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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After dawn, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is lifted up the mobile...
Crew chief Darin Whittington and mechanic Edwin Flores watch as mechanic Francisco Rodriguez works on a mounting...
Mechanic Francisco Rodriguez and crew chief Darin Whittington installed the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging...
This image shows Hurricane Frances in August 2004 as captured by instruments onboard two different NASA satellites:...
A scaffolding structure built around NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer allows engineers to freeze its...
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and...
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and...
The Culann Patera volcano on Jupiter moon Io was observed by the near-infrared mapping spectrometer instrument...
On the night of March 25, 2008, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instrument on...
On June 8, 2011, the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer aboard NASA Dawn spacecraft captured the instrument...
Satellite images obtained from NASA Atmospheric Infrared Sounder AIRS instrument aboard NASA Aqua spacecraft provide...
Mike Ressler right and Kalyani Sukhatme of NASA JPL pose in the clean room with a model component, called a focal...
This mosaic of Saturn rings was acquired by NASA Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument on...
The science instrument on NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is shown here with its aperture cover removed,...
This image shows the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument just before it was attached to NASA Cassini...
This infrared image of Hurricane Irene from the AIRS instrument on NASA Aqua spacecraft, was taken at 2:47 a.m. EDT...
NASA Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument is able to peel back cloud cover to reveal 3-D structure of a storm...
Created with data acquired by JPL Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument during July 2009 this image shows...
Carbon monoxide in the smoke from the Station fire was lofted high into the atmosphere, where it was observed by JPL...
The Mid-Infrared Instrument, a component of NASA James Webb Space Telescope, underwent alignment testing at the...
Infrared images from instruments at Kitt Peak National Observatory left and NASA Spitzer Space Telescope document...
These four images of the Mediterranean were obtained concurrently on June 14, 2002 from the three instruments that...
Callisto southern hemisphere was imaged by both the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer NIMS and the Solid State...
The Mid-Infrared Instrument, a component of NASA James Webb Space Telescope, underwent testing inside the thermal...