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Nearly every aspect of our lives is fundamentally tied to the land on which we live. The homes that shelter us are...
The Kenyan side of Lake Victoria and Mt. Elgon in Uganda are featured in this short clip of full resolution Landsat...
This image is of the Canadian-built lidar in operation with the cover open was acquired at the NASA Mars Phoenix...
Highlights of animation of Landsat data collected in one continuous pass over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa,...
Medina and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as seen by the Landsat Data Continuity Mission on April 19, 2013. The...
Ice on the Volga River is readily apparent in this animation of full-resolution Landsat data, collected on April 19,...
The "director's cut." Landsat collects data down to 30 meters per pixel, covering an area 185 kilometers wide. It...
The level of detail apparent in this image from Curiosity Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI shows that haziness in earlier...
This view covers an area within the planned landing area for NASA Phoenix Mars Lander. It was taken by the Context...
Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil. Over the last 24 years, it has tapped...
This is one of the first images taken by NASA Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT...
This image taken by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers part of a candidate landing site that appears to be a...
This image shows the return capsule inside a protective covering. The capsule, which landed at 2:10 a.m. Pacific...
This image from NASA Curiosity rover shows the cover on an inlet that will receive powdered rock and soil samples...
This image from NASA Curiosity rover shows the inlet covers for the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument as the rover...
This image from NASA Terra spacecraft is of Franz Josef Land, an archipelago in the far north of Russia. It consists...
In its five years in space, Landsat 8 has racked up an impressive line of statistics. The satellite made 26,500...
Landsat satellites circle the globe every 99 minutes, collecting data about the land surfaces passing underneath....
STS060-84-021 (3-11 Feb 1994) --- The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and its partially cloud-covered environs were...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Low clouds blur the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building as they hang over the Shuttle...
Apollo Digest Series: Spacecraft for Apollo This covers the various elements of the Saturn V and Command Module,...
This portion of NASA Mars Odyssey image covers NASA Viking 2 landing site shown with the X. The second landing on...
The Exmouth Gulf, western Australia, is bounded on the west by the Cape Ranges; near the base of the peninsula the...
S69-33996 (18 May 1969) --- A cloud-covered Pacific Ocean, and the western part of the United States and Mexico,...