The Airborne Topographic Mapper projected a circle of laser light through a custom optically precise window mounted in the forward…
The antenna housing of the MCoRDS instrument being used during the 2012 Operation IceBridge mission over Antarctica projects underneath the…
IceBridge mission scientists Jim Yungel and Matt Linkswiler made final adjustments during installation of the Airborne Topographic Mapper in the…
Mariner 2 was the world’s first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Launched Aug. 27, 1962, on an Atlas-Agena rocket, Mariner 2 passed…
This photo gives a “worms eye” view of a robot arm holding a surrogate or simulated mirror segment (black hexagonal…
An engineer works on the spectrometer instrument for the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). IRIS is a NASA Small Explorer…
This image shows where NASA’s Curiosity rover aimed two different instruments to study a rock known as “Jake Matijevic.” The…
This image shows the wall of a scuffmark NASA’s Curiosity made in a windblown ripple of Martian sand with its…
The space shuttle Endeavour and its 747 carrier aircraft soar off the California coast near Ventura.
Thor-Able I with the Pioneer I spacecraft atop, prior to launch at Eastern Test Range at what is now Kennedy…
