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Asimov Crater

This image from NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Asimov Crater is unique in that the crater floor has been...

Near-Surface Haze or Fog on Pluto

In this small section of the larger crescent image of Pluto, taken by NASA's New Horizons just 15 minutes after the...

Concentric Rims

This image captured by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an unnamed crater near Acheron Fossae. The structure...

Urvara Peaks

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image that shows a mountain ridge, near lower left, that lies in the center of...

Crew of the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress procedures

S66-51581 (June 1966) --- Prime crew for the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress procedures with full...

Investigating Mars: Siton Undae

Siton Undae is a large dune field located in the northern plains near Escorial Crater. Siton Undae is west of the...

A ‘Fit Check’ for NEO Surveyor’s Sunshade

The bus structure for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor spacecraft is installed to the sunshade during a “fit...

Near vertical view of Phoenix, Arizona as seen from Apollo 9

AS09-22-3441 (March 1969) --- Near vertical view of the Phoenix, Arizona area as photographed from the Apollo 9...

Apollo 8 Mission image, Moon with Earth over horizon and T/O 28

AS08-13-2329 (Dec. 1968) --- The Earth rising is about five degrees above the lunar horizon in this black and white...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the high bay clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, workers prepare to attach an overhead crane to NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. The spacecraft will be moved to a work stand where employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the high bay clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, workers attach an overhead crane to NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. The spacecraft will be moved to a work stand where employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shipped in an air-conditioned transportation van from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the first Mercury orbiter, arrives at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be offloaded and taken into a high bay clean room. After the spacecraft is removed from its shipping container, employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

Farewell to NEOWISE: NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Telescope

NASA's NEOWISE mission ended on Aug. 8, 2024, after more than a decade of discovering and tracking near-Earth...

Photograph of moon after transearth insertion

AS10-27-3956 (24 May 1969) --- This photograph of the moon was taken after trans-Earth insertion when the Apollo 10...

View of lunar surface taken from Apollo 8 spacecraft

AS08-12-2148 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- View of the lunar surface as photographed from the Apollo 8 spacecraft....

Dark Chasm

The low angle of the sun over Tethys' massive canyon, Ithaca Chasma (near the terminator, at right), highlights the...

Dawn XMO2 Image 31

The low angle of illumination brings this pair of nested craters near Ceres' south pole into sharp relief. The...

High altitude oblique view of lunar surface taken from Apollo 8 spacecraft

AS08-12-2209 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- High altitude oblique view of the lunar surface, looking northeastward, as seen...

Dawn LAMO Image 13

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures the central complex of mountain peaks within Dantu Crater on Ceres. A...

Dawn Survey Orbit Image 50

This image of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, features several craters with bright material within and...

Venus - Complex Network of Narrow Fractures Near Hestia Rupes Region

This image from NASA Magellan spacecraft covers region near Hestia Rupes on the northwestern corner of Aphrodite...

Jovian Antarctica.

Cyclones swirl around the south pole, and white oval storms can be seen near the limb -- the apparent edge of the...

Flying over Charon

Images from NASA New Horizons spacecraft were used to create a flyover video (PIA19965) of Pluto largest moon,...

Dawn LAMO Image 153

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this view of shadowed craters near Ceres' north pole. Ceres has only a modest tilt...