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STS091-713-061 (2-12 June 1998) --- The vertical stabilizer of the Space Shuttle Discovery runs through this...
ElNi?o is experiencing a late-fall resurgence. Sea-level height data from the NASA/European Ocean Surface Topography...
STS085-743-000D (7 - 19 August 1997) --- Cape Cod almost looks like an elf's slipper with this orientation in the...
The pattern on the right half of this image of the Bay of Bengal is the result of two opposing wave trains...
An artist's rendition of Mars, highlighting one of InSight's goals -- to figure out just how tectonically active...
ISS036-E-011843 (24 June 2013) --- Gravity waves and sunglint on Lake Superior are featured in this image...
STS058-73-009 (18 Oct-1 Nov 1993) --- Atlantic water flowing with the tide through the Strait of Gibraltar into the...
ISS034-E-032377 (18 Jan. 2013) --- Internal waves off Northern Trinidad are featured in this image photographed by...
SL4-137-3655 (16 Dec. 1973) --- An island wake produced by the Antipodes Islands in the ocean current south of New...
The U.S.-French SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the leading edge of a tsunami wave that...
41G-34-098 (5-13 Oct 1984) --- Strait of Gibraltar and western Mediterranean photographed sunglint. Sun reflection...
STS040-614-047 (5-14 June 1991) --- This image is of the Norfolk, Virginia -- Southern Delmarva Peninsula Southern...
In this image, obtained by NASA Dawn spacecraft from above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta, topography in...
This radargram shows data collected by the Shallow Radar, or SHARAD, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on...
iss051e034021 (May 2, 2017) --- Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, of the European Space Agency (ESA), participates in the...
NASA’s InSight lander detected seismic waves from a meteoroid and was able to capture the sound of the space rock...
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created a series of maps showing land-surface temperatures in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- During a visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Chief Technologist David...
ISS013-E-16599 (9 May 2006) --- Wave sets and tidal currents in the Gulf of California are featured in this image...
Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet...
NASA's InSight lander placed its seismometer onto Mars on Dec. 19, 2018. This was the first time a seismometer had...
This full resolution mosaiced image covers an area of approximately 100 kilometers by 120 kilometers (62 by 74...
W. Brian Dunlap of Youngstown, Ohio, proposed Skylab student experiment ED-78, Liquid Motion in Zero-G, a study of...
This Topex/Poseidon image of sea-surface heights was taken during a 10-day collection cycle ending August 7, 2002....