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Pawan also has another question. Could you explain more about the experimental navigation camera and how it is...
NICER Optics Lead Takashi Okajima installs one of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators,” each consisting of 24 concentric...
NASA image release April 6, 2011 Images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-ray telescopes...
On July 10, 2011, Don Perovich, of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, maneuvered through melt ponds...
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in...
Astronauts Charles Conrad (left) and John W. Young (right) at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From...
A major component of NASA's Psyche spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and...
Range : 4 billion miles from Earth, at 32 degrees to the ecliptic. P-36057C This color image of the Sun, Earth, and...
Two beams flash across a starry sky toward the Moon at Optical Site. Goddard's Laser Ranging Facility directs a...
The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) will fly on the next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission...
ISS027-E-009771 (2 April 2011) --- Bassas da India is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 27 crew...
Pictured is the chosen artist's rendering of NASA's next generation space telescope, a successor to the Hubble Space...
These L-band images of the Manaus region of Brazil were acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C and X-band...
Dressed in a cleanroom suit to prevent contamination, Optics Technician Jeff Gum aligns a replacement Focal Plane...
NASA image captured October 7, 2010 View a video of this event here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5099028189 This was...
The InciWeb Incident Information System is following 18 fires in Alaska that are contributing, along with 49...
The IML-1 mission was the first in a series of Shuttle flights dedicated to fundamental materials and life sciences...
This is an X-band image showing seasonal changes at the hydrological test site of Bebedouro in Brazil. The image is...
Astronaut James Lovell at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight...
STS099-355-024 (11-22 February 2000) -- Two separate atmospheric optical phenomena appear in this 35mm photograph...
Many of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators” seen from within the instrument optical bench. Light reflected from the...
The narrow angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft took a series of exposures of Saturn and its rings and...
The bright landing platform left behind by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in 2004 is visible inside Eagle...