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Earth observations taken during the STS-75 mission from the space shuttle Columbia.
The striking views provided by the Bahama Islands lend insights into the important problems of limestone (CaCO3)...
This close-up view of the intensively cultivated Nile River flood plain near Cairo presents a sharp color contrast...
The Exmouth Gulf, western Australia, is bounded on the west by the Cape Ranges; near the base of the peninsula the...
The northwest-southeast trending, snow-covered, linear mountain range is the King Ata Tag Mountain, located in...
Inside the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, technicians secure the...
Inside the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, technicians monitor the...
Technicians lower the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V boattail onto the rocket’s Centaur upper stage inside the...
This illustration depicts the Mars Earth Entry System for the Mars Sample Return campaign. The system would contain...
This close up view of one of the two scientific airlocks on the Skylab Orbital Workshop Section was taken from the...
SL2-4-265 (25 May 1973) --- Skylab 2, approach to Skylab at long range, fly-around inspection. Orbital Workshop with...
STS058-76-041 (18 Oct-1 Nov 1993) --- Backdropped against the Peru-Bolivia border and part of the Amazon basin, the...
On Oct. 14, 2023, a “ring of fire,” or annular, solar eclipse will travel from the Oregon coast to the Gulf of...
STS059-S-084 (17 April 1994) --- This is a three-dimensional perspective of Mammoth Mountain, California. This view...
STS-36 Earth observation shows sun beaming off ocean waters with heavy cloud cover.
STS-32 crew took this view of the moon setting over the Earth's limb. Near the center is a semi-vortex in the clouds...
STS058-77-083 (18 Oct-1 Nov 1993) --- In this scene of the south coast of Africa, Cape Agulhas, the southernmost...
STS067-709-007 (2-18 March 1995) --- This shot, taken just after sunset, shows several distinct layers of gases in...
STS009-11-675 (December 1983) --- The Space Shuttle Columbia passes into a brilliant sunrise scene during the...
STS053-105-002 (2-9 Dec. 1992) --- A crew member onboard the space shuttle Discovery used a 70mm camera to capture...
STS031-71-095 (25 April 1990) --- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is suspended above Discovery's cargo bay some 332...
Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with its solar array (SA) wings and high gain antennae (HGA) fully extended,is...
Several times a day for a few days the Earth completely blocked the Sun for about an hour due to NASA's Solar...
This illustration shows the front of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its...