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This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander kicking up dust as it lands on the Martian...
Image of Surveyor 1 shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper...
AS17-134-20384 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, is photographed...
AS15-84-11250 (31 July-2 Aug. 1971) --- A telephoto lens view of the prominent feature called Silver Spur in the...
AS11-40-5875 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing...
This artist's rendering illustrates a conceptual design for a potential future mission to land a robotic probe on...
Big Crater is actually a relatively small Martian crater to the southeast of NASA Mars Pathfinder landing site. 3D...
AS15-88-11894 (31 July-2 Aug. 1971) --- A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the moon at the...
AS16-113-18339 (21 April 1972) --- Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps...
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this image to aid in the search for the missing lander, Mars 2. If the...
This image is a mosaic of 24 orbits of the Navka region of Venus. The image is centered at about 10 degrees south...
This artist’s concept portrays SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) with two Raptor engines lit, performing...
On Feb. 18, 2021, the world watched live as NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team attempted the most daring part of its...
On its 256th orbit of Mars, the camera on-board NASA Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft successfully observed the...
This close-up view shows Curiosity heat shield, which helped the rover survive the harrowing journey through the...
Twin Peaks are modest-size hills to the southwest of NASA Mars Pathfinder landing site. They were discovered on the...
This artist concept depicts the interaction of NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the upper atmosphere of...
Oxia Planum is broad clay-bearing surface between Mawrth and Ares Vallis that has been proposed as a future landing...
This image from an animated flyover of the workspace of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s was taken by the Surface Stereo...
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter obtained this color image with the Mars Descent Imager aboard NASA Curiosity rover...
NASA Landsat 1 originally named the Earth Resources Technology Satellite, or ERTS was the first of what was to...
This frame from a sequence of nine images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander shows the...
Project LOLA. Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator...
This temperature map shows the land surface temperatures throughout Los Angeles County on Aug. 14, 2020. The...