Posted on May 10, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: New View of the Crab Nebula
This composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum: the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, the XMM-Newton Observatory, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
May 10, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2q3p0uT
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, called Southeast Glaciers 01.
May 09, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2pgWHtL
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 world. In real life, we know that two-star systems can indeed support planets.
May 04, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2p9yXmD
Posted on May 4, 2017
The U.S.S. Enterprise
“Why does the U.S.S. Enterprise hover around Uranus?”
“To look for Klingons!”
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 into the solar system than we have ever traveled before.
May 02, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2qANEQE
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 of clouds over the Gilbert Islands.
May 01, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2oYkeLf
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 from Michoud to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for structural loads testing.
April 28, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2qc60YS