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This mosaic shows various scenes captured from a location called "Housedon Hill" by the ChemCam instrument aboard...
Composite of Marshall Space Flight Center's Low-Gravity Free Fall Facilities.These facilities include a 100-meter...
Each year, the NESC produces the NESC Technical Update, which highlights two or three individuals from each Center...
This enhanced color composite image, made with data from the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the...
jsc2022e042479 (2/3/2022) --- This image shows three modules of flight hardware for the Biopolymer Research for...
The name of the instrument is X-Ray Photoelecton Spectrometer (acronymed XPS); the lab is in the Materials...
Edgar Reyes, a materials engineer and recent graduate of The University of Texas at El Paso, visually inspects a...
The terrain in this observation from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks like an ancient uplifted crustal block....
An oblique, color image of central Valles Marineris, Mars showing relief of Ophir and Candor Chasmata; view toward...
This image shows a large sand dune with bright patches. Martian dunes near the poles often have bright patches in...
This is an MDIS mosaic of the mighty Caloris basin, Mercury's youngest large impact basin. Caloris has been filled...
U.S. Patent plaques were awarded to, second from left, Luke Roberson, Trent Smith, Martha Williams and James...
Thomas Lipscomb, a materials engineer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prepares a vacuum chamber for...
This close-up composite of images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s shows the crust of Jupiter's...
The Pathfinder research aircraft's wing structure was clearly defined as it soared under a clear blue sky during a...
An oblique, color image of central Valles Marineris, Mars showing relief of Ophir and Candor Chasmata; view toward...
This 280-kilometer diameter crater center has experienced a long history of water activity. Within the crater is a...
These images of the San Francisco Bay region were acquired on March 3, 2000 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal...
This artist's concept depicts a magnetar – a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field – losing material...
This image covers the high plains about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Coprates Chasma, near the eastern end of...
This mosaic of Caloris basin is an enhanced-color composite overlain on a monochrome mosaic featured in a previous...
Researcher Susan Johnson and a mechanic examine a flat-plate solar collector in the Solar Simulator Cell in the High...
The highly incised Martian gullies seen in the top image resemble gullies on Earth that are carved by liquid water....
This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array...