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Surveyor
Surveyor

The Surveyor probes were the first U.S. spacecraft to land safely on the moon.

Spirit/Opportunity
Spirit/Opportunity

Spirit and its sister rover, Opportunity, are fully equipped robot geologists.

Spiderbot
Spiderbot

The spiderbot prototype could fit in the palms of an adult’s cupped hands.

Glittering Metropolis
Glittering Metropolis

Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble caught this glimpse of many hundreds of thousands…

Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays

Wishing all the happiest of holidays, members of the Cassini-Huygens team offer their views of Saturn and its moons as…

Mayon Volcano, The Phillipines
Mayon Volcano, The Phillipines

Tens of thousands of people living within the danger zone of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines were forced to evacuate…

Terra Turns Ten: Snow, Clouds and Sunlight
Terra Turns Ten: Snow, Clouds and Sunlight

NASA flies three large, multi-sensor satellites that monitor Earth’s land, atmosphere, oceans and energy balance. Because the instruments on each…

Expedition 22 Lifts Off
Expedition 22 Lifts Off

The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:52 p.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 20, carrying…

Soyuz Rolls to the Pad
Soyuz Rolls to the Pad

The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, Dec.…

The Dark Side of Carbon
The Dark Side of Carbon

As interest in Earth’s changing climate heats up, a tiny dark particle is stepping into the limelight: black carbon. Commonly…