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This video is an updated animation of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission. On...
STS089-703-056 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- This oblique picture of Argentina and other parts of South America was...
Kamchatka, Russia hosts some of the most active volcanoes on earth. Among those is Kliuchevskoi stratovolcano,...
ISS011-E--8490 (10 June 2005) --- This digital still photograph, taken on June 10 from the Earth-orbiting...
STS068-273-060 (4 October 1994) --- Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour recorded this follow-up 70mm frame...
STS068-214-035 (30 September 1994) --- One of the first photos taken by the crewmembers on launch day of the Space...
Ultraviolet observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2012 illustrate two key elements in the thin...
STS064-71-037 (9-20 Sept. 1994) --- Mt. Etna on Sicily displays a steam plume from its summit. Geologists attribute...
ISS038-E-005515 (16 Nov. 2013) --- Activity at Kliuchevskoi Volcano on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Federation...
ISS012-E-21250 (2 March 2006) --- Dust and smog in northeast China are featured in this image photographed by an...
This graphic illustrates how scientists on NASA's Cassini mission think water interacts with rock at the bottom of...
ISS033-E-019822 (9 Nov. 2012) --- An eruption plume from the Karymsky volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the...
Io's volcanic plains are shown in this Voyager 1 image mosaic which covers the area roughly from latitude 60 degrees...
On September 16, 2013 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite passed...
On Aug. 16, 2016, at around 10:30 a.m., a brush fire ignited in the Cajon Pass east of Los Angeles, just to the west...
Guatemala's Fuego volcano continued its frequent moderate eruptions in early February 2015. Pyroclastic flows from...
Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas, but the percentage of it produced through human activities is still...
A plume of methane – a potent greenhouse gas about 80 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than...
The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it launches from pad 39A on Friday, July 8, 2011, at NASA's...
Technicians are shown at NASA’s Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in Florida on Tuesday, Feb. 10,...
STS113-332-035 (14 December 2002) --- The STS-113 crewmembers used a 35mm still camera to record this image of Mt....
ISS015-E-22276 (13 Aug. 2007) --- Smoke plumes from wide-spread fires across Idaho, Utah and Montana are featured in...
Composite image of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) data (contour) with a cut-out images of the T-38’s during a...
A bright solar prominence rose up from the Sun and twisted around in about a six-hour period (Apr. 21, 2015). While...