of the southern Peruvian...
STS057-73-075 (21 June-1 July 1993) --- Eastern Mediterranean from an unusually high vantage point over the Nile...
There are special places on Earth that sometimes write their personal signature in the clouds. The Crozet Islands...