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jsc2025e064334 (7/22/2025) --- This hands-on demonstration illustrated how different materials respond to different...
iss065e081296 (May 28, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur reviews procedures...
iss066e086431 (Dec. 4, 2021) --- NASA astronauts and Expedition 66 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Kayla Barron...
iss066e086417 (Dec. 4, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Kayla Barron inspects cables...
jsc2025e064335 (7/22/2025) --- This hands-on demonstration illustrated how different materials respond to different...
Astromaterials processor Mari Montoya shows a hand heart while working in the OSIRIS-REx canister glovebox at NASA’s...
S89-E-5328 (27 Jan 1998) --- This Electronic Still Camera (ESC) image shows astronaut James F. Reilly, mission...
This VIS image shows part of the floor of Tithonium Chasma. Eroded materials cover most of the image. The initial...
This diagram shows how materials analyzed by the ChemCam instrument on NASA Curiosity Mars rover during the first...
This Cassini spacecraft view shows how the bright and dark regions on Iapetus fit together like the seams of a...
Echus Chasma separates the Tharsis region from Lunae Planum. This image from NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey shows volcanic...
This image of asteroid Vesta from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows an old, very degraded crater that is almost completely...
This image shows another portion of Ravi Vallis. In this image taken by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, a small...
A runaway star, called CW Leo, plowing through the depths of space and piling up interstellar material before it,...
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded this forward view of its arm and surroundings; bright soil in the left...
This daytime infrared image of Rabe Crater illustrates the warming effect of the sun on sand. The extensive sand...
This illustration shows three possible scenarios for the evolution of asteroid belts. At the top, a Jupiter-size...
Rover engineers prepare a mixture of sandy and powdery materials to simulate some difficult Mars driving conditions...
In this image wind seems to be the dominant process, but lava flows are still recognizable from the surface texture....
Researchers are brewing up icy, organic concoctions in the lab to mimic materials at the edge of our solar system...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
iss058e001000 (Dec. 26, 2018) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 58 Flight Engineer Anne McClain works inside Japan's...
This image from NASA Herschel, in the constellation of Vulpecula, shows an entire assembly line of newborn stars....
This MOC image shows the termination end of a group of layers in the north polar region of Mars, where they have...