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STS046-80-009 (31 July-8 Aug. 1992) --- A view of the mouth of the Amazon River and the Amazon Delta shows a large...
These two images show exactly the same area in South America, the Guiana Highlands straddling the borders of...
This is a three-dimensional view of Isabela, one of the Galapagos Islands located off the western coast of Ecuador,...
Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with its solar array (SA) wings and high gain antennae (HGA) fully extended,is...
Chilean Air Force Captain Saez and Dr. Tom Mace, DFRC Director of Airborne Sciences, discuss airborne science during...
L to R; NASA Dryden Mission Manager Walter Klein (in tan flight suit), JPL AirSAR Scientist Tim Miller, and Mission...
Pilot Bill Brockett (left) and Chilean Air Force Captain Saez with school children in the cockpit of NASA Dryden's...
Dr. Tom Mace, NASA DFRC Director of Airborne Sciences, talks with a student from Punta Arenas, Chile, during a tour...
NASA Dryden Mission Manager Walter Klein poses with school children that visited the DC-8 during AirSAR 2004 in...
NASA Dryden Mission Manager Walter Klein talks with school children from Punta Arenas, Chile, during a tour of the...
School children from Punta Arenas, Chile, talk with Dr. David Imel, an AirSAR scientist from NASA JPL, during AirSAR...
STS060-85-000AH (3-11 Feb 1994) --- This view is centered at about 44 degrees south along the Chilean continental...
A penguin near Punta Arena, Chile, photographed in its natural summer habitat during NASA's AirSAR 2004 campaign....
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft prior to launch from Carlos Ibanez International Airport in Punta Arenas, Chile, during AirSAR...
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft at Carlos Ibanez International Airport in Punta Arenas, Chile. A portion of AirSAR hardware is...
AS08-16-2588 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible in this view from Apollo 8...
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory takes off from Carlos Ibanez International Airport in Punta Arenas, Chile, during...
STS061-101-023 (8 Dec 1993) --- This color photograph is a spectacular, panoramic (southeastern view) shot that...
iss058e006004 (Jan. 26, 2019) --- This photograph of South America from bottom to top looks from the northeast coast...
The Eastern U.S., Europe, and Japan are brightly lit by their cities, while interiors of Africa, Asia, Australia,...
This microscopic image shows dozens of individual bacterial cells of the recently discovered species, Tersicoccus...
This image is from data taken by NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment showing the Amazon basin in South...
This near-infrared photograph of the Earth was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 6:07 a.m. PST on Dec. 11, 1990, at...
JPL scientist Dr. David Imel and U.S. Air Force Colonel Gwen Linde, the Defense Department Attache Officer assigned...