This LRO image shows the area surrounding Apollo 15’s landing site, annotated with the traverse plots of the mission’s first…
This image of asteroid 2011 MD was taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in Feb. 2014, over a period of…
Observations of infrared light coming from asteroids provide a better estimate of their true sizes than visible-light measurements. This diagram…
This storm cell photo was taken from NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft on May 23, 2014, during a study aimed at…
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the Onboard Scientific Imaging System (OSIRIS) on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta…
The aerodynamics team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia tested a model of the 70-metric-ton Space Launch System in…
Asteroids can differ in the degree of porosity, or the amount of empty space that makes up their structures. At…
The instrument panel illuminates the cockpit of NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 during a night mission over the eastern U.S. during the…
A storm system over North Carolina was the focus of a May 2014 flight by NASA’s ER-2 during the Integrated…
Arriving aboard space shuttle Discovery, the STS-92 crew installed the Z1-Truss. Inside the Z1 are four Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs)…
