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Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2010

The nose of an inflatable half-scale model of a NASA F/A-18 in front of the NASA Aeronautics exhibit points skyward…

Close-up of a Meteorite – ‘Oileán Ruaidh’ (False Color)
Close-up of a Meteorite – ‘Oileán Ruaidh’ (False Color)

This is an image of the meteorite that NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined in September 2010. Opportunity’s…

Spiral Extraordinaire
Spiral Extraordinaire

Scientists have yet to discover what caused the strange spiral structure. Nor do they know why it glows. The glow…

Birth of the Space Age
Birth of the Space Age

History changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world’s first artificial satellite. About…

Visions of Our Solar System
Visions of Our Solar System

Artist Michael Benson, left, talks with Dr. James Green, Director, Planetary Science, NASA Headquarters, in front of images of Mars…

In the Beginning
In the Beginning

NASA’s first administrator T. Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Senate’s Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee,…

A Galactic Spectacle
A Galactic Spectacle

A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA’s Great Observatories.

Generating Sparks
Generating Sparks

This image from testing of ChemCam shows a ball of luminous plasma erupting from the surface of an iron pyrite…

Observe the Moon
Observe the Moon

This photograph shows the Laser Ranging Facility at the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…

Light Show Over the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
Light Show Over the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)

Lightning lights up the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during thunderstorms on Monday, Sept. 27,…