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This frame from a movie made from radar images of asteroid 1999 JD6 was collected by NASA scientists on July 25,...
jsc2012e039800_alt (5 March 2012) --- This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera...
This collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 1999 JD6 was collected by NASA scientists on July 25, 2015. The...
During its 65th close flyby of Jupiter on Sept. 20, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this series of images as...
In late October, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will navigate to asteroid Bennu’s surface for its first sample collection...
This three-dimensional perspective of the remote Karakax Valley in the northern Tibetan Plateau of western China was...
Scientists using two giant, Earth-based radio telescopes bounced radar signals off passing asteroid 2011 UW158 to...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new...
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope....
A test version of Orion is recovered from the Pacific Ocean using a crane on board the Navy's USS Salvor during...
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescumen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery...
jsc2021e037285 (2/12/2021) --- A preflight view of the XROOTS hardware. The eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System...
The NASA and US Navy recovery crews practice lifting the Orion boilerplate test article out of the water using a...
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescumen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery...
Recovery team members work secure a test version of Orion in preparation for tests aboard the USS Salvor on Sept....
A test version of Orion floats into the well deck of the Navy's USS Anchorage during recovery tests off the coast of...
Recovery team members secure a test version of Orion in the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 12, 2014. A combined NASA and...
Recovery team members work to guide a test version of Orion into the USS Anchorage's well deck on Sept. 15, 2014....
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescumen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery...
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescumen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery...
Recovery team members work on a test version of Orion in the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 13, 2014. A combined NASA and...
Recovery team members lower a test version of Orion into the Pacific Ocean using a crane on board the Navy's USS...
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescumen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery...
Recovery team members use a crane to lift a test version of Orion off the deck of the Navy's USS Salvor on Sept. 13,...