
This WAC image showing a never-before-imaged area of Mercury’s surface was taken from an altitude of 450 km (280 miles)…

The wide-angle camera (WAC) is not a typical color camera. It can image in 11 colors, ranging from 430 to…

At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first…

At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first…

Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, a part of the Sahara Desert, has a bone-dry climate with scant rainfall, yet does not…

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is readied for lifting out of a thermal vacuum chamber following testing to simulate the environment of…

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is raised out of a thermal vacuum chamber following tests that simulated the environment of space over…

NASA’s Juno spacecraft looms above the assembly floor as technicians prepare the Jupiter-bound probe for a round of testing that…

In honor of those affected by the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake in Japan, Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev (center),…

This composite of three artists’ renderings from 1975 was only wish fulfillment for an unnamed JPL artist; however, the landscape…