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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Snowy egrets join in a feeding frenzy in a marshy area of the Merritt Island National...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Andrew Shepard, expedition leader, National Undersea Research Center, University of...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A pair of brown pelicans rest on a wall near the turn basin at NASA's Kennedy Space...

Robotic Mining Competition Awards Ceremony

Inside the Apollo-Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, team members from the...

Apollo 9 Mission image - S0-65 Multispectral Photography - South Carolina

AS09-26A-3793A (12 March 1969) --- Color infrared photograph of the Atlantic Coast of South Carolina,...

Robotic Mining Competition - Activities

Team members and their faculty advisor, far left, from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte pause with...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Two male blue-winged teals are joined by a female in the waters of the Merritt Island...

2017 Total Solar Eclipse - ISS Transit

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Brown pelicans gather on the wharf of the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at NASA's Kennedy...

Earth Observations taken by the Expedition Seven crew

ISS007-E-07842 (22 June 2003) --- This image, photographed by an Expedition 7 crewmember onboard the International...

2017 Total Solar Eclipse - ISS Transit

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly...

Watching the Friendly Skies - Eclipse Safety Tutorial

Get ready to view the solar eclipse with these helpful safety tips. No one should ever look directly at the sun,...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center, a snowy egret in breeding plumage stalks the ground. This...

Biotechnology

NASA is looking to biological techniques that are millions of years old to help it develop new materials and...

2017 Total Solar Eclipse - ISS Transit

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A pair of blue-winged teals glide through the waters of the Merritt Island National...

2017 Total Solar Eclipse - ISS Transit

This composite image, made from seven frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, as...

Meet NASA Astronaut Zena Cardman, Crew-11 Commander

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman is the commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. This is her first spaceflight. Upon...

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Christina Koch speaks with media from her home state of North Carolina.

Hurricane Arthur off the Carolinas

Captured on Friday, July 3, 2014 at 12:20 PM EDT. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Arthur is centered...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The greenish iridescence of a male Anhinga nearly blends into the green vegetation...

Current Boundries and Sun Glint, Cape Hatteras, NC, USA

STS039-83-091 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- (HOLD PHOTO WITH BARRIER ISLANDS ALONG THE LEFT SIDE). This photograph of...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The greenish iridescence of a male Anhinga nearly blends into the green vegetation...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Nature thrives with technology as seen in this photo of the Vehicle Assembly Building (background) and surrounding grounds and water. In the foreground is an Anhinga perched on waterside plants. A common inhabitant of Kennedy Space Center, it prefers freshwater ponds and swamps with thick vegetation, especially cypress. Anhinga can be found in the U.S. on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from North Carolina to Texas. They are known as the “Snakebird” because when swimming they submerge their bodies, leaving only their heads and long necks visible. They are often seen on the ground and in the trees with their wings open to dry them in the sun. Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, home to some of the nation’s rarest and most unusual species of wildlife. The marshes and open water of the refuge also provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and other species of marsh and shore birds.