Posted on September 25, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Phantom Limb
The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. This image is a composite of images taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 29, 2017, using filters that allow infrared, green, and ultraviolet light.
September 25, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2y49TX6
Posted on September 22, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Soaring Over Jupiter
This striking image of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet.
September 22, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2xzDw1k
Posted on September 21, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: X-plane Preliminary Design Model Tests Quiet Supersonic Technology
Test Engineer Samantha O’Flaherty finalizes the set-up of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) Preliminary Design Model inside the 14- by- 22 Foot Subsonic Tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center. The QueSST Preliminary Design is the initial design stage of NASA’s planned Low-Boom Flight Demonstration experimental airplane, or X-plane.
September 21, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2w9GhD4
Posted on September 20, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Suomi NPP Satellite Captures Thermal Image of Hurricane Maria
The VIIRS instrument on NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a thermal image of Hurricane Maria on Sept. 20 at 2:12 a.m. EDT. The image showed very cold cloud top temperatures in the powerful thunderstorms in Maria’s eyewall. Maria’s eye was just east of the American Virgin Islands, and its northwestern quadrant stretched over Puerto Rico.
September 20, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2xn5mNK
Posted on September 19, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Northern Lights Over Canada
The spectacular aurora borealis, or the “northern lights,” over Canada is sighted from the International Space Station near the highest point of its orbital path. The station’s main solar arrays are seen in the left foreground. This photograph was taken by a member of the Expedition 53 crew aboard the station on Sept. 15, 2017.
September 19, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2xNXbeZ
Posted on September 18, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Long Way From Home
This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon – the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft – was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA’s Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth. The moon is at the top of the picture and beyond the Earth as viewed by Voyager.
September 18, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2fe9adV
Posted on September 15, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Cassini End of Mission
Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize, left, and spacecraft operations team manager for the Cassini mission at Saturn, Julie Webster embrace after the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
September 15, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2foCj37
Posted on September 14, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Orion Parachutes Measure Up in High Pressure Test
Orion’s three main orange and white parachutes help a representative model of the spacecraft descend through sky above Arizona, where NASA engineers tested the parachute system on Sept. 13, 2017, at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma. NASA is qualifying Orion’s parachutes for missions with astronauts.
September 14, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2xBoGYR
Posted on September 13, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Dreamy Swirls on Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gazed toward the northern hemisphere of Saturn to spy subtle, multi-hued bands in the clouds there.
September 13, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jppZUF
Posted on September 12, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Expedition 53 Launches to the International Space Station
The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft launches with Expedition 53 crewmembers Joe Acaba of NASA, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, and Mark Vande Hei of NASA from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, (Kazakh time) (Sept. 12, U.S. time).
September 13, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2wYcZs9
