Posted on September 22, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Practicing Orion Spacecraft Recovery After Splashdown
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery techniques in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to prepare for the first test flight of an… Read More
Posted on September 21, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: One Billion Base Pairs Sequenced on the Space Station
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins’ expedition began, zero base pairs of DNA had been sequenced in space. Within just a few weeks, she… Read More
Posted on September 20, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Space Station Flight Over the Southern Tip of Italy
The southern tip of Italy is visible in this image taken by the Expedition 49 crew aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 17, 2016. The brightly lit city of Naples can be seen in the bottom section… Read More
Posted on September 19, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Where the Small Moon Rules
Pan may be small as satellites go, but like many of Saturn’s ring moons, it has a has a very visible effect on the rings. September 19, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cCH3E7
Posted on September 16, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: NASA’s IceBridge Observes Effects of Summer Melt on Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA’s IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This photograph from the flight captures Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off of the Denmark Strait… Read More
Posted on September 15, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Infrared Echoes of a Black Hole Eating a Star
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The feeding black hole is surrounded by a ring of dust. This dust was previously illuminated… Read More
Posted on September 14, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Sept. 14, 1966 – View From Gemini XI, 850 Miles Above the Earth
The western half of Australia, looking west, as seen from the Gemini XI spacecraft, 850 miles above the Earth on Sept. 14, 1966. Reaching this record-shattering altitude was a highlight of a demanding, three-day mission for Gemini XI… Read More
Posted on September 12, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: At Hangar, Raptors Find Shelter from the Storm
As Tropical Storm Hermine charged up the East Coast Sept. 2, the hangar at NASA Langley was able to carefully sandwich in more than a dozen Air Force fighters and offer them protection from the wind. The hangar… Read More
Posted on September 9, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Hubble Peers into the Storm
Hubble sees a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. September 09, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cfZtVm
Posted on September 8, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission Launch
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida…. Read More