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At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer awaits a Pegasus XL rocket to be mated...
The Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft has arrived at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39B, the crawler-transporter moves Space Shuttle Atlantis away from the...
The Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft has arrived at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance, or ULA, Atlas V...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After sunset, Space Shuttle Atlantis is bathed in light from the fixed service...
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Skid Strip the Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft is being prepared to...
Technicians with Orbital ATK continue to install micro satellites on the deployment module for NASA’s Cyclone Global...
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover landed on the Red Planet Thursday, nearly seven months after its liftoff from the...
NASA's ISS-RapidScat passed over Hurricane Patricia at about 3:00 AM GMT on Oct. 23, 2015. A Hurricane Warning was...
41G-39-044 (5-13 Oct 1984) --- "Flatirons", cumulonimbus clouds that have flattened out at a high altitude, the...
Absorption of solar energy heats up our planet's surface and atmosphere making life for us possible. But the energy...
ISS028-E-045516 (9 Sept. 2011) --- Hurricane Katia off the northeastern USA coastline is featured in this image...
ISS018-E-018129 (6 Jan. 2009) --- Atafu Atoll in the Southern Pacific Ocean is featured in this image photographed...
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and...
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the...
Chantal's satellite presentation has deteriorated markedly this morning and is barely classifiable by the Dvorak...
Born in the Atlantic, Hurricane Frances became a category 4 hurricane on August 31, 2004, as seen by the Atmospheric...
ISS016-E-027426 (5 Feb. 2008) --- Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa is featured in this image photographed by an...
Could the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season break the 10-year “hurricane drought” record? It has...
NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) captured Hurricane Hilary on the morning of Aug. 18, 2023, when it was a...
In the Amazon Rainforest, few animals are as dangerous to humans as mosquitos that transmit malaria. The tropical...
NASA’s PREFIRE mission aims to improve global climate change predictions by expanding our understanding of heat loss...
A joint U.S.-India satellite mission called NISAR – the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission – will...