Posted on December 16, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Hubble “Crane-s” in for a Closer Look at a Galaxy
Spiral galaxy IC 5201 sits 40 million light-years from us in the Crane constellation. As with most spirals we see, it has a bar of stars slicing through its center. December 16, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2gSlccM
Posted on December 15, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: View of NASA’s CYGNSS Hurricane Mission Launch From Chase Plane
Hurricane forecasters will soon have a new tool to better understand and forecast storm intensity. A constellation of eight microsatellites, called NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System mission, or CYGNSS, got a boost into Earth orbit aboard an… Read More
Posted on December 14, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Color Variations on Mount Sharp, Mars
The foreground of this scene from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows purple-hued rocks near the rover’s late-2016 location on lower Mount Sharp. The scene’s middle distance includes higher layers that are future destinations… Read More
Posted on December 13, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: HTV-6 Cargo Craft Approaches Space Station
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA shared this photograph of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-6) as it approached the International Space Station. Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet successfully captured the spacecraft… Read More
Posted on December 12, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: The Coolest Landscape on Mars (or Earth)
Many Martian landscapes contain features that are familiar to ones we find on Earth, like river valleys, cliffs, glaciers and volcanos. December 12, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2gsJXXz
Posted on December 9, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Sunrise With Solar Array
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency captured this photograph from the International Space Station on Nov. 25, 2016, and shared it on social media, writing, “Sunrises. We experience 16 sunrises every 24 hours on the International… Read More
Posted on December 8, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Linear Dunes, Namib Sand Sea
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) used a long lens to document what crews have termed one of the most spectacular features of the planet: the dunes of the Namib Sand Sea. December 08, 2016 from… Read More
Posted on December 7, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Oceanic Nonlinear Internal Solitary Waves From the Lombok Strait
On November 1, 2016, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Indonesia, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board to capture a stunning true-color image of oceanic nonlinear internal solitary waves from the Lombok Strait. December 07, 2016… Read More
Posted on December 6, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Sahara Desert From the Space Station’s EarthKAM
Middle school students programmed a camera aboard the International Space Station — the Sally Ride EarthKAM — to photograph this portion of the Sahara desert in western Libya on October 3, 2016. The Expedition 50 crew set up… Read More
Posted on December 5, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Chaos at Hyperion
The moon Hyperion tumbles as it orbits Saturn. December 05, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2gbL5C4