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JSC2000-E-22288 (8 September2000) --- In Houston's Mission Control Center, flight directors LeRoy Cain, from left...
This radar image shows the area west of the Nile River near Cairo, Egypt. The Nile River is the dark band along the...
Juno's Radiation Monitoring Investigation used the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) star camera to collect this...
Many odd looking moon photos have been captured over the years by astronauts aboard the International Space Station....
Today's VIS image shows a small section of Nirgal Valles (left side of image) just where it flows into the larger...
AS08-13-2344 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- This oblique photograph looks generally northwest from the Apollo 8 spacecraft...
S126-E-013885 (27 Nov. 2008) --- Astronaut Donald Pettit, STS-126 mission specialist, looks at the home planet from...
In the Vehicle Assembly Building, the orbiter Discovery (viewed from behind the Space Shuttle Main Engines, port...
Snow covers the Kaibab Plateau on the northern side of the Colorado River in this November, 1994 view of the Grand...
ISS007-E-05379 (11 May 2003) --- The moon seems to be floating inside Earth’s atmosphere as it was...
STS062-106-094 (4-18 March 1994) --- The Greater Houston metropolitan area, completely clear of clouds, was captured...
This aerial photo captures many of the facilities involved in Space Shuttle launches. At center is the Vehicle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers get ready to install the giant-sized sprocket (left side) and gear (right side)...
This aerial photo captures many of the facilities involved in Space Shuttle launches. At center is the Vehicle...
Tethys, dwarfed by the scale of Saturn and its rings, appears as an elegant crescent in this image taken by NASA's...
On the Fixed Service Structure on Launch Pad 39B, the STS-102 crew are instructed on the use of slidewire baskets...
This pair of approximately true color images of Pluto and its big moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons...
This VIS image is located in Kaiser Crater and shows several regions of sand dunes located on the southern part of...
This VIS image is located in Kaiser Crater and shows many individual dunes. This sand dune field is one of several...
Mt. Vesuvius, one of the best known volcanoes in the world primarily for the eruption that buried the Roman city of...
ISS041-E-009477 (13 Sept. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
Here is a closeup of some of the X-59’s wiring and instrumentation system. Displayed here is the remote...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its left Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this 180-degree view of Gediz Vallis...
Galileo spacecraft image of the Moon recorded at 9:35 am Pacific Standard Time (PST), 12-09-90, after completing its...