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Mars Rover Opportunity’s View of ‘Orion Crater’
Mars Rover Opportunity’s View of ‘Orion Crater’

NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover passed near this small, relatively fresh crater in April 2017, during the 45th anniversary of the…

Aqua Captures Fires in Arizona and New Mexico
Aqua Captures Fires in Arizona and New Mexico

Summertime in the West is the time that fires strike quickly due to lightning hits and because of dry conditions…

Jupiter’s Clouds of Many Colors
Jupiter’s Clouds of Many Colors

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this…

NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility

NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing plants, with 43 acres under…

Northern Summer on Titan
Northern Summer on Titan

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn’s moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon…

Complex Relationships in the Occator-Kirnis Region
Complex Relationships in the Occator-Kirnis Region

This view obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft during its Survey orbit illustrates the diversity and complexity of Ceres’ geology.

Decoding a Geological Message
Decoding a Geological Message

A close-up image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of a recent 150-meter diameter impact crater near Amazonis Mensa and Medusae…

Celebrating Flag Day
Celebrating Flag Day

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer took this photograph of an American flag in one of the windows of the International Space…

This Week in NASA History: Fifth Spacelab Mission Returns to Earth — June 14, 1991
This Week in NASA History: Fifth Spacelab Mission Returns to Earth — June 14, 1991

This week in 1991, the space shuttle Columbia and STS-40 landed at Edwards Air Force Base following a successful nine-day…

A Crater on a Crater Wall
A Crater on a Crater Wall

It’s not that common to see craters on steep hills, partly because rocks falling downhill can quickly erase such craters.