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This temperature map shows the land surface temperatures around Death Valley in California's Mojave Desert on Aug....
Wildfires are a recurring natural hazard faced by Californians. In Santa Barbara County, a wildfire, called the...
This image shows that the Mars Pathfinder airbags have been successfully retracted, allowing safe deployment of the...
AS14-66-9233 (5 Feb. 1971) --- Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 14 lunar landing...
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with two microphones that, if all goes as planned, will capture the...
Today's VIS image is located near the beginning of Kasei Valles. At the top of the image is the relative high land...
AS17-134-20435 (10 Dec. 1972) --- Wide-angle view of the Apollo 17 Taurus-Littrow lunar landing site. To the left in...
AS17-147-22523 (11 Dec. 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan is seen test driving the "stripped down" Lunar Rover...
AS17-147-22526 (11 Dec. 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving...
Engineers test the mechanical landing system for the proposed Europa Lander project at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
These artist’s concepts show SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) on the Moon. NASA is working with SpaceX...
These artist’s concepts show SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) on the Moon. NASA is working with SpaceX...
This artist concept shows the sky crane maneuver during the descent of NASA Curiosity rover to the Martian surface....
After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18,...
This first image of NASA's Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars from the High Resolution Imaging Experiment...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory – from left, Matthew Cameron-Hooper, and Thomas Reynoso – prepare...
The red dot marks the final landing location of NASA's InSight lander in this annotated image of the surface of...
jsc2004e20304 - Panorama view of Apollo 17 lunar surface photos for Station 5 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site...
Apollo Crew landing site showing deployment of ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface expeiments package)
While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars, NASA's InSight lander was commanded to...
While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars, NASA's InSight lander was commanded to...
While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars, NASA's InSight lander was commanded to...
While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars, NASA's InSight lander was commanded to...
While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars, NASA's InSight lander was commanded to...