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After arriving at the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in Logan, Utah, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
This spectral "fingerprint" of methane was produced from data taken during a September 2023 test at NASA's Jet...
This 2015 diagram shows components of the investigations payload for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission. Mars 2020 will...
Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) team members pose with the flight hardware after successful instrument integration to...
The Harvard Halogen Instrument (HAL) is prepared for integration on NASA's ER-2 by electrical engineer Marco Rivero...
51F-32-024 (29 July - 6 August 1985) --- Italy's “boot heel" surrounded by waters of the Ionian Sea/Golfo di...
The Cloud Physics Lidar, or CPL, is a remote sensing, laser-based instrument used to measure the cloud and aerosol...
The mineral map shows an area of southwestern Libya in the Sahara Desert observed by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral...
NASA MISR instrument onbard NASA Terra spacecraft captured a stereo view of Mountain Fire near Idyllwild, Calif. in...
This short, vertical time-lapse video of Roman shows the major integration steps of the key systems to form SCIPA,...
Lee Adelsbach and Bob Cook work on the instrumentation on the Bell X-1B.
B-roll and sound bites for media and public use. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern...
An engineer and technician at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center install...
ISS029-E-027435 (17 Oct. 2011) --- In the International Space Station?s Destiny laboratory, Japan Aerospace...
ISS029-E-027431 (17 Oct. 2011) --- In the International Space Station?s Destiny laboratory, Japan Aerospace...
Hardware for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft was developed at various institutions and facilities across the U.S....
This annotated map of depicts the areas on the surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede that were imaged by the Jovian...
Climate researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and several universities install and...
Climate researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and several universities install and...
This image of a rock target nicknamed "Thunderbolt Peak" was created by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using the...
The Diviner instrument following integration to NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Diviner is one of seven...
NASA image captured June 6, 2012. On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar...
The ER-2 ground crew Wissam Habbal, left, and Dr. Kevin Turpie, airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI)...
These observations of Jupiter equator in thermal heat emission were made by NASA Infrared Telescope Facility top...