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Wheels and a Destination
Wheels and a Destination

This view of the three left wheels of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity combines two images that were taken by the…

A Piece of New Mexico on Mars
A Piece of New Mexico on Mars

A sample of basaltic rock from a lava flow in New Mexico serves as a calibration target carried on the…

First Image From Curiosity’s Arm Camera With Dust Cover Open
First Image From Curiosity’s Arm Camera With Dust Cover Open

The reclosable dust cover on Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) was opened for the first time during the 33rd…

Rover Takes Self Portrait
Rover Takes Self Portrait

On Sol 32 (Sept. 7, 2012) the Curiosity rover used a camera located on its arm to obtain this self…

Armstrong at Ames
Armstrong at Ames

Ames test pilot Fred Drinkwater, astronaut Neil Armstrong, and Ames project engineer Stu Rolls in front of the Ames Bell…

Sunita Williams on Spacewalk
Sunita Williams on Spacewalk

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, appears to touch the bright sun during the mission’s third session of…

NASA’s Global Hawk Mission Begins Hurricane Study
NASA’s Global Hawk Mission Begins Hurricane Study

A NASA Global Hawk landed at the Agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Sept. 7 following an overnight mission from…

The Italian Boot
The Italian Boot

This oblique, night time panorama of much of Europe was photographed by one of the Expedition 32 crew members aboard…

Expedition Preparations
Expedition Preparations

Buoys used to support scientific instruments at sea are seen in the foreground prior to being loaded onboard the Woods…

A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble
A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble

This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way…