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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, Lunabotics Emcee Kimberly Land...
On the morning of Oct. 8, 2018, the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Radiometer got a snapshot of Hurricane...
On Oct. 9, 2018 at about 4:30pm EDT, the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Radiometer got one more snap shot...
This pair of images shows a bite mark where NASA Curiosity rover scooped up some Martian soil left, and the scoop...
This drawing shows a side view of NASA Phoenix Mars Lander scoop with various tools for acquiring soil, icy soil and...
The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
The radiometer instrument on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft captured this image of Hurricane...
This graphic maps locations of the sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected its first 18 rock or soil...
This graphic maps locations of the first 14 sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected rock or soil samples...
This pair of images shows ocean surface wind speeds for Hurricane Irma as observed at 5:26 a.m. EDT on Sept. 4, 2017...
AS17-137-20992 (12 Dec. 1972) --- A view looking into Shorty Crater, taken at Station 4, showing the orange soil....
S73-15171 (4 Jan. 1973) --- These orange glass spheres and fragments are the finest particles ever brought back from...
This is a close-up view of the zones where the soil at Curiosity landing site was blown away by the thrusters on the...
In June 2015, news organizations around the world reported on a deadly heat wave in India that killed more than...
The rapid intensification of Hurricane Harvey is seen in this pair of images of ocean surface wind speeds as...
A unique drill is being tested by NASA. The futuristic drill is in development at Johnson Space Center and is...
AS12-47-6932 (19 Nov. 1969) --- Close-up view of a set of tongs, an Apollo Lunar Hand Tool, being used by astronaut...
AS12-49-7286 (20 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, drives a core sample tube into the lunar...
nal Caption Released with Image: This graphic maps locations of the sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover...
Data from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite have been used to create new surface flooding maps of...
Human-generated greenhouse gases and atmospheric particles were affecting global drought risk as far back as the...
AS11-37-5551 (20 July 1969) --- Two components of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) are seen...
The Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probe on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander detected small and variable amounts of...
This image shows the cells that hold the soil samples that are vibrated by the Chemistry and Mineralogy CheMin...