Posted on May 9, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA’s P-3 Aircraft Flies Over Southeast Greenland
The shadow of NASA’s P-3 aircraft is seen over an iceberg on a May 8, 2017 flight supporting NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission. IceBridge began its final week of Arctic Spring 2017 surveys with a glacier-packed mission in Greenland,… Read More
Posted on May 8, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Hail the Hexagon
Saturn’s hexagonal polar jet stream is the shining feature of almost every view of the north polar region of Saturn. May 08, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2prpfwB
Posted on May 5, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Panorama with Active Linear Dune in Gale Crater, Mars
This 360-degree mosaic from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover looks out over a portion of the Bagnold Dunes, which stretch for several miles. May 05, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2p4yfvJ
Posted on May 4, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Illustration of an Earth-Sized ‘Tatooine’ Planet
This illustration shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B. With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in “Star Wars” looks like a parched, sandy desert… Read More
Posted on May 3, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: North Pole of Enceladus
In the north, Enceladus’ surface appears to be about as old as any in the solar system. The south, however, is an entirely different story. May 03, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2p5HPcO
Posted on May 2, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA Marks Progress on Hardware for Orion’s Second Flight with Space Launch System Rocket
Machining for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, scheduled to fly on the second integrated flight with agency’s Space Launch System rocket, is well underway at Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, Illinois. The new deep space spacecraft will take humans farther… Read More
Posted on May 1, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Clouds ‘Roll’ Over Pacific Atolls
Areas near the equator are frequently cloudy, obscuring the view of Earth’s surface from space. April 7, 2017, was no different. On that day, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image… Read More
Posted on April 28, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: SLS Engine Section Test Article Loaded on Barge Pegasus
A engine section structural qualification test article for NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The test article now will make its way… Read More
Posted on April 27, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Cassini Captures Closest Images of Saturn’s Atmosphere
Cassini Captures Closest Images of Saturn’s Atmosphere April 27, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2ozjMHC
Posted on April 26, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Cygnus Spacecraft Approaches Space Station in the Sunset
On Saturday April 22, 2017, Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station. Using the station’s robotic Canadarm2, Cygnus was successfully captured by… Read More