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On July 19, 2011, Zachary Brown of Stanford University sipped freshwater from a melt pond on sea ice in the Arctic...
Visualization Date 2000-05-10 A possible coccolithophore bloom is seen to the southwest of Ireland in this SeaWiFS...
Maryland's Sen. Barbara Mikulski greeted employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,...
A long arch of plasma (called a prominence) was pulled this way and that by magnetic forces for a week before it...
A Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket is launched at 7:07 p.m., Wednesday October 7, 2015. (NASA Photo/A....
On May 9, 2016, Mercury passed directly between the sun and Earth. This event – which happens about 13 times each...
Calving front of the Perito Moreno Glacier (Argentina). Contrary to the majority of the glaciers from the southern...
MMS Four Separate – View of all four spacecraft in the MMS Cleanroom getting prepared for stacking operations. Learn...
On June 5, 2012, Hinode captured this stunning view of the transit of Venus -- the last instance of this rare...
IceBridge personnel boarding NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory on the morning of Oct. 22, 2012, before a mission to...
Maryland's Sen. Barbara Mikulski greeted employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,...
Cartoonist and professor of creativity Lynda Barry presented the benefits of creativity in everyday life as part of...
The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period (Feb. 24,...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) zoomed in almost to its maximum level to watch tight, bright loops and much...
This image of tropical storm Andrea was assembled from data collected by NOAA's GOES-14 satellite at 8:31 a.m. EDT...
This nearly cloud-free image of Iceland was captured by the MODIS instrument on board the Terra spacecraft on...
On Feb. 21, 2016 at 14:00 UTC, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua...
Webb Mirror Tilt Panorama, May 4, 2016 This image is a composite of nine wide-angle photos of the biggest clean room...
The first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic...
To investigate the rocks and trails, the interns collect many kinds of data, such as trail length, width, and depth;...
Tropical Cyclone Debbie made landfall in Queensland bringing heavy rainfall, hurricane-force winds, rough seas, and...
NASA image captured April 2, 2011 Twice a year, SDO enters an eclipse season where the spacecraft slips behind Earth...
MMS Stacked – View of the fully stacked MMS prior to being bagged for vibration tests. Learn more about MMS at...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the moon crossing in front of its view of the sun on Jan....