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Bolts are torqued on a Compact Fiber Optic Sensing System unit, also known as a FOSS Rocket Box, which was developed...
This pair of images from space shows a portion of the southern Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the country...
jsc2020e039120 (5/29/2020) — An Enterprise Durable Optical Disc (Archival Disc). The Optical Disc Space Exposure...
iss067e000391 (3/31/2022) --- A Nona Cube containing Optical Imaging of Bubble Dynamics on Nanostructured Surfaces,...
NASA's unique mission Swift, developed to study gamma-ray bursts, is a study in successful international...
The Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) Portfolio implemented the Capability Challenge “Optical...
Initial assembly of NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer cryostat. The cryostat is a 2-stage solid hydrogen...
These views from NASA Terra spacecraft portray Houston and Galveston Bay on September 12, 2002, and display data...
NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has a complex set of mirrors, or optics, that will help it...
These five images of single stars, taken at different times with the narrow-angle camera on NASA Cassini spacecraft,...
The bulk of a galaxy called Messier 82 M82, or the Cigar galaxy, is seen in visible-light data captured by the...
This 3-D view was created from data acquired Feb. 4, 2013 by NASA Terra spacecraft showing a massive wildfire which...
NASA Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science OPALS operations team at Kennedy Space Center Space Launch Complex-40 on...
This spectrum shows the light from a dusty, distant galaxy located 11 billion light-years away. The galaxy is...
This is a composite image of N49, the brightest supernova remnant in optical light in the Large Magellanic Cloud;...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory compare infrared and visible views of...
This simulation, which begins and ends with a real image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, demonstrates how the...
This panorama image of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s solar panel and the lander’s Robotic Arm with a sample in the...
This image of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko was taken on March 21, 2014, by the narrow-angle camera of the Rosetta...
This image of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko was taken on March 20, 2014, by the wide-angle camera of the Rosetta...
This is an artist concept of NASA NuSTAR spacecraft which has a 10-meter mast that deploys after launch to separate...
Maffei 2 is the poster child for an infrared galaxy that is almost invisible to optical telescopes. But this...
NASA New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager LORRI observed Neptune on June 23, apl2010, as part of a test of...
This photo shows the Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science OPALS stowed in the SpaceX Dragon trunk on April 22,...