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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the clean room high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy...
The engineering models of both the Curiosity Mars rover (foreground) and the Perseverance Mars rover share space in...
Goddard's Ritsko Wins 2011 SAVE Award The winner of the 2011 SAVE Award is Matthew Ritsko, a Goddard financial...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted this hollowed-out rock in Jezero Crater using its Mastcam-Z instrument on...
The long, steep slope known as an escarpment, or scarp, along the delta in Mars' Jezero Crater that the science team...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the 85-foot-tall, 25-foot-wide (26-meter-by-8-meter) vacuum chamber,...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the 85-foot-tall, 25-foot-wide (26-meter-by-8-meter) vacuum chamber,...
This image shows a core, about 2.8 inches (71.1 millimeters) in length, collected from a basaltic rock during a test...
Composed of 53 images, this mosaic looks west toward the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on July 8, 2023, the 847th...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the clean room high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the clean room high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy...
A truck arrives at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on June 3, 2024, to deliver the Medium...
At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, on June 7, 2024, clean room technicians use a crane to...
On Oct. 29, 2021, a heavy-duty vehicle transports the Perseverance rover's engineering model from a test lab to the...
The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests inside...
The instrument enclosure for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for environmental testing inside the...
Short for Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments Sent to Mars, OPTIMISM faces a...
Updated with new features, including additional mobility software and the bulk of the sample caching system, the...
In this annotated animated GIF, the bit carousel on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover can be seen rotating during a...
A model of a tiny, wedge-shaped robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons, right, sits beside a large...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes, enclosed in protective shipping containers, depart...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the clean room at KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians prepare...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A forklift operator moves NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probe B, enclosed in a protective...