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STS070-705-094 (13-22 JULY 1995) --- The southern half (about 70 miles in this view) of the Tifernine dunes of...
During a field test in the Mojave Desert, the DuAxel robot separates into two single-axled robots so that one can...
STS058-95-028 (18 Oct-1Nov 1993) --- Lake Urmia (Orumiyeh) in the high desert plateau of northwest Iran dominates...
STS092-S-020 [EC00-0311-1] (24 October 2000)--- The main landing gear on the Space Shuttle Discovery is just about...
41C-31-1002 (6-13 April 1984) --- Though previous photographs of this area have been taken prior to 41-C, that...
S103-E-5320 (23 December 1999) --- Astronauts C. Michael Foale (left) and Claude Nicollier work on the Hubble Space...
ISS034-E-009926 (21 Dec. 2012) --- As the International Space Station and Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft were making their...
The DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in a left banking turn above the airport at Palmdale, California. The right wing is...
STS093-702-048 (23 July 1999)--- This 70mm frame shows the Chandra X-Ray observatory, backdropped against a desert...
Spaceward Bound Program in Atacama Desert; shown here is a realtime webcast from Yungay, Chile vis satellite...
Ancient riverbeds, crater lakes and flood channels all attest to Mars's warm, watery past. So how did the Red Planet...
STS084-727-053 (15-24 May 1997) --- This view of Lima, Peru is among a very few photographed by astronauts who have...
iss074e0349412 (March 3, 2026) --- The Andes mountain range running between Chile and Argentina creates distinct...
STS093-702-041 (23 July 1999)--- This 70mm frame shows the Chandra X-Ray observatory, backdropped against a desert...
STS-53 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is slowed by a red, white, and blue drag chute during its landing on...
STS077-732-093 (19-29 May 1996) --- This high oblique perspective from the Space Shuttle Endeavour shows the Dead...
NASA’s administrator joins astronauts and the Kennedy Space Center director to brief news media ahead of the launch...
ISS012-E-09639 (29 Nov. 2005) --- The impact of an asteroid or comet several hundred million years ago, according to...
STS092-S-022 [EC00-0311-3](24 OCTOBER 2000) --- The drag chute on the Space Shuttle Discovery is deployed as the...
Live launch coverage of Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) to the International Space Station for NASA’s...
The second free-flight test of an evolving series of X-38 prototypes took place July 10, 2001 when the X-38 was...
NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Mike Fincke and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson observe a moment of silence with...
STS079-808-008 (16-26 Sept. 1996) --- In this 70mm frame from the space shuttle Atlantis, the Nile River wanders...
This ASTER sub-image covers a 12 x 12 km area in northern Shanxi Province, China, and was acquired January 9, 2001....