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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians check out the solar arrays for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, at...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform black light inspection...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians wait for the rotation of NASA's...
This pair of images shows the same portion of Jupiter's moon Europa before and after it was processed. The original...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The lighted service structures on Launch Pad 39A cast Space Shuttle Endeavour in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech in Titusville, Fla., an overhead crane lifts NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inspection begins of the solar arrays for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, at the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians secure a work stand supporting NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, in...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the brilliant disk of Saturn, surrounded by the icy lanes of its rings. Faint...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians check out the solar arrays for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, at...
AS16-114-18439 (22 April 1972) --- Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, stands in the shadow of the...
Although solid-looking in many images, Saturn's rings are actually translucent. In this picture, we can glimpse the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform black light inspection...
This image shows the eastern portion of Hebes Chasma. The ridge that is casting a shadow at the bottom of the image...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The solar arrays for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, are inspected at the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft is moved into Astrotech in...
NASA acquired November 24, 2011 From its vantage 824 kilometers (512 miles) above Earth, the Visible Infrared Imager...
As NASA's Cassini soared above high northern latitudes on Saturn's moon Dione, the spacecraft looked down at a...
This is a digital elevation model that was geometrically coded directly onto an X-band seasonal change image of the...
Naked summits alternate with forested lowlands in Yosemite Valley, part of California’s Yosemite National Park....
Clouds drift across the sky above a Martian horizon in this accelerated sequence of enhanced images from NASA's...
ISS015-E-07928 (13 May 2007) --- Isla San Lorenzo and Isla Las Animas are featured in this image photographed by an...
This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on...
NASA image acquired September 27, 2012 On September 27, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)...