Posted on February 1, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Lake Powell and Grand Staircase-Escalante
This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows nearly the full length of Lake Powell, the reservoir on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Note that the ISS was north of… Read More
Posted on January 31, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA Day of Remembrance
Martha Chaffee, widow of Roger Chaffee, Sheryl Chaffee, daughter, and Roger Purvenas, son of Sheryl Chaffee, left, along with acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, right, place wreaths at the graves of Apollo 1 crewmembers Virgil “Gus” Grissom and… Read More
Posted on January 30, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Coy Dione
Dione’s lit hemisphere faces away from Cassini’s camera, yet the moon’s darkened surface features are dimly illuminated in this image, due to Saturnshine. January 30, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jKX6jK
Posted on January 27, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Apollo 1 Crew Honored
Astronauts, from the left, Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee stand near Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 during training for Apollo 1 in January 1967. January 27, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jmBGpA
Posted on January 26, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: January 1986 – Voyager 2 Flyby of Miranda
Uranus’ moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites, just 480 kilometers (about 300 miles)… Read More
Posted on January 25, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Juno’s Close Look at a Little Red Spot
The JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes. January 25, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jSCIf5
Posted on January 24, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA Simulates Orion Spacecraft Launch Conditions for Crew
In a lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers simulated conditions that astronauts in space suits would experience when the Orion spacecraft is vibrating during launch atop the agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket on its… Read More
Posted on January 23, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: New Weather Satellite Sends First Images of Earth
The release of the first images today from NOAA’s newest satellite, GOES-16, is the latest step in a new age of weather satellites. This composite color full-disk visible image is from 1:07 p.m. EDT on Jan. 15, 2017,… Read More
Posted on January 19, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Daphnis Up Close
The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring-grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn’s rings on Jan. 16, 2017. January 19, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jPxlwA
Posted on January 18, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Possible Signs of Ancient Drying in Martian Rock
A grid of small polygons on the Martian rock surface near the right edge of this view may have originated as cracks in drying mud more than 3 billion years ago. January 18, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jzvy1d