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This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2014 RC past Earth on September 7, 2014. At time of closest approach, the space rock will be about one-tenth the distance from Earth to the moon. Times indicated on the graphic are Universal Time. Image credit: NASA... More »
Hundreds of lakes and seas are spread across the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan — its northern polar region in particular. Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab The NASA and European Space Agency Cassini mission has revealed hundreds of lakes and seas spread across t... More »
NASA’s C-20A Earth science research aircraft with the UAVSAR slung underneath its belly lifts off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base on a prior radar survey mission. Image Credit: NASA Armstrong › Larger view NASA scientists are conducting an airborne survey... More »
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity captured this view southward just after completing a 338-foot (103-meter) southward drive, in reverse, on Aug. 10, 2014. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status Report An increasing frequency of comput... More »
This artist’s concept shows the immediate aftermath of a large asteroid impact around NGC 2547-ID8, a 35-million-year-old sun-like star thought to be forming rocky planets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption o... More »
Artist’s impression of a firestorm of star birth deep inside core of young, growing elliptical galaxy. Credit: NASA, Space Telescope Science Institute Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. T... More »
This annotated image depicts four of the five potential landing sites for the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander. Image Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has chosen five candi... More »
Members of the Voyager science team pore over fresh images of Neptune’s moon Triton as data from Voyager 2 stream into JPL in August 1989. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Largest image August 25, 1989: Neptune is in view. It is the middle of the night and e... More »
During August 16 and 17, 1989, the Voyager 2 narrow-angle camera was used to photograph Neptune almost continuously, recording approximately two and one-half rotations of the planet. Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has travers... More »
This image from the front Hazcam on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the rover’s drill in place during a test of whether the rock beneath it, “Bonanza King,” would be an acceptable target for drilling to collect a sample. Subsequent analysis showed the rock b... More »
This artist’s concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago. Image credit: NASA/JPL-... More »
