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Two NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) buoys are seen on the stern of the Woods Hole Oceanographic...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers guide the Phoenix Mars Lander...
The Global Hawk Whole Air Sampler, or GWAS instrument compresses samples of high-altitude air in canisters to...
International maritime signal flags are seen on the bridge of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research...
The two side boosters of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 satellites as part of the Department of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., workers observe as the...
STS064-83-099 (9-20 Sept. 1994) --- Multiple thunderstorm cells leading to Earth's atmosphere were photographed on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Space Tracking and Surveillance System - Demonstrator, or STSS-Demo, spacecraft lifts off...
'It appears that the rocks at Meridiani were not just altered or modified by water, they were formed in water,...
NASA Physical Oceanography Program Scientist Eric Lindstrom boards the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Vertical Processing Facility, part of the equipment to be used on mission...
This image of the star-forming region Rho Ophiuchi was taken in 1983 by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS),...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Rotating Service Structure is rolled back from Space Shuttle Columbia in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- STS-109 Mission Specialist Michael Massimino practices on equipment that will be used...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers guide the heat shield onto the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – This closeup reveals the layers of metal left after demolition April 27 of the mobile service...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - STS-109 Mission Specialist James Newman arrives at KSC aboard a T-38 jet aircraft to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - STS-109 Shuttle Commander Scott Altman arrives at KSC aboard a T-38 jet aircraft to...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution workers load scientific instruments onboard the Institution's research vessel...
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel, center, uses frosting and graham crackers to represent the layers of Earths crust while...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At a post-launch news conference for the media about launch of the Space Tracking and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vertical Processing Facility, workers watch while an overhead crane lifts the...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers monitor the Phoenix spacecraft during a heat shield deployment...
NASA Physical Oceanography Program Scientist Eric Lindstrom inspects a sensor-laden buoy prior to it being loaded...