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iss072e519924 (Jan. 23, 2025) --- The city lights of Doha, Qatar, the Middle Eastern nation's capital with a...
This movie shows the Martian moon Phobos as viewed in visible light by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on April 24,...
iss069e009939 (May 10, 2023) --- The city lights of Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city, were pictured by UAE...
This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA...
iss072e399013 (Dec. 19, 2024) --- The city lights of Miami, Florida, the seat of Miami-Dade County with a population...
iss069e010770 (May 15, 2023) --- The city lights of Lucknow, in northern India, were pictured by UAE (United Arab...
iss072e445027 (Dec. 28, 2024) --- The city lights of Harbin, the capital of China's northernmost province of...
iss072e398901 (Dec. 19, 2024) --- The city lights of Maracaibo, Venezuela, with a population of 2.66 million...
iss069e009486 (May 8, 2023) --- The city lights of Jerusalem, Israel, were pictured by UAE (United Arab Emirates)...
Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise - night lighting test
iss074e0536946 (April 21, 2026) --- The blue lights of fishing boats dot the Gulf of Thailand in this photograph...
iss074e0526876 (April 20, 2026) --- The blue lights of fishing boats dot the Gulf of Thailand contrasting with the...
Dr. Rafat Ansari and James King testing their dynamic light scattering clinical device in NASA's Vision Research...
NASA engineers inspect a new piece of technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope, the micro shutter...
Saturn's moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view captured by NASA's Cassini...
In this image, taken January 13, 2015, NASA Dawn spacecraft captures the dwarf planet Ceres in both visible and...
iss072e519889 (Jan. 23, 2025) --- The city lights of Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait with a population of about 3...
iss072e695073 (March 2, 2025) --- City lights dot the Asian continent with an atmospheric glow blanketing Earth's...
iss072e978997 (April 13, 2025) --- The Moon's light is refracted by the Earth's atmosphere giving it a spheroid...
iss072e423413 (Dec. 29, 2024) --- The city lights of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, contrast with the Red River in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform backlight inspection and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform backlight inspection and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform backlight inspection and...
The complexity and richness of Jupiter's "southern lights" (also known as auroras) are on display in this animation...