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Spotlight on Mimas
Spotlight on El
This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), a highly...
This delicate blue group of stars — actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 — sits some 30 million light-years...
An experimental radio-controlled model aircraft is seen here in flight, powered only by light energy beamed to it by...
An experimental radio-controlled model aircraft is seen here in flight powered only by light energy beamed to it by...
An experimental radio-controlled model aircraft is seen here in flight powered only by light energy beamed to it by...
Dryden Model Shop's Tony Frakowiak remotely flies an experimental model aircraft being powered by a spotlight...
An experimental radio-controlled model aircraft casts two unique shadows as it flies inside a Dryden hangar using...
Dryden Model Shop's Tony Frakowiak remotely flies an experimental model aircraft being powered by a spotlight...
Dressed in a clean room suit, NASA photographer Desiree Stover shines a light on the Space Environment Simulator's...
Mike Lester, Technology Transfer Partnership manager with Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Research and Technology...
The smaller moon Mimas upstages the larger moon Dione as the dramatic Herschel Crater is spotlighted on Mimas in...
NASA Cassini spacecraft spies the large Penelope crater on Saturn moon Tethys.
This image composite outlines the region near Orion sword that was surveyed by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope white...
S64-13534 (1964) --- View of a Gemini-Titan spacecraft on launch pad at night. The launch pad lights are all on and...
A pair of small moons join Saturn second largest moon in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image spotlighting Rhea in...
View of the early morning launch of STS 41-G Challenger. The dark launch complex is illuminated by spotlights as the...
View of the shuttle Discovery on the launch pad just prior to STS 51-D launch. The surrounding area is dark, with...
These student scientists have built an instrument called REXIS, which will fly on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that...
Celebrating contributions by women to space exploration, a spotlight on the leading role of women in our Artemis...
View of the early morning launch of STS 41-G Challenger. The dark launch complex is illuminated by spotlights as the...
STS055-39-036 (26 April-6 May 1993) --- Astronaut Terence T. (Tom) Henricks, pilot, uses a spotlight and pen to...
This month, we celebrate Women’s History Month by honoring the thousands of women both in the spotlight and behind...