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Light-toned layered deposits are found throughout central Valles Marineris. Most of the deposits tend to be towards...
This is a reconstructed view of Jupiter's northern lights through the filters of Juno's Ultraviolet Imaging...
A Martian rock in the Yellowknife Bay area of Mars Gale Crater is illuminated by white-light light emitting diodes...
Roman Space Telescope team members inspect the primary mirror in the dark using flashlights and UV lights to help...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a striking view of a multiple star system called XZ Tauri, its...
iss065e032043 (May 9, 2021) --- The night lights of North America, with the International Space Station's main solar...
iss072e034554 (Oct. 9, 2024) --- The city lights of Melbourne on Port Phillip in Australia's state of Victoria are...
Professor Paul Chaikin, Professor Stefano Sacanna, and Theodore Huckel from New York University discuss the Soft...
Professor Alessandro Grattoni talks about research being done using the Light Microscopy Module (LMM) onboard the...
This view of the North America nebula combines both visible and infrared light observations, taken by the Digitized...
During pre-flight testing in March 2011, the Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI camera on NASA Mars rover Curiosity took...
iss072e519264 (Jan. 21, 2025) --- The city lights of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the South American nation's capital...
This image was taken May 21 and 22, 2003 by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered by...
Mizuna Mustard mustard greens, part of the Veg-04A experiment, are shown growing in a Veggie plant growth chamber...
Mizuna Mustard mustard greens, part of the Veg-04A experiment, are shown growing in a Veggie plant growth chamber...
This data plot captured by NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shows X-ray light streaming from...
This image was taken May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered...
This image shows the first measurements taken by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) from...
This 1970 photograph shows the flight unit for Skylab's White Light Coronagraph, an Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM)...
NASA Glenn's new LED solar simulator was developed by Angstrom Designs and UC Santa Barbara under a Small Business...
The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the...
art002e012723 (April 6, 2026) – A close-up view of the Birkhoff crater on the Moon’s far side, captured by the...
An imaging spectrometer designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory captured its first data over Karachi, Pakistan,...
This observation captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small crater in within the much larger Pollack...