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NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA WISE mission, illustrates the differences between orbits of a typical...
NASA Aqua satellite carries six state-of-the-art instruments in a near-polar low-Earth orbit. Aqua is seen in this...
This animation depicts the motion of small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 as it orbits the Sun. Because it has a...
The NEOWISE mission, NASA’s asteroid-hunting space telescope, retired in August 2024 after over a decade of...
NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON launches in fall 2018. It orbits above the upper atmosphere, through...
The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so...
Scientists using data from NASA's Kepler mission have confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the...
NASA's NEOWISE mission ended on Aug. 8, 2024, after more than a decade of discovering and tracking near-Earth...
iss064e002941 (Nov. 1, 2020) --- The Earth's limb, or horizon, is pictured as the International Space Station...
iss067e124188 (June 15, 2022) --- The first rays of an orbital sunrise illuminate the Earth's atmosphere as the...
AS09-22-3441 (March 1969) --- Near vertical view of the Phoenix, Arizona area as photographed from the Apollo 9...
SL3-86-272 (July-September 1973) --- A near vertical view of northeastern Italy including the Venice (Venezia) area...
ISS015-E-11737 (10 June 2007) --- A view photographed from the International Space Station shows the Space Shuttle...
iss065e018758 (May 3, 2021) --- A sunset is pictured above the Earth's horizon as the International Space Station...
iss070e048480 (Dec. 26, 2023) --- The near Full Moon is pictured just above Earth's atmosphere in this photograph...
iss068e039886 (Jan. 10, 2023) --- An illuminated Earth's atmosphere begins dimming just after an orbital sunset in...
S127-E-011529 (29 July 2009) --- Astronaut Mark Polansky, STS-127 commander, is pictured near the control panels and...
iss067e316063 (Sept. 4, 2022) --- Hurricane Danielle is pictured near the Earth's horizon from the International...
iss062e148329 (April 13, 2020) --- The "aurora australis" hovers above the Earth's horizon as the International...
iss070e000820 (Sept. 30, 2023) --- The waning gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space...
iss068e045017 (Feb. 2, 2023) -- The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth's horizon from the International...
iss069e092496 (Sept. 25, 2023) --- An aurora intersects Earth's airglow beneath a starry sky in this photograph from...
S130-E-006288 (9 Feb. 2010) --- Astronaut Stephen Robinson, STS-130 mission specialist, is pictured near the galley...
iss070e048478 (Dec. 26, 2023) --- The near Full Moon is pictured just above Earth's atmosphere in this photograph...