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This image, created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL, shows the Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP mission,...
Over the course of just one day a tiny active region grew to became almost as large as its many-days-old neighbor...
iss056e097010 (7/17/2018) --- Photographic documentation of Active Tissue Equivalent Dosimeter during deployment...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
This graphic shows the general activities the team behind NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hopes to accomplish on a...
STS061-S-102 (5 Dec. 1993) --- Flight controllers Harry Black (left foreground) and Kevin McCluney (right...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) zoomed in to watch close-up the dynamics of this single active region on the...
Prelaunch Activities for Our Next Commercial Crew Flight Test, celebrating our home planet for Earth Day, and...
This animation shows a time lapse of sea surface salinity and soil moisture from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive...
This infographic explains a popular theory of active supermassive black holes, referred to as the unified model --...
iss063e077238 (Aug. 21, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy works inside the...
iss063e077237 (Aug. 21, 2020) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 63 Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin works...
S94-39774 (August 1994) --- Boeing's Kari Rueter checks the helmet of astronaut Mark C. Lee prior to the mission...
STS61-S-101 (8 Dec 1993) --- Astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh, spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), observes as two...
S84-27232 (& Feb 1984) --- Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, uses his hands to control his...
S65-30428 (3 June 1965) --- Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot on the Gemini-Titan 4 spaceflight, is shown during...
The active volcano Prometheus on Jupiter moon Io was imaged by NASA Galileo spacecraft during the close flyby of Io...
IC 3639, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Hubble Space...
S125-E-008027 (16 May 2009) --- Astronauts John Grunsfeld (left) and Andrew Feustel, both STS-125 mission...
S93-46017 (13 October 1993) --- In the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Shuttle mockup and integration laboratory,...
S73-27562 (June 1973) --- Scientist-astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, Skylab 2 science pilot, performs extravehicular...
AS12-48-7149 (20 Nov. 1969) --- A close-up view of astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apollo 12 lunar...
S94-39762 (August 1994) --- Astronaut Carl J. Meade, STS-64 mission specialist, listens to ground monitors prior to...