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Three Storms
Three Storms

The current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-13 captured this image of Hurricane Danielle heading for the north Atlantic (top center),…

Planned Flight Path over Tropical Depression Frank
Planned Flight Path over Tropical Depression Frank

This graphic shows the planned flight path of NASA’s Global Hawk high-altitude environmental science aircraft during its Aug. 28 flight…

Galaxy at the Edge
Galaxy at the Edge

Spiral galaxy NGC 4921 presently is estimated to be 320 million light years distant. This image, taken by the Hubble…

Sailing Amongst the Stars
Sailing Amongst the Stars

Making the stuff of science fiction into reality, NASA engineers are testing solar sails-a unique propulsion technology that one day…

A Strange Ring Galaxy
A Strange Ring Galaxy

Is this one galaxy or two? Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic…

Islands of Four Mountains
Islands of Four Mountains

The picturesque, but snow-capped volcanoes, composing the Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain look suspiciously like…

Hydrogen Sulfide and Dust Plumes on Namibia’s Coast
Hydrogen Sulfide and Dust Plumes on Namibia’s Coast

Cloudless skies allowed a clear view of dust and hydrogen sulfide plumes along the coast of Namibia in early August…

Last-Minute Adjustments to High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler
Last-Minute Adjustments to High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler

NASA Goddard’s Lihau Li, left, and Gerry Heymsfield adjusted the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler prior to its installation…

Dryden Technicians Install Camera
Dryden Technicians Install Camera

Technicians at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, installed a camera in the nose of one of NASA’s…

Artist’s Concept of Kepler 9
Artist’s Concept of Kepler 9

This artist’s concept illustrates the two Saturn-sized planets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission.