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ISS016-E-009201 (3 Nov. 2007) --- View of the repaired solar array photographed during the STS-120 mission's fourth...
Visitors enjoy an RS-25 engine test using the virtual reality goggles at the NASA Stennis booth during solar eclipse...
ISS016-E-008875 (3 Nov. 2007) --- View of the repaired solar array photographed during the STS-120 mission's fourth...
NASA mechanical test operations engineer Briou Bourgeois speaks with a visitor to the NASA Stennis booth during...
An eruption from the surface of the sun is conspicuous in the lower left portion of this July 6, 2015, image from...
iss036e016840 (7/9/2013) --- Close-up view of the COLUMBUS External Platform Facility (CEPF) and the Solar facility...
On Jan. 23-24, 2017, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory watched as a solar prominence rose up along the edge of the sun...
In this photograph, a skylab-4 astronaut performs Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA) outside of the lab. The third...
The difference in features that are visible in different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light can be stunning as...
View of antenna and solar arrays (with an Earth limb in the background) taken from a window in the Russian Soyuz...
Scene of an extended solar array experiment (SAE) panel during the OAST-1 experiment. View was shot from the orbiter...
SL3-122-2611 (22 Sept. 1973) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, participates in the final...
From a distance, the dry, ancient surfaces of the Moon, Venus, and Mars look nothing like the dynamic planet we live...
This chart details Skylab's Dual X-Ray Telescopes, one of eight Apollo Telescope Mount facilities. It was designed...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is loaded with propellants during processing activities inside the Astrotech Space...
This 1970 photograph shows Skylab's Dual X-Ray Telescopes, an Apollo Telescope Mount facility. It was designed to...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is loaded with propellants during processing activities inside the Astrotech Space...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is loaded with propellants during processing activities inside the Astrotech Space...
The Active Cavity Irradiance Monitor Satellite, or ACRIMSAT, mission is a climate change investigation that measures...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the Sun in ten different wavelengths because each wavelength reveals...
This is the crew insignia for STS-97 which delivered, assembled, and activated the U.S. electrical power system...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 5:40 p.m. EDT on Oct. 24, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM ET. ?This flare was...
S117-E-07246 (13 June 2007) --- Astronauts Steven Swanson and Patrick Forrester (at left, partially out of frame),...