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STS-45 Earth observation taken onboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, is of the Aurora Australis or Southern...
iss072e147765 (Nov. 9, 2024) --- The streaks of city lights, star trails, an aurora, and Earth's atmospheric glow...
STS059-58-018 (9-20 April 1994) --- Part of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and its Space Radar Laboratory (SRL-1)...
iss072e445581 (Dec. 28, 2024) --- The city lights of Tashkent, Uzbekistan's capital and most populous city with a...
iss072e398817 (Dec. 19, 2024) --- The city lights of Quito, Ecuador, the South American nation's capital and second...
iss074e0149572 (Jan. 18, 2026) --- City lights trace river valleys that originate in the Carpathian Mountains and...
iss073e0422445 (July 29, 2025) --- The city lights of Sub-Saharan Africa streak below the International Space...
STS-45 Earth observation taken onboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, is of the Aurora Australis or Southern...
This animation shows the events that serve as the basis of an astrophysics technique called "echo mapping," also...
This array of photographic equipment, displayed on the aft flight deck payload station, represents just a part of...
MSFC MECHANICAL ENGINEER BRIAN WEST, (L), DEMONSTRATES STRUCTURED LIGHT SCANNING PROCESS TO MEMBERS OF THE BREMEN,...
Understanding both the spatial and temporal distribution of hydrated (water-bearing) minerals on Mars is essential...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Tuesday, June 5,...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Tuesday, June 5,...
An engineer working on NASA's Mars 2020 mission uses a solar intensity probe to measure and compare the amount of...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Tuesday, June 5,...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Tuesday, June 5,...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Tuesday, June 5,...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Tuesday, June 5,...
In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Tuesday, June 5,...
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...
This photograph was taken during the final assembly phase of the Space Shuttle light weight external tanks (LWT) 5,...
STS-36 Earth observation shows New York City, New York at night lit up along the Eastern seaboard of the United...