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Dr. Thomas Wagner, NASA Program Scientist for the cryosphere, gives a presentation on observing the Earth's Poles in...
This frame from an animation shows the Cassini spacecraft approaching Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It shows the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Perched on a utility pole at Kennedy Space Center, this hawk-like bird is likely a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- This Red-Shouldered Hawk, perched on a utility pole at Kennedy Space Center, keeps an...
Astronaut Kenneth S. Reightler, pilot for the STS-60 mission, prepares to simulate egress from a troubled Space...
The sun has risen over the south pole in this springtime VIS image. At the center of the image is a trough that...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A team from Astrobotic Technology, Inc., demonstrates the Polaris rover at a robotics mining...
This map shows the presence of water vapor over global oceans. The imagery was produced by combining Special Sensor...
S90-38948 (9 March 1990) --- Astronaut Richard O. Covey, STS-38 commander, is seen in a close-up view during...
Earth observation taken during day pass by an Expedition 36 crew member on board the International Space Station...
S85-E-5104 (15 August 1997) --- CRISTA-SPAS-2 appears "next" to a colorful pole, which is actually the atmosphere...
An American bald eagle perches on top of a telephone pole at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy shares...
Gateway's HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module is one of four of Gateway's pressurized modules where...
The Intersex Progress Pride flag flies beneath the American flag on the center pole with the California state and...
The Intersex Progress Pride flag flies beneath the American flag on the center pole with the California state and...
Like a giant eye for the giant planet, Saturn great vortex at its north pole appears to stare back at Cassini as...
The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create...
The low angle of illumination brings this pair of nested craters near Ceres' south pole into sharp relief. The...
On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Forming fifty miles above the...
Workers (left) at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., get ready to prepare NASA's Terra spacecraft (right) for encapsulation in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A baby osprey sits on its nest situated at the top of a pole in the parking lot at the...
Workers at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., help prepare NASA's Terra spacecraft (right) for encapsulation in the rocket...
Somewhere down there sits the Mars Pathfinder lander and Sojourner rover. This Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter...
NASA's Terra spacecraft awaits installation of the instruments that will collect data for continuous, long-term...