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Rain, snow, hail, ice, and every slushy mix in between make up the precipitation that touches everyone on our...
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was...
This enhanced-color view from within "Perseverance Valley," on the inner slope of the western rim of Endurance...
Sublimation (ice vaporizing without passing through a liquid stage) is an important process affecting water ice in...
The people who’ve been to Earth orbit for the rare opportunity to see our home planet from a whole different angle...
The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create...
This enhanced-color image shows a 45-meter-diameter crater that formed sometime between October 2010 and May 2012 in...
This image caught two different targets at once! In the top (northern) part there is a geologically-young crater...
This image shows six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging...
BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: Okay, thank you. Let's move on to the next question. This is from Sandy in St. Augustine: Can you...
While the sun is the main focus of a solar eclipse, our moon plays the most crucial role in creating this unique...
The difference in features that are visible in different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light can be stunning as...
This HiRISE image shows a classic example of platy-ridged lava. Scientists think that this is the same as a lava...
This composite shows views of Jupiter's northern polar cyclones in three different wavelengths of light – microwave,...
In the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, Chris Hardcastle, left, of...
In the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, Chris Hardcastle of Stinger-Ghaffarian...
A Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) team member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, prepares the...
Many of the Valles Marineris canyons, called chasmata, have kilometer-high, light-toned layered mounds made up of...
Less than a year after its launch on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), NASA’s onboard camera is taking...
In the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, Chris Hardcastle of Stinger-Ghaffarian...
HiRISE commonly takes images of recent craters on Mars, which are usually found by the MRO Context Camera where they...
This series of image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope on Jan. 25, 2020, shows part of the California Nebula,...
These views show surface features and color variation on the Trojan moon Telesto. The smooth surface of this moon...
In this image from NASA Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can see quite a spectacular layering pattern inside an...