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The rocket faring is lifted up the launch tower for mating with the Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS rocket after...
NASA's Terra spacecraft (right) is prepared for encapsulation in the rocket faring (left) before launch at...
NASA's Terra spacecraft (foreground) is ready for encapsulation in the rocket faring behind it. Terra is expected to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A mother osprey (left) sits protectively next to one of her chicks in the nest...
Every winter, a layer of carbon dioxide frost (dry ice) forms on the surface of Mars. At its greatest extent in...
NASA scientists have made the first observation of a polar cyclone on Uranus. Using radio antenna dishes of the Very...
The rocket faring (left) displays a logo of the many science instruments that make up NASA's Terra spacecraft...
This artist's rendering shows NASA's Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. Launched in 2011,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Near the NASA News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the osprey prepares to...
A story of changes at the South Pole of Mars is told by its icy deposits. Remnants of a formerly more extensive...
This sequence of enhanced-color images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA's Juno spacecraft as...
NASA’s PREFIRE mission aims to improve global climate change predictions by expanding our understanding of heat loss...
Nature is often more complex and wonderful than it first appears. For example, although it looks like a simple...
This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike...
About 50,000 Clementine images were processed to produce the four orthographic views of the Moon. The images show...
Cassini gazed toward high southern latitudes near Saturn's south pole to observe ghostly curtains of dancing light...
NASA Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun....
NASA Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun....
SL3-122-2611 (22 Sept. 1973) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, participates in the final...
NASA Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun....
This composite graphic illustrates the use of the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for...
Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, have created the largest high resolution...
NASA Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun....
The Martian north polar layered deposits are an ice sheet much like the Greenland ice sheet on the Earth in this...