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Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic...
The airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI) instrument is moved across the hangar floor by robotic engineer...
NASA and The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory discuss the first space-based instrument to observe major air...
Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the Mass Spectrometer observing...
Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the Mass Spectrometer observing...
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) system electronics and diagnostic tools are integrated onto the DC-8...
This frame from a series of images shows NASA Phoenix Mars Lander telltale instrument waving in the Martian wind....
The Mid-Infrared Instrument, a component of NASA James Webb Space Telescope, underwent alignment testing at the...
The Mid-Infrared Instrument, a component of NASA James Webb Space Telescope, underwent testing inside the thermal...
Technicians install NASA's Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) instrument on NASA's Aura spacecraft prior to...
NASA'S ER-2 #806 lifts off from Edwards Air Force Base on a CALIPS/CloudSat validation instrument checkout flight.
This image provides an example of the type of data collected by the Chemistry and Camera ChemCam instrument on NASA...
Technicians from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., install thermal blankets on the Aquarius...
Pete Steigner, and Mike Golob (middle and right) assist an Chris Kolos in carefully moving a TIRS component across...
The instrument enclosure for NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor on May 22, 2025, is seen in a clean room at the...
Dryden-built surgical suture instrument
Dryden-built surgical suture instrument
Dryden-built surgical suture instrument
The HIWRAP is the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler, a "conically scanning" Doppler radar,...
The High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³), seen here, is one of two instruments that will be...
Instrumentation in 16 Foot Wind Tunnel manometer boards
Jose “Manny” Rodriguez adjusts the Soxnav instrument onboard the G-IV aircraft in December 2024. As part of the team...
The OTE (Optical Telescope Element) Simulator or OSIM wrapped in a silver blanket on a platform, being lowered down...
B-roll for media. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, also known as MOXIE, aims to produce...