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This image shows a flash produced in a laboratory by a high-velocity bead slamming into dust. Scientists at Ames...
NASA Deep Impact flyby spacecraft shows the flash that occurred when comet Tempel 1 ran over the spacecraft probe...
This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, the first of its kind, shows lightning on Saturn night side flashing in a...
NASA Cassini spacecraft captured the first lightning flashes on Saturn. The storm that generated the lightning...
This image shows the flash above Chelyabinsk, Russia, from the fireball streaking through the sky on Feb. 15, 2013....
In this composite image taken by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit, the arrows point to small lightning flashes observed...
This image is the first observation of "shallow lightning" flashes — signatures of high-altitude Jovian...
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science...
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science...
Tropical Cyclone Mahasen is moving north through the Indian Ocean along a track that places landfall along the...
Somewhere on Earth, there's always a lightning flash. The globe experiences lightning some 50 times a second, yet...
Somewhere on Earth, there's always a lightning flash. The globe experiences lightning some 50 times a second, yet...
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science...
Evidence of a recent flash flood can be seen in the form of light brown sediment that flowed down gullies and...
The system that brought heavy rainfall and flash flooding to parts of the southern Plains and western Gulf Coast...
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California collaborated with University of Bergen, Norway to...
When NASA Deep Impact probe collided with Tempel 1, a bright, small flash was created, which rapidly expanded above...
The brilliant flash of an exploding star shockwave -- what astronomers call the hock breakout -- is illustrated in...
A brief laser flash at the center of the frame was part of an experiment conducted by two NASA CubeSats. In it, one...
This image shows the initial ejecta that resulted when NASA Deep Impact probe collided with comet Tempel 1 on July...
This image taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft in 2009, shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a hydrocarbon...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
NASA Mercury Laser Altimeter MLA is shown ranging to Mercury surface from orbit. In this animation, yellow flashes...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...