On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image…
Another great image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) of the solar event on August 1, 2010 resulting in two…
The north polar layered deposits are layers of dusty ice up to 2 miles thick and approximately 620 miles in…
The Lightning Instrument Package, or LIP, developed by Earth scientists and engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, was designed…
In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers prepare External Tank-138, hanging vertically in the…
At the center of this view of an area of mid-latitude northern Mars, a fresh crater about 6 meters (20…
Hundreds of fires burned across western Russia on August 2, 2010, but it is the smoke that conveys the magnitude…
The unique XV-15 Tiltrotor aircraft is seen in vertical flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
This gimbal rig, formally known as the MASTIF, or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility, was engineered to simulate the…
NASA astronaut TJ Creamer talks about his experience in space during a “Tweetup” at NASA Headquarters, Thursday, July 29, 2010,…