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This series of pie charts shows similarities and differences in the mineral compositions of mudstones at 10 sites...
ISS047e021586 03/26/2016) --- Cygnus capture March 26, 2016. Expedition 47 robotic arm operator NASA astronaut Tim...
ISS046e016803 (01/21/2016) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this aurora image over Canada on Jan. 21, 2016...
ISS046e015599 (01/20/2016) --- A brilliant and vivid Aurora Borealis illuminates the Earth’s northern hemisphere on...
iss049e042415 (Oct. 23, 2016) --- The Cygnus resupply ship from Orbital ATK is in its capture position as the...
Orion's 2016 water drop test series included heavily instrumented test dummies, shown here on May 6, 2016, to assess...
iss046e050011 (02/27/2016) --- The sun rises slowly on Feb 27, 2016 as the International Space Station continues its...
Orion's 2016 water drop test series included heavily instrumented test dummies, shown here on May 6, 2016, to assess...
iss047e155876 (March 26, 2016) --- Orbital ATK's Cygnus resupply ship slowly maneuvers its way toward the...
Damage Proxy Map (DPM) v0.5, derived from the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight synthetic aperture radar...
The border between Belize and Guatemala illustrates striking differences in land use practices. In a study of...
This artist's concept shows OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, a planet discovered through a technique called microlensing. The...
ISS049e027557 (10/01/2016) --- Expedition 49 crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA (left), Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos...
ISS047e056031 (04/12/2016) --- NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, Commander of Expedition 47, floats inside the Russian...
The low angle of sunlight creates stark shadows in this Cerean scene. The image is centered at approximately 74...
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft features Liber Crater (14 miles, 23 kilometers wide) in Ceres' northern...
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Rongo Crater, located near Ceres' equator. The image is centered at 0...
Oxo Crater and its surroundings are featured in this image of Ceres' surface from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took...
2016 was a big year for NASA’s field campaigns studying our changing planet, and 2017 will be just as exciting. New...
This oblique view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Rao Crater (7 miles, 12 kilometers) at center left. Dawn took...
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an area of Ceres that includes a small, bright crater. The image is...
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Tibong Crater (22 miles, 36 kilometers wide), at left, on Ceres. The...
ISS046e035715 (02/08/2016) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly acquired this image of Santa Clara, California on Feb. 8,...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft being lifted into the thermal vacuum chamber at Lockheed Martin for environmental testing....