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NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image from the rover rear...
This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 about 50 minutes after NASA Deep Impact probe smashed into its surface....
Silhouette view of Jonas Jonsson with the Alta-X Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) on the landing pad as the sun sets at...
iss071e506350 (July 31, 2024) --- The Aurora Australis silhouettes the Canadarm2 robotic arm in this photograph from...
S66-25771 (16 March 1966) --- Earth's limb with cloud layers in silhouette, sunrise over Guam, as seen from the...
iss071e490546 (July 31, 2024) --- The Aurora Australis silhouettes the Soyuz MS-25 crew ship in this photograph from...
ISS043E155854 (04/27/2015) --- A rising sun spreads across the Earth and through the green blooming aurora to...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette as it nearly completes transiting across the face of the Sun, Monday, Nov....
ISS032-E-024155 (30 Aug. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (center frame) and Japan Aerospace Exploration...
ISS039-E-018314 (3 May 2014) --- One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, lower left of image, as it transits across the face of the sun, Monday,...
ISS032-E-024154 (30 Aug. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (center frame) and Japan Aerospace Exploration...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, low center, as it transits across the face of the Sun Monday, Nov. 11,...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette as it transits across the face of the sun, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 in Salt...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette as it nearly completes transiting across the face of the Sun, Monday, Nov....
ISS039-E-018315 (3 May 2014) --- One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Tracking equipment and antennas show in silhouette as the sun rises over a United Launch...
JSC2001-E-06216 (8 March 2001) --- In Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC), the silhouette of astronaut Steven A....
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, lower center of image, as it transits across the face of the sun, Monday,...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, lower third of image, as it transits across the face of the sun Monday,...
iss072e709711 (March 2, 2025) --- The aurora borealis crowns Earth's horizon with the city lights of Canada dotting...
iss060e006636 (July 11, 2019) --- Earth's atmospheric glow is back-dropped by a starry Milky Way as the...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Tracking equipment and antennas show in silhouette as the sun rises over a United Launch...
S100-E-5498 (26 April 2001) --- Earth's limb--the edge of the planet seen at twilight--was captured with a digital...