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Saturn Askew
Saturn Askew

As a convention for public release, Cassini images of Saturn are generally oriented so that Saturn appears north up, but…

Moonset Viewed From the International Space Station
Moonset Viewed From the International Space Station

Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA took this striking photograph of the moon from his vantage point aboard…

Earth’s Pulsating Ionosphere
Earth’s Pulsating Ionosphere

A layer of charged particles, called the ionosphere, surrounds Earth, extending from about 50 to 360 miles above the surface…

Explorer XVII Satellite
Explorer XVII Satellite

Weighing 405 lbs. (184 kg), this 35-inch (89-cm) pressurized stainless steel sphere measured the density, composition, pressure and temperature of…

ICON’s FUV Instrument
ICON’s FUV Instrument

The Far Ultra Violet Imaging Spectrograph, or FUV, for the NASA ICON mission during a test of the door release…

Mighty Engineers, MIGHTI Instrument
Mighty Engineers, MIGHTI Instrument

A team of engineers at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., stands behind the instrument they built — the…

ICON’s FUV, Aperture Closed
ICON’s FUV, Aperture Closed

The front of the Far Ultra Violet Imaging Spectrograph, or FUV, for the NASA ICON mission.

Upper Atmospheric Airglow
Upper Atmospheric Airglow

Bright swaths of red in the upper atmosphere, known as airglow, can be seen in this image taken from the…

Infographic: ICON and the Edge of the Atmosphere
Infographic: ICON and the Edge of the Atmosphere

NASA’s ICON mission will orbit above the upper atmosphere, through the bottom edge of near-Earth space.

OSIRIS-REx Artist’s Concept
OSIRIS-REx Artist’s Concept

OSIRIS-REx extends its sampling arm as it moves in to make contact with the asteroid Bennu.