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Global Digital Elevation Model
Global Digital Elevation Model

This Global Digital Elevation Model, or GDEM, is a product of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),…

Crater from High-Impact JF-104A Crash
Crater from High-Impact JF-104A Crash

Investigators pore over the site of the nose-first, high-impact JF-104A crash that left this large crater in the desert near…

NASA Research Pilot Milt Thompson with F-104
NASA Research Pilot Milt Thompson with F-104

NASA research pilot Milt Thompson poses in front of an F-104 similar to the one from which he ejected on…

WISE Lifts Off to Map the Sky
WISE Lifts Off to Map the Sky

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 9:09 a.m. EST…

Lifting Off to Study the Sky
Lifting Off to Study the Sky

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 9:09 a.m. EST…

Liftoff!
Liftoff!

United Launch Alliance’s Delta II rocket launches carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite toward space, lifting off from…

F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft
F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft

F/A-18B Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) in banked flight over southern California desert.

Freezing WISE’s Hydrogen
Freezing WISE’s Hydrogen

A scaffolding structure built around NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, allows engineers to freeze its hydrogen coolant. The…

Atlantis Breaks Through the Clouds
Atlantis Breaks Through the Clouds

Space shuttle Atlantis emerges through the clouds over Launch Pad 39A on a balmy Florida afternoon at NASA’s Kennedy Space…

STS-129 Flight Day 2
STS-129 Flight Day 2

Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, a partial view of space shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay, vertical stabilizer,…