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At Astrotech Space Operations, technicians conduct white light inspection of the THEMIS probes. They will also...
What does our planet look like from space? Most are familiar with the beloved images of the blue marble or pale blue...
ISS039-E-11773 (14 April 2014) --- Photographed with a camera equipped with an 80mm lens from the International...
NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) will be loaded into a U.S. Air Force C-5M Super...
STS079-379-022 (16-26 Sept. 1996) --- If this moonlit picture is held with the Space Shuttle Atlantis' Orbital...
ISS030-E-061267 (25 Jan. 2012) --- Aurora Borealis steals the scene in this nighttime photograph shot from the...
ISS040-E-066028 (15 July 2014) --- One of the more spectacular scenes of the Aurora Australis was photographed by...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- The probe carrier assembly on the THEMIS spacecraft is prepared for a vibration...
An elongated coronal hole rotated across the face of the sun this past week so that it is now streaming solar wind...
iss071e130569 (May 26, 2024) --- An aurora and an atmospheric glow crown Earth's horizon in this photograph from the...
ISS036-E-033627 (18 Aug. 2013) --- One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station took...
ISS031-E-066037 (22 May 2012) --– Aurora Australis, accompanied by star streaks and air glow, is pictured in this...
ISS011-E-12415 (31 August 2005) --- Aurora Borealis and lights in Finland, Russia, Estonia and Latvia are featured...
A substantial coronal hole began to rotate into view over the past few days (Dec. 1-2, 2016). Coronal holes are...
iss065e455153 (Oct. 9, 2021) --- An aurora is pictured below the International Space Station as it was orbiting 274...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. -- An overhead crane lifts the probe carrier assembly on the THEMIS spacecraft to...
S62-02846 (24 May 1962) --- Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7)...
A dark coronal hole that was facing towards Earth for several days spewed streams of solar wind in our direction...
ISS031-E-066041 (22 May 2012) --- This picture, recorded by one of the Expedition 31 crew members aboard the...
A substantial coronal hole rotated into a position where it is facing Earth (Aug. 9-11, 2017). Coronal holes are...
ISS030-E-075182 (4 Feb. 2012) --- This nighttime view of Earth's horizon and scattered city lights was photographed...
S135-E-007745 (14 July 2011) --- One of the STS-135 Atlantis crewmembers took this photo of the Southern Lights or...
Two good-sized coronal holes have rotated around to the center of the sun where they will be spewing solar wind...
ISS030-E-055791 (29 Jan. 2012) --- This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the...