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iss073e0081060 (May 15, 2025) --- This nebula-like formation is actually lightning illuminating the clouds during a...
This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter's northern hemisphere. NASA's Juno...
This image captures a high-altitude cloud formation surrounded by swirling patterns in the atmosphere of Jupiter's...
Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation...
This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial...
AS10-34-5010 (18 May 1969) --- This photograph of Earth was taken from the Apollo 10 spacecraft shortly after...
61A-200-003 (30 Oct 1985) --- A large format Linhof camera onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia provided this coastal...
After a successful spacecraft separation, CloudSat joins CALIPSO in orbital formation with three other Earth...
STS083-749-079 (4-8 April 1997) --- Cloud wake covers the Leeward Islands. Like a ship making a wake in the water,...
This image from NASA Galileo spacecraft is of Jupiter moon Io and its surrounding sky is shown in false color.
NASA's CALIPSO and CloudSat satellites will be launched in tandem aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force...
ISS030-E-193144 (25 March 2012) --- Wave clouds near Ile aux Cochons are featured in this image photographed by an...
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians prepare to move NASA's CloudSat spacecraft for mating to a Delta payload...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The CloudSat spacecraft arrives via truck at the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. - One of four Solid Rocket Boosters for the CALIPSO_CloudSat launch is ready for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians position NASA's CloudSat spacecraft onto a Delta payload attach fitting in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The shipping container is lifted away from the CloudSat spacecraft at the Astrotech...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians secure NASA's CloudSat spacecraft to a Delta payload attach fitting in a...